1,669 'i3' Applications Received by Education Department
By yesterday's 4:30 p.m. deadline, 1,669 districts, schools, and nonprofits had turned in their applications for the $650 million Investing in Innovation Fund, according to a summary document posted this afternoon on the U.S. Department of Education's website.
From a logistical standpoint, that number may be a relief for the department from the nearly 2,500 entities that filed notices of intent indicating they might apply. Such a huge applicant pool would have required a ton of peer reviewers, although more than 1,600 isn't necessarily going to make things easy.
In that applicant pool, we don't yet know the breakdown of how many want the big $50 million "scale-up" grants, the smaller $30 million "validation" grants, or the smallest $5 million "development" grants. But the Education
From a logistical standpoint, that number may be a relief for the department from the nearly 2,500 entities that filed notices of intent indicating they might apply. Such a huge applicant pool would have required a ton of peer reviewers, although more than 1,600 isn't necessarily going to make things easy.
In that applicant pool, we don't yet know the breakdown of how many want the big $50 million "scale-up" grants, the smaller $30 million "validation" grants, or the smallest $5 million "development" grants. But the Education