Connecticut State Department of Education

Teacher of the Year Ceremony
Due to inclement weather, the Teacher of the Year Ceremony has been postponed to December 16, 2025 from 5-7pm. Doors will open at 4pm. The Ceremony will take place at the Bushnell Theater in Hartford, and the order of events will remain the same.

Recent Communication

How to Subscribe to our Listservs
To Subscribe to the SDE Bilingual Grant Contacts listserv or the Title lll Grant Contacts listserv please send an email from the email address you wish to receive notices to.

  • The email should be sent to; listserv@list.ct.gov.
  • Please remove all text from the body in your email, including your contact information.
  • In the body of your email please type; Subscribe SDE_Bilingual_Grant_Contacts firstname lastname or Subscribe SDE_Title_lll_Grant_Contacts firstname lastname and then send.

For example, Subscribe SDE_Bilingual_Grant_Contacts John Smith

 

September 22, 2025

TheTitle III grant applications are now open in the eGMS

Instructions for Calculating Private School Share for FY 2026

1. Intent to Participate: It is imperative that you complete this section in the eGMS system, especially if you plan to participate in Title III as a member of a consortium. Click on the Intent to Participate heading on the Sections page, and then select the manner in which your district will participate in Title III or if you will decline the funds. If your district is part of a consortium, you must list the fiscal agent on that page in the blank. If part of a consortium, please complete this page as soon as possible, but no later than Wednesday, October 1. 

2. Information for Consortia Members: As a consortium member, you will need to log into the system and confirm that you are participating in the consortium (described above in item 1). You will be able to view the amount of your district’s allocation at the top of the Intent to Participate page.

You will also have to download, complete and upload the Related Documents for Title III. These include a program narrative page, a budget narrative, a consortium agreement form, and a private school participation form for all private schools in the district, if applicable. In addition to uploading them, you will either have to give the fiscal agent (consortium lead) viewing access so that they can see these documents, which will also give them viewing access to your other grants in the system or you will have to email or send the materials to them. Please see below regarding private schools as a Title III consortium member.

3. Title III 2024-2025 Annual Evaluation Reports: Most districts have completed and submitted their Title III and Bilingual (if applicable) AER/s in the eGMS. I have attached the communications about the AERs, which also includes instructions for completing it. Prior to applying for this year’s Title III grant, please complete the AER in the eGMS. If your district has completed the AER, no action on this topic is needed. It is imperative that this report is completed, as it provides information about Title III activity implementation and yields data that is provided, in the aggregate, to the US Department of Education. Again, if you have already completed the Title III AER, thank you, and please disregard this item. 
 
4. Annual Title III district entitlements: The Title III entitlements are loaded into the eGMS and can be accessed there. Please note that the non-public entitlements are a portion of the public entitlement. For example, if your district entitlement is 12,000 and 2,000 is the non-public portion, the public portion is 10,000. 
 
5. Beginning your application: Once you have logged into the eGMS at https://connecticut.egrantsmanagement.com/ and select the Title III grant, the first step is to change the status to ‘Application Started’ on the top of the Sections page. Until the application is started by clicking that button, you will not be able to save nor will you be able to access certain content on the application. The screenshot below from the top of the “Sections” page shows the ‘Application Started’ that must be clicked:

 
  
6. Private Schools: The eGMS system includes the public and non-public amounts for your district. Like last year, this year there continues to be an auto-calculating private schools page in the Title III EL application. Only private schools which have indicated that they have ELs will show up on the list in the Title III EL application. If the private school wishes to participate in Title III, select yes. If not, select no, and the entitlements will auto-recalculate. This page looks and functions the same as the private school page in the Title I grant application with which you may be familiar. Attached you will find instructions for completing this page in the Title III application. These instructions can also be accessed on the eGMS system in the CSDE Library and from the Program Instruction and guidance page. Please note: If you are a district with private schools and are participating in Title III through a consortium, the private school page in the eGMS will be in your fiscal agent’s Title III application in the system. 
 
7. eGMS User Guide and training slides: If you would like a refresher on how to use the eGMS system, the User Guide and training slides can be accessed by clicking the ‘CSDE Resources’ tab on the left side of the screen. Expand the eGMS training tab, and you will see the links to both resources. The screenshot below shows them highlighted. 


 
8. Copy budget/program detail’ functionality in eGMS: Like last year, you will be able to copy your previous year’s Title III budget detail and program detail into your current year application. In order to do that, you must go into your budget screen or your program details, and click the button at the top (immediately below the ‘Go To’ menu) that says “Copy 2024 Budget Detail” or “Copy 2024 Program Detail.” This will populate those pages with your previous year’s information, and you will then be able to adjust accordingly. This is provided for your convenience, and you do not have to use this function unless you wish to do so. Please note that the ‘Related Documents’ content cannot prepopulate. 
 
9. Due Date: The due date for the Title III EL grant is Friday, October 24, 2025. If your district is part of a consortium, it is likely that there will be an earlier deadline to ensure the consortium application can be submitted on time. Please complete the Intent to Participate portion of your Title III grant as soon as possible but by Wednesday, October 1st at the latest. This ensures that we can load the consortium relationships accurately.
  
10. Immigrant Subgrant: The immigrant subgrant entitlements are not posted at this time. You may see an entitlement of $0 for the immigrant subgrant. However, this is simply a placeholder. The immigrant grant will continue to be offered as a competitive application and will be posted in the next month. I will send a communication at that time regarding the grant competition and application process. 

 

 May 20, 2025

Title lll and Bilingual Evalutation Reports (AERs) are now open.

Completing State Bilingual Annual Evaluation Report and Title lll Annual Evaluation Reports

1. Which districts need to complete the Title III Annual Evaluation Report (AER)?
All districts that accepted Title III funds during the 2024-2025 school year must complete the Title III AER. Each individual district, regardless of whether you applied independently or as part of a consortium, must complete an AER. RESCs that serve as the fiscal agent for a Title III consortium must complete an AER ONLY if the RESC receives its own Title III allocation (i.e. if the RESC operates a school with ELs enrolled) and should only report on its own Title III activities rather than activities of the consortium member districts. The only districts that should not complete a Title III AER are those that were not eligible to receive or declined their 2024-2025 Title III funds.

2. Which districts need to complete the Bilingual Grant Annual Evaluation Report (AER)?
All districts that were mandated to provide a bilingual program or programs in the 2024-2025 school year are required to complete a bilingual grant AER. If there is a bilingual grant AER available for your district to complete in the system, your district must complete the bilingual grant AER.

3. Where can I find the AER documents to complete?
Both the Title III and bilingual grant AERs are located on the Electronic Grants Management System (eGMS). Having them in the eGMS system creates a permanent and easily accessible record for both the district and the CSDE and will provide enhanced functionality for data analysis, reporting and compilation. The AERs can be accessed from the Funding Applications tab by clicking ‘Application Supplements.’ Please see the attached instructions, which include screenshots, for detailed information on how to access the AERs.

4. What content has changed in the AERs?
This year’s Title III AER content includes date changes and the addition of a field for content about the Parent Bill of Rights for ELs/MLs. The bilingual AERs remain largely unchanged from last year’s other than updates to the grant period on which you are reporting.

5. What if I don’t have access to the eGMS?
Districts handle eGMS access in different ways. If you do not have access, but your district wishes for you to have it, anyone in your district with user access administrator permissions can add you. If your district restricts access but would like you to complete the AER, screen shots could be given to you, and then you could provide the responses, which could be input by someone with system access. The eGMS User Guide, which can be found on the CSDE resources tab, provides detailed instructions for creating a user in the system in Section VI: User Access Administration. This screenshot shows where to access the Guide:

6. Useful reminder-Fiscal Year:
Please note that the fiscal year MUST be set to 2025 in the system. Because of the current time of year, the system is autoset to 2026, but in order to access and complete the 2024-2025 AER, choose ‘2025’ on the drop down menu.

7. When are the Title III AER and Bilingual grant AER due?
The Title III AER is due by Friday, June 27th 2025.