UpcomingAtlas Opportunity Score 96/100
Texas LASO 26-27 Cycle 5 Consolidated Application — Funding Watch
Texas Education Agency's LASO 26-27 Cycle 5 consolidated application opens September 23, 2026 and is scheduled to close December 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM CT. The portfolio currently spans 21 school-funding opportunities across five strategies, including school improvement, learning acceleration, rural pathways, teacher pipelines, advanced coursework and school-action initiatives.
FundingPortfolio of 21 opportunities with initiative-specific award ranges. Current TEA planning estimates include LIFT grants of approximately $365,000-$1,500,000; School Action Fund grants of approximately $225,000-$550,000 in initial funding and $550,000-$1,350,000 estimated total; Additional Days School Year PEP grants of approximately $60,000-$250,000; Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership grants of approximately $80,000-$200,000; and other initiative-specific awards and in-kind supports. TEA states these are planning estimates and may change before application launch, so each final initiative document controls the actual award amount.
DeadlineUpcoming — application opens September 23, 2026 and closes December 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM CT
Last verifiedAugust 30, 2026
Required next actionUse TEA's current LASO Cycle 5 portfolio to identify the best-fit initiative now, map the school system or campus to expected eligibility and improvement priorities, attend the September general-information sessions if useful, and prepare the underlying needs assessment, partner structure, implementation plan and budget. When the application opens September 23, retrieve the final initiative-specific guidance and award tables, reconcile any changes from TEA's planning estimates, and submit the consolidated application by December 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM CT.
Broad Eligibility
LASO Cycle 5 is a consolidated Texas Education Agency application covering 21 opportunities for Texas school systems and campuses, with eligibility varying by initiative. TEA's portfolio includes school-improvement, accelerated-learning, rural-pathway, teacher-pipeline, advanced-coursework, college-and-career-readiness and other strategies. Atlas does not assume every school system qualifies for every initiative; each final program guideline published at application launch controls applicant and campus eligibility.
Atlas Analysis
A major Texas school-funding pipeline because LASO allows school systems to pursue multiple aligned TEA opportunities through one consolidated application window. The strongest Atlas use case is early portfolio triage: determine which initiatives match the district's academic, workforce, rural, staffing, pathway or school-transformation needs, then shift to the final September 23 guidance before locking budgets or eligibility. Direct N9+ vendor fit is low at the portfolio level because the published Cycle 5 overview is education-centered and does not establish a clinical-technology purchasing pathway; Atlas should only consider N9+ under a specific final initiative if the controlling guidance expressly permits a relevant health or clinical use.
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Source verificationOfficial government source · tea.texas.govAtlas last verified this record August 30, 2026. Always use the funder's current application materials, amendments and portal instructions as the controlling source.View source and application materials ↗
