The U.S. Department of Education (Department) released its final notice of priorities for discretionary education grant programs, which includes three key areas: advancing cradle-to-career educational reforms, addressing the needs of student subgroups, and building capacity for systemic continuous improvement.  The Department can use, as appropriate for particular discretionary grant programs, one or more of these priorities in any discretionary grant competition. The final notice includes several new priorities from the proposed notice of priorities issued by the Department in August 2010. The new priorities include: Priority 5, which focuses on family and community engagement, and New Priority 6, which focuses on technology.

The Department’s final notice can be found here.