IMPORTANT DATES:
Optional Letter of Intent due by e-mail (msp [at] nsf.gov): 15 March 2002
Proposals due at NSF through FastLane: 30 April 2002, 5:00 PM your local
time
The Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program, recently approved by the
National Science Board, is part of the President's initiative -- No
Child Left Behind -- to strengthen and reform preK-12 education.
Continually updated information on the MSP program as well as directions
to the guidelines for MSP proposals (the Program Solicitation) are
available at http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/mathandsciencepp.asp. The MSP offers
the mathematics, science, and engineering communities, as well as other
partners, an opportunity to work with preK-12 educational systems to
provide the requisites for learning to high standards in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics. For the current fiscal year,
$160 million is available with an anticipated $1 billion to be
appropriated for MSP through fiscal year 2006. It also is expected that
additional resources will be available during this initial year of the
MSP through co-funding by the U.S. Department of Education and NSF.
Proposals in response to the initial solicitation are due at the
Foundation by 30 April 2002.
A National Workshop for those planning to submit MSP proposals will be
held at NSF on 4 March 2002 with information on this conference
available from the above web site.
For more information on this initiative recently approved by the
National Science Board on the Math and Science Partnership Program, see
the following web site: