Overview

The Center for Native Education plans to expand its national network of early colleges for Native youth. We seek the same strong academic results that our existing early colleges for Native youth have achieved: increased attendance, test scores, curricular rigor, graduation and college enrollment rates.

Marina Benally teaches Native American Studies at Tulalip.
Photo credit: Jerry Davis

We encourage interested applicants to thoroughly review the information included on this website, particularly our eligibility requirements, How It Works, and our RFP. The information included in these documents demonstrates what the CNE does and does not fund.

The CNE DOES fund exemplary applications to establish early college high schools, serving predominantly American Indian and Alaska Native adolescents. Exemplary applicants demonstrate strong leadership, collaboration and support, the ability to design and implement required components of the early college model, and evidence of sustaining the school after funding ceases.

The CNE DOES NOT FUND proposals for afterschool or supplemental programs or schools-within-schools. Because the purpose of the grant is to catalyze a single new school, applications that suggest a network of multiple sites are discouraged as are those that propose heavy or complete reliance on distance learning.