CFDA Number: 84.351D
Program Type: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

The program supports the development, documentation, evaluation, and dissemination of innovative, cohesive models that demonstrate effectiveness in:

• Integrating and strengthening arts into the core elementary and middle school curricula.
• Strengthening arts instruction in those grades.
• Improving students' academic performance, including their skills in creating, performing, and responding to the arts.

Grants are designed to enable local education agencies and organizations with art expertise to further create and develop materials for the replication or adaptation of current comprehensive approaches for integrating a range of arts disciplines--such as music, dance, theater, and visual arts, including folk arts--into the elementary and middle school curricula.

Funds must be used to:

• Further the development of programs designed to improve or expand the integration of arts education in elementary or middle school curricula.
• Develop materials designed to help replicate or adapt arts programs.
• Document and assess the results and benefits of arts programs.
• Develop products and services that can be used to replicate arts programs in other settings.

Applicants must describe an existing set of strategies for integrating the arts into the regular elementary and middle school curricula, which could then successfully be implemented, expanded, documented, evaluated, and disseminated.