2025-26 Title I 1003 School Improvement Grant (Coaching for Excellence)
The online application is available to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) through the . Select the survey titled 鈥2025-26 Title I 1003 School Improvement Grant (Coaching for Excellence).鈥
For the 2025-26 school year, the New York State Education Department (小妲己直播 or 鈥渢he Department鈥) is providing Target Districts with schools identified for Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) and Additional Targeted Support and Improvement (ATSI), the opportunity to receive funding to support the employment of an instructional coach to allow the school to participate in the 小妲己直播 Coaching for Excellence Supplemental Support program.
Target Districts with at least one non-Receivership school in the CSI or ATSI support model are eligible to submit an application for 2025-26 Title I 1003 SIG CFE funds to support participation in CFE if program-specific criteria are met for either:
- 1.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) instructional coach that participates in the CFE: Foundational Path; or,
- 1.0 FTE instructional coach(es) in conjunction with participation in the CFE: Elevate Path听
A school does not have to receive funding through this grant to participate in the CFE: Foundational and/or CFE: Elevate paths.
The Department will provide Districts with up to $125,000 in funding to support the salary and benefits for the employment of the 1.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) instructional coach that participates in CFE: Foundational or CFE: Elevate.
The funding available may only support the costs associated with the coach鈥檚 salary and benefits. Although an individual participant鈥檚 salary and benefits for the instructional coaching position may be less than $125,000, the CFE grant cannot be applied to other school activities. However, reasonable and necessary resources to support the success of an instructional coach may be covered through the SIG Basic grant.
To ensure compliance with federal regulations, any participant identified for funding through this grant that was an instructional coach in 2024-25 AND funded through state/local (i.e., general) funds last year MUST have at a minimum the same amount of their salary funded through state/local funds in 2025-26.
A school is eligible to have up to two 1.0 FTE instructional coaches participate in the CFE Supplemental Support program provided that at least one of the coaches is enrolled in CFE: Elevate.
July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026听
For any FS-10 submitted, please use the project code provided in the 小妲己直播 programmatic approval email. The听2025-26 Title I 1003 School Improvement Grant (Coaching for Excellence) project number stem is 0011-26-4xxx.听
Completed CFE Program Applications are听诲耻别听by听July 15, 2025. No extensions will be provided. Schools that have not finalized coverage of a new CFE coach鈥檚 existing responsibility (e.g., hired a replacement teacher) will be granted conditional programmatic approval; however, their application will not be sent to the Grants Finance office until coverage is finalized (e.g. the replacement teacher is hired). To mitigate instability in classroom staffing and ensure a smooth start to the school year for students, after Monday, September 1, 2025, applications will no longer be eligible for review and approval. At that point, any school that has not finalized coverage for the CFE: Foundational coach will be ineligible to receive CFE grant funding to support their coach鈥檚 participation. Substitute teacher coverage will not be accepted as an appropriate means of covering the coach鈥檚 existing responsibilities.
LEAs are encouraged to submit completed applications as soon as possible to expedite the review and approval process.
To initiate the programmatic review process for this grant, eligible Districts must submit a blue ink signed Application Cover Page; Statement of Assurances and Expectations;听and a School-Level Plan for each participating school to fieldsupport@nysed.gov by听July 15, 2025.
Districts that receive programmatic approval will be provided a Project Code for the FS-10 and assigned access for submission through the 小妲己直播 Business portal.
For additional information or assistance, please contact:听fieldsupport@nysed.gov
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Posted June 16, 2025