The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy (SRCL) Program awards competitive grants to advance literacy skills, including pre-literacy skills, reading, and writing, for children from birth through grade 12, with an emphasis on disadvantaged children, including children living in poverty, English learners, and children with disabilities.

For FY 2017 the priority is: Interventions and Practices Supported by Moderate or Strong Evidence. Under this priority, a State educational agency (SEA) must ensure that evidence plays a central role in the SRCL subgrants. Specifically, in its

high-quality plan, an SEA must assure that

(1) it will use an independent peer review process to prioritize awards to eligible subgrantees that propose high-quality

comprehensive literacy instruction programs that are supported

by moderate evidence or strong evidence, where evidence is applicable and available, and

(2) the comprehensive literacy instruction program proposed by eligible subgrantees will align with the State’s comprehensive literacy plan as well as local needs.