The Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) was a federal agency responsible for managing

innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entity ...

grants and policy for the

United States Department of Education The United States Department of Education is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department ...

. On March 13, 2017, Executive Order 13781—the Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch–merged the OII into the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Grants managed by OII included: * Investing in Innovation (i3) * Arts in Education National Program *

Charter Schools A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located. It is independent in the sense that it operates according to the basic principle of autono ...

Program Grants for Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools * Promise Neighborhoods

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* United States Department of Education {{US-gov-stub