TSBVI Access Grant

The TSBVI Access Grant, awarded by the Texas Education Agency, aims to enhance access to core and expanded curricula for students with visual impairments. This project will provide refreshable braille tablets to eligible braille-reading students in Texas, addressing funding gaps due to changes in federal quota fund availability. Through this initiative, the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired will support educational equity for visually impaired learners in the 2025-2026 academic year.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA), as the pass-through entity, is the grantee from the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) and TEA awards subgrants to non-federal entities such as local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, charter schools, and education service centers, and to a lesser degree institutions of higher education (IHEs), and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) who are the agency’s subgrantees.
2025-2026 TSBVI Access Grant
The purpose of this project is to increase access to the core curriculum and expanded core curriculum for students with visual impairments by supporting the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) in providing refreshable braille tablets to braille reading students in Texas and addressing the funding gap created by APH changes to federal quota fund availability timelines.