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Department of Education-Office of Special Education Programs-Grants to States

Agency/Department
Federal Agency/Bureau
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
Program Name
Office of Special Education Programs-Grants to States
Authorizing Legislation

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part B

Program Overview

The Grants to States program provides formula grants to assist the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Department of the Interior, Outlying Areas, and the Freely Associated States in meeting the excess costs of providing special education and related services to children with disabilities. In order to be eligible for funding, states must serve all children with disabilities between the ages of 3 through 21, except that they are not required to serve children aged 3 through 5 or 18 through 21 years if services are inconsistent with State law or practice or the order of any court. A state that does not provide a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to children with disabilities aged 3 through 5 cannot receive base payment funds attributable to this age group or any funds under the Preschool Grants program.

CFDA

84.027

Type of Funding

Formula

Link to application site, NOFO, FOA, or Grants.gov (if different from program website above)

Not applicable

Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) or Federal Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Type

Not applicable

Important Dates (if applicable)

Not applicable

FY2023 Appropriations Amount

Total Amount:$14.2B


Amount Available Towards Broadband (if specified): Not specified

Matching Requirement

No 

Complementary Federal Funding Option

Not Applicable

Broadband-related Program Purpose/Eligible Expenditures
Speed/Technical Requirement for Broadband Infrastructure

Not Specified 

Eligible Recipients
If "Other", Eligible Recipient(s)

Preschool Special Education

Criteria for Eligible Recipients

States must submit approvable IDEA applications.

Grant Beneficiaries (if different from eligible recipients)

Not Applicable

Programmatic Resources

Not Applicable

Reporting Requirements

States must annually report on the extent to which targets were achieved in the State Performance Plan. In addition, various data submissions are required under section 618 of the Act.

Publicly-available programmatic data
Contact Information

Gregg Corr
gregg.corr@ed.gov
202-245-7309

Additional Information

This is one of a number of Department programs that provides fund that may be used to support broadband access. The allowability of costs is always situation and program specific. For that reason, if you decide to use funds under one of these programs for the cost related to broadband access, you must be sure that the use of the funds is, under the specific circumstances of the expenditure and the program authority selected, reasonable and necessary for the purposes of that program, and does not violate other program requirements, such as supplement and not supplant, if it applies to program. We also not that, while funds under one of these programs can be used on broadband access the programs’ purpose is not primarily focused on that issue.

Updated

April 2023

Funding Guide