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Utah Charter Schools Program Grant

In September 2024, UAPCS was awarded a Department of Education Charter Schools Program- State Entity Grant. This award amount is $44M + over the next 5 years. Awards are granted to state entities, like UAPCS, who then provide subgrants to eligible applicants for new charter schools or expanding and replicating existing high-quality schools.

UAPCS is in the on-boarding process to make sure the subgrants are awarded appropriately.

See our FAQs below for more information.

(BTW-We're jumping for joy about what this means for the growth of excellent schools for our students in Utah!)  



Over the next 5 years, we will use this grant to help 20 new charter schools, or new campuses of existing charter schools, open. As part of that effort, we will expand our director incubator program, and provide more technical assistance to charter school applicants and charter schools.

The terms of the federal CSP program prevent UAPCS  from distributing these funds to expand existing buildings. Nor may we use these funds to pay for any building. Rather, this grant is only to help new charter schools, and new campuses of existing charter schools, open successfully.

This grant is designed to help new schools open strong. So recipients can use the grant to hire a director, lease office space, purchase curriculum, get training for teachers and other key employees, buy school furniture, computers, software, etc.  In other states which have received a similar grant, recipients have also purchased a new bus, an option that Utah grant recipients will also have. In the next few months, UAPCS will publish a detailed guide outlining how grant recipients will be able to use these funds.

We have a great deal of infrastructure to create before we can start awarding any grants. We expect to start accepting applications early 2025.