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2025-26 Start-Up Subgrant – Planning, Implementation, Replication, and Expansion

CA Department of Education · 151026

Eligibility details

A newly established or conversion classroom-based charter school may be eligible for a Planning, Replication or Implementation subgrant, provided that the school did not begin serving students prior to July 1, 2024. An established charter school may be eligible for an Expansion subgrant, provided that the school is significantly increasing enrollment or adding one or more grades.

Matching funds & resources

Source matching-funds field: Not Required.

Matching funds and leveraged resources are different requirements. Read the description and reviewed rules below before determining resource commitments.

About this opportunity

PCSGP Start-Up Subgrants identify funding levels and terms into four subgrant types: Planning, Implementation, Replication, and Expansion. The actual number and type of subgrants awarded during each Request for Application (RFA) competition may vary based on demand. If all authorized awards are not approved for funding, the CDE may open additional RFA competition events for new applicants until all of the allocated funds have been awarded.

Funding geography: Supplemental funding has been structured to encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods pursuant to state law, provide parents/guardians and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system pursuant to state law, and provide additional support for targeted student groups and high-cost programs.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.