Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Well Rounded Education: Comprehensive Literacy State Development (CLSD) program, Assistance Listing Number 84.371C

Background
The CLSD program awards competitive grants to advance literacy skills through the use of evidence-based practices, activities, and interventions, including pre-literacy skills, reading, and writing, for children from birth through grade 12. There is an emphasis on disadvantaged children, including children living in poverty, English learners (as defined in this notice), and children with disabilities (as defined in this notice). The Department’s ‘‘Raise the Bar: Lead the World’’ initiative is a call to action to transform preschool through grade 12 education and beyond, and to unite education leaders at all levels around evidence-based strategies that advance educational equity and excellence for all students. Raising the bar in education focuses on building the skills that all students need to thrive inside and outside of school, and supporting students to excel in the classroom, in their careers, and in their communities. Specifically, the Department is focused on improving student achievement, including in math and reading.

Grant Details
Through the FY 2024 CLSD competition, the Department encourages State educational agencies (SEAs) to focus on evidence-based activities that provide explicit intervention and support in reading and writing for children from birth to grade 12. The competition includes four competitive preference priorities that highlight key policies on which States may focus their proposed projects. The Department gives competitive preference to projects that incorporate SEA partnerships with institutions of higher education (IHEs) to strengthen educator preparation programs and high-quality professional development for educators. It also gives competitive preference to applications designed to address the impacts of the COVID–19 pandemic using evidence-based instructional approaches and supports. Additionally, it gives competitive preference to projects designed to promote education equity and adequacy in resources and opportunity for underserved students. Furthermore, it gives competitive preference to applications that propose projects supporting students and their families at key transitional stages in their education by ensuring coordinated, high-quality professional development for educators.

Eligibility Requirements
An SEA must include a needs assessment that analyzes literacy needs across the State and in high-need schools (as defined in this notice) and LEAs that serve high-need schools. An SEA must include a description of how it will develop a State comprehensive literacy instruction plan or revise an already existing plan. An SEA must include an implementation plan that describes how it will carry out the State activities described in section 2222(f) of the ESEA. An SEA must collaborate with the State agency responsible for administering early childhood education programs and child-care programs.

Period of Performance
The period of performance for subgrants awarded under CLSD must not exceed five years.

Grant Value
The total value of the grant is not specified.