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Previous funding can be viewed at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/osepprep/funding.html.

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The purposes of this program are to (1) help address State-identified needs for personnel preparation in special education, early intervention, related services, and regular education to work with children, including infants and toddlers, with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through scientifically based research and experience, to be successful in serving those children.

For FY 2021 and any subsequent year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition, these priorities are absolute priorities. 

This competition includes two absolute priorities and three competitive preference priority.

Absolute Priority 1: Preparation of Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services Leadership Personnel. The purpose of this priority is to support existing doctoral degree programs that prepare special education, early intervention, and related services personnel at the doctoral degree level who are well qualified for, and can act effectively in, leadership positions as researchers and preparers of special education, early intervention, related services, and regular education personnel in IHEs, or as leaders in national organizations, SEAs, LAs, LEAs, or EIS programs. 

This initiative supports two types of programs:

• Type A programs are designed to prepare special education, early intervention, and related services personnel as researchers and personnel preparers in IHEs. Type A programs culminate in a doctoral degree.
  • Note: Preparation programs that lead to clinical doctoral degrees in related services (e.g., a Doctor of Audiology degree or Doctor of Physical Therapy degree) are not included in this progam. These types of preparation programs are eligible to apply for funding under the Personnel Preparation in Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services priority (CFDA 84.325K) that the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) intends to fund in FY 2017.
• Type B programs are designed to prepare special education or early intervention administrators to work as leaders in national organizations, SEAs, LAs, LEAs, or EIS programs. Type B programs prepare personnel for positions such as SEA special education administrators, LEA or regional special education directors, school-based special education directors, including those in youth correctional facilities, preschool coordinators, and early intervention coordinators. Type B programs culminate in a doctoral degree.
  • Note: The preparation of school principals is not included in this priority.

Note: Applicants may not submit the same proposal for more than one program type.

Absolute Priority 2: Preparation of Special Education and Early Intervention Administrators. The purpose of this priority is to support existing doctoral degree programs that prepare special education or early intervention personnel who are well-qualified for, and can act effectively in, leadership positions in traditional and nontraditional public school systems, such as State educational agencies (SEAs), charter management organizations (CMOs), charter school authorizers, lead agencies (LAs), local educational agencies (LEAs), private school networks, parochial schools, early intervention services programs (EIS programs), or schools.

Competitive Preference Priority 1: An application that proposes a partnership consisting of two or three IHEs in a high-need area of leadership shortages. To meet the competitive preference priority, a project must—

• Establish a partnership comprised of two or three IHEs with existing doctoral programs that prepare scholars to work as doctoral-level leaders in the high-need area proposed;
• Address in the project narrative the high-need area (e.g., early childhood behavior, secondary transition, or special education administration) in which the partnership proposes to prepare scholars;
• Address in the project narrative how the opportunities provided to scholars through the partnership activities will promote the competencies needed by leaders the project proposes to prepare; and
• Address in the project narrative how policies, procedures, standards, and fiscal management of the partnership will be established. 

Competitive Preference Priority 2: An application that demonstrates matching support for the proposed project at—

• 20 percent of the requested Federal award (1 point);
• 40 percent of the total amount of the requested Federal award (2 points);
• 60 percent of the total amount of the requested Federal award (3 points);
• 80 percent of the total amount of the requested Federal award (4 points); or
• 100 percent of the total amount of the requested Federal award (5 points). 

Competitive Preference Priority 3: Projects proposed by applicants that have not had an active grant award under this program (CFDA number 84.325D) at any point in the preceding five fiscal years (i.e., FY 2014–FY 2018).

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