Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant
Ohio was recently awarded a $60 million Comprehensive Literacy State Development grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This grant will support teaching and learning opportunities to help more Ohio students advance their literacy skills, with a focus on those who have been traditionally underserved.
The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce anticipates releasing a Request for Applications for kindergarten-grade 12 subgrants in early 2025. The subgrant application process for birth-kindergarten will take place separately later in 2025.
2025 Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant Application Resources
Prospective kindergarten-grade 12 applicants may consider preparing for the request for applications by completing the following activities:
- Administer the Reading-Tiered Fidelity Inventory at proposed elementary, middle and high school literacy implementation sites.
- Write or update the district or community school’s Local Literacy Plan.
- Ensure building administrators at proposed literacy implementation sites complete required professional development in the science of reading.
- All Ohio administrators are required to complete Pathway F or an equivalent training by June 30, 2025. Building administrators are encouraged to complete this training in advance of the deadline to prepare for the application.
Ohio’s 2024 Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant Application
2020 Ohio's Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant
In 2019, Ohio Department of Education was awarded $42 million for a Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant from the U.S. Department of Education to build on ongoing work to improve the language and literacy development of our state’s children. Approximately 95 percent of the award will be distributed directly to local districts, community schools and early childhood education programs to improve literacy outcomes for children from birth through grade 12.
Subgrants are currently in their final year of implementation, a no cost time extension year. Activities of the grant focus on developing model comprehensive literacy sites in early childhood education programs and district preschools as well as elementary, middle and high schools across the state. The model sites concentrate on implementing practices consistent with Ohio’s Plan to Raise Literacy Achievement. The grant also supports professional learning and coaching. The partnership between the model sites and the Department allows early childhood education programs, districts, schools and families to improve student literacy and increase educational options available to students who have been traditionally underserved.
2023 Ohio's Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant Awards
2020 Ohio's Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant Awards
Ohio's Plan to Raise Literacy Achievement
Resources
Ohio's 2019 Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant Application
Send questions to ComprehensiveLiteracy@education.ohio.gov
Last Modified: 10/28/2024 4:16:47 PM