Advanced Placement (AP) Test Fee Program; CFDA Number: 84.330B

Post Date

September 11th 2009

Application Due Date

November 10th 2009

Applications Available: September 11, 2009 Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: November 10, 2009

Funding Opportunity Number

ED-GRANTS--091109-001

CFDA Number(s)

84.330

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Education

Number of Awards

42

Eligibility Categories

State Governments

Eligible Applicants: SEAs in any State, including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the freely associated states of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and (subject to continued eligibility) the Republic of Palau. Note: For the purposes of this program, the Bureau of Indian Education in the U.S. Department of the Interior is treated as an SEA.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $43540000

• Award Range:

  $None - $None

Grant 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 Purpose of Program: The AP Test Fee program awards grants to eligible State educational agencies (SEAs) to enable them to pay all or a portion of advanced placement test fees on behalf of eligible low-income students who (1) are enrolled in an advanced placement course and (2) plan to take an advanced placement exam. The program is designed to increase the number of low-income students who take advanced placement tests and receive scores for which college academic credit is awarded. Applications for grants under the AP Test Fee Program, CFDA Number 84.330B, must be submitted electronically using e-Application, accessible through the Department'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. You must complete the electronic submission of your grant application by 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. E-Application will not accept an application for this program after 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. The telephone number for the Grants.gov Helpdesk is 1800-518-4726 or e-mail: support@grants.gov.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Education

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  Julius C. Cotton, Jr., Esq.
  Management Analyst
  Telephone: 202 245-6140
  Julius.Cotton@ed.gov
  Program Manager:
  Francisco Ramirez
  U.S. Department of Education
  400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 3E224, Washington, DC 20202-6200
  Telephone: (202) 260-1541 or by e-mail:

• Agency Mailing Address:

  e-Mail: Program Manager

• Agency Email Address:

  francisco.ramirez@ed.gov

• More Information:

  Advanced Placement (AP) Test Fee Program; CFDA Number: 84.330B