OpportunityTitle: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education: Teacher Incentive Fund ARRA CFDA 84.385
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: 1. Eligible Applicants: Eligible entities for these funds are:      (a) State educational agencies (SEAs),      (b) Local educational agencies (LEAs), including charter schools that are LEAs, or      (c) Partnerships of--      (1) An SEA, LEA, or both; and      (2) At least one nonprofit organization.
Description: Note: Each funding opportunity description is a synopsis of information in the Federal Register application notice. For specific information about eligibility, please see the official application notice. The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html.Please review the official application notice for pre-application and application requirements, application submission information, performance measures, priorities and program contact information. Purpose of Program: The purpose of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) program is to support projects that develop and implement performance-based compensation systems (PBCSs) for teachers, principals, and other personnel in order to increase educator effectiveness and student achievement (as defined in this notice), measured in significant part by student growth (as defined in this notice), in high-need schools (as defined in this notice).Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.385 and 84.374.Applications for grants under the Teacher Incentive Fund--CFDA number 84.385 must be submitted electronically using e-Application, accessible through the Department&apos;s e-Grants Web site at: http://e-grants.ed.gov. While completing your electronic application, you will be entering data online that will be saved into a database. You may not e-mail an electronic copy of a grant application to us.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: e-Mail: Program Mailbox
GrantorContactText: Julius Cotton &lt;br/&gt;ED Grants.gov FIND Systems Admin. &lt;br/&gt;Phone 202-245-6140 &lt;br/&gt;julius.cotton@ed.gov &lt;br/&gt;Program Manager: &lt;br/&gt;April Lee &lt;br/&gt;U.S. Department of Education &lt;br/&gt;400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 3E120 &lt;br/&gt;Washington, DC 20202.  &lt;br/&gt;Telephone: (202) 205-5224, or e-mail:
CloseDateExplanation: Applications Available: May 21, 2010.     Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: June 1, 2010. We will be able to develop a more efficient process for reviewing grant applications if we understand the number of applicants that intend to apply for funding under these competitions. Therefore, the Secretary strongly encourages each potential applicant to notify us of the applicant&apos;s intent to submit an application for funding by sending a short e-mail message. This short e-mail should provide (1) the applicant organization&apos;s name and address, (2) the type of grant for which the applicant intends to apply, (3) the one absolute priority the applicant intends to address, and (4) all competitive preference priorities the applicant intends to address. The Secretary requests that this e-mail be sent to tif@ed.gov with ``Intent to Apply&apos;&apos; in the e-mail subject line. Applicants that do not provide this e-mail notification may still apply for funding.     Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: July 6, 2010. Dates of Pre-Application Workshops: Visit the Teacher Incentive Fund&apos;s Web site at: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/teacherincentive/  applicant.html for more information. Bidders&apos; Conferences: In-person bidders&apos; conferences or pre-application workshops will be held in three locations across the country in late May and early June. Bidders&apos; conferences are intended to provide technical assistance to all interested grant applicants. Detailed information regarding the pre-application workshop locations and times, along with the on-line registration form, can be found on the Teacher Incentive Fund&apos;s Web site at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/  teacherincentive/applicant.html.    On May 21, 2010, the Department of Education published in the Federal Register (75 FR 28740) a notice inviting applications for new awards for FY 2010 (NIA) for the Teacher Incentive Fund. This notice makes a correction to the May 21 NIA.  On page 28745 of the May 21 NIA, we requested that applicants submit a short e-mail as a notice of intent to apply by June 1 to allow us to develop a more efficient process for reviewing grant applications. We incorrectly stated, however, that the ``short e-mail should provide (1) the applicant organization&apos;s name and address, (2) the type of grant for which the applicant intends to apply, (3) the one absolute priority the applicant intends to address, and (4) all competitive preference priorities the applicant intends to address.&apos;&apos; We are correcting the May 21 NIA to provide applicants with the correct information about what the notice of intent to apply should include.      On page 28745, first column, first paragraph, under the heading Notice of Intent to Apply, the third sentence is corrected to read   ``This short e-mail should provide the applicant organization&apos;s name and address and whether the applicant intends to apply for the Evaluation or Main TIF competition.&apos;&apos;