Advanced Placement Incentive Program (APIP)
Dates:
Applications Available: March 16, 2011
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: April 15, 2011
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 16, 2011
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: July 14, 2011
Purpose of Program:
The Advanced Placement Incentive (API) program awards competitive grants designed to increase the successful participation of low-income students in advanced placement courses and tests. The program expands opportunities for low-income students to take college-level classes and earn college credit while still in high school. The program also supports efforts to raise the rigor of the academic curriculum for all students attending high-poverty schools.
Priorities:
This competition includes two absolute priorities and one competitive preference priority.
- Absolute Priority 1: Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education
- Absolute Priority 2: Expanding Access for Low-Income Individuals to Advanced Placement Programs
- Competitive Preference Priority: Turning Around Persistently Lowest-Achieving Schools
Federal Register Announcement 2011 APIP Competition
Visit the Grants.gov website for information regarding the 2011 Application.
Remember: You must be registered on grants.gov to submit your application. Make sure your registration is in order immediately.
Visit the U.S. Department of Education website for for the latest information on purpose, eligibility, application, and funding of APIP.
AVID and Advanced Placement
It is important to note AVID's strong support for Advanced Placement access. Since the program's inception, Mary Catherine Swanson, AVID Founder and Executive Director, has stressed the importance of enrolling more students in rigorous curriculum, including AP and International Baccalaureate courses. Throughout the U.S., school districts such as San Antonio ISD (TX), Long Beach Unified (CA), Salt Lake City (UT), Ft. Worth ISD (TX), Little Rock (AR), and districts throughout Washington State have included AVID as part of their funded APIP proposals. The AVID Center has also been awarded funding to work with districts in five states (AZ, KS, TX, CA, and NC) to develop innovative approaches to increasing AP participation.
AVID and APIP Grant Program Overview
This document has been developed specifically to assist school grant writers as they prepare their applications incorporating AVID as a foundational academic component of their projects.
Additional APIP Resources
AVID APIB Senior Data 2006-2010
AVID APIP Lessons Learned from the Field
An article by Rob Gira, Executive Vice President, AVID National Programs
AVID Connections to the APIP Grant
Explores the connections to APIP objectives and AVID strategies and procedures.
APIP Testimonials
AVID AP Fact Sheet 2003
The Education Innovator
August 8, 2005. Number 29
From the U.S. Dept. of Ed. Newsletter/Journal, The Education Innovator, "'Students in the Middle Demonstrate Avidus and Reach New Academic Heights.' The scene is Escondido, California: fade-in to a picture of Mario, the son of an immigrant family. In the beginning, Mario's father provided for the family by picking avocadoes."