OAR 581-018-0584: Criteria: Early Learning Professional Development Grant Program

(1) Applicants for grant funds must demonstrate a commitment and readiness to design or revise programming that address the following features: (a) Transferability across post-secondary institutions; (b) Provide direct support for students; and (c) Program designed for underserved students. (2) Priority for funding shall be given to applicants that have met the grant requirements along with the following considerations regarding communities to be served by the grant: (a) Communities that have a high percentage of culturally or linguistically diverse young children; (b) Communities that have a high percentage of culturally or linguistically diverse candidates in the local early childhood workforce; (c) Location of the community to support geographic diversity among the recipients of grant program funds across the state. (3) Consideration shall also be given to whether the grant application identifies how the funds will be used to improve education outcomes set forth in ORS 351.009.