KYAE 2012-13 Statewide Grant Competition

A statewide competitive RFP will open January 27, 2012.  The RFP is open to all eligible applicants. 

Please be advised that the upcoming 2012 RFP will be substantially different from previous RFPs issued by KYAE.

Please regularly check this webpage for updates. If you have questions, please contact Janet Hoover at (502) 573-5114, ext. 110, or Janet.Hoover@ky.gov.

Eligible applicants include local education agencies, community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness, volunteer literacy organizations of demonstrated effectiveness, institutions of higher education, public or private nonprofit agencies, libraries, public housing authorities, other nonprofit institutions with the ability to provide literacy services to adults and families, or a consortium of the agencies, organizations, institutions, libraries or authorities as described above.  Community-based organizations and non-profit institutions include non-profit faith-based organizations.

KYAE has recently received guidance from the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), U.S. Department of Education, regarding a process that allows KYAE to reallocate county funding from one fiscal agent to another in certain circumstances.  KYAE plans to use a reallocation process in the following circumstances: 

·         When a county is defunded for poor performance or other reasons or if a county voluntarily relinquishes its adult education grant, KYAE will seek a fiscal agent from among its approved provider network and reallocate the funding to that fiscal agent.

·         In a statewide competitive RFP year, KYAE plans to use the reallocation process when a fiscal agent does not submit an approvable proposal, as determined by RFP review teams.  In this circumstance, instead of conducting a re-bid process for that county, KYAE will solicit a fiscal agent from among those approved through the RFP process and reallocate the funding.

The following timeline is tentative and subject to change. 

All KYAE-funded adult education programs in 2012-13 must be developed using new program design parameters, which provide flexibility and local control while managing programs to achieve efficiency and effectiveness.

KYAE conducts a  periodic statewide competitive RFP process to select an adult education provider network and award county-level adult education funding to the selected providers.  To determine county funding allocations and goals, KYAE uses data produced by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Beginning in 2012-13, KYAE will adopt a new data set as the basis for determining county core services grant funding, enrollment goals and GED goals. Specifically, KYAE will base county funding and goals on data from the 2006-10 American Community Survey (ACS), residents age 18-64 years who do not have a high school credential.  County funding and goals will be available to all applicants with the opening of the RFP process in January 2012.

Since 2007-08, KYAE has used U.S. Census 2000 data, residents 18 and over who do not have a high school credential, as the basis for county-level funding and goals.  However, the  U.S. Census 2010 does not provide county-level educational attainment data, which is now provided by the ACS. 

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACS is an ongoing survey that provides data every year – giving communities the current information needed to plan investments and services. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $400 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year.  The Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, uses ACS data to determine state-level funding allocations.  Rather than taking a snapshot of a community once every ten years, the ACS provides a dynamic and much timelier moving picture of the nation, every year.

The nationwide survey collects essentially the same information on people and housing that was collected on the long-form questionnaire used in Census 2000.  About three million addresses are surveyed each year. The ACS provides one-year, three-year and five-year data and is a critical element in the Census Bureau's new approach to future censuses.