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OSERS-OSEP: Personnel Preparation of Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services Personnel, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.325K

Federal funding opportunity ED-GRANTS-051326-002 from Department of Education.

Posted
May 13, 2026
Closes
July 2, 2026
Award ceiling
$350,000
Program funding
$8,750,000
Expected awards
35
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Grant
Assistance listing
84.325
Category
Education
Archives
August 6, 2026

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 84.325 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.

FY2024 obligated
$107.5M
FY2025 obligated
$108.3M
FY2026 (to date) obligated
$-974,646
Awards in window
575

Top recipients: University of Florida, Vanderbilt University, Florida International University, American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed July 2026

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Synopsis

Program Description: The purposes of the Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities program are to (1) help address State-identified shortages and needs for personnel preparation in special education and early intervention, including infants and toddlers, and youth with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel have the necessary skills and knowledge, derived from practices that have been determined through scientifically based research, to be successful in serving those children.

The purpose of the Personnel Preparation of Special Education, Early Intervention, and Related Services Personnel (84.325K) competition is to prepare and increase the number of personnel who have the necessary qualifications to serve children with disabilities. Under this absolute priority, ED will fund grantees that use evidence-based strategies to prepare scholars in special education, early intervention, and related services at the bachelor’s degree, certification, master’s degree, educational specialist degree, or clinical doctoral degree levels to serve in a variety of settings, including natural environments (the home and community settings in which children with and without disabilities participate), early learning programs, child care, classrooms, and schools.


Assistance Listing Number (ALN): 84.325K.


Applicants are required to follow the 2025 Common Instructions for Applicants to Department of Education Discretionary Grant Programs, published in the Federal Register on August 29, 2025 (90 FR 42234) and available at ED 2025 Common Instructions.


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Who can apply

Institutions of higher education (IHEs),2 and private nonprofit organizations.Note: Eligible applicants must have a bachelor’s degree, certification, master’s degree, educational specialist degree, or clinical doctoral degree program that prepares scholars in special education, early intervention, and related services or be a private nonprofit organization that has the legal authority to enter into grants and cooperative agreements with the Federal government on behalf of an applicant that has a bachelor’s degree, certification, master’s degree, educational specialist degree, or clinical doctoral degree program that prepare scholars in special education, early intervention, and related services.Note: If you are a nonprofit organization, under 34 CFR 75.51, you may demonstrate your nonprofit status by providing: (1) proof that the Internal Revenue Service currently recognizes the applicant as an organization to which contributions are tax deductible under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; (2) a statement from a State taxing body or the State attorney general certifying that the organization is a nonprofit organization operating within the State and that no part of its net earnings may lawfully benefit any private shareholder or individual; (3) a certified copy of the applicant’s certificate of incorporation or similar document if it clearly establishes the nonprofit status of the applicant; or (4) any item described above if that item applies to a State or national parent organization, together with a statement by the State or parent organization that the applicant is a local nonprofit affiliate.

How to apply

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Agency contact: Holly Clark Management and Program Analyst · sunyoung.ahn@ed.gov · 2022456408

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