67216 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 217 / Wednesday, November 8, 2000 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.902B]

National Assessment of Educational

Progress (NAEP)—Secondary Analysis

Program; Notice Inviting Applications

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY)

2001

Purpose of Program: To encourage the

preparation of reports that would not

otherwise be available and that apply

new approaches to the analysis and

reporting of the NAEP and NAEP High

School Transcript Studies data.

Analyses and reports prepared under

this program should potentially be

useful to the general public, parents,

educators, educational researchers, or

policy makers.

For FY 2001, the competition for new

awards focuses on projects designed to

meet the priorities we describe in the

PRIORITIES section of this application

notice.

Eligible Applicants: Public or private

organizations and consortia of

organizations.

Applications Available: November 9,

2000. The application package for this

competition is also available on-line at:

http://ed.gov/GrantApps/.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: January 10, 2001.

Estimated Available Funds: $700,000.

The estimated amount of funds

available for new awards is based on the

Administration’s request for this

program for FY 2001. 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

before the end of the fiscal year, if

Congress appropriates funds for this

program.

Estimated Range of Awards: $15,000–

$100,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$85,000.

Maximum Award: We will reject any

application that proposes a budget

exceeding $100,000 for a single budget

period of 18 months.

Estimated Number of Awards: 7–9.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 18 months.

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. You must limit Part III

to the equivalent of no more than 60

pages, using the following standards:

• A ‘‘page’’ is 8.5′′ x 11′′, on one side

only, with 1′′ margins at the top, bottom,

and both sides.

• You must 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 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, the bibliography, or the

letters of support. However, you must

include all of the application narrative

in Part III.

If, to meet the page limit, you use

more than one side of the page, you use

a larger page or you use a print size,

spacing, or margins smaller than the

standards in this notice, we will reject

your application.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR parts 74, 75 (except for those

provisions of part 75 noted in 34 CFR

700.5 (a)), 77, 80, 81, 82, 85, and 86; and

(b) The regulations in 34 CFR part 700.

Priorities

Invitational Priorities

We are particularly interested in

applications that meet one or more of

the following invitational priorities.

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not

give an application that meets one or

more of the priorities a competitive or

absolute preference over other

applications.

Invitational Priority 1

Projects that use NAEP achievement

data alone or in combination with other

data sets to assist policy makers and

educators who make decisions about

curriculum and instruction.

Invitational Priority 2

Projects designed to assist States in

analyzing, interpreting and reporting

their State-level NAEP results.

Invitational Priority 3

Projects that include the development

of analytic procedures that improve

precision with which NAEP estimates

group and subgroup performance.

Invitational Priority 4

Projects that develop improved

sampling procedures for national or

State-level NAEP.

Invitational Priority 5

Projects to analyze and report data

using statistical software developed by

the project to permit more advanced

analytic techniques to be readily

applied to NAEP data.

For Further Information or

Applications Contact: Alex Sedlacek,

U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K

Street, NW., room 8007, Washington,

DC 20006. Telephone: (202) 502–7446

or via Internet: alexlsedlacek@ed.gov.

If you use a telecommunications

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call

the Federal Information Relay Service

(FIRS) 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 person

listed under For Further Information or

Applications Contact.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format by contacting

the program person listed under For

Further Information or Applications

Contact. However, the Department is

not able to reproduce in an alternative

format the standard forms included in

the application package.

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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9010.

Dated: November 1, 2000.

C. Kent McGuire,

Assistant Secretary for Educational Research

and Improvement.

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