External Grant Source

Name of Funding Source

Description of Funding Source

Relevant links

Eligibility

Deadlines

Notes

2026-2027 Texas Regional Pathways Network Cohort 6 Grant

The specific purpose of this grant project is to convene a team, led by a pathways team facilitator, to implement high-quality career and education pathways aligned with regional labor market demand. The regional team will work together throughout the grant project to implement grant-funded activities and interventions that meet employers' needs within the targeted industry and provide the support students need to navigate pathways into the targeted industry. 

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LEAs and ESCs

09/08/2025-11/07/2025

TEA grants must be accessed via the TEA Grant Opportunity site linked.

2025-2026 Career and Technical Education, ESC Leadership Application

The ESC CTE Leadership program is designed to provide professional development and technical assistance to school systems in developing and implementing high quality CTE programs of study, providing quality work-based learning opportunities for students, and aligning CTE programs to the labor market.

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ESCs interested in serving as leads for CTE programs of study technical support

9/3/2025-11/03/2025

TEA grants must be accessed via the TEA Grant Opportunity site linked.

2025-2026 Learning Acceleration Supports Opportunities (LASO) Cycle 4

HB2 PREP Preservice Residency Program: The PREP Residency Preservice Program places paid teacher residents in classrooms led by experienced cooperating (host) teachers, allowing candidates to earn enhanced standard teaching certificates while gaining hands-on experience. This model strengthens instructional capacity, improves educator effectiveness, and increases student access to high-quality teaching.

LASO individual application links will be emailed to Superintendents on October 3, 2025. Please see the LASO website for more information.

LEAs can apply for funding for up to 40 individuals in the amount of $24K-$39,5K. More information can be found at  https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/laso-cycle-4-grant-and-allotment-programs.  

10/01/2025-12/01/2025

*All school systems who want "light touch" technical assistance should select the box in the application process. All LASO Cycle 4 grants are stackable. Grants under this opportunity will be addressed outside of the typical TEA grant system. Funding begins SY '26-27 and two additional opportunities will be released for SY '27-'28. Rural and high-needs schools are eligible for funding multipliers for some awards.

2025-2026 Learning Acceleration Supports Opportunities (LASO) Cycle 4

HB2 PREP Grow Your Own Program: The PREP Grow Your Own (GYO) Program enables school systems, through partnering with qualified institutions of higher education and educator preparation programs, to establish innovative staffing pipelines that prepare and retain educators and thereby, increase student access to high-quality classroom teachers.

LASO individual application links will be emailed to Superintendents on October 3, 2025. Please see the LASO website for more information.

LEAs can apply for funding for up to 40 individuals in the amount of $8K - $12K. More information can be found at  https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/laso-cycle-4-grant-and-allotment-programs.  

10/01/2025-12/01/2025

*All school systems who want "light touch" technical assistance should select the box in the application process. All LASO Cycle 4 grants are stackable. Grants under this opportunity will be addressed outside of the typical TEA grant system. Funding begins SY '26-27 and two additional opportunities will be released for SY '27-'28. Rural and high-needs schools are eligible for funding multipliers for some awards.

2025-2026 Learning Acceleration Supports Opportunities (LASO) Cycle 4

HB2 PREP Mentorship Program: The Preparing and Retaining Educators Through Partnership (PREP) Mentorship Program provides districts interested in implementing high-quality new teacher mentorship programs with funding to 1) provide, at minimum, a $1,000 stipend to the mentor teacher (per beginning teacher), 2) train all required district mentorship staff via the Texas Mentorship Training, and 3) provide release time for mentor teacher and beginning teacher mentoring activities.

LASO individual application links will be emailed to Superintendents on October 3, 2025. Please see the LASO website for more information.

LEAs can apply for funding for up to 40 individuals in the amount of up to $3K per beginning teacher mentored. More information can be found at  https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/laso-cycle-4-grant-and-allotment-programs.  

10/01/2025-12/01/2025

*All school systems who want "light touch" technical assistance should select the box in the application process. All LASO Cycle 4 grants are stackable. Grants under this opportunity will be addressed outside of the typical TEA grant system. Funding begins SY '26-27 and two additional opportunities will be released for SY '27-'28. Rural and high-needs schools are eligible for funding multipliers for some awards.

2025-2026 Learning Acceleration Supports Opportunities (LASO) Cycle 4

Texas Strategic Staffing (TSS) for Residencies Grant: The Texas Strategic Staffing for Residencies Grant focuses on making staffing and scheduling decisions driven by immediate and long-term instructional needs. This is a two-year grant designed to provide in-kind technical assistance and other support to school systems* and educator preparation program (EPP) partnerships to design and implement paid, year-long, high-quality, and sustainable teacher residencies across school year (SY) 2026-27 and SY 2027-28. The grant provides partial funding for at least one school system staff member to oversee the program, including coordination between the school system, technical assistance provider, and EPP.

LASO individual application links will be emailed to Superintendents on October 3, 2025. Please see the LASO website for more information.

LEAs who obtain a signed EPP verification form from each EPP partner with a state-approved Texas Teacher Residency Preparation Route and should not be a recipient of the 2025-27 Texas Strategic Staffing Grant for Sustainable, Paid Teacher Residency Program or

the 2024-2025 Sustainable Residency Continuation Grant. Awards are up to $58,400. ESCs are not eligible. More information can be found at  https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/laso-cycle-4-grant-and-allotment-programs.  

10/02/2025-12/03/2025

See the LASO Cycle 4 website for more information and application guidelines. This is a 2-year grant. https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/laso-cycle-4-grant-and-allotment-programs

2025-2026 Learning Acceleration Supports Opportunities (LASO) Cycle 4

Early College High School (ECHS)​: The Early College High School (ECHS) program offers campuses an opportunity to plan to build an Early College High School within their district. This program offers opportunities for campuses to provide targeted supports for underserved students through rigorous instruction and accelerated postsecondary courses and provide academic and wrap-around strategies that help students succeed in college-level coursework at no cost to the students.

LASO individual application links will be emailed to Superintendents on October 3, 2025. Please see the LASO website for more information.

LEAs with an IHE partner who will provide dual credit opportunities to the ECHS academy students. More information can be found at  https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/laso-cycle-4-grant-and-allotment-programs.  

10/02/2025-12/03/2025

2-year grant

2025-2026 Learning Acceleration Supports Opportunities (LASO) Cycle 4

2026-2028 Pathways in Technology Early College High School (PTECH)​: The Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program is an open-enrollment initiative that offers campuses an opportunity to plan to build a P-TECH within their district. Designed to support underserved and at-risk students, P-TECH schools offer opportunities for students to earn a high school diploma while simultaneously earning industry certifications, and/or an associate degree on or before the sixth anniversary of a student's first day of high school. The P-TECH program requires a campus to maintain a partnership with an institution of higher education (IHE) to provide dual credit opportunities to the P-TECH academy students and with a business/industry partner to provide work-based learning experiences.

LASO individual application links will be emailed to Superintendents on October 3, 2025. Please see the LASO website for more information.

Eligible applicants are Serving students in Grades 9-12; or Will begin serving students in Grade 9 or students in Grades 9 and 10 in the first year of implementation (2027-2028) and will progressively scale up by adding at least one grade level per year. All current P-TECH planning, provisional, or designated campuses are not eligible to apply. Must have an agreement with an IHE. More information can be found at  https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/laso-cycle-4-grant-and-allotment-programs.  

10/03/2025-12/03/2025

2-year grant

2025-2026 Texas Instructional Leadership Expansion Grant

The Texas Instructional Leadership Expansion Grant seeks to address instructional leadership skill-building across the state at both the district and campus levels. This grant program would allow Education Service Centers (ESCs) to attend training throughout the year on best practices in instructional leadership skill building while working with their peers and TEA on effective implementation of instructional leadership skill-building programs. Successful ESCs will be able to offer these services as approved providers to campuses designated as comprehensive or targeted schools under the federal accountability system.

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ESCs willing to become an approved provider of these services are encouraged to apply.

10/10/2025-12/09/2025

TEA grants must be accessed via the TEA Grant Opportunity site linked.

2025-2026 Title V, Part B Rural and Low-Income School Program Grant Application

The purpose of the Title V, Part B, Subpart 2 Rural and Low-Income School Program Grant Application is to address the unique needs of rural school districts that frequently 1.) lack the personnel and resources needed to compete effectively for federal competitive grants; and 2.) receive formula allocations in amounts too small to be effective in meeting their intended purpose.

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An LEA shall be eligible to receive Rural and Low-Income School funding if: 1) 20% or more of the children ages 5-17 years served by the LEA are from families with incomes below the poverty line; and 2) all of the schools served by the LEA are designated with a School Locale Code of 32, 33, 41, 42, or 43.

9/15/2025-11/14/2025

TEA grants must be accessed via the TEA Grant Opportunity site linked.

2025-2026 ESC Texas Strategic Leadership (TSL) Funding Grant

This grant provides funding to ESCs teams opting into Texas Strategic Leadership to become certified as a TSL Lead Coach and TSL Performance Management Data Specialist after completing the year-long training.

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ESCs that have opted into the Texas Strategic Leadership initiative should apply.

10/14/2025-11/13/2025