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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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(2) Statewide projects (84.350B) that 

serve eligible high-need LEAs statewide 

or eligible high-need LEAs in more than 

one area of a State; and 

(3) Local projects (84.350A) that serve 

one eligible high-need LEA or two or 

more eligible high-need LEAs in a single 

area of a State. 

Estimated Range of Awards: National/ 

regional projects—$350,000–$750,000 

per year; Statewide projects—$250,000–

$650,000 per year; and Local projects—

$150,000–$450,000 per year. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

National/regional projects—$600,000 

per year; Statewide projects—$375,000 

per year; and Local projects—$225,000 

per year. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 

National/regional projects—5; Statewide 

projects—20; and Local projects—40. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Transition to 

Teaching program encourages (1) the 

development and expansion of 

alternative routes to full State teacher 

certification, as well as (2) the 

recruitment and retention of highly 

qualified mid-career professionals, 

recent college graduates who have not 

majored in education, and highly 

qualified paraprofessionals as teachers 

in high-need schools operated by highneed LEAs, including charter schools 

that operate as high-need LEAs. 

Priorities: The Department has 

established two competitive preference 

priorities that are explained in the 

following paragraphs. In accordance 

with 34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(iv), 

Competitive Preference Priority 1 is 

from section 2313(c) of the Elementary 

and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 

as amended (ESEA) (20 U.S.C. 6683(c)). 

Competitive Preference Priority 2 is 

from the notice of final priorities and 

requirements for this program, 

published in the Federal Register on 

April 30, 2004 (69 FR 24002) (NFP). 

Competitive Preference Priorities: For 

FY 2007, these priorities are competitive 

preference priorities. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(2)(i), we award an additional 

5 points to an application that meets 

Competitive Preference Priority 1, and 

up to an additional 10 points to an 

application, depending on how well the 

application meets Competitive 

Preference Priority 2. These points are 

in addition to any points the application 

earns under the program’s selection 

criteria. 

The priorities are: 

Competitive Preference Priority 1—

Partnerships or Consortia that Include a 

High-need LEA or a High-need SEA. 

This priority supports projects that are 

designed and implemented in active 

partnerships or consortia that include at 

least one high-need LEA or high-need 

SEA. 

Competitive Preference Priority 2—

District Projects to Streamline Teacher 

Hiring Systems, Timelines, and 

Processes. This priority supports 

projects by one or more high-need LEAs 

to streamline their hiring systems, 

timelines, and processes. The project 

period is up to five years. A 

participating high-need LEA will need 

to conduct both of the following 

activities: 

(a) Examine its current hiring system, 

processes, and policies to identify the 

critical barriers to hiring highly 

qualified teachers. The lack of highly 

qualified teachers in most urban and 

rural LEAs has often been attributed to 

their difficulty in recruiting interested 

and qualified individuals. However, 

recent research indicates that the 

problem may not be one of recruitment 

but may stem from inefficient and 

untimely LEA hiring systems and 

processes. This is especially true in 

high-poverty LEAs and schools—the 

very LEAs and schools the Transition to 

Teaching program is targeted to serve. 

Accordingly, each participating LEA 

will need to examine its current hiring 

processes and policies and, based upon 

that examination, identify the critical 

barriers to hiring highly qualified 

teachers. 

(b) Design and implement efforts to 

remove the identified barriers and put 

in place systems that streamline and 

revamp the hiring process. In 

conducting this activity, LEAs are 

encouraged to create an efficient and 

timely applicant hiring process with a 

strong data tracking system and clear 

hiring goals. These efforts also should 

involve negotiating policy reforms that 

remove critical barriers, such as delayed 

notification of vacancies and seniority 

and retirement rules. 

Participating LEAs also will carry out 

the requirements of the Transition to 

Teaching program by recruiting 

nontraditional candidates, using the 

streamlined hiring system to hire these 

individuals for teaching in high-need 

schools, working with them to achieve 

full State certification, and retaining 

them for at least three years. 

Note: Applicants that choose to respond to 

Competitive Preference Priority 2 may do so 

however they choose. Those that respond to 

this priority may want to consider addressing 

such key factors as: (1) The existing barriers 

to early notification and hiring of new 

teachers; (2) the active engagement of LEA 

officials, teacher unions, and other 

stakeholders in developing a plan to remove 

existing barriers and implementing changes; 

(3) the actions each participating LEA 

intends to undertake to implement policies 

and systems for early notification and hiring 

of new teachers; and (4) a timeline for major 

action steps that each participating LEA 

intends to implement to develop the new 

hiring policies and systems. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6681–6684. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 

84, 85, 86, 97, 98 and 99. (b) The notice 

of final priorities and requirements for 

this program published in the Federal 

Register on April 30, 2004 (69 FR 

24002) (NFP). 

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 IHEs only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

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; 

(2) Statewide projects (84.350B) that 

serve eligible high-need LEAs statewide 

or eligible high-need LEAs in more than 

one area of a State; and 

(3) Local projects (84.350A) that serve 

one eligible high-need LEA or two or 

more eligible high-need LEAs in a single 

area of a State. 

Estimated Range of Awards: National/ 

regional projects—$350,000–$750,000 

per year; Statewide projects—$250,000–

$650,000 per year; and Local projects—

$150,000–$450,000 per year. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

National/regional projects—$600,000 

per year; Statewide projects—$375,000 

per year; and Local projects—$225,000 

per year. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 

National/regional projects—5; Statewide 

projects—20; and Local projects—40. 


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Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 60 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: An SEA; a 

high-need LEA; a for-profit 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 IHE in a partnership with a 

high-need LEA or an SEA; a regional 

consortium of SEAs; or a consortium of 

high-need LEAs. Each application must 

identify participating LEAs that meet 

the definition of ‘‘high-need LEA’’ in 

section 2102(3) of the ESEA. 

Note: Section 2102(3) of the ESEA defines 

a high-need LEA as an LEA—

(a) That serves not fewer than 10,000 

children from families with incomes below 

the poverty line (as that term is defined in 

section 9101(33) of the ESEA), or for which 

not less than 20 percent of the children 

served by the LEA are from families with 

incomes below the poverty line; and 

(b) For which there is (1) a high percentage 

of teachers not teaching in the academic 

subjects or grade levels that the teachers were 

trained to teach, or (2) a high percentage of 

teachers with emergency, provisional, or 

temporary certification or licensing. 

The NFP describes how applicants 

must demonstrate that a participating 

LEA meets this statutory definition of 

‘‘high-need LEA.’’ (69 FR 24002, 24006) 

Pursuant to the NFP, we provide the 

following supplementary information 

regarding the data an applicant uses to 

demonstrate eligibility as a ‘‘high-need 

LEA’’ under this competition: 

As described in the NFP, absent a 

showing of alternative LEA data that 

reliably show the number of children 

from families with incomes below the 

poverty line that are served by the LEA, 

the eligibility of an LEA as a ‘‘high-need 

LEA’’ under component (a) of the 

definition must be determined on the 

basis of the most recent U.S. Census 

Bureau data. The most recent U.S. 

Census Bureau data can be found in the 

charts on the Internet at: http:// 

www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/ 

downloads/sd04/. The Department 

examines the eligibility of any LEA not 

listed on these charts on a case-by-case 

basis. 

As discussed in the NFP, with respect 

to component (b)(1) of the definition of 

‘‘high-need LEA,’’ whether an LEA has 

a ‘‘high percentage of teachers not 

teaching in the academic subjects or 

grade levels that the teachers were 

trained to teach’’ is determined on a 

case-by-case basis. 

In addition, as noted in the NFP, with 

respect to component (b)(2) of the 

definition of ‘‘high-need LEA,’’ an LEA 

has a ‘‘high percentage’’ of teachers with 

emergency, provisional, or temporary 

certification or licensing if the 

percentage of teachers on waivers, as the 

LEA reported to the State for purposes 

of the State’s latest report to the 

Secretary under section 207 of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), 

was at least the national average 

percentage of teachers on waivers of 

State certification for all LEAs. As 

outlined in the NFP, the Secretary 

determines the national average 

percentage of teachers on waivers based 

on data contained in the most currently 

available HEA section 207 State reports. 

At the time of publication of this notice, 

the Department has received all 2006 

State HEA section 207 reports and those 

reports reflect a national percentage of 

teachers on waivers of State certification 

in all LEAs of 1.8 percent. 

Because the Department is in the 

process of certifying all data received in 

the 2006 State HEA section 207 reports, 

the data in these reports, including the 

national average of teachers on waivers 

of State certification, are still 

provisional. However, to provide 

adequate time for the preparation and 

review of project applications and 

award of new grants before FY 2007 

program funds lapse on September 30, 

2007, the Department will use the 1.8 

percent national average for purposes of 

this competition. Accordingly, an LEA 

will be considered to have met 

component (b)(2) of the definition if the 

data that it provided to the State for 

purposes of the State’s October 2006 

HEA section 207 report demonstrate 

that at least 1.8 percent of its teachers 

were on waivers of State certification 

requirements. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not involve cost sharing 

or matching but does involve 

supplement-not-supplant funding 

provisions. In accordance with section 

2313(h)(2) of the ESEA, funds made 

available under this section shall be 

used to supplement, and not supplant, 

State and local public funds expended 

for teacher recruitment and retention 

programs, including programs to recruit 

teachers through alternative routes to 

certification. 

3. Other: The NFP describes eligibility 

restrictions for individuals participating 

in this program. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. 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 

84.350A, 84.350B, or 84.350C. 

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 the program 

contact person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT 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 for this 

competition. Additional information 

concerning application content 

requirements is in the NFP. 

Notice of Intent to Apply: February 7, 

2007. 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 

entities that intend to apply for funding 

under this competition. Therefore, the 

Secretary strongly encourages each 

potential applicant to notify the 

Department by sending a short e-mail 

message 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. The 

Secretary requests that this e-mail 

notification be sent to Thelma 

Leenhouts at: 

transitiontoteaching@ed.gov. 

Applicants that fail to 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 must limit 

Part III to the equivalent of no more than 

50 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, except titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

references, and captions, as well as all 

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• Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger or no smaller than 10 pitch 

(characters per inch). 

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 Transition to Teaching Web 

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

transitionteach. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 26, 2007. 

Applications for grants under this 

program competition 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 23, 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 and in 

the NFP. 

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 Transition to Teaching 

Competition—CFDA Number 84.350A, 

84.350B, and 84.350C 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 Transition to Teaching 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 84.350, not 

84.350A). 

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 

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Construction Programs (ED 524), and all 

necessary assurances and certifications. 

Please note that two of these forms—the 

SF 424 and the Department of Education 

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: Thelma Leenhouts, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 4W302, 

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 Numbers: 84.350A, 84.350B, or 

84.350C), 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20202–4260; or 

By mail through a commercial carrier: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Stop 4260, 

Attention: (CFDA Numbers: 84.350A, 

84.350B, or 84.350C), 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 Numbers: 84.350A, 84.350B, or 

84.350C), 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 

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(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 

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 

statute for this program and § 75.210 of 

EDGAR and are listed in this section. 

The maximum score for all the selection 

criteria is 100 points. The maximum 

score for each criterion is indicated in 

parentheses. Each criterion also 

includes the factors that the reviewers 

will consider in determining how well 

an application meets the criterion. In 

addressing each criterion, applicants are 

encouraged to make explicit 

connections to relevant aspects of 

responses to other selection criteria. 

The Notes we have included after 

each criterion are guidance to assist 

applicants in understanding the 

criterion as they prepare their 

applications and are not required by 

statute or regulation. 

A. Significance of the Project (20 

points). The Secretary considers the 

significance of the proposed project. In 

determining the significance of the 

proposed project, the Secretary 

considers the following factors: 

(1) The significance of the problem or 

issue to be addressed by the proposed 

project. 

(2) The likelihood that the proposed 

project will result in system change or 

improvement. 

(3) The extent to which the proposed 

project involves the development or 

demonstration of promising new 

strategies that build on, or are 

alternatives to, existing strategies. 

(4) The extent to which the proposed 

project is likely to build local capacity 

to provide, improve, or expand services 

that address the needs of the target 

population. 

Note: The Secretary encourages applicants 

to address this criterion by identifying 

specific gaps and weaknesses in the services 

and infrastructure currently in place for the 

recruitment, selection, preparation, 

placement, and retention of teachers and by 

stating how the proposed project will address 

these gaps and weaknesses. The Secretary 

encourages applicants to identify (1) current 

barriers that the high-need LEAs to be served 

by the project face in meeting their teacher 

recruitment needs, including, if relevant, 

barriers caused by existing State certification 

or licensure requirements, (2) why these 

barriers exist, and (3) how the project would 

significantly help those LEAs overcome these 

barriers. 

Applicants are also encouraged to 

address this criterion by connecting the 

project design to the needs of the 

partner districts and identifying the 

specific teacher-shortage areas faced by 

the participating high-need LEAs on 

which their proposed projects would 

focus. These may include such highneed subject areas as mathematics, 

science, special education, and English 

as a second language, and particular 

grade levels, including middle and high 

schools. Applicants should understand 

that a project’s strategy for helping 

participating high-need LEAs to identify 

and hire highly qualified individuals to 

fill teaching positions in high-need 

subjects may rely on existing alternative 

routes to certification, the expansion of 

alternative routes to certification into 

new areas, or the creation of wholly new 

alternative routes. 

B. Quality of the Project Design (30 

points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the project design for the 

proposed project by considering how 

well the applicant describes a plan—

(1) To develop a program to recruit 

and retain highly qualified mid-career 

professionals (including highly 

qualified paraprofessionals) and recent 

graduates of an IHE as teachers in highneed schools operated by high-need 

LEAs; and 

(2) To enable individuals to become 

eligible for teacher certification under 

State-approved alternative routes to 

certification programs within a reduced 

period of time, relying on such factors 

as experience, expertise, and academic 

qualifications in lieu of traditional 

course-work in education. 

In considering the quality of the 

project design and the applicant’s plan, 

the Secretary considers the following 

factors: 

(a) The extent to which the goals, 

objectives, and outcomes to be achieved 

by the proposed project are clearly 

specified and measurable. 

(b) The extent to which the design of 

the proposed project reflects up-to-date 

knowledge from research and effective 

practice. 

(c) The extent to which the design of 

the proposed project is appropriate to, 

and will successfully address, the needs 

of the target population or other 

identified needs. 

(d) The extent to which the proposed 

project is designed to build capacity and 

yield results that will extend beyond the 

period of Federal financial assistance. 

Note: The Secretary encourages applicants 

to address this criterion by discussing the 

overall project model and its key 

components, and the degree to which the 

model’s key components are based on sound 

research and practice, as well as the extent 

to which the proposed services address the 

identified needs of the participating highneed LEAs. Applicants may want to address 

such key components of project design as: 

(1) Recruitment and selection, including 

identifying the target group(s) on which the 

program will focus and why and how the 

program is designed to rigorously select 

participants with the requisite content 

knowledge, skills, and commitment to teach 

in high-need LEAs and schools. 

(2) Training and preparation, including 

how the project provides a route to 

certification that is accelerated, integrates 

coursework and field experience, and is 

adapted to participants’ learning needs. 

(3) Support services, including mentoring, 

that are designed to retain participants and 

meet their needs in terms of length, content, 

and means of delivery in order to be 

successful in high-needs schools and LEAs. 

(4) Teacher placement, including evidence 

that the proposed project will meet the needs 

of high-need LEAs and is developed in 

coordination with appropriate partners, and 

that the project includes a system of tracking 

to meet statutory requirements. 

(5) Certification, including consideration of 

how the timeline for achieving certification 

will meet the needs of participants, LEAs, 

and partners, as well as the ‘‘Highly 

Qualified Teacher’’ requirements established 

in section 9101(23) of the ESEA. 

In addition, applicants are encouraged 

to clarify the means by which the 

project’s specified outcomes and 

benefits may be sustained once Federal 

funding has ended. 

C. Quality of Project Services (20 

points). In determining the quality of 

the services to be provided by the 

proposed project, the Secretary 

considers the following factors: 

(1) The extent to which the services 

to be provided by the proposed project 

are appropriate to the needs of the 

intended recipients or beneficiaries of 

those services. 

(2) The extent to which the training or 

professional development services to be 

provided by the proposed project are of 

sufficient quality, intensity, and 

duration to lead to improvements in 

practice among the recipients of those 

services. 

(3) The extent to which the training or 

professional development services to be 

provided by the proposed project are 

likely to alleviate the personnel 

shortages that have been identified or 

are the focus of the proposed project. 

(4) The extent to which the services 

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involve the collaboration of appropriate 

partners for maximizing the 

effectiveness of project services. 

Note: The Secretary encourages applicants 

to address this criterion by discussing how 

the proposed project services will meet the 

needs both of the high-need LEAs identified 

in the application and of the program 

participants they would recruit to become 

teachers. Applicants are encouraged to 

consult the list of authorized activities in 

section 2313(g) of the ESEA in describing the 

specific services to be delivered to recruit, 

prepare, and retain participants that will 

increase the number of highly qualified 

teachers in high-need schools in high-need 

LEAs. In addition, the Secretary encourages 

applicants to consider carefully the breadth 

of activities that section 2313(g) of the ESEA 

authorizes and then to address how the 

project will: 

(1) Provide training that meets the learning 

needs of the participants and makes use of 

appropriate media (such as face-to-face 

instruction, Web-based instruction, and 

distance learning) to provide them with the 

skills needed to be highly qualified and 

effective teachers in the identified high-need 

subject areas and high-need schools and 

LEAs. 

(2) Support project participants’ success in 

high-need schools and LEAs, during the 

period of their service obligation, through 

individual mentoring, support of participants 

as a group, use of technology, or other 

appropriate means. 

(3) Encourage the participation of all 

project partners, including school leaders, in 

providing services related to the recruitment, 

preparation, and retention of project 

participants and ensuring lasting benefits or 

outcomes. Applicants are encouraged to 

clarify the roles of partners in each phase of 

the project and the extent of coordination 

that will occur with similar efforts at the 

State and district levels. 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. 

D. Quality of the Management Plan (15 

points). In determining the quality of the 

management plan for the proposed project, 

the Secretary considers 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. 

Note: Section 75.112 of EDGAR requires an 

applicant for a multi-year grant to include a 

narrative that describes how and when, in 

each budget period of the project, the 

applicant plans to meet each project 

objective. The Secretary encourages 

applicants to address this criterion by 

including in this narrative a clear, well 

thought-out implementation plan that 

includes annual timelines, key project 

milestones, and a schedule of activities with 

sufficient time for developing an adequate 

implementation plan, as well as timelines for 

providing program participants the support 

they need in their initial years as teachers. 

E. Quality of the Project Evaluation 

(15 points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the evaluation to be 

conducted of the proposed project. In 

determining the quality of the 

evaluation to be conducted, the 

Secretary considers the following 

factors: 

(1) 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. 

(2) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation will provide performance 

feedback and permit periodic 

assessment of progress toward achieving 

intended outcomes. 

Note: The Secretary encourages applicants 

to address this criterion by including 

benchmarks to monitor progress toward 

specific and measurable project objectives, as 

well as outcome measures to assess the 

impact on teaching and learning or other 

important outcomes for project participants. 

(The specific performance measures 

established for the overall Transition to 

Teaching program are discussed under 

Performance Measures in section VI of this 

notice. Section 2314 of the ESEA also 

requires grantees to submit both an interim 

evaluation of the first three years of the grant 

and a final evaluation at the end of the grant.) 

The Secretary also encourages 

applicants to identify the individual or 

organization that has agreed to serve as 

evaluator for the project and describe 

the qualifications of that evaluator. 

Finally, with respect to the 

implementation of the program and 

monitoring progress toward achieving 

project objectives, applicants are 

encouraged to describe the following: 

(1) What types of data will be collected; 

(2) when various types of data will be 

collected; (3) what methods will be 

used; (4) what instruments will be 

developed and when; (5) how the data 

will be analyzed; (6) when reports of 

results and outcomes will be available; 

and (7) how the applicant will use the 

information collected through the 

evaluation to monitor progress and 

improve implementation of the funded 

project and to provide accountability 

information about project success. 

Applicants are encouraged to design an 

evaluation that provides data for annual 

as well as midpoint and final reporting. 

Applicants are encouraged to devote an 

appropriate level of resources to project 

evaluation. 

2. Review and Selection Process: 

Additional information concerning our 

review and selection of grant 

applications in this competition are 

contained in the NFP. 

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. 

3. Reporting: The Secretary requires 

successful applicants to submit annual 

performance reports and, after the last 

year of the project, a final report. The 

annual performance report documents 

the grantee’s yearly progress toward 

meeting expected programmatic and 

project specific outcomes. These 

outcomes must be based on measurable 

performance objectives including, but 

not limited to, the performance 

measures described in paragraph 4 of 

this section. These reports must 

evaluate—

(1) The grantee’s progress in meeting 

the application’s objectives; 

(2) The project’s effectiveness in 

meeting the purposes of the Transition 

to Teaching program; and 

(3) The project’s effect on the specific 

LEAs the project serves. 

Among other things, the Department 

uses the annual performance reports to 

determine whether a grantee has 

demonstrated substantial progress in 

meeting the goals and objectives (as 

described in its approved application), 

and thereby merits a continuation award 

(for years 2–5). See § 75.118 of EDGAR. 

Grantees also will be required to 

submit a final performance report, due 

no later than 90 days after the end of the 

project period. 

In addition, section 2314 of the ESEA 

requires grantees to submit to the 

Department and to the Congress interim 

and final evaluations at the end of the 

third and fifth years of the grant period, 

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describe the extent to which high-need 

LEAs that received funds through the 

grant have met their goals relating to 

teacher recruitment and retention as 

described in the project application. 

Additional requirements pertaining to 

these reports are in the NFP. 

For specific requirements on grantee 

reporting, please go to http://www/ed/ 

gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

Secretary has established one 

performance indicator for assessing the 

effectiveness of the Transition to 

Teaching program: the percentage of 

new, highly qualified Transition to 

Teaching teachers who teach in highneed schools in high-need LEAs for at 

least three years. We will track this 

indicator through the use of the 

following three performance measures. 

We will gather the data for these 

measures from the grantees. 

Measure One: The percentage of all 

Transition to Teaching participants who 

become teachers of record in high-need 

schools in high-need LEAs. For this 

measure we will collect data on the 

number of participants and the number 

of teachers of record in high-need 

schools in high-need LEAs. 

Measure Two: The percentage of 

Transition to Teaching participants 

receiving certification/licensure within 

three years. For this measure, we will 

collect data on the number of 

participants who become certified 

within three years. 

Measure Three: The percentage of 

Transition to Teaching teachers of 

record who teach in high-need schools 

in high-need LEAs for at least three 

years. For this measure, we will collect 

data on the number of participants who 

become teachers of record who have 

been teaching in high-need schools in 

high-need LEAs for at least three years. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

For Further Information Contact: 

Thelma Leenhouts or Anthony 

Sepulveda Taber, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 4W320, Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 260–0223 (Thelma 

Leenhouts) or (202) 260–0464 (Anthony 

Sepulveda). By e-mail: 

transitiontoteaching@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. E7–34 Filed 1–5–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[CFDA No. 84.031H] 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Strengthening Institutions (SIP), 

American Indian Tribally Controlled 

Colleges and Universities (TCCU), 

Alaska Native and Native HawaiianServing Institutions (ANNH) and 

Developing Hispanic-Serving 

Institutions (HSI) Programs Notice 

Inviting Applications for Designation 

as Eligible Institutions To Apply for 

New Awards Under Title III and Title V 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 

Purpose of Programs: Under the SIP, 

TCCU, and ANNH programs, (Title III, 

Part A programs) authorized under Part 

A of Title III of the Higher Education 

Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), 

institutions of higher education (IHEs or 

institutions) are eligible to apply for 

grants if they meet specific statutory and 

regulatory eligibility requirements. 

Similarly, IHEs are eligible to apply for 

grants under the HSI program, 

authorized under Title V of the HEA, if 

they meet specific statutory and 

regulatory requirements. In addition, an 

institution that is designated as an 

eligible institution under those 

programs may also receive a waiver of 

certain non-Federal cost-share 

requirements under the Federal 

Supplemental Educational Opportunity 

Grant (FSEOG), the Federal Work Study 

(FWS), the Student Support Services 

(SSS) and the Undergraduate 

International Studies and Foreign 

Language (UISFL) programs. The 

FSEOG, FWS, and SSS programs are 

authorized under Title IV of the HEA; 

the UISFL program is authorized under 

Title VI of the HEA. 

Qualified institutions may receive 

these waivers even if they are not 

recipients of grant funds under the Title 

III, Part A programs or the HSI program. 

Special Note: To qualify as an eligible 

institution under the Title III, Part A 

programs or the HSI program, your 

institution must satisfy several criteria, 

including one related to needy student 

enrollment and one related to average 

educational and general (E&G) expenditures 

for a particular base year. The most recent 

data available for E&G expenditures are for 

base year 2004–2005. In order to award FY 

2007 grants in a timely manner, we will use 

the most recent data available. Therefore, we 

use E&G expenditure threshold data from the 

base year 2004–2005. In completing your 

eligibility application, please use E&G 

expenditure data from the base year 2004–

2005. 

If you are designated as an eligible 

institution and you do not receive a new 

Title III or Title V award in FY 2007, 

your eligibility for the non-Federal costshare waiver under the FSEOG, the 

FWS, the SSS, and the UISFL programs 

is valid for five consecutive years. You 

will not need to reapply for eligibility 

until 2012, unless you wish to apply for 

a new Title III or Title V grant. All 

institutions (including those designated 

as TCCU and ANNH institutions) that 

are not designated as eligible 

institutions and are interested in 

applying for a FY 2007 new grant or 

requesting a waiver of the non-Federal 

cost share, must apply for eligibility 

designation in FY 2007. 

Eligible Applicants: To qualify as an 

eligible institution under the Title III, 

Part A programs or the HSI program, an 

accredited institution must, among 

other requirements, have an enrollment 

of needy students, and its average E&G 

expenditures per full-time equivalent 

(FTE) undergraduate student must be 

low in comparison with the average 

E&G expenditures per FTE 

undergraduate student of institutions 

that offer similar instruction. 

The complete eligibility requirements 

for the Title III, Part A programs are 

found in 34 CFR 607.2 through 607.5. 

These regulations may be accessed at 

the following Web site: http:// 

www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/ 

waisidx_02/34cfr607_02.html. 

The complete eligibility requirements 

for the HSI program are found in 34 CFR 

606.2 through 34 CFR 606.5. These 


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