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

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	Federal Grant Title:	Advanced Placement (AP) Test Fee Program; CFDA Number: 84.330B
	CFDA Number:	84.330
	CFDA Description:	Advanced Placement Program
	Federal Agency Name:	Department of Education
	Category of Funding Activity:	Education
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	ED-GRANTS--091109-001
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Sep 11, 2009
	Creation Date:	Sep 11, 2009
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Nov 10, 2009 Applications Available: September 11, 2009 Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: November 10, 2009
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Nov 10, 2009 Applications Available: September 11, 2009 Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: November 10, 2009
	Archive Date:	Dec 10, 2009
	Expected Number of Awards:	42
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	$43,540,000
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: State governments
Additional Information on Eligibility: 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.
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.
Link to Full Grant Announcement: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/e9-21950.pdf
Grant Announcement 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:
e-Mail: Program Manager [francisco.ramirez@ed.gov]
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