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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2013–ICCD–0147] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Measuring Educational Gain in the 

National Reporting System for Adult 

Education 

AGENCY: Office of Career, Technical and 

Adult Education (OCTE), Department of 

Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is 

proposing an extension of an existing 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 

27, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// 

www.regulations.gov by selecting 

Docket ID number ED–2013–ICCD– 

0147or via postal mail, commercial 

delivery, or hand delivery. If the 

regulations.gov site is not available to 

the public for any reason, ED will 

temporarily accept comments at 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note that 

comments submitted by fax or email 

and those submitted after the comment 

period will not be accepted; ED will 

ONLY accept comments during the 

comment period in this mailbox when 

the regulations.gov site is not available. 

Written requests for information or 

comments submitted by postal mail or 

delivery should be addressed to the 

Director of the Information Collection 

Clearance Division, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

LBJ, Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 

2E105, Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Michelle 

Meier, 202–245–7890. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Measuring 

Educational Gain in the National 

Reporting System for Adult Education. 

OMB Control Number: 1830–0567. 

Type of Review: An extension without 

change of an existing collection of 

information. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, or Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 15. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 600. 

Abstract: Title 34 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations part 462 establishes 

procedures the Secretary uses to 

consider literacy tests for use in the 

National Reporting System (NRS) for 

adult education. This information is 

used by the Secretary to determine the 

suitability of published literacy tests to 

measure and report educational gain 

under the NRS. 

Dated: February 20, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–04007 Filed 2–24–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2013–ICCD–0155] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

GEPA Section 427 Guidance for All 

Grant Applications 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary/Office of 

the Deputy Secretary (OS), Department 

of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is 

proposing an extension of an existing 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 

27, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http:// 

www.regulations.gov by selecting 

Docket ID number ED–2013–ICCD–0155 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov 

site is not available to the public for any 

reason, ED will temporarily accept 

comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. 

Please note that comments submitted by 

fax or email and those submitted after 

the comment period will not be 

accepted; ED will ONLY accept 

comments during the comment period 

in this mailbox when the 

regulations.gov site is not available. 

Written requests for information or 

comments submitted by postal mail or 

delivery should be addressed to the 

Director of the Information Collection 

Clearance Division, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

LBJ, Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 

2E105, Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Alfreida 

Pettiford, 202–245–6110. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 


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information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: GEPA Section 427 

Guidance for All Grant Applications. 

OMB Control Number: 1894–0005. 

Type of Review: An extension of an 

existing information collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, or Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 12,396. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 18,594. 

Abstract: On October 20, 1994, the 

Improving America’s Schools Act, 

Public Law 103–382 (The Act), became 

law. The Act added a provision to the 

General Education Provisions Act 

(GEPA). Section 427 of GEPA requires 

an applicant for assistance under 

Department programs to develop and 

describe in the grant application the 

steps it proposes to take to ensure 

equitable access to, and equitable 

participation in, its proposed project for 

students, teachers, and other program 

beneficiaries with special needs. The 

current GEPA Section 427 guidance for 

discretionary grant applications and 

formula grant applications has approval 

through March 31, 2014, the Department 

is requesting an extension of this 

approval. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–03907 Filed 2–24–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; Arts in 

Education Model Development and 

Dissemination Program 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information 

Arts in Education Model Development 

and Dissemination Program 

Notice inviting applications for new 

awards for fiscal year (FY) 2014. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.351D. 

DATES: Applications Available: February 

25, 2014. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to 

Apply: March 27, 2014. 

Date of Pre-Application Meeting: 

March 18, 2014. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 28, 2014. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 25, 2014. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Arts in 

Education Model Development and 

Dissemination (AEMDD) program 

supports the enhancement, expansion, 

documentation, evaluation, and 

dissemination of innovative, cohesive 

models that are based on research and 

have demonstrated that they 

effectively—(1) integrate standardsbased arts education into the core 

elementary and middle school 

curriculum; (2) strengthen standardsbased arts instruction in these grades; 

and (3) improve students’ academic 

performance, including their skills in 

creating, performing, and responding to 

the arts. Projects funded through the 

AEMDD program are intended to 

increase the amount of nationally 

available information on effective 

models for arts education that integrate 

the arts with standards-based education 

programs. 

Priorities: This competition includes 

one absolute priority and two 

competitive preference priorities that 

are explained in the following 

paragraphs. Absolute priority 1 is from 

the notice of final priority, 

requirements, and definitions for this 

program, published in the Federal 

Register on March 30, 2005 (70 FR 

16234). The competitive preference 

priorities are from the notice of 

supplemental priorities and definitions 

for discretionary grant programs, 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 15, 2010 (75 FR 78486), and 

corrected on May 12, 2011 (76 FR 

27637) (Supplemental Priorities). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2014 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

This priority supports projects that 

enhance, expand, document, evaluate, 

and disseminate innovative, cohesive 

models that are based on research and 

have demonstrated their effectiveness in 

(1) integrating standards-based arts 

education into the core elementary or 

middle school curriculum, (2) 

strengthening standards-based arts 

instruction in the elementary or middle 

school grades, and (3) improving the 

academic performance of students in 

elementary or middle school grades, 

including their skills in creating, 

performing, and responding to the arts. 

In order to meet this priority, an 

applicant must demonstrate that the 

model project for which it seeks funding 

(1) serves only elementary school or 

middle school grades, or both, and (2) 

is linked to State and national standards 

intended to enable all students to meet 

challenging expectations and to improve 

student and school performance. 

Note: The term ‘‘national standards’’ was 

used in the notice of final priority, 

requirements, and definitions for this 

program, published in the Federal Register 

on March 30, 2005 (70 FR 16234). Since that 

time, the program has described ‘‘national 

standards’’ to mean the arts standards 

developed by the Consortium of National 

Arts Education Associations or another 

comparable set of national arts standards. 

The standards developed by the Consortium 

outline what students should know and be 

able to do in the arts. Although the program 

considers these ‘‘national standards,’’ they 

are not established or endorsed by the 

Department. 

Competitive Preference Priorities: For 

FY 2014 and any subsequent year in 

which we make awards from the list of 

unfunded applicants from this 

competition, these priorities are 

competitive preference priorities. Under 

34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we award up to 

an additional 5 points to an applicant 

that meets Priority 1, and up to an 

additional 5 points to an applicant that 

meets Priority 2. Therefore, the 

maximum number of competitive 

preference points that an application 

can receive under this competition is 10 

points, depending on how well the 

application meets one or both of these 

priorities. 

An applicant must identify in the 

project narrative section of its 

application the priority or priorities it 

wishes the Department to consider for 

purposes of earning the competitive 

preference priority points. 

These priorities are: 

Priority 1—Turning Around 

Persistently Lowest-Achieving Schools 

(0 to 5 points). 

Projects that are designed to address 

one or more of the following priority 

areas: 

(a) Improving student achievement (as 

defined in this notice) in persistently 

lowest-achieving schools (as defined in 

this notice). 

(b) Providing services to students 

enrolled in persistently lowestachieving schools (as defined in this 

notice). 


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