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Foreign Language Assistance
Program
(FLAP)
No Child Left Behind
FLAP
Title V: Promoting Informed Parental
Choice and Innovative Programs
Part D: Fund for the Improvement of
Education
Subpart 9: Foreign Language
Assistance Program, also known as
the “Foreign Language Assistance
Act of 2001”
FLAP
Discretionary provisions authorize the
Department to make 3-year grants to the
State Educational Agencies (SEAs) and
Local Educational Agencies (LEAs).
Purpose of the Program
The grants pay the Federal share of
the cost of innovative model programs
for the establishment, improvement, or
expansion of foreign language study for
elementary and secondary schools
students.
Purpose of the Program
Grants to SEAs—to support systemic
approaches in improving FL in the State
$50,000-$400,000 per year
Grants to LEAs—must show the promise of
being continued, demonstrate approaches
that can be disseminated, and may include
professional development
$50,000 to $300,000 per year
Requirements
In order to build program capacity at
the State and local level, cost
sharing/matching is required
The cost share is 100% for each year
If an LEA does not have adequate
resources, a waiver may be requested
Waivers for cost sharing are not
available for State agencies
Special Considerations
1. Summer professional development
2. Linking foreign language speakers with
schools
3. Promoting the sequential study of foreign
languages
4. Using technology
5. Promoting innovative activities
6. A consortium--agency receiving the grant
(SEA) and elementary or secondary school
Special Considerations (detail)
4. Using technology
• Computer assisted instruction
• Language labs
• Distance learning
5. Promoting innovative activities
• Content-based instruction
• Immersion
• Partial immersion
Special Considerations (detail)
5. Promoting innovative activities
• Two-Way immersion (FL and English)
- FLAP funds pay for the FL component
- Matching funds pay for FL component
- The funding of goals, objectives, and
activities pertaining to English are not
considered to be allowable costs under the
FLAP program
- Project personnel, paid by FLAP funding
or district matching funds, may not spend
time on English objectives or activities
Collaboration with
Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs)
Under FLAP grants, LEAs and SEAs are
applicants, grantees and fiscal agents
Program design
Curriculum/Materials development
Professional development
Distance learning
Evaluation
Articulation
Minneapolis Public Schools & the
University of Minnesota
Roosevelt High School Arabic program and
the U of MN Arabic program
Goal: Improve articulation
Share curriculum and assessments
Thematic unit/performance assessments
posted at Center for Advanced Research on
Language Acquisition (CARLA) Virtual
Assessment Center webpage
Minneapolis Public Schools & the
University of Minnesota
• http://roosevelt.mpls.k12.mn.us/Arabic_c
lasses.html
• Curriculum Maps
• Documents
• Podcasts
• Units
• Course Descriptions
Fairfax County Public Schools
Chinese and Arabic
Levels 1-12, 7 schools
Year two 1373 students, year three 1755
Goals:
1-6 Chinese and Arabic FLES curriculum
Virtual Chinese and Arabic courses
LinguaFolio USA! electronic version
Model of 1-16 articulation plans
Replication initiative
Fairfax County Public Schools
Partners:
Virginia Dept. of Ed—virtual language
course throughout Virginia
Chinese Language Council (Hanban)—
summer professional development
George Mason University—1-16 articulation
and career choices
Georgetown University—1-16 articulation
and career choices
Fairfax County Public Schools
days per year (in-kind)
Professor, Georgetown University
Director of China Initiatives, GMU
Chinese Program Coordinator, GMU
GMU will contribute the cost of
the FLAP project evaluation
NEW FLAP Grants Awarded
Year
Local
State
Amount
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
12
46
0
74
46
0
70
5
5
0
0
0
12
4
$2 M
$6 M
$6 M FLIP
$10 M
$6 M
$2 M
$14 M
FLAP FY 2003
New LEA Grants Awarded
$10 M funded 74 grants in 24 states and
Washington, DC
Competitive priority: Languages of
major economic and political
importance—Russian, Chinese, and
Arabic in K-8
FLAP FY 2004
New LEA Grants Awarded
$6M funded 46 LEA grants in 15 states
Same priority as 2003 Languages served:
Arabic, Chinese, French, German,
Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin,
Russian and Spanish
FLAP FY 2005
New SEA Grants Awarded
$2M funded 12 State Educational
Agency grants
NE, MN, NC, MS, CT, MT, WV, NJ,
PA, WY and Washington, DC
FLAP 2006
National Security Language Initiative (NSLI)
Designed to dramatically increase the numbers
of Americans learning critical need languages
from kindergarten through university and into
the workforce
www.nsli.gov
FLAP
Resources Focused 2006
Competitive priority:
Languages of major economic and
political importance—Arabic, Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, Russian and
languages in the Indic, Iranian and
Turkic language families
FLAP FY 2006
$14 M
70 New LEA Grants Awarded
83% in critical languages
4 New SEA Grants Awarded
75% in critical languages
Resources
OELA Website
www.ed.gov/offices/OELA
NCELA Website
www.ncela.gwu.edu/oela/OELAprograms/4_FLAP.htm
Rebecca Richey
202-245-7133
[email protected]
Sharon Manassa
202-245-7124
[email protected]
FLAP Reviewers Needed
Qualifications:
Recent experience in teaching foreign languages
in K-12 public elementary or secondary schools
in the U.S., or in preparing teachers to teach
foreign languages K-12 in the U.S.
Ability to use technology to complete reviews
Submit a brief resume to
[email protected]