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modifications that can be separately 

identified and only to the extent that 

open licensing is permitted under the 

terms of any licenses or other legal 

restrictions on the use of pre-existing 

works. Additionally, a grantee that is 

awarded competitive grant funds must 

have a plan to disseminate these public 

grant deliverables. This dissemination 

plan can be developed and submitted 

after your application has been 

reviewed and selected for funding. For 

additional information on the open 

licensing requirements please refer to 2 

CFR 3474.20. 

4. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive 

funding under the competition. This 

does not apply if you have an exception 

under 2 CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information, 

as directed by the Secretary. If you 

receive a multiyear award, you must 

submit an annual performance report 

that provides the most current 

performance and financial expenditure 

information as directed by the Secretary 

under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary 

may also require more frequent 

performance reports under 34 CFR 

75.720(c). For specific requirements on 

reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/ 

fund/grant/apply/appforms/ 

appforms.html. 

(c) Under 34 CFR 75.250(b), the 

Secretary may provide a grantee with 

additional funding for data collection 

analysis and reporting. In this case the 

Secretary establishes a data collection 

period. 

5. Performance Measures: For the 

purposes of Department reporting under 

34 CFR 75.110, the Department has 

established a set of performance 

measures, including long-term 

measures, that are designed to yield 

information on various aspects of the 

effectiveness and quality of the 

Personnel Development to Improve 

Services and Results for Children with 

Disabilities program. These measures 

include (1) the percentage of 

preparation programs that incorporate 

scientifically based practices or EBPs 

into their curricula; (2) the percentage of 

scholars completing the preparation 

program who are knowledgeable and 

skilled in EBPs that improve outcomes 

for children with disabilities; (3) the 

percentage of scholars who exit the 

preparation program prior to completion 

due to poor academic performance; (4) 

the percentage of scholars completing 

the preparation program who are 

working in the area(s) in which they 

were prepared upon program 

completion; (5) the Federal cost per 

scholar who completed the preparation 

program; (6) the percentage of scholars 

who completed the preparation program 

and are employed in high-need districts; 

and (7) the percentage of scholars who 

completed the preparation program and 

who are rated effective by their 

employers. 

In addition, the Department will 

gather information on the following 

outcome measures: the number and 

percentage of scholars proposed by the 

grantee in their application that were 

actually enrolled and making 

satisfactory academic progress in the 

current academic year; the number and 

percentage of enrolled scholars who are 

on track to complete the training 

program by the end of the project’s 

original grant period; and the percentage 

of scholars who completed the 

preparation program and are employed 

in the field of special education for at 

least two years. 

Grantees may be asked to participate 

in assessing and providing information 

on these aspects of program quality. 

6. Continuation Awards: In making a 

continuation award under 34 CFR 

75.253, the Secretary considers, among 

other things: whether a grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the goals and objectives of the project; 

whether the grantee has expended funds 

in a manner that is consistent with its 

approved application and budget; and, 

if the Secretary has established 

performance measurement 

requirements, whether the grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the performance targets in the grantee’s 

approved application. 

In making a continuation award, the 

Secretary also considers whether the 

grantee is operating in compliance with 

the assurances in its approved 

application, including those applicable 

to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

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Glenna Wright-Gallo, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25307 Filed 11–15–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Board for Education Sciences 

AGENCY: National Board for Education 

Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 

Institute of Education Sciences (IES). 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

agenda, time, and instructions to access 

or participate in the National Board for 

Education Sciences (hereafter referred to 

as NBES or Board) virtual meeting 

scheduled for December 4th and 5th, 

2023. This notice provides information 

about the meeting to members of the 

public who may be interested in 

accessing the meeting and/or how to 

provide written comment(s). 

ADDRESSES: The virtual meeting will be 

conducted via Microsoft Teams. 

Members of the public may access the 

meeting virtually and should contact the 

Designated Federal Official for access 

instructions. 

DATES: The NBES meeting will be held 

on Monday, December 4th, 2023, from 

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. (EST) and 

Tuesday, December 5th, 2023, from 

10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. (EST). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellie 

Pelaez, Designated Federal Official 

(DFO) for NBES, U.S. Department of 

Education, IES: 400 Maryland Avenue 

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20202, telephone: (202) 245–7274, 

email: ellie.pelaez@ed.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of 

this meeting is required by Section 

1009(a)(2) of 5 U.S.C. Chapter 10 

(Federal Advisory Committees). 

Statutory Authority and Function: 

The Board is authorized by § 116 of the 

Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 

(20 U.S.C. 9516). The Board is 

established as part of the U.S. 

Department of Education, IES, and shall, 

consistent with 20 U.S.C. 9514, 9515(b)– 

(c), and 9516 function as a board of 

directors for IES. The mission of IES is 

to provide national leadership in 

expanding fundamental knowledge and 

understanding of education from early 

childhood through postsecondary study, 

in order to provide parents, educators, 

students, researchers, policymakers, and 

the general public with reliable 

information about the condition and 

progress of education in the United 

States; educational practices that 

support learning and improve academic 

achievement and access to educational 

opportunities for all students; and the 

effectiveness of Federal and other 

education programs. 

The Board’s responsibilities are: (1) 

advise and consult with the Director of 

IES (Director) on the policies of IES; (2) 

consider and approve priorities 

proposed by the Director under 20 

U.S.C. 9515 to guide the work of IES; (3) 

transmit approved priorities to the 

appropriate congressional committee 

(20 U.S.C. 9515(b)); (4) ensure that the 

priorities of IES and the National 

Education Centers are consistent with 

the mission of IES (20 U.S.C. 9515(c)); 

(5) review and approve procedures for 

technical and scientific peer review of 

the activities of IES; (6) advise the 

Director on the establishment of 

activities to be supported by IES, 

including the general areas of research 

to be carried out by the National Center 

for Education Research (NCER) and the 

National Center for Special Education 

Research (NCSER) (20 U.S.C. 9567); (7) 

present to the Director such 

recommendations as it may find 

appropriate for (a) the strengthening of 

education research, and (b) the funding 

of IES; (8) advise the Director on the 

funding of applications for grants, 

contracts, and cooperative agreements 

for research, after the completion of peer 

review; (9) review and regularly 

evaluate the work of IES, to ensure that 

scientifically valid research, 

development, evaluation, and statistical 

analysis are consistent with the 

standards for such activities under this 

title; (10) advise the Director on 

ensuring that activities conducted or 

supported by IES are objective, secular, 

neutral, and non-ideological, and are 

free of partisan political influence and 

racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias; 

(11) solicit advice and information from 

those in the educational field, 

particularly practitioners and 

researchers, to recommend to the 

Director topics that require long-term, 

sustained, systematic, programmatic, 

and integrated research efforts, 

including knowledge utilization and 

wide dissemination of research, 

consistent with the priorities and 

mission of IES; (12) advise the Director 

on opportunities for the participation in, 

and the advancement of, women, 

minorities, and persons with disabilities 

in education research, statistics, and 

evaluation activities of IES; (13) 

recommend to the Director ways to 

enhance strategic partnerships and 

collaborative efforts among other 

Federal and State research agencies; (14) 

recommend to the Director individuals 

to serve as Commissioners of the 

National Education Centers; and (15) 

make recommendations to the President 

with respect to the appointment of the 

Director. 

Meeting Agenda: The agenda for the 

meeting is as follows: (1) Call to order 

and welcome by the Chairperson; (2) 

Member roll call; (3) Approval of 

meeting minutes from the September 11, 

2023 meeting of the Board; (4) Board 

member approval of the meeting agenda; 

(5) Board member discussion of the 

process for reviewing reports from 

National Academies of Sciences, 

Engineering, and Medicine NASEM; (6) 

Responses to NASEM recommendations 

in The Future of Education Research at 

IES by NCSER Commissioner, Nathan 

Jones, and NCER Commissioner, Liz 

Albro, with Board discussion; (7) 

Responses to NASEM recommendations 

in A Vision and Roadmap for Education 

Statistics by National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES) 

Commissioner, Peggy Carr, with Board 

discussion; (8) Reports from National 

Center for Education Evaluation and 

Regional Assistance (NCEE) 

Commissioner, Matt Soldner, and IES 

Deputy Director for Science, Anne 

Ricciuti; (9) discussion of upcoming 

policy legislation; (10) Establishment 

and planning for NBES Subcommittee 

for hiring an NBES Executive Director 

(11) Discussion of Board priorities; (12) 

Planning NBES meeting dates for the 

upcoming year; (13) Closing remarks. 

Instructions for Accessing the 

Meeting: Members of the public 

interested in virtual access to this 

meeting may email the DFO listed in 

this notice no later than 11:59 p.m. 

Eastern Time (ET) on Monday, 

November 30th. The DFO will provide 

a link and instructions on how to access 

the meeting via Microsoft Teams. 

Public Comment: Members of the 

public interested in submitting written 

comments related to the work of the 

NBES may do so by emailing the DFO 

listed in this notice no later than 11:59 

p.m. ET on Monday, November 30th, 

2023. Written comments should pertain 

to the mission and function of NBES. 

Reasonable Accommodations: The 

virtual meeting is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. If you will 

need an auxiliary aid or service for the 

meeting (e.g., interpreting service, 

assistive listening device, or materials in 

an alternate format), notify the DFO 

listed in this notice no later than 

November 30th, 2023. 

Access to Records of the Meeting: The 

official minutes of this meeting will be 

available for public review on the IES 

website, https://ies.ed.gov/director/ 

board/index.asp, no later than 90 days 

after the meeting. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

1009(b), the public may also inspect 

NBES records at the U.S. Department of 

Education, IES, 400 Maryland Avenue 

SW, Washington, DC 20202, Monday– 

Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Please 

email ellie.pelaez@ed.gov to schedule 

an appointment. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free internet access to the 

official edition of the Federal Register 

and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

available via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. 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 Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF). To use PDF, you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. You also may 

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. 

Authority: Section 116 of the 

Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 

(20 U.S.C. 9516). 

Mark Schneider, 

Director, Institute of Education Sciences. 

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