Key Dates: First Round Applications Due: July 23, 2009; Second Round Applications Due: October 6, 2009
Intergovernmental Review Due: First Round: September 21, 2009; Second Round: December 7, 2009

Program Information:  The U.S. Department of Education's Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) Grants Program is designed to:

• improve student achievement;
• improve the quality of new and prospective teachers by improving the preparation of prospective teachers and enhancing professional development activities for new teachers;
• hold teacher preparation programs at institutions of higher education (IHEs) accountable for preparing highly qualified teachers; and
• recruit highly qualified individuals, including minorities and individuals from other occupations, into the teaching force.

Grant Information:  TQP grants seek to improve the quality of new teachers by creating partnerships among IHEs, high-need school districts, their high-need schools, and/or high-need early childhood education (ECE) program. These partnerships would create model teacher preparation programs at the pre-baccalaureate level through the implementation of specific reforms of the IHE's existing teacher preparation programs, and/or model teaching residency programs for individuals with strong academic and/or professional backgrounds but without teaching experience. The TQP Grants Program may also support school leadership programs to train superintendents, principals, ECE program directors, and other school leaders in high-need or rural local educational agencies (LEAs). To be considered, applications must satisfy "absolute priorities" and eligibility requirements identified in the funding outline.  

For More Information: View the full Funding Opportunity Annnouncement program and application information.