Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII): Expanding Opportunity Through Quality Charter Schools Program (CSP): Grants to Charter Management Organizations for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools CFDA Number 84.282M

       For the addresses for obtaining and submitting an application, please refer to our Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on February 12, 2018 (83 FR 6003) and available at www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2018-02-12/pdf/2018-02558.pdf.

       Purpose of Program: The major purposes of the CSP are to expand opportunities for all students, particularly traditionally underserved students, to attend charter schools and meet challenging State academic standards; provide financial assistance for the planning, program design, and initial implementation of public charter schools; increase the number of high-quality charter schools \1\ available to students across the United States; evaluate the impact of charter schools on student achievement, families, and communities; share best practices between charter schools and other public schools; encourage States to provide facilities support to charter schools; and support efforts to strengthen the charter school authorizing process. Through CSP Grants to Charter Management Organizations for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools (CFDA number 84.282M) (also referred to as CMO [i.e., Charter Management Organization] grants or the CMO grant program), the Department provides funds to charter management organizations (CMOs) on a competitive basis to enable them to replicate or expand one or more high-quality charter schools. Grant funds may be used to expand the enrollment of one or more existing high-quality charter schools, or to replicate one or more new charter schools that are based on an existing, high-quality charter school model.

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     \1\ Italicized terms are defined in the Definitions section of this notice.

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Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 84.282M.

         On November 30, 2018, we published in the Federal Register (83 FR 61610) a notice inviting applications for new awards for FY 2019 for CSP Grants to Charter Management Organizations.

     This notice corrects the instructions for responding to the application requirements included in the NIA to state that an applicant must respond to requirement (d) in a stand-alone section of the application or in an appendix.

     All other requirements and conditions stated in the NIA remain the same.

Correction

     In FR Doc. 2018-26094, on page 61614, in the third column, at the bottom of the page, in the fourth sentence of the section entitled ``Application Requirements'', we replace ``requirement (a)'' with ``requirement (d)''.

     Program Authority: Title IV, part C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (20 U.S.C. 7221-7221j).