A federal grant program for professional development focused on working with English learners will continue this fall with a new cohort of projects, and new priorities, including letters of endorsement from governors and state education officials. * A restructuring that moved the grant program out of OELA into the office of effective educator development programs after the Education Department disbanded the English-language office in May 2026;. When the Education Department announced a call for applications for a new fiscal 2026 cohort on May 15, existing grantees said it was a welcomed surprise after months of uncertainty. While the overall timeline for the applications and the deadline stayed the same as in years prior, there’s usually an informal heads-up months prior to the official call for applications, which did not happen this time, said Trish Morita-Mullaney, a grantee in her final year of a project that started in 2021, and aprofessor at Purdue University in Indiana.