ESEA TITLE II, PART B, SUBPART 4, SECTION 2243: School Leader Recruitment and Support

Funding

$TBD, awarded competitively

Eligibility

LEAs or educational service agencies that serve a high-need school or a consortium of such agencies; SEA or consortium of SEAs; SEA in partnership with one or more LEAs or educational service agencies that serve a high-need school; Bureau of Indian Education; or any such entities in partnership with one or more nonprofit organizations or institutions of higher education.

Sample Use of Funds

SEAs and LEAs have flexibility to carry out a wide variety of activities consistent with their specific needs. Activities could include:

• Improving the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals or other school leaders in high-need schools, which may include developing or implementing leadership training programs designed to prepare and support principals or other school leaders in high-need schools, including through new or alternative pathways or school leader residency programs;
• Improving the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals or other school leaders in high-need schools, which may include developing or implementing programs for recruiting, developing, and placing school leaders to improve schools implementing comprehensive support and improvement activities and targeted support and improvement activities, including through cohort-based activities that build effective instructional and school leadership teams and develop a school culture, design, instructional program, and professional development program focused on improving student learning.

This grant has an extensive list of uses of funds. View the complete ESSA Federal Funding Guide below for the full list.

Key Provision: Priority Applications

In awarding grants, the Secretary must give priority to applicants that will implement evidence-based activities and that have a demonstrated ability to prepare or develop principals who have improved school-level student outcomes, have become principals in high-need schools, and remain principals in such schools for multiple years.

For more information, contact Tom Zembar at 202.822.7109 or [email protected]

Next Steps

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