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POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORING, 

RETRIEVING, ACCESSING, RETAINING, AND

DISPOSING OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

STORAGE: 

Records are stored on paper and on 

electronic storage media. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Name. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

Materials are kept in file cabinets 

within NAVOECMA’s office or in a 

secured computer data base. Access to 

the office during business hours is 

controlled by NAVOECMA personnel 

and by identification card. The office is 

locked at the close of business; the 

building in which the office is located 

employs security guards. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Case files are destroyed four years 

after being closed. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Director, Naval Office of EEO 

Complaints and Adjudication 

(NAVOECMA), 614 Sicard Street, SE., 

Suite 100, Washington Navy Yard, DC 

20374–5072. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

Individuals seeking to determine 

whether this system contains 

information about themselves should 

address written inquiries to the Director, 

Naval Office of EEO Complaints and 

Adjudication (NAVOECMA), 614 Sicard 

Street, SE., Suite 100, Washington Navy 

Yard, DC 20374–5072. 

The requester must provide full name, 

employing office, and sign the request. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals seeking access to records 

about themselves should address 

written inquiries from former and 

present civilian employees of the DON, 

applicants for employment with the 

DON, employing activities, EEOC, and 

NAVOECMA. 

The requester must provide full name, 

employing office, and sign the request. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The Navy’s rules for accessing 

records, and for contesting contents and 

appealing initial agency determinations 

are published in Secretary of the Navy 

Instruction 5211.5; 32 CFR part 701; or 

may be obtained from the system 

manager. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Information in the file is obtained 

from former and present civilian 

employees of the DON, applicants for 

employment with the DON, employing 

activities, EEOC, and NAVOECMA. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Innovation and Improvement; 

Overview Information; Teaching 

American History Grant Program; 

Notice Inviting Applications for New 

Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.215X. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: January 8, 

2007. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

February 7, 2007. 

Pre-Application Meeting: A preapplication meeting for prospective 

applicants will be held in January 2007 

in Washington, DC. Further information 

on the date, time, and location will be 

made available through a notice 

published in the Federal Register and 

through the Teaching American History 

Web site at http://www.ed.gov/ 

programs/teachinghistory. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 9, 2007. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 8, 2007. 

Eligible Applicants: Local educational 

agencies (LEAs), including charter 

schools that are considered LEAs under 

State law and regulations, that must 

work in partnership with one or more of 

the following entities: 

• An institution of higher education. 

• A non-profit history or humanities 

organization. 

• A library or museum. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$50,000,000 for this program for FY 

2007. The actual level of funding, if any, 

depends on final Congressional action. 

However, we are inviting applications to 

allow enough time to complete the grant 

process if Congress appropriates funds 

for this program. 

Maximum Award: The following 

maximum award amounts are from the 

notice of final selection criteria and 

other application requirements for this 

program, published in the Federal 

Register on April 15, 2005 (70 FR 

19939). 

(1) Total funding for a three-year 

project period is a maximum of 

$500,000 for LEAs with enrollments of 

less than 20,000 students; $1,000,000 for 

LEAs with enrollments of 20,000–

300,000 students; and $2,000,000 for 

LEAs with enrollments above 300,000 

students. LEAs may form consortia and 

combine their enrollments in order to 

receive a grant reflective of their 

combined enrollment. For districts 

applying jointly as a consortium, the 

maximum award is based on the 

combined enrollment of the individual 

districts in the consortium. If more than 

one LEA wishes to form a consortium, 

they must follow the procedures for 

group applications described in 34 CFR 

75.127 through 34 CFR 75.129 of the 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations. 

(2) A maximum of one grant will be 

awarded per applicant per competition. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 120–

135. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: Teaching 

American History grants support 

projects to raise student achievement by 

improving teachers’ knowledge, 

understanding, and appreciation of 

traditional American history. Grant 

awards assist LEAs, in partnership with 

entities that have extensive content 

expertise, to develop, document, 

evaluate, and disseminate innovative, 

cohesive models of professional 

development. By helping teachers to 

develop a deeper understanding and 

appreciation of traditional American 

history as a separate subject within the 

core curriculum, these programs 

improve instruction and raise student 

achievement. 

Priorities: This competition includes 

one absolute priority and two 

competitive preference priorities that 

are explained in the following 

paragraphs. 

Absolute Priority: This priority is from 

the statute for this program (20 U.S.C. 

6721(b)). Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we 

consider only applications that meet 

this priority. 

This priority is: 

Partnerships with Other Agencies or 

Institutions. Each applicant LEA must 

propose to work in collaboration with 

one or more of the following: 

• An institution of higher education. 

• A non-profit history or humanities 

organization. 

• A library or museum. 

Competitive Preference Priorities: 

These priorities are from the notice of 

final priorities for discretionary grant 

programs published in the Federal 

Register on October 11, 2006 (71 FR 

60046). Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), 

we award up to an additional 25 points 


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to an application, depending on how 

well the application meets these 

priorities. These points are in addition 

to any points the application earns 

under the selection criteria. 

These priorities are: 

Priority 1—School Districts with 

Schools in Need of Improvement, 

Corrective Action, or Restructuring (up 

to 15 additional points). Projects that 

help school districts implement 

academic and structural interventions in 

schools that have been identified for 

improvement, corrective action, or 

restructuring under the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965, as 

amended by the No Child Left Behind 

Act of 2001. 

Note: In response to this priority, 

applicants are encouraged to describe how 

they will assess the district’s or consortium 

of districts’ needs and focus on recruiting 

U.S. history teachers from schools identified 

as in need of improvement, corrective action, 

or restructuring within the district or 

consortium of districts. 

Priority 2—Student Achievement Data 

(up to 10 additional points). Projects 

that collect pre- and post-intervention 

test data to assess the effects of the 

projects on the academic achievement of 

student participants relative to 

appropriate comparison or control 

groups. 

Note: In response to this priority, 

applicants are encouraged to submit a plan 

describing how they propose to collect test 

data on students of teachers trained in the 

Teaching American History program and 

compare those data to test data from students 

of teachers who are not trained in the 

Teaching American History program. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6721. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 

85, 86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The notice of 

final selection criteria and other 

application requirements for this 

program published in the Federal 

Register on April 15, 2005 (70 FR 

19939). (c) The notice of final priorities 

for discretionary grant programs 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 11, 2006 (71 FR 60046). 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 

apply to all applicants except federally 

recognized Indian tribes. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 

apply to institutions of higher education 

only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$50,000,000 for this program for FY 

2007. The actual level of funding, if any, 

depends on final congressional action. 

However, we are inviting applications to 

allow enough time to complete the grant 

process if Congress appropriates funds 

for this program. 

Maximum Award: The following 

maximum award amounts are from the 

notice of final selection criteria and 

other application requirements for this 

program published in the Federal 

Register on April 15, 2005 (70 FR 

19939). 

(1) Total funding for a three-year 

project period is a maximum of 

$500,000 for LEAs with enrollments of 

less than 20,000 students; $1,000,000 for 

LEAs with enrollments of 20,000–

300,000 students; and $2,000,000 for 

LEAs with enrollments above 300,000 

students. LEAs may form consortia and 

combine their enrollments in order to 

receive a grant reflective of their 

combined enrollment. For districts 

applying jointly as a consortium, the 

maximum award is based on the 

combined enrollment of the individual 

districts in the consortium. If more than 

one LEA wishes to form a consortium, 

they must follow the procedures for 

group applications described in 34 CFR 

75.127 through 34 CFR 75.129 of the 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations. 

(2) A maximum of one grant will be 

awarded per applicant per competition. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 120–

135. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: LEAs, 

including charter schools that are 

considered LEAs under State law and 

regulations, that must work in 

partnership with one or more of the 

following entities: 

• An institution of higher education. 

• A non-profit history or humanities 

organization. 

• A library or museum. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not involve cost sharing 

or matching. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

Address to Request Application 

Package: Education Publications Center 

(ED Pubs), P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 

20794–1398. Telephone (toll free): 1–

877–433–7827. Fax: (301) 470–1244. If 

you use a telecommunications device 

for the deaf (TDD), you may call (toll 

free): 1–877–576–7734. 

You may also contact ED Pubs at its 

Web site: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ 

edpubs.html or you may contact ED 

Pubs at its e-mail address: 

edpubs@inet.ed.gov. 

If you request an application from ED 

Pubs, be sure to identify this 

competition as follows: CFDA number 

84.215X. 

You may also obtain the application 

package for this program via the Internet 

at the following address: http// 

www.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/ 

applicant.html. 

Individuals with disabilities may 

obtain a copy of the application package 

in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, 

large print, audiotape, or computer 

diskette) by contacting one of the 

program contact persons listed in 

section VII of this notice. 

2. Content and Form of Application 

Submission: Requirements concerning 

the content of an application, together 

with the forms you must submit, are in 

the application package and instructions 

for this program. 

Notice of Intent to Apply: The 

Department will be able to develop a 

more efficient process for reviewing 

grant applications if it has a better 

understanding of the number of LEAs 

that intend to apply for funding under 

this competition. Therefore, the 

Secretary strongly encourages each 

potential applicant to notify the 

Department with a short e-mail 

indicating the applicant’s intent to 

submit an application for funding. The 

e-mail need not include information 

regarding the content of the proposed 

application, only the applicant’s intent 

to submit it. This e-mail notification 

should be sent to Alex Stein at: 

TeachingAmericanHistory@ed.gov. 

Applicants who do not provide this 

e-mail notification may still apply for 

funding. 

Page Limit: The application narrative 

(Part III of the application) is where you, 

the applicant, address the selection 

criteria that reviewers use to evaluate 

your application. Applicants are 

strongly encouraged to limit the 

application narrative to the equivalent 

of no more than 25 pages, using the 

following standards: 

• A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5′′ × 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, as well as all 

text in charts, tables, figures, and 

graphs. 

• Use a font not less than 12-point 

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The page limit does not apply to Part 

I, the cover sheet; Part II, the budget 

section, including the narrative budget 

justification; Part IV, the assurances and 

certifications; or the one-page abstract, 

the resumes, or letters of support. 

However, you must include all of the 

application narrative in Part III. 

Our reviewers will not read any pages 

of your application that—

• Exceed the page limit if you apply 

these standards; or 

• Exceed the equivalent of the page 

limit if you apply other standards. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: January 8, 

2007. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

February 7, 2007. 

Pre-Application Meeting: A preapplication meeting for prospective 

applicants will be held in January 2007 

in Washington, DC. Further information 

on the date, time, and location will be 

made available through a notice 

published in the Federal Register and 

through the Teaching American History 

Web site at http://www.ed.gov/ 

programs/teachinghistory. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 9, 2007. 

Applications for grants under this 

program must be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site (Grants.gov). For information 

(including dates and times) about how 

to submit your application 

electronically, or by mail or hand 

delivery if you qualify for an exception 

to the electronic submission 

requirement, please refer to section IV. 

6. Other Submission Requirements in 

this notice. 

We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. 

Individuals with disabilities who 

need an accommodation or auxiliary aid 

in connection with the application 

process should contact the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 8, 2007. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

competition is subject to Executive 

Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 

CFR part 79. Information about 

Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs under Executive Order 12372 

is in the application package for this 

competition. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We reference 

regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

6. Other Submission Requirements. 

Applications for grants under this 

program 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 grants 

under the Teaching American History 

Program—CFDA Number 84.215X must 

be submitted electronically using the 

Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site 

at http://www.Grants.gov. Through this 

site, you will be able to download a 

copy of the application package, 

complete it offline, and then upload and 

submit your application. You may not 

e-mail an electronic copy of a grant 

application to us. 

We will reject your application if you 

submit it in paper format unless, as 

described elsewhere in this section, you 

qualify for one of the exceptions to the 

electronic submission requirement and 

submit, no later than two weeks before 

the application deadline date, a written 

statement to the Department that you 

qualify for one of these exceptions. 

Further information regarding 

calculation of the date that is two weeks 

before the application deadline date is 

provided later in this section under 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement. 

You may access the electronic grant 

application for Teaching American 

History Grant Program at http:// 

www.Grants.gov. You must search for 

the downloadable application package 

for this program or competition by the 

CFDA number. Do not include the 

CFDA number’s alpha suffix in your 

search (e.g., search for 84.215, not 

84.215X). 

Please note the following: 

• When you enter the Grants.gov site, 

you will find information about 

submitting an application electronically 

through the site, as well as the hours of 

operation. 

• Applications received by 

Grants.gov are date and time stamped. 

Your application must be fully 

uploaded and submitted, and must be 

date and time stamped by the 

Grants.gov system no later than 4:30 

p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. Except as 

otherwise noted in this section, we will 

not consider your application if it is 

date and time stamped by the 

Grants.gov system later than 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. When we 

retrieve your application from 

Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are 

rejecting your application because it 

was date and time stamped by the 

Grants.gov system after 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. 

• The amount of time it can take to 

upload an application will vary 

depending on a variety of factors 

including the size of the application and 

the speed of your Internet connection. 

Therefore, we strongly recommend that 

you do not wait until the application 

deadline date to begin the submission 

process through Grants.gov. 

• You should review and follow the 

Education Submission Procedures for 

submitting an application through 

Grants.gov that are included in the 

application package for this program to 

ensure that you submit your application 

in a timely manner to the Grants.gov 

system. You can also find the Education 

Submission Procedures pertaining to 

Grants.gov at http://e-grants.ed.gov/ 

help/ 

GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf. 

• To submit your application via 

Grants.gov, you must complete all steps 

in the Grants.gov registration process 

(see http://www.grants.gov/applicants/ 

get_registered.jsp). 

These steps include (1) registering 

your organization, a multi-part process 

that includes registration with the 

Central Contractor Registry (CCR); (2) 

registering yourself as an Authorized 

Organization Representative (AOR); and 

(3) getting authorized as an AOR by 

your organization. Details on these steps 

are outlined in the Grants.gov 3-Step 

Registration Guide (see http:// 

www.grants.gov/section910/ 

Grants.govRegistrationBrochure.pdf. 

You also must provide on your 

application the same D–U–N–S Number 

used with this registration. Please note 

that the registration process may take 

five or more business days to complete, 

and you must have completed all 

registration steps to allow you to submit 

successfully an application via 

Grants.gov. In addition you will need to 

update your CCR registration on an 

annual basis. This may take three or 

more business days to complete. 

• You will not receive additional 

point value because you submit your 

application in electronic format, nor 

will we penalize you if you qualify for 

an exception to the electronic 

submission requirement, as described 

elsewhere in this section, and submit 

your application in paper format. 

• You must submit all documents 

electronically, including all information 

you typically provide on the following 

forms: Application for Federal 

Assistance (SF 424), the Department of 

Education Supplemental Information for 

SF 424, Budget Information—NonConstruction Programs (ED 524), and all 

necessary assurances and certifications. 

Please note that two of these forms—the 

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Supplemental Information for SF 424—

have replaced the ED 424 (Application 

for Federal Education Assistance). 

• You must attach any narrative 

sections of your application as files in 

a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich text), or 

.PDF (Portable Document) format. If you 

upload a file type other than the three 

file types specified in this paragraph or 

submit a password-protected file, we 

will not review that material. 

• Your electronic application must 

comply with any page-limit 

requirements described in this notice. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive from 

Grants.gov an automatic notification of 

receipt that contains a Grants.gov 

tracking number. (This notification 

indicates receipt by Grants.gov only, not 

receipt by the Department.) The 

Department then will retrieve your 

application from Grants.gov and send a 

second notification to you by e-mail. 

This second notification indicates that 

the Department has received your 

application and has assigned your 

application a PR/Award number (an EDspecified identifying number unique to 

your application). 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on forms at a later 

date. 

Application Deadline Date Extension 

in Case of Technical Issues with the 

Grants.gov System: If you are 

experiencing problems submitting your 

application through Grants.gov, please 

contact the Grants.gov Support Desk at 

1–800–518–4726. You must obtain a 

Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number 

and must keep a record of it. 

If you are prevented from 

electronically submitting your 

application on the application deadline 

date because of technical problems with 

the Grants.gov system, we will grant you 

an extension until 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, the following 

business day to enable you to transmit 

your application electronically or by 

hand delivery. You also may mail your 

application by following the mailing 

instructions described elsewhere in this 

notice. 

If you submit an application after 4:30 

p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date, please 

contact the person listed elsewhere in 

this notice under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT and provide an 

explanation of the technical problem 

you experienced with Grants.gov, along 

with the Grants.gov Support Desk Case 

Number. We will accept your 

application if we can confirm that a 

technical problem occurred with the 

Grants.gov system and that that problem 

affected your ability to submit your 

application by 4:30 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, on the application deadline 

date. The Department will contact you 

after a determination is made on 

whether your application will be 

accepted. 

Note: The extensions to which we refer in 

this section apply only to the unavailability 

of, or technical problems with, the Grants.gov 

system. We will not grant you an extension 

if you failed to fully register to submit your 

application to Grants.gov before the 

application deadline date and time or if the 

technical problem you experienced is 

unrelated to the Grants.gov system. 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement: You qualify for an 

exception to the electronic submission 

requirement, and may submit your 

application in paper format, if you are 

unable to submit an application through 

the Grants.gov system because—

• You do not have access to the 

Internet; or 

• You do not have the capacity to 

upload large documents to the 

Grants.gov system; and 

• No later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date (14 calendar 

days or, if the fourteenth calendar day 

before the application deadline date 

falls on a Federal holiday, the next 

business day following the Federal 

holiday), you mail or fax a written 

statement to the Department, explaining 

which of the two grounds for an 

exception prevent you from using the 

Internet to submit your application. 

If you mail your written statement to 

the Department, it must be postmarked 

no later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date. If you fax 

your written statement to the 

Department, we must receive the faxed 

statement no later than two weeks 

before the application deadline date. 

Address and mail or fax your 

statement to: Alex Stein, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 4W206, 

Washington, DC 20202–5960. FAX: 

(202) 401–8466. 

Your paper application must be 

submitted in accordance with the mail 

or hand delivery instructions described 

in this notice. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Mail. If you qualify for an exception 

to the electronic submission 

requirement, you may mail (through the 

U.S. Postal Service or a commercial 

carrier) your application to the 

Department. You must mail the original 

and two copies of your application, on 

or before the application deadline date, 

to the Department at the applicable 

following address: By mail through the 

U.S. Postal Service: U.S. Department of 

Education, Application Control Center, 

Attention: (CFDA Number 84.215X), 400 

Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, 

DC 20202–5960; or By mail through a 

commercial carrier: U.S. Department of 

Education, Application Control Center, 

Stop 4260, Attention: (CFDA Number 

84.215X), 7100 Old Landover Road, 

Landover, MD 20785–1506. 

Regardless of which address you use, 

you must show proof of mailing 

consisting of one of the following: 

(1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service 

postmark. 

(2) A legible mail receipt with the 

date of mailing stamped by the U.S. 

Postal Service. 

(3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or 

receipt from a commercial carrier. 

(4) Any other proof of mailing 

acceptable to the Secretary of the U.S. 

Department of Education. 

If you mail your application through 

the U.S. Postal Service, we do not 

accept either of the following as proof 

of mailing: 

(1) A private metered postmark. 

(2) A mail receipt that is not dated by 

the U.S. Postal Service. 

If your application is postmarked after 

the application deadline date, we will 

not consider your application. 

Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not 

uniformly provide a dated postmark. Before 

relying on this method, you should check 

with your local post office. 

c. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Hand Delivery. If you qualify for an 

exception to the electronic submission 

requirement, you (or a courier service) 

may deliver your paper application to 

the Department by hand. You must 

deliver the original and two copies of 

your application by hand, on or before 

the application deadline date, to the 

Department at the following address: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.215X), 550 12th 

Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center 

Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

The Application Control Center 

accepts hand deliveries daily between 8 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC 

time, except Saturdays, Sundays, and 

Federal holidays. 

Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of 

Paper Applications: If you mail or hand 

deliver your application to the 

Department—

(1) You must indicate on the envelope 

and—if not provided by the 

Department—in Item 11 of the SF 424 

the CFDA number, including suffix 

letter, if any, of the competition under 

which you are submitting your 

application; and 

(2) The Application Control Center 

will mail to you a notification of receipt 


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of your grant application. If you do not 

receive this notification within 15 

business days from the application 

deadline date, you should call the U.S. 

Department of Education Application 

Control Center at (202) 245–6288. 

V. Application Review Information 

1. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this competition are from the 

notice of final selection criteria and 

other application requirements 

published in the Federal Register on 

April 15, 2005 (70 FR 19939). 

The Secretary uses the following 

selection criteria to evaluate 

applications under this program. The 

maximum score for all of these criteria 

is 100 points. 

(1) Project Quality (50 points). The 

Secretary considers the quality of the 

proposed project by considering—

(a) The likelihood that the proposed 

project will develop, implement, and 

strengthen programs to teach traditional 

American history as a separate academic 

subject (not as a component of social 

studies) within elementary school and 

secondary school curricula. 

(b) How specific traditional American 

history content will be covered by the 

grant (including the significant issues, 

episodes, and turning points in the 

history of the United States; how the 

words and deeds of individuals have 

determined the course of our Nation; 

and how the principles of freedom and 

democracy articulated in the founding 

documents of this Nation have shaped 

America’s struggles and achievements 

and its social, political, and legal 

institutions and relations); the format in 

which the project will deliver the 

history content; and the quality of the 

staff and consultants responsible for 

delivering these content-based 

professional development activities, 

emphasizing, where relevant, their 

postsecondary teaching experience and 

scholarship in subject areas relevant to 

the teaching of traditional American 

history. The applicant may also attach 

curriculum vitae for individuals who 

will provide the content training to the 

teachers. 

(c) How well the applicant describes 

a plan that meets the statutory 

requirement to carry out activities under 

the grant in partnership with one or 

more of the following: 

(i) An institution of higher education. 

(ii) A nonprofit history or humanities 

organization. 

(iii) A library or museum. 

(d) The applicant’s rationale for 

selecting the partner(s) and its 

description of specific activities that the 

partner(s) will contribute to the grant 

during each year of the project. The 

applicant should include a 

memorandum of understanding or 

detailed letters of commitment from the 

partner(s) in an appendix to the 

application narrative. 

Note: The Secretary encourages applicants 

to address this criterion by providing a 

detailed description of the actual history 

subject content of the professional 

development and teacher education activities 

to be carried out under this grant. The 

Secretary also encourages applicants to 

include a discussion of the research base for 

the professional development strategies and 

how this research can be used to assist the 

applicant in designing a project that ensures 

successful achievement of project objectives. 

Finally, the Secretary encourages applicants 

to describe their efforts to conduct a needs 

assessment of teachers’ content needs and 

describe how that needs assessment is part of 

a comprehensive, long-term strategy to 

upgrade teacher quality throughout the 

school districts. 

(2) Significance (20 points). The 

Secretary considers the significance of 

the proposed project. In determining the 

significance of the project, the Secretary 

considers—

(a) The extent to which the proposed 

project is likely to build local capacity 

to improve or expand the LEA’s ability 

to provide American history teachers 

professional development in traditional 

American history subject content and 

content-related teaching strategies. 

(b) The importance or magnitude of 

the results or outcomes likely to be 

attained by the proposed project, 

especially improvements in teaching 

and student achievement. 

(c) How teachers will use the 

knowledge acquired from project 

activities to improve the quality of 

instruction. This description may 

include plans for reviewing how 

teachers’ lesson planning and classroom 

teaching are affected by their 

participation in project activities. 

Note: In meeting this criterion, the 

Secretary encourages the applicant to include 

a description of its commitment to build 

local capacity by primarily serving teachers 

in its LEA or consortium of LEAs. The 

Secretary also encourages the applicant to 

include background and statistical 

information to explain the project’s 

significance. For example, the applicant 

could include information on: The extent to 

which teachers in the LEA are not certified 

in history or social studies; student 

achievement data in American history; and 

rates of student participation in courses such 

as Advanced Placement U.S. History. 

(3) Quality of the management plan 

(15 points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the management plan for the 

proposed project. In determining the 

quality of the management plan for the 

proposed project, the Secretary 

considers the following factors: 

(a) The adequacy of the management 

plan to achieve the objectives of the 

proposed project on time and within 

budget, including clearly defined 

responsibilities, timelines, and 

milestones for accomplishing project 

tasks. 

(b) The extent to which the time 

commitments of the project director and 

other key project personnel are 

appropriate and adequate to meet the 

objectives of the proposed project. 

Note: The Secretary encourages applicants 

to address this criterion by including in the 

narrative the roles of partners in each phase 

of the project. In addition, applicants are 

encouraged to consider how they might 

demonstrate (e.g., through narrative 

discussion, letters of support, or formal 

memoranda of understanding) the 

commitment of partners to the project and 

the partners’ understanding of 

responsibilities they have agreed to assume 

in service delivery. Finally, applicants may 

include in this narrative a schedule of 

activities with sufficient time for developing 

an adequate implementation plan. 

(4) Quality of the project evaluation 

(15 points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the evaluation to be 

conducted on the proposed project. In 

determining the quality of the 

evaluation, the Secretary considers: 

(a) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation include the use of 

objective performance measures that are 

clearly related to the intended outcomes 

of the project and will produce 

quantitative and qualitative data to the 

extent possible. 

(b) How well the evaluation plans are 

aligned with the project design 

explained under the Project Quality 

criterion. 

(c) Whether the evaluation includes 

benchmarks to monitor progress toward 

specific project objectives, and outcome 

measures to assess the impact on 

teaching and learning or other important 

outcomes for project participants. 

(d) Whether the applicant identifies 

the individual and/or organization that 

has agreed to serve as evaluator for the 

project and includes a description of the 

qualifications of that evaluator. 

(e) The extent to which the applicant 

indicates the following: 

(i) What types of data will be 

collected. 

(ii) When various types of data will be 

collected. 

(iii) What methods will be used to 

collect data. 

(iv) What data collection instruments 

will be developed. 

(v) How the data will be analyzed. 

(vi) When reports of results and 

outcomes will be available. 

(vii) How the applicant will use the 

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evaluation to monitor the progress of the 

funded project and to provide 

accountability information both about 

success at the initial site and about 

effective strategies for replication in 

other settings. 

(viii) How the applicant will devote 

an appropriate level of resources to 

project evaluation. 

Note: The Secretary encourages applicants 

to describe the project’s capability to address 

the Teaching American History performance 

indicators (see section entitled ‘‘Performance 

Measures’’). Further, applicants are 

encouraged to describe how their evaluation 

plans will be designed to collect both output 

data (number of teacher participants, number 

of workshops held, etc.) and outcome data 

(improvements in teacher classroom practice, 

increases in student history achievement, 

etc.). Finally, applicants are encouraged to 

select an independent, objective evaluator 

who has experience in evaluating 

educational programs and who will play an 

active role in the design and development of 

the project. 

VI. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN). We may also notify you 

informally. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected for funding, we notify you. 

2. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: We identify 

administrative and national policy 

requirements in the application package 

and reference these and other 

requirements in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice and include these and other 

specific conditions in the GAN. The 

GAN also incorporates your approved 

application as part of your binding 

commitments under the grant. Budgets 

should include funds for at least two 

project staff members to attend a twoday annual meeting of the Teaching 

American History Grant program in 

Washington, DC, each year of the 

project. Applicants also should include 

in their budgets’ funds to cover the 

travel and lodging expenses for these 

training activities during each year of 

the project. 

3. Reporting: 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 multi-year 

award, you must submit an annual 

performance report that provides the 

most current performance and financial 

expenditure information as specified by 

the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118. For 

specific requirements on grantee 

reporting, please go to http:// 

www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/ 

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: We have 

established two performance measures 

for the Teaching American History 

program. The measures are: (1) Students 

in experimental and quasi-experimental 

studies of educational effectiveness of 

Teaching American History projects will 

demonstrate higher achievement on 

course content measures and/or 

statewide U.S. history assessments than 

students in control and comparison 

groups, and (2) Teachers will 

demonstrate an increased understanding 

of American history through the use of 

nationally validated tests of American 

history that can be directly linked to 

their participation in the Teaching 

American History program. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: Alex 

Stein or Emily Fitzpatrick, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 4W206, 

Washington, DC 20202–6200. 

Telephone: Alex Stein (202) 205–9085 

or Emily Fitzpatrick (202) 260–1498 or 

by e-mail: 

TeachingAmericanHistory@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call 

the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–

800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities may 

obtain this document in an alternative 

format (e.g., Braille, large print, 

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the program contact persons 

listed in this section. 

VIII. Other Information 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may 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) on the Internet at the 

following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister. 

To use PDF you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1–

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: 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 on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: January 3, 2007. 

Morgan S. Brown, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. E7–33 Filed 1–5–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Innovation and Improvement; 

Overview Information; Transition to 

Teaching Grant Program; Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.350A, 

84.350B, and 84.350. 

Dates: Applications Available: 

January 8, 2007. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

February 7, 2007. 

Pre-Application Meeting: A preapplication meeting for prospective 

applicants will be held in January 2007 

in Washington, DC. Further information 

on the date, time, and location will be 

made available through a notice 

published in the Federal Register and 

through the Transition to Teaching Web 

site at http://www.ed.gov/programs/ 

transitionteach. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 26, 2007. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 23, 2007. 

Eligible Applicants: A State 

educational agency (SEA); a high-need 

local educational agency (LEA); a forprofit or nonprofit organization that has 

a proven record of effectively recruiting 

and retaining highly qualified teachers, 

in a partnership with a high-need LEA 

or an SEA; an institution of higher 

education (IHE) in a partnership with a 

high-need LEA or an SEA; a regional 

consortium of SEAs; or a consortium of 

high-need LEAs. For further information 

on whether an LEA qualifies as a ‘‘highneed LEA,’’ see section III. 1. Eligible 

Applicants in this notice. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested 

$44,484,000 for this program for FY 

2007, of which we intend to use an 

estimated $19,000,000 for this 

competition. The actual level of 

funding, if any, depends on final 

Congressional action. However, we are 

inviting applications to allow enough 

time to complete the grant process if 

Congress appropriates funds for this 

program. 

The Department has established 

separate funding categories for projects 

of different scope. These categories are: 

(1) National/regional projects 

(84.350C) that serve eligible high-need 

LEAs in more than one State; 


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