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1HUD was first authorized to enter into 

performance agreements with respect to Homeless 

Assistance Grants by the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2016. 

2 DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs was first 

authorized to enter into performance agreements by 

the Consolidated and Further Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2015. 

Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Patent 

Legal Administration, Office of the 

Deputy Commissioner for Patent 

Examination Policy, by telephone at 

(571) 272–7747. 

Inquiries regarding this notice may 

also be directed to the Office of Patent 

Legal Administration, by telephone at 

(571) 272–7701, or by electronic mail at 

PatentPractice@uspto.gov. 

Alternatively, mail may be addressed to: 

Mail Stop Comments—Patents, 

Commissioner for Patents, P.O. Box 

1450, Alexandria, VA 22313–1450, 

marked to the attention of Eugenia A. 

Jones. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 8, 2010, after considering 

written comments from the public, the 

USPTO changed the missing parts 

examination procedures in certain 

nonprovisional applications by 

implementing a pilot program (i.e., 

Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program). 

See Pilot Program for Extended Time 

Period To Reply to a Notice to File 

Missing Parts of Nonprovisional 

Application, 75 FR 76401 (Dec. 8, 2010), 

1362 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 44 (Jan. 4, 

2011). The USPTO has extended the 

pilot program through notices published 

in the Federal Register. On September 

6, 2016, the USPTO sought public 

comment on whether the Extended 

Missing Parts Pilot Program offers 

sufficient benefits to the patent 

community for it to be made permanent 

or whether the USPTO should permit 

the pilot program to expire. See Request 

for Comments on the Extended Missing 

Parts Pilot Program, 81 FR 61195 (Sept. 

6, 2016), 1430 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 269 

(Sept. 27, 2016). The USPTO received 

only two comments. The two comments 

are available via the USPTO’s internet 

website at https://www.uspto.gov/ 

patent/laws-and-regulations/commentspublic/comments-extended-missingparts-pilot-program. On January 10, 

2018, the USPTO extended the pilot 

program until January 2, 2019, and 

indicated that it intended to make a 

decision before January 2, 2019, on 

whether the program should be made 

permanent or permitted to expire. See 

Extension of Extended Missing Parts 

Pilot Program, 83 FR 1243 (Jan. 10, 

2018), 1447 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 47 

(Feb. 6, 2018). 

Since the inception of the Extended 

Missing Parts Pilot Program, the USPTO 

has received fewer than 200 grantable 

requests per year. In addition, the 

number of grantable requests has 

decreased over the past year. In view of 

the low usage of the pilot program, the 

limited number of written comments 

received from the public in response to 

the 2016 request for comments, and the 

administrative burden on the USPTO in 

processing improper requests, the 

USPTO decided to permit the Extended 

Missing Parts Pilot Program to expire on 

January 2, 2019. 

Any certification and request must 

have been filed on or before January 2, 

2019, in order to participate in the 

Extended Missing Parts Pilot Program. 

The USPTO will review any 

certification and request filed on or 

before January 2, 2019, for compliance 

with the requirements of the program. 

Any certification and request filed after 

January 2, 2019, will not be granted. 

Dated: January 18, 2019. 

Andrei Iancu, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

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BILLING CODE 1410–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for Selection as a 

Performance Partnership Pilot; 

Performance Partnership Pilots for 

Disconnected Youth 

AGENCY: Office of Career, Technical, and 

Adult Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(ED or Department) is issuing a notice 

inviting applications for selection of up 

to 10 performance partnership pilots for 

fiscal year (FY) 2018 and up to 10 

performance partnership pilots for FY 

2019 under the Performance Partnership 

Pilots for Disconnected Youth authority. 

DATES:

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

March 14, 2019. 

Note: Submission of a notice of intent to 

apply is optional. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 29, 2019. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 27, 2019. 

ADDRESSES: Braden Goetz, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW, Room 11141, Potomac 

Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 245–7405. 

Email: DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov. Or 

Corinne Sauri, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 11–134, Potomac Center Plaza 

(PCP), Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 245–6412. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Braden Goetz, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 11141, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 245–7405. 

Email: DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov. Or 

Corinne Sauri, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 11–134, Potomac Center Plaza 

(PCP), Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 245–6412. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Pilot Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: Performance 

Partnership Pilots for Disconnected 

Youth (P3) was first authorized by 

Congress in FY 2014 by the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 

(2014 Act), and the authority has been 

included by Congress in appropriations 

acts each year since FY 2014. The P3 

authority enables pilot sites to blend FY 

2018 and FY 2019 Federal funds and 

obtain waivers of program requirements, 

including statutory, regulatory, and 

administrative requirements that are 

barriers to achieving improved 

outcomes for youth-serving programs 

included in the authority. Under P3, 

pilots can test innovative, outcomefocused strategies to achieve significant 

improvements in educational, 

employment, and other key outcomes 

for disconnected youth using the 

flexibility provided by P3. 

Background: P3 aligns with the 

Administration’s priorities of relieving 

burden, breaking down ‘‘silos,’’ 

increasing flexibility, and providing 

State, local, and Tribal governments 

greater freedom to innovate. P3 gives 

ED; the Departments of Labor (DOL), 

Health and Human Services (HHS), 

Housing and Urban Development 

(HUD),1 and Justice (DOJ); 2 the 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service (CNCS); and the 

Institute of Museum and Library 

Services (IMLS) (collectively, the 

Agencies) authority, provided certain 

conditions and requirements are met, to 

waive Federal statutory and regulatory 

requirements that inhibit effective 

service delivery for disconnected youth. 

The authority also advances the 


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April 13, 2018, 83 FR 15941. 

4For the purposes of P3, discretionary funds are 

funds that Congress appropriates on an annual 

basis, rather than through a standing authorization. 

They exclude ‘‘entitlement’’ (or mandatory) 

programs such as Social Security, Medicare, 

Medicaid, most Foster Care IV–E programs, 

Vocational Rehabilitation State Grants, and 

Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). 

Discretionary programs administered by the 

Agencies support a broad set of public services, 

including education, job training, health and mental 

health, and other low-income assistance programs. 

5The list of previously granted waivers is 

available at https://youth.gov/youth-topics/ 

reconnecting-youth/performance-partnership-pilots. 

Principles of Economic Mobility 

articulated in Executive Order 13828, 

Reducing Poverty in America by 

Promoting Opportunity and Economic 

Mobility. These principles include: 

Balancing flexibility and accountability 

in Federal poverty programs; addressing 

the challenges of high-need special 

populations; reducing the size of 

bureaucracy and streamlining services; 

and empowering the private sector and 

local communities to develop and apply 

locally based solutions to poverty.3

P3 authorizes the Agencies to enter 

into Performance Partnership 

Agreements (performance agreements) 

with State, local, or Tribal governments. 

The performance agreements provide 

pilots with additional flexibility in the 

use of certain of the Agencies’ 

discretionary funds,4 including 

competitive and formula grant funds. 

Pilots must include two or more Federal 

programs (at least one of which is 

administered in whole or in part by a 

State, local, or Tribal government) that 

are targeted on disconnected youth, or 

designed to prevent youth from 

disconnecting from school or work, and 

that provide education, training, 

employment, and other related social 

services. Entities that seek to participate 

in these pilots will be required to 

commit to achieving significant 

improvements in outcomes for 

disconnected youth in exchange for 

flexibility permitted under P3. The 

authorizing statute states that ‘‘ ‘[t]o 

improve outcomes for disconnected 

youth’ means to increase the rate at 

which individuals between the ages of 

14 and 24 (who are low-income and 

either homeless, in foster care, involved 

in the juvenile justice system, 

unemployed, or not enrolled in or at 

risk of dropping out of an educational 

institution) achieve success in meeting 

educational, employment, or other key 

goals.’’ 

This notice invites applications for 

selection as FY 2018 and 2019 pilots. 

Unlike previous rounds, ED will not 

award start-up funds to selected pilots, 

because the Agencies want to encourage 

potential pilots to create cost-neutral 

innovations in service delivery. 

However, the flexibilities available 

under P3 can generate significant cost 

savings for pilots by relieving them of 

some burdensome requirements, as well 

as enabling them to use Federal dollars 

more effectively to serve disconnected 

youth. 

Flexibilities Available Under P3 

P3 provides important opportunities 

for flexibility and burden reduction. The 

Agencies have published on Youth.gov 

a list of the waivers previously granted 

to pilots under the prior three rounds of 

P3.5 These waivers were helpful to the 

pilots that received them, and, in this 

fourth round, the Agencies hope that 

applicants propose even more ambitious 

and bold efforts to remove Federal 

constraints on effective and innovative 

service delivery for disconnected youth. 

We provide several examples below. 

We note that these examples are 

provided for illustrative purposes only, 

and that the allowability of specific 

proposals will depend on the unique 

circumstances of individual applicants. 

Any waivers must be consistent with 

the statutory safeguards that apply to 

P3, discussed below, and the Agencies 

will consider whether the inclusion of 

a program in a specific pilot is 

consistent with, or conflicts with, other 

significant legal or policy 

considerations. Also, the Agencies will 

review the blending of competitive 

grants on a case-by-case basis in order 

to consider how the scope, objectives, 

and target populations of the existing 

award align with the proposed pilot. 

Any changes in terms and conditions of 

the existing competitive grant awards 

required for pilot purposes must be 

justified by the applicant. In addition, 

the Agencies can only waive Federal 

statutory or regulatory requirements. 

The Agencies encourage applicants to 

analyze whether their request also 

requires State or local rule changes to 

implement as those rules are not under 

the jurisdiction of the Agencies to waive 

for P3. 

Example A: P3 waivers can help a 

State, local, or Tribal government use 

funds from multiple competitive and 

formula grants more cohesively and 

effectively and relieve some of the 

paperwork or reporting requirements 

associated with these grants. For 

example, an Alaska Native village that 

is the recipient of a Social and 

Economic Development Strategies grant 

from the Administration for Native 

Americans in HHS, an Alaska Native 

Education program grant and a Native 

American Career and Technical 

Education grant from ED, and an Indian 

and Native American Program 

Employment and Training Grant from 

DOL, might obtain P3 waivers and other 

flexibilities that would enable it to 

blend these funds to carry out an 

apprenticeship program for Alaska 

Native youth. Through P3, it also might 

replace the reporting requirements 

associated with each of these grants 

with a single set of outcome goals that 

the village deems most critical for its 

youth. 

Example B: A number of Federal grant 

programs that award funds by formula 

to States, such as Student Support and 

Academic Enrichment Grants (SSAE) 

under Title IV of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965 and 

Part B of the Individuals with 

Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 

require or allow States to set aside funds 

for State-level activities. In most cases, 

program statutes specify through a list 

of authorized or required activities how 

States may or must use funds reserved 

for State-level activities. A State might 

request a waiver that would allow it to 

use State-level funds to support an 

activity that goes beyond the required 

and permissive activities set out in the 

relevant program statute. More 

specifically, a State might propose to 

use funds for an activity that, while not 

clearly included as an allowable use of 

funds under the relevant statutory list of 

authorized activities, is designed to 

improve outcomes for disconnected 

youth and is consistent with the 

statutory purposes of the program. For 

example, section 611(e)(2)(C) of Part B 

of the IDEA contains a list of allowable 

activities that States may use State-level 

set-aside funds to support. Through P3, 

a State might seek a waiver to allow it 

to use State-level IDEA Part B set-aside 

funds to support an activity that is 

designed to improve the efficiency and 

effectiveness of special education and 

related services offered to disconnected 

youth with disabilities, even though that 

activity is not specifically included as 

an authorized activity under section 

611(e)(2)(C). To expand educational 

options through a school choice 

initiative, a State could, for example, 

propose to use State-level IDEA Part B 

funds to provide additional IDEA Part B 

funds beyond the minimum required 

proportionate share that must be 

expended by local educational agencies 

on the provision of special education 

and related services (i.e., equitable 

services) to eligible parentally-placed 

private school children with disabilities, 

to cover the cost of equitable services for 

disconnected youth who are parentally 


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placed private school children with 

disabilities. These funds could be 

blended with, and supplemented by, 

State-level SSAE funds. 

Example C: Many Federal programs 

contain statutory or regulatory 

requirements that limit eligibility to 

individuals based on age or other 

requirements. A P3 applicant could seek 

flexibility to waive eligibility 

requirements to broaden the target 

population. For example, the WIOA 

Title I Youth program limits eligibility 

for services to out-of-school youth 

between the ages of 16 and 24, while the 

Adult Education and Family Literacy 

Act (AEFLA), Title II of WIOA, limits 

eligibility to individuals age 16 and 

older who are not enrolled or required 

to be enrolled in secondary school 

under State law. A State could seek a 

waiver of these eligibility requirements 

to create an education and employment 

program for disconnected youth as 

young as age 14 and use the P3 

authority to blend WIOA Title I Youth 

and AEFLA State-level funds to 

implement the program. 

Example D: P3 authority can also be 

used by applicants to propose changes 

to projects funded under multiple 

Federal grants that are each, separately, 

intended to support programs designed 

to help disconnected youth achieve 

greater success in meeting their 

educational and employment goals. A 

public college or university that is 

considered a unit of State or local 

government might obtain waivers to 

blend discretionary, non-entitlement 

student aid funds under Title IV of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965, dollars 

received through various Federal 

formula programs, and competitive 

grant funds in ways that would achieve 

better outcomes for disconnected youth. 

For example, a public college or 

university might propose to increase the 

share of the Federal Work Study (FWS) 

program funds available for Job Location 

and Development programs and waive 

the 25 percent cap on the amount of the 

school’s allocation that may be used to 

pay wages to students employed with 

private, for-profit organizations so that it 

could use all or more than 25 percent of 

its FWS funds to provide students who 

are at risk of dropping out subsidized 

career internships in the private sector 

that are aligned with students’ 

educational and career goals. If the 

public college or university receives a 

Federal TRIO or Gaining Early 

Awareness and Readiness for 

Undergraduate Programs grant, it might 

also propose to blend funds available 

under these competitive grant programs 

(e.g., TRIO Student Support Services) to 

provide career counseling and 

mentoring to the students participating 

in these career internships. Similarly, a 

community college might obtain 

waivers to blend and use a portion of a 

TRIO Educational Opportunity Center 

grant and its WIOA Title II AEFLA 

program subgrant to implement an 

intensive integrated education and 

training program for young adults who 

lack a high school credential. 

Although the P3 authority provides 

broad waiver authority to increase 

flexibility and relieve burden in order to 

improve the effectiveness of Federal 

funding for disconnected youth, it is 

important to note that there are some 

limitations on the waivers. In particular, 

as stated in the original statutory 

authority for P3, the P3 waivers— 

• May not involve any requirement 

related to nondiscrimination, wage and 

labor standards, or the allocation of 

funds to State and sub-State levels; 

• Must be consistent with the 

statutory purposes of the Federal 

program for which such discretionary 

funds were appropriated; 

• May not result in denying or 

restricting the eligibility of any 

individual for any of the services that 

(in whole or in part) are funded by the 

agency’s programs and Federal 

discretionary funds that are involved in 

the pilot; 

• Based on the best available 

information, may not otherwise 

adversely affect vulnerable populations 

that are the recipients of such services; 

• Must be necessary to achieve the 

outcomes of the pilot as specified in the 

performance agreement, and no broader 

in scope than is necessary to achieve 

such outcomes; and 

• Must result in either (a) realizing 

efficiencies by simplifying reporting 

burdens or reducing administrative 

barriers with respect to such 

discretionary funds; or (b) increasing the 

ability of individuals to obtain access to 

services that are provided by the 

discretionary funds. 

FY 2018 and FY 2019 

P3 was reauthorized for FY 2018 for 

programs administered by all of the 

seven Agencies, and the Agencies may 

select up to ten pilots. As of the date of 

this notice, P3 has been reauthorized for 

FY 2019 for programs administered by 

ED, HHS, DOL, CNCS, and IMLS, and 

these five agencies may select up to ten 

pilots involving programs they 

administer. Legislation pending in 

Congress would authorize the inclusion 

of FY 2019 funds for HUD Homeless 

Assistance Grants and programs 

administered by DOJ’s Office of Justice 

programs. We are inviting applications 

for pilots under both the FY 2018 and 

FY 2019 authorities. Applicants must 

indicate in their applications whether 

they are applying as a FY 2018 or a FY 

2019 pilot. 

FY 2018 Pilots: An applicant applying 

as a FY 2018 pilot must propose to 

include FY 2018 funds from at least one 

of the seven Federal Agencies, and may 

choose to include FY 2019 funds from 

ED, HHS, DOL, CNCS, and IMLS 

programs. If the pending legislation 

described above is enacted before the 

application deadline announced by this 

notice, applicants may also propose to 

include FY 2019 Homeless Assistance 

Grants and Office of Justice Programs in 

their applications.6

FY 2019 Pilots: An applicant applying 

as a FY 2019 pilot must propose to 

include only FY 2019 funds from ED, 

HHS, DOL, CNCS, or IMLS programs. If 

the pending legislation described above 

is enacted before the application 

deadline announced by this notice, 

applicants may also propose to include 

FY 2019 Homeless Assistance Grants 

and Office of Justice Programs in their 

applications in addition to or instead of 

funds from ED, HHS, DOL, CNCS, and 

IMLS. 

If Congress extends the P3 authority 

in future years, pilots selected under 

either authority may propose to expand 

the number of Federal programs 

supporting pilot activities using future 

funding appropriated. However, 

authority for pilots to expand in future 

years is subject to Congressional action 

as well as agency discretion. 

Absolute Priorities 

For the purposes of this competition, 

absolute priorities create separate 

categories for scoring and considering 

applications. Applicants must address 

one of two absolute priorities. 

As in the third round of P3, the 

statutory authorities for FY 2018 and FY 

2019 direct the Agencies to include 

communities that have experienced 

civil unrest among the P3 pilots that are 

designated for FY 2018 and FY 2019. 

Consequently, we are including an 

absolute priority for pilots involving 

such communities (Absolute Priority 1). 

Some communities struggle with high 

youth unemployment, low graduation 

rates, drug abuse, and crime. These and 

other continuing challenges can 

manifest in different instances of civil 

unrest, such as violent protests, 

increases in interpersonal violence in 

concentrated areas, or civil disorder. We 

believe that P3 flexibilities, including 

waivers and the blending of funds, will 

help empower communities to improve 


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educational and employment outcomes 

for disconnected youth in these 

communities. The second absolute 

priority we have included (Absolute 

Priority 2) in this round is for all other 

proposed pilots that serve disconnected 

youth. 

Competitive Preference Priority 

This competition includes one 

competitive preference priority under 

which we will award up to 15 points to 

an application, depending on how well 

that application proposes to align 

Federal, State, or local funding streams 

to promote the economic mobility of 

low-income individuals (as defined 

under section 312(g) of the Higher 

Education Act of 1965, as amended). We 

believe the flexibilities available 

through P3 hold great potential for 

improving economic opportunity and 

mobility in economically distressed 

communities, such as communities with 

one or more Qualified Opportunity 

Zones established under the Tax Cuts 

and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 115–97). Created 

to spur long-term private investment in 

low-income urban and rural areas of the 

country, Qualified Opportunity Zones 

are low-income communities that have 

been nominated by the governor of each 

State and Chief Executive Officer of 

United States territories and the District 

of Columbia and that have been certified 

by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. 

Disconnected youth are highly 

concentrated in impoverished 

communities like those designated as 

Qualified Opportunity Zones; in highpoverty neighborhoods with a poverty 

rate above 21 percent, one in five young 

people are disconnected.7 Effectively 

addressing the education and skill 

needs of these youth is central to 

improving the economic circumstances 

of these communities and promoting 

economic mobility among their 

residents. Skill-building also is essential 

to maximizing the impact of the new 

investment that will be flowing into 

these communities and ensuring that 

Qualified Opportunity Zone residents 

are trained and ready to assume the new 

jobs that will be created by the infusion 

of capital. Without complementary 

actions to boost the education and skills 

of youth and adults in Qualified 

Opportunity Zones, many of the new 

jobs will be filled by individuals who 

reside elsewhere—or they will go 

unfilled altogether, throttling economic 

growth. P3 can make possible bold and 

creative interventions by State, local, 

and tribal governments to help 

disconnected youth, such as those in 

Qualified Opportunity Zones reengage, 

succeed in education and training, and 

prosper in the job market. 

Priorities: This competition includes 

two absolute priorities and one 

competitive preference priority. 

Absolute Priority 1 is from the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 

(Pub. L. 115–141) and the Departments 

of Labor, Health and Human Services, 

and Education, and Related Agencies 

Appropriations Acts, 2019 (Pub. L. 115– 

245) and Absolute Priority 2 is from the 

notice of final priorities, requirements, 

definitions, and selection criteria for 

this program published on April 28, 

2016, in the Federal Register (81 FR 

25339) (P3 NFP) The competitive 

preference priority is from the 

Secretary’s Final Supplemental 

Priorities and Definitions for 

Discretionary Grant Programs, 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 2, 2018 (83 FR 9096). 

Absolute Priorities: For this 

competition and any subsequent year in 

which we make pilot designations from 

the list of applications from this 

competition, these priorities are 

absolute priorities. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(3) we consider only 

applications that meet Absolute Priority 

1 or 2. 

Note: Applicants must indicate whether 

they are applying under Absolute Priority 1 

or Absolute Priority 2. An applicant that 

applies under Absolute Priority 1, but is not 

eligible under that absolute priority, will be 

considered under Absolute Priority 2. 

These priorities are: 

Absolute Priority 1—Improving 

Outcomes for Disconnected Youth in 

Communities That Have Experienced 

Civil Unrest. 

To meet this priority, an applicant 

must propose a pilot that is designed to 

improve outcomes for disconnected 

youth in one or more communities that 

have experienced civil unrest. In 

response to the priority, an applicant 

should describe the instance(s) of civil 

unrest, including (1) a description of the 

civil unrest that occurred or is occurring 

in the community or communities it 

intends to serve; and (2) the date or 

dates of the civil unrest. 

Absolute Priority 2—Improving 

Outcomes for Disconnected Youth. 

To meet this priority, an applicant 

must propose a pilot that is designed to 

improve outcomes for disconnected 

youth. 

Competitive Preference Priority: For 

this competition and any subsequent 

year in which we make pilot 

designations from the list of 

applications from this competition, this 

priority is a competitive preference 

priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), 

we will award up to an additional 15 

points to an application, depending on 

how well the application meets this 

priority. This priority is: 

Promoting Economic Opportunity 

Projects designed to increase 

educational opportunities by reducing 

academic or nonacademic barriers to 

economic mobility by aligning Federal, 

State, or local funding streams to 

promote economic mobility of lowincome individuals (as defined under 

section 312(g) of the Higher Education 

Act of 1965, as amended). 

Application Requirements: 

The application requirements for this 

competition are from the P3 NFP and 

are as follows: 

(a) Executive summary. The applicant 

must provide an executive summary 

that briefly describes the proposed pilot, 

the flexibilities being sought, and the 

interventions or systems changes that 

would be implemented by the applicant 

and its partners to improve outcomes for 

disconnected youth. 

(b) Target population. The applicant 

must complete Table 1, specifying the 

target population(s) for the pilot, 

including the age range of youth who 

will be served and the estimated 

number of youth who will be served 

over the course of the pilot. 


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8Applicants are encouraged to consult the list of 

examples of programs that are potentially eligible 

for inclusion in pilots at https://youth.gov/youthtopics/reconnecting-youth/performancepartnership-pilots. 

9Local governments that are requesting waivers 

of requirements in State-administered programs are 

strongly encouraged to consult with the State 

agencies that administer the programs in preparing 

their applications. 

10This includes, for example, for local 

governments, instances in which a waiver must be 

agreed upon by a State. It also includes instances 

in which waivers may only be requested by the 

State on the local government’s behalf, such as 

waivers of the performance accountability 

requirements for local areas established in Title I of 

the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. 

11Only top-scoring applicants notified by ED 

must submit this written assurance. The assurance 

must be transmitted to disconnectedyouth@ed.gov 

by no later than 21 calendar days of the applicant’s 

notification by ED that is a top-scoring applicant. 

TABLE 1—TARGET POPULATION

Target population Age range 

Estimated number 

of youth served 

over the course of 

the pilot 

(c) Flexibility, including waivers: 

(1) Federal requests for flexibility, 

including waivers. For each program to 

be included in a pilot, the applicant 

must complete Table 2, Requested 

Flexibility. The applicant must identify 

two or more discretionary Federal 

programs that will be included in the 

pilot,8 at least one of which must be 

administered (in whole or in part) by a 

State, local, or Tribal government.9 In 

Table 2, the applicant must identify one 

or more program requirements that 

would inhibit implementation of the 

pilot and request that the requirement(s) 

be waived in whole or in part. Examples 

of potential waiver requests and other 

requests for flexibility include, but are 

not limited to: Blending of funds and 

changes to align eligibility 

requirements, allowable uses of funds, 

and performance reporting. 

TABLE 2—REQUESTED FLEXIBILITY

Program name Federal agency 

Program requirements to 

be waived in whole or in 

part 

Statutory or 

regulatory 

citation 

Name of program 

grantee 

Blending 

funds? 

(yes/no) 

Note: Please note in ‘‘Name of Program Grantee’’ if the grantee is a State, local, or Tribal government, or non-governmental entity. 

(2) Non-Federal flexibility, including 

waivers. The applicant must provide 

written assurance that— 

(i) The State, local, or Tribal 

government(s) with authority to grant 

any needed non-Federal flexibility, 

including waivers, has approved or will 

approve such flexibility within 60 days 

of an applicant’s designation as a pilot 

finalist; 10 or 

(ii) Non-Federal flexibility, including 

waivers, is not needed in order to 

successfully implement the pilot.11

(d) Budget and budget narrative. 

(1) The applicant must complete 

Table 3 to provide the following budget 

information: 

(i) For each Federal program, the 

grantee, the amount of funds to be 

blended or braided (as defined in this 

notice), the percentage of total program 

funding received by the grantee that the 

amount to be blended or braided 

represents, the Federal fiscal year of the 

award, and whether the grant has 

already been awarded; and 

(ii) The total amount of funds from all 

Federal programs that would be blended 

or braided, as defined in this notice, 

under the pilot. 

TABLE 3—FEDERAL FUNDS 12

Program name Grantee 

Amount of 

funds to be 

blended 

Blended 

funds as a 

percentage of 

grantee’s total 

award 

Federal fiscal 

year of award 

Grant already 

awarded? 

(y/n) 

TOTAL BLENDED 


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12Applicants are encouraged to consult the list of 

examples of programs that are potentially eligible 

for inclusion in pilots available at https:// youth.gov/youth-topics/reconnecting-youth/ 

performance-partnership-pilots. 

TABLE 3—FEDERAL FUNDS 12—CONTINUED

Program name Grantee 

Amount of 

funds to be 

braided 

Braided 

funds as a 

percentage of 

grantee’s total 

award 

Federal fiscal 

year of award 

Grant already 

awarded? 

(y/n) 

TOTAL BRAIDED 

Note: Applicants may propose to expand the number of Federal programs supporting pilot activities using future funding appropriated after FY 

2018, which may be included in pilots if Congress extends the P3 authority. 

(e) Partnership capacity and 

management. The applicant must 

identify the proposed partners, 

including any and all State, local, and 

Tribal entities and non-governmental 

organizations that would be involved in 

implementation of the pilot, and 

describe their roles in the pilot’s 

implementation using Table 4. 

Partnerships that cross programs and 

funding sources but are under the 

jurisdiction of a single agency or entity 

must identify the different suborganizational units involved. 

TABLE 4—PILOT PARTNERS

Partner 

Type of organization 

(state agency, local agency, community-based 

organization, business) 

Description of partner’s role in the pilot 

Note: Any grantees mentioned in Table 3 that are not the lead applicant must be included in Table 4. 

Program Requirements: 

The program requirement for this 

competition is from the P3 NFP. 

Performance agreement. Each P3 

pilot, along with other non-Federal 

government entities involved in the 

partnership, must enter into a 

performance agreement that will 

include, at a minimum, the following 

(as required by section 526(c)(2) of 

Division H of the 2014 Act): 

(a) The length of the agreement; 

(b) The Federal programs and 

federally funded services that are 

involved in the pilot; 

(c) The Federal discretionary funds 

that are being used in the pilot; 

(d) The non-Federal funds that are 

involved in the pilot, by source (which 

may include private funds as well as 

governmental funds) and by amount; 

(e) The State, local, or Tribal programs 

that are involved in the pilot; 

(f) The populations to be served by 

the pilot; 

(g) The cost-effective Federal 

oversight procedures that will be used 

for the purpose of maintaining the 

necessary level of accountability for the 

use of the Federal discretionary funds; 

(h) The cost-effective State, local, or 

Tribal oversight procedures that will be 

used for the purpose of maintaining the 

necessary level of accountability for the 

use of the Federal discretionary funds; 

(i) The outcome (or outcomes) that the 

pilot is designed to achieve; 

(j) The appropriate, reliable, and 

objective outcome-measurement 

methodology that will be used to 

determine whether the pilot is 

achieving, and has achieved, specified 

outcomes; 

(k) The statutory, regulatory, or 

administrative requirements related to 

Federal mandatory programs that are 

barriers to achieving improved 

outcomes of the pilot; and 

(l) Criteria for determining when a 

pilot is not achieving the specified 

outcomes that it is designed to achieve 

and subsequent steps, including: 

(1) The consequences that will result; 

and 

(2) The corrective actions that will be 

taken in order to increase the likelihood 

that the pilot will achieve such 

specified outcomes. 

Definitions: The following definitions 

are from the P3 NFP. 

Blended funding is a funding and 

resource allocation strategy that uses 

multiple existing funding streams to 

support a single initiative or strategy. 

Blended funding merges two or more 

funding streams, or portions of multiple 

funding streams, to produce greater 

efficiency and/or effectiveness. Funds 

from each individual stream lose their 

award-specific identity, and the blended 

funds together become subject to a 

single set of reporting and other 

requirements, consistent with the 

underlying purposes of the programs for 

which the funds were appropriated. 

Braided funding is a funding and 

resource allocation strategy in which 

entities use existing funding streams to 

support unified initiatives in as flexible 

and integrated a manner as possible 

while still tracking and maintaining 

separate accountability for each funding 

stream. One or more entities may 

coordinate several funding sources, but 

each individual funding stream 

maintains its award-specific identity. 

Whereas blending funds typically 

requires one or more waivers of 

associated program requirements, 

braiding does not. However, waivers 

may be used to support more effective 

or efficient braiding of funds. 

An interim indicator is a marker of 

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toward an outcome and is measured at 

least annually. 

Outcomes are the intended results of 

a program, or intervention. They are 

what applicants expect their projects to 

achieve. An outcome can be measured 

at the participant level (for example, 

changes in employment retention or 

earnings of disconnected youth) or at 

the system level (for example, improved 

efficiency in program operations or 

administration). 

A waiver provides flexibility in the 

form of relief, in whole or in part, from 

specific statutory, regulatory, or 

administrative requirements that have 

hindered the ability of a State, locality, 

or Tribe to organize its programs and 

systems or provide services in ways that 

best meet the needs of its target 

populations. Under P3, waivers provide 

flexibility in exchange for a pilot’s 

commitment to improve programmatic 

outcomes for disconnected youth 

consistent with underlying statutory 

authorities and purposes. 

Program Authority: (a) Section 217 of 

Division B, section 525 of Division H, 

and section 231 of Division L of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 

(Pub. L. 115–141). (b) Section 524 of 

Division B of the Department of Defense 

and Labor, Health and Human Services, 

and Education Appropriations Acts, 

2019 and Continuing Appropriations 

Act, 2019 (Pub. L. 115–245). 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations in 34 CFR 

parts 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, 86, 97, 98, and 

99, and such other regulations as the 

Agencies may apply based on the 

programs included in a particular pilot. 

(b) The Office of Management and 

Budget Guidelines to Agencies on 

Governmentwide Debarment and 

Suspension (Nonprocurement) in 2 CFR 

part 180, as adopted and amended as 

regulations of the Department in 2 CFR 

part 3485. (c) The Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles, and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards in 2 CFR part 200, as 

adopted and amended as regulations of 

the Department in 2 CFR part 3474. (d) 

The P3 NFP. 

II. Performance Pilot Designation 

Information 

Type of Award: Flexibility. 

Estimated Available Funds: None. 

Estimated Number of Designations: 10 

pilots under the FY 2018 authority, and 

10 pilots under the FY 2019 authority. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: FY 2018 pilots may 

operate for as long as FY 2018 

appropriated funds remain available to 

pilots to obligate to support project 

activities, but not past September 30, 

2022. FY 2018 pilots may use FY 2019 

appropriated funds from ED, HHS, DOL, 

CNCS, and IMLS programs as well, but 

would still be required to end by 

September 30, 2022 FY 2019 pilots may 

operate for as long as FY 2019 

appropriated funds remain available to 

them, but not past September 30, 2023. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: The lead 

applicant must be a State, local, or 

Tribal government entity, represented 

by a chief executive, such as a governor, 

mayor, or other elected leader, or the 

head of a State, local, or Tribal agency. 

2. Cost-Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost-sharing or 

matching. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Application Submission 

Instructions: Applicants must submit 

completed applications to 

DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov. 

2. Submission of Proprietary 

Information: Given the types of projects 

that may be proposed in applications for 

the P3 competition, your application 

may include business information that 

you consider proprietary. In 34 CFR 

5.11 we define ‘‘business information’’ 

and describe the process we use in 

determining whether any of that 

information is proprietary and, thus, 

protected from disclosure under 

Exemption 4 of the Freedom of 

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552, as 

amended). 

Because we plan to make successful 

applications available to the public, 

including performance agreements, and 

may make all applications available, 

you may wish to request confidentiality 

of business information. 

Consistent with Executive Order 

12600, please designate in your 

application any information that you 

believe is exempt from disclosure under 

Exemption 4. In the appropriate 

Appendix section of your application, 

under ‘‘Other Attachments Form,’’ 

please list the page number or numbers 

on which we can find this information. 

For additional information please see 34 

CFR 5.11(c). 

3. Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is subject to Executive Order 

12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 79. 

4. Recommended Page Limit: The 

application narrative is where you, the 

applicant, provide the information 

specified in the application 

requirements and address the selection 

criteria that reviewers use to evaluate 

your application. We recommend that 

you (1) limit the application narrative to 

no more than 15 pages and (2) use the 

following standards: 

• A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5′′ x 11′′, on one side 

only, with 1′′ margins at the top, bottom, 

and both sides. 

• Double space (no more than three 

lines per vertical inch) all text in the 

application narrative, including titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

references, and captions. 

• Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger. 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

New, or Arial. 

5. Notice of Intent To Apply: The 

Department will be able to review 

applications more efficiently if we know 

the approximate number of applicants 

that intend to apply. Therefore, we 

strongly encourage each potential 

applicant to notify us of its intent to 

submit an application. To do so, please 

email DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov with 

the subject line ‘‘Intent to Apply,’’ and 

include the applicant’s name and a 

contact person’s name and email 

address. Applicants that do not submit 

a notice of intent to apply may still 

apply for designation as a pilot; 

applicants that do submit a notice of 

intent to apply are not bound to apply 

or bound by the information provided. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications under this competition 

must be submitted electronically unless 

you qualify for an exception to this 

requirement in accordance with the 

instructions in this section. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications. 

Applications for pilots under the P3 

competition must be submitted via 

email to DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov. 

Please note the following: 

• The Department is not publishing 

an application package for this program. 

To submit an application, follow the 

instructions listed above to provide all 

of the information specified in the 

application requirements, absolute 

priorities, and selection criteria. 

Additionally, complete and submit 

Standard Form 424B, Assurances for 

Non-Construction Programs (available at 

www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/ 

appforms/appforms.htmlwww2.ed.gov/ 

fund/grant/apply/appforms/ 

appforms.html) with your application. 

• The Department must receive your 

application by 11:59 p.m. Eastern 

Standard Time on April 29, 2019. We 

will notify you if we are rejecting your 

application because it was received after 

the application deadline date. 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on forms at a later 

date. 


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V. Application Review Information 

1. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition and any 

subsequent year for which we make 

pilot designations from the list of 

applications from this competition are 

from the P3 NFP. 

The points assigned to each criterion 

are indicated in the parentheses next to 

the criterion. An applicant may earn up 

to 100 points based on the selection 

criteria. 

(a) Need for Project. In determining 

the need for the proposed project, we 

will consider the magnitude of the need 

of the target population, as evidenced by 

the applicant’s analysis of data, 

including data from a comprehensive 

needs assessment conducted or updated 

in the past three years, using 

representative data on youth from the 

jurisdiction(s) proposing the pilot, that 

demonstrates how the target population 

lags behind other groups in achieving 

positive outcomes and the specific risk 

factors for this population (35 points). 

Note: Applicants are encouraged to 

disaggregate these data according to relevant 

demographic factors such as race, ethnicity, 

gender, age, disability status, involvement in 

systems such as foster care or juvenile 

justice, status as pregnant or parenting, and 

other key factors selected by the applicant. If 

disaggregated data specific to the local 

population are not available, applicants may 

refer to disaggregated data available through 

research, studies, or other sources that 

describe similarly situated populations as the 

one the applicant is targeting with its pilot. 

Note: Applicants do not need to include a 

copy of the needs assessment but should 

identify when it was conducted or updated. 

(b) Need for Requested Flexibility, 

Including Blending of Funds and Other 

Waivers. In determining the need for the 

requested flexibility, including blending 

of funds and other waivers, we will 

consider: 

(1) The strength and clarity of the 

applicant’s justification that each of the 

specified Federal requirements 

identified in Table 2 for which the 

applicant is seeking flexibility hinders 

implementation of the proposed pilot 

(30 points); and 

(2) The strength and quality of the 

applicant’s justification of how each 

request for flexibility identified in Table 

2 (i.e., blending funds and waivers) will 

increase efficiency or access to services 

and produce significantly better 

outcomes for the target population(s) (35 

points). 

2. Review and Selection Process: 

The Department will screen 

applications that are submitted in 

accordance with the requirements in 

this notice and will determine which 

applications are eligible to be read based 

on whether they have met the eligibility 

and application requirements 

established by this notice. 

The Department will use reviewers 

with knowledge and expertise on issues 

related to improving outcomes for 

disconnected youth to score the 

selection criteria. The Department will 

thoroughly screen all reviewers for 

conflicts of interest to ensure a fair and 

competitive review. 

Reviewers will read, prepare a written 

evaluation of, and score the assigned 

applications, based on the selection 

criteria. 

The Secretary of Education (Secretary) 

will also consider compliance with 

assurances including those applicable to 

Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

(such as, for ED programs, 34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

Technical scoring. Reviewers will 

read, prepare a written evaluation, and 

assign a technical score to the 

applications assigned for their review, 

using the selection criteria. 

ED will then prepare a rank order of 

applications based on their technical 

scores. 

Flexibility, including blending of 

funds and other waivers. Using this rank 

order, representatives of the Agencies 

that administer programs under which 

flexibility in Federal requirements is 

sought will evaluate whether the 

flexibility, including blending of funds 

and other waivers, requested by topscoring applicants meets the statutory 

requirements for P3 and is otherwise 

appropriate. For example, if an 

applicant is seeking flexibility under 

programs administered by HHS and 

DOL, its requests for flexibility will be 

reviewed by HHS and DOL officials. 

Applicants may be asked to participate 

in telephone calls at this point in the 

process in order to clarify requests for 

flexibility and other aspects of their 

proposals. 

If 25 or fewer eligible applications are 

received, the technical scoring and 

reviews of flexibility requests may be 

conducted concurrently. 

Selecting finalists. Agency officials 

may recommend the selection of up to 

20 projects as Performance Partnership 

Pilots (up to 10 projects under the FY 

2018 authority, and up to 10 under the 

FY 2019 authority). In consultation with 

the other Agencies, the Secretary will 

select finalists after considering the rank 

ordering, the recommendations of the 

Agencies that administer the programs 

for which the applicants are seeking 

flexibility, and other information 

including an applicant’s performance 

and use of funds and compliance 

history under a previous award under 

any agency program. In selecting pilots, 

the Secretary may consider high-ranking 

applications meeting Absolute Priority 1 

and Absolute Priority 2 separately to 

address the statutory requirement that 

designated pilots include communities 

that have experienced civil unrest. In 

addition, as required by appropriations 

acts authorizing P3, each pilot must 

meet all statutory criteria. 

Consistent with Application 

Requirement (f) in the P3 NFP, each 

finalist must propose to ED and any 

other Agencies implicated in the pilot a 

performance agreement that includes 

outcome measures and interim 

indicators to gauge pilot performance. 

At least one outcome measure must be 

in the domain of education, and at least 

one outcome measure must be in the 

domain of employment. Finalists may 

specify additional employment and 

education outcome measures, as well as 

outcome measures in other domains of 

well-being, such as criminal justice, 

physical and mental health, and 

housing. Regardless of the outcome 

domain, finalists must identify at least 

one interim indicator for each proposed 

outcome measure. Finalists may apply 

one interim indicator to multiple 

outcome measures, if appropriate. 

Examples of outcome measures and 

interim indicators follow. Pilots may 

choose from this menu or may propose 

alternative indicators and outcome 

measures if they describe why their 

alternatives are more appropriate for 

their proposed projects. 

EDUCATION DOMAIN

Outcome measure Interim indicator 

High school diploma or equivalency attainment ...................................... • High school enrollment. 

• Reduction in chronic absenteeism. 

• Grade promotion. 

• Performance on standardized assessments. 


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EDUCATION DOMAIN—Continued 

Outcome measure Interim indicator 

• Grade point average. 

• Credit accumulation. 

College completion ................................................................................... • Enrollment. 

• Course attendance. 

• Credit accumulation. 

• Retention. 

EMPLOYMENT DOMAIN

Outcome measure Interim indicator 

Sustained Employment ............................................................................. • Unsubsidized employment at time periods after exit from the program. 

• Median earnings at time periods after exit from the program. 

For each finalist, ED and any other 

Agencies implicated in the pilot will 

negotiate the performance agreement. If 

a performance agreement cannot be 

finalized for an applicant, an alternative 

applicant may be selected as a finalist 

instead. The recommended projects will 

be considered finalists until 

performance agreements are signed by 

all parties, and pilot designation will be 

awarded only after finalization and 

approval of each finalist’s performance 

agreement. 

VI. Designation Administration 

Information 

1. Designation Notices: If your 

application is successful, we notify your 

U.S. Representative(s) and U.S. Senators 

and send you a letter notification of 

your selection as a pilot. We may notify 

you informally, also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected as a pilot, we notify you. 

2. Performance Measures: As 

described earlier in this notice, the 

performance agreement for each pilot 

will include outcome measures, interim 

indicators, and targets. 

VII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

an accessible format (e.g., braille, large 

print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at: 

www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can 

view this document, as well as all other 

documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access documents of the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register by using the article search 

feature at: www.federalregister.gov. 

Specifically, through the advanced 

search feature at this site, you can limit 

your search to documents published by 

the Department. 

Dated: January 22, 2019. 

Scott Stump, 

Assistant Secretary for Career, Technical, and 

Adult Education. 

[FR Doc. 2019–00200 Filed 1–25–19; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Competitive Grants for State 

Assessments Program 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

is issuing a notice inviting applications 

for fiscal year (FY) 2019 for the 

Competitive Grants for State 

Assessments program, Catalog of 

Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 

number 84.368A. 

DATES:

Applications Available: January 28, 

2019. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent To 

Apply: February 27, 2019. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 29, 2019. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 28, 2019. 

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for 

obtaining and submitting an 

application, please refer to our Common 

Instructions for Applicants to 

Department of Education Discretionary 

Grant Programs, published in the 

Federal Register on February 12, 2018 

(83 FR 6003) and available at 

www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2018-02-12/ 

pdf/2018-02558.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Donald Peasley, Office of Elementary 

and Secondary Education, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW, Room 3E124, Washington, 

DC 20202–6132. Telephone: (202) 453– 

7982. Email: Donald.Peasley@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purpose of 

the Competitive Grants for State 

Assessments program is to enhance the 

quality of assessment instruments and 

assessment systems used by States for 

measuring the academic achievement of 

elementary and secondary school 

students. 

Priorities: This competition includes 

six absolute priorities and two 

invitational priorities. The absolute 

priorities are from section 1203(b)(1) of 

the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965, as amended by 

the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESEA). 

The invitational priorities are from the 

Secretary’s Final Supplemental 

Priorities and Definitions for 

Discretionary Grant Programs 

(Supplemental Priorities), published in 

the Federal Register on March 2, 2018 

(83 FR 9096). 

Absolute Priorities: For FY 2019 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 


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