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history of applicants. The DD Forms 

2807–1 and 2807–2 are the method of 

collecting and verifying medical data on 

applicants applying for entrance, as well 

as for service members for medical 

evaluation purposes. 

Dated: May 29, 2018. 

Shelly E. Finke, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2018–11887 Filed 6–4–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Federal Commission on School Safety; 

Listening Sessions 

AGENCY: Office of the Deputy Secretary, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notification of listening session. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) is hosting listening 

sessions to gather information from the 

public on how schools, districts, 

institutions of higher education, and 

other local and State government 

agencies can improve school safety. In 

this notice, we announce the details of 

a listening session on June 6, 2018, at 

which interested parties may provide 

input. 

DATES: The listening sessions will be 

held from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., local 

time on June 6, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Monica Bates, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, 

Information Resource Center, 

Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: 

800–USA–LEARN. Email: safety@

ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

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

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 

12, 2018, in the wake of the shooting at 

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 

in Parkland, Florida, President Donald 

Trump announced his intent to 

establish a Federal Commission on 

School Safety (Commission). The 

Commission has been charged with 

quickly providing meaningful and 

actionable recommendations and best 

practices to keep students safe at school. 

The Commission is comprised of 

department heads whose agencies have 

jurisdiction over key school safety 

issues: Secretary of Education Betsy 

DeVos (Commission Chair), Attorney 

General Jeff Sessions, Secretary of 

Health and Human Services Alex Azar 

II, and Secretary of Homeland Security 

Kirstjen Nielsen. 

The members of the Commission are 

gathering information from students, 

parents, teachers, school safety 

personnel, administrators, law 

enforcement officials, mental health 

professionals, school counselors, 

security professionals, and others. 

On March 28, 2018, the Commission 

held an organizational meeting to begin 

planning its work, and decided to host 

a series of meetings, site visits, and 

listening sessions over the next several 

months. Formal Commission meetings 

will provide a forum for presentations 

from subject matter experts, individuals 

affected by school violence, and other 

key stakeholders. Field visits will 

involve travel to schools and other sites 

to observe and learn first-hand about 

current best practices in school safety. 

Listening sessions will occur in several 

regions of the country and provide an 

opportunity for the general public to be 

heard and provide recommendations to 

the Commission. 

Commission Chair Betsy DeVos 

hosted a meeting and discussion on May 

17, 2018, to learn from survivors and 

family members affected by the mass 

shootings at Columbine High School, 

Virginia Tech University, Sandy Hook 

Elementary School, and Marjory 

Stoneman Douglas High School, in 

addition to authors of official reports 

following incidents of school violence. 

The first field visit occurred on May 

31, 2018, at Frank Hebron-Harman 

Elementary School in Hanover, MD. 

Commission members and their 

representatives heard from 

administrators, principals, teachers, 

students, and a national expert about 

Positive Behavioral Interventions and 

Supports (PBIS), a framework designed 

to improve social, emotional, and 

academic outcomes for all students. 

Generally, as the Commission gathers 

information, it will focus on different 

aspects of school safety, including the 

prevention of school violence, the 

protection of students and teachers, and 

the mitigation of threats of school 

violence. 

The information received will inform 

the Commission’s recommendations and 

best practices final report. Further 

information on meetings, site visits, and 

listening sessions will be posted on the 

Commission’s website which will be 

hosted on the Department’s website. 

This notice provides information about 

the first of four listening sessions. 

Listening Sessions 

The Commission will hold four 

listening sessions. The first will take 

place on June 6, 2018, at the Lyndon 

Baines Johnson Building (U.S. 

Department of Education Headquarters), 

Barnard Auditorium, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20202. 

The other three listening sessions will 

be held in other regions of the country, 

with dates and locations to be 

determined. See www.ed.gov for further 

details. 

The listening sessions will be held 

from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., local time. 

Individuals who would like to either 

speak or listen/observe at the listening 

sessions must register at the following 

link: http://www.cvent.com/d/qgqw2w/ 

4W. If you need reasonable 

accommodations, you will be able to 

identify those when registering. 

Speakers will be assigned slots within 

two blocks of time: Morning session 

(9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.) and Afternoon 

session (1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.). We will 

attempt to accommodate each speaker’s 

preference, but, if we are unable to do 

so, we will make the determination on 

a first-come, first-served basis, based on 

the time and date the registration was 

received. At least 24 hours prior to the 

meeting, we will notify you by email of 

your scheduled speaking session and 

the required time of arrival. Each 

speaker will be limited to five minutes. 

An individual may make no more than 

one presentation at the listening session. 

If we receive more registrations than we 

are able to accommodate, the 

Commission reserves the right to 

rescind the registration of an entity or 

individual that is affiliated with an 

entity or individual that is already 

scheduled to speak, and to select among 

registrants to ensure that a broad range 

of entities and individuals presents 

comments. The Commission will accept 

walk-in registrations for speaking or 

listening/observing on a first-come, firstserved basis, starting at 9:45 a.m. for the 

morning session and 1:45 p.m. for the 

afternoon session until capacity is 

reached. Those who have pre-registered 

will be given priority over a walk-in 

registration. For those who would like 

to submit written comments, please 

submit them to safety@ed.gov. You may 

also submit them in person at the 

Department’s on-site registration table. 

Please limit comments to 50 pages. 

The Commission will post transcripts 

of the listening sessions to www.ed.gov. 

The Commission will live-stream the 

listening session on June 6, 2018 at the 

following link: https://edstream.ed.gov/ 

webcast/Play/522e37827d7

a4f69a3126f428ba7bba81d. 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document in 

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

print, audiotape, or compact disc) or 

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contacting the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations via the 

Federal Digital System at: www.gpo.gov/ 

fdsys. At this site you can view this 

document, as well as all other 

documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. You may also 

access documents of the Department 

published in the Federal Register by 

using the article search feature at: 

www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, 

through the advanced search feature at 

this site, you can limit your search to 

documents published by the 

Department. 

Dated: June 1, 2018. 

Mitchell Zais, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12171 Filed 6–4–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Expanding Opportunity Through 

Quality Charter Schools Program 

(CSP)—National Dissemination Grants 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

is issuing a notice inviting applications 

for fiscal year (FY) 2018 for CSP— 

National Dissemination Grants, Catalog 

of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 

number 84.282T. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: June 5, 2018. 

Date of Pre-Application Webinar: 

Thursday, June 7, 2018, 1:00 p.m., 

Washington, DC time. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 9, 2018. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 4, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for 

obtaining and submitting an 

application, please refer to our Common 

Instructions for Applicants to 

Department of Education Discretionary 

Grant Programs, published in the 

Federal Register on February 12, 2018 

(83 FR 6003) and available at 

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

pdf/2018-02558.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Hans Neseth, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 4W224, Washington, DC 20202– 

5970. Telephone: (202) 401–4125. 

Email: hans.neseth@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

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

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The major 

purposes of the CSP are to expand 

opportunities for all students, 

particularly traditionally underserved 

students, to attend public charter 

schools (as defined in this notice) and 

meet challenging State academic 

standards; provide financial assistance 

for the planning, program design, and 

initial implementation of charter 

schools; increase the number of highquality charter schools (as defined in 

this notice) available to students across 

the United States; evaluate the impact of 

charter schools on student achievement, 

families, and communities; share best 

practices between charter schools and 

other public schools; encourage States 

to provide facilities support to charter 

schools; and support efforts to 

strengthen the charter school 

authorizing process. Through CSP 

National Dissemination Grants (CFDA 

number 84.282T), the Department 

provides funds on a competitive basis to 

support efforts by eligible entities to 

support the charter school sector and 

increase the number of high-quality 

charter schools available to our Nation’s 

students by disseminating best practices 

regarding charter schools. 

Background: This notice invites 

applications from eligible applicants to 

disseminate best practices regarding 

charter schools consistent with the 

authority in section 4305(a)(3)(B) of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education of 

1965, as amended by the Every Student 

Succeeds Act (ESEA). This notice 

contains a priority, definitions, and 

selection criteria from the ESEA and 

Department regulations, as well as 

priorities and application requirements 

that we are establishing in accordance 

with section 437(d)(1) of the General 

Education Provisions Act (GEPA), 20 

U.S.C. 1232(d)(1). 

The priorities included in this notice 

are consistent with the statutory 

purposes of the CSP and are intended to 

ensure that projects funded under CSP 

National Dissemination Grants address 

key national policy issues. 

Specifically, the priorities require 

eligible applicants to propose to 

disseminate best practices for 

strengthening charter school authorizing 

and oversight or for improving charter 

school access to facilities and facility 

financing, and target funds on projects 

designed to help increase educational 

choice (as defined in this notice) for 

students with disabilities (as defined in 

this notice), English learners (as defined 

in this notice), and other traditionally 

underserved student groups. We 

encourage applicants to propose 

projects that enhance collaboration 

among charter schools, traditional 

public schools, and other stakeholders. 

Priorities: This notice includes two 

absolute priorities and two competitive 

preference priorities—one that is within 

Absolute Priority 1 and one that applies 

to both Absolute Priority 1 and Absolute 

Priority 2. We are establishing the two 

absolute priorities and the competitive 

preference priority within Absolute 

Priority 1 for the FY 2018 grant 

competition and any subsequent year in 

which we make awards from the list of 

unfunded applications from this 

competition, in accordance with section 

437(d)(1) of GEPA, 20 U.S.C. 1232(d)(1). 

The competitive preference priority 

applicable to both Absolute Priority 1 

and Absolute Priority 2 is from the 

Department’s notice of final 

supplemental priorities and definitions 

for discretionary grant programs, 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 2, 2018 (83 FR 9096) 

(Supplemental Priorities). 

Absolute Priorities: These priorities 

are absolute priorities. Under 34 CFR 

75.105(c)(3), we consider only 

applications that meet one of these 

priorities. An application must clearly 

identify the specific absolute priority 

that the proposed project addresses. An 

application must address either 

Absolute Priority 1 or Absolute Priority 

2, but not both, in order to be 

considered for funding. 

These priorities are: 

Absolute Priority 1—Strengthening 

Charter School Authorizing and 

Oversight 

Background 

One of the primary statutory purposes 

of the CSP is to support efforts to 

strengthen the charter school 

authorizing process to improve 

performance management, including 

transparency, oversight and monitoring 

(including financial audits) and 

evaluation of charter schools. In 

addition, the CSP State Entities program 

has a strong focus on authorizing, 

including a requirement that grantees 


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