Grow Your Own Competitive Grant Opportunity - Pathway for Adults

Grow Your Own Competitive Grant Opportunity - Pathway for Adults

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Minnesota Department of Education
Amount: Up to US $750,000
Last Updated: November 16, 2025

Summary

The Minnesota Department of Education offers the Grow Your Own Competitive Grant Opportunity to enhance and diversify the teacher workforce in Minnesota. This grant, with a total of $30,000,000 available, supports programs specifically for people of color and American Indian individuals seeking to obtain their first professional teaching license. Eligible applicants can receive up to $750,000 to create programs that provide tuition scholarships or stipends for teacher preparation.

Overview

NOTE: Here is the additional opportunity associated with this grant - Pathway for Secondary Students page. About the Agency The Minnesota Department of Education provides an excellent education for Minnesota students by striving for excellence, equity, and opportunity. They focus on closing the achievement gap, supporting high-quality teaching, using innovative strategies to improve educational outcomes, and ensuring all students graduate from high school well-prepared for college, career and life. The Minnesota Department of Education develops, builds, and maintains collaborative relationships with schools, districts, and other stakeholders through a wide variety of advisory boards, councils and committees. Grow Your Own Competitive Grant Opportunity The Minnesota Department of Education has funding available under Minnesota Statutes, section 122A.73, for grants under the Grow Your Own (GYO) program to support programs that will increase and diversify the teacher workforce in the state of Minnesota. Eligible districts, charter schools, intermediate districts, and cooperatives may apply for one or both of the following: Pathway for Adults Funds are available to eligible applicants for a grant to create a GYO program to assist people of color and American Indian people to obtain their first professional teaching license. The grant recipient must use at least 80 percent of grant funds to provide tuition scholarships or stipends to enable district employees or community members affiliated with a district, who are of color or American Indian, and who seek a teaching license, to participate in the teacher preparation program. Adult pathway grantees must partner with: A Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board-approved teacher preparation program;

A Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation-accredited teacher preparation program from a private, not for profit, institution of higher education; or An institution that has an articulated transfer pathway with a board-approved teacher preparation program.
Funding
Total amount available: $30,000,000Maximum grant amount for the pathway for adults: $750,000

Eligibility

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