See Also For more discretionary grant competition information, see ED's Forecast of Funding Opportunities.

No further competitions will be held during the 2008-9 school year. Please continue to visit our site for information about future competitions.

• Making Grants.gov Work for You
  PDF (1.7M) (December 2007)

• Smaller Learning Communities FY 2007 Grant Competition
  PDF (180K) (December 2007)

• Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards Using Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Funds (November 26, 2007)

  • Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: January 10, 2008
  • Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: February 25, 2008



• Notice of Final Priority, Requirements, and Selection Criteria for Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 and Subsequent Years' Funds (May 18, 2007)

The Smaller Learning Communities program awards discretionary grants to lcoal educational agencies (LEAs) to support the restructuring of large public high schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students. On May 18, 2007, the U.S. Department of Education published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Priority, Requirements, and Selection Criteria for the FY 2007 competition. The notice is available at the link below:

http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/proprule/2007-1/030807b.html