Education Innovation and Research EIR Program - The Department of Education awards three types of grants under this program: "Early-phase'' grants, "Mid-phase'' grants, and "Expansion'' grants. These grants differ in terms of the level of prior evidence of effectiveness required for consideration for funding, the expectations regarding the kind of evidence and information funded projects should produce, the level of scale funded projects should reach

Education Innovation and Research EIR Program—Expansion—phase Grants
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Federal Register   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-06-07/html/2021-11938.htm
Notice of Intent to Apply (strongly encouraged) due June 28, 2021.
Deadline for Applications: July 7, 2021.

Education Innovation and Research EIR Program--Mid-Phase Grants
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Federal Register   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-06-07/html/2021-11940.htm
Notice of Intent to Apply (strongly encouraged) due June 28, 2021.
Deadline for Applications: July 7, 2021.

The EIR program, established under section 4611 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended (ESEA), provides funding to create, develop, implement, replicate, or take to scale entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field-initiated innovations to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students; and rigorously evaluate such innovations. The EIR program is designed to generate and validate solutions to persistent education challenges and to support the expansion of those solutions to serve substantially larger numbers of students. The central design element of the EIR program is its multi-tier structure that links the amount of funding an applicant may receive to the quality of the evidence supporting the efficacy of the proposed project, with the expectation that projects that build this evidence will advance through EIR's grant tiers: "Early-phase,'' "Mid-phase,'' and "Expansion.''