6520 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 27 / Wednesday, February 9, 2000 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 206A]

Office of Educational Research and

Improvement, Jacob K. Javits Gifted

and Talented Students Education

Program; Notice Inviting Applications

for New Awards for Fiscal Years 2000

and 2001

Purpose of Program: To provide

grants to help build a nationwide

capability in elementary and secondary

schools to identify and meet the special

educational needs of gifted and talented

students; to encourage the development

of rich and challenging curricula for all

students; and to supplement and make

more effective the expenditures of State

and local funds for the education of

gifted and talented students.

For fiscal years (FY) 2000 and 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: State educational

agencies; local educational agencies;

institutions of higher education; and

other public and private agencies and

organizations, including Indian tribes

and organizations—as defined by the

Indian Self-Determination and

Education Assistance Act—and Native

Hawaiian organizations.

Applications Available: March 13,

2000.

Deadline for Receipt of Applications:

April 24, 2000.

Note: We must receive all applications on

or before this date. This requirement takes

exception to the Education Department

General Administrative Regulations

(EDGAR), 34 CFR 75.102. Under the

Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C.) 553),

the Department generally offers interested

parties the opportunity to comment on

proposed regulations. However, this

exception to EDGAR makes procedural

changes only and does not establish new

substantive policy. Therefore, under 5 U.S.C.

553(b)(A), the Assistant Secretary for

Educational Research and Improvement has

determined that proposed rulemaking is not

required.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: June 23, 2000.

Estimated Available Funds:

$1,000,000.

Estimated Range of Awards:

$100,000–$215,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$166,000.

Maximum Award: We will reject any

application that proposes a budget

exceeding $215,000 for a single budget

period of 12 months.

Estimated Number of Awards: 6.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: 36 months. Please note

that all applicants for multi-year awards

are required to provide detailed budget

information for the total project period

requested. The Department will

negotiate at the time of the initial award

the funding levels for each year of the

grant award.

Page Limit: The application narrative

is where you, the applicant, address the

selection criteria reviewers use to

evaluate your application. You must

limit the 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 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 the

cover sheet, the budget section,

including the narrative budget

justification, the assurances and

certifications; the one page abstract, the

resumes, the bibliography, or the letters

of support. However, you must include

all of the application narrative in one

section.

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, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82,

85, and 86; and (b) The regulations in

34 CFR parts 299 and 700.

Supplementary Information: It is the

Department’s intent to fund two cycles

of awards from this competition. The

first cycle of awards will be made from

FY 2000 funds. If applications of high

quality remain unfunded, additional

awards will be made in the second cycle

in 2001, pending availability of FY 2001

funds.

Priorities: This competition focuses

on projects designed to meet the

priorities in the notice of final priorities

for this program, published in the

Federal Register on April 24, 1996 (61

FR 18214) and repeated in this notice.

Absolute Priority—Model Programs

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we

consider only applications that meet

this absolute priority.

Projects that establish and operate

model programs to serve gifted and

talented students in schools in which at

least 50 percent of the students enrolled

are from low-income families. Projects

must include students who may not be

served by traditional gifted and talented

programs, including economically

disadvantaged students, limited English

proficient students, and students with

disabilities. The projects must

incorporate high-level content and

performance standards in one or more of

the core subject areas as well as utilize

innovative teaching strategies.

The projects must provide

comprehensive ongoing professional

development opportunities for staff. The

projects must incorporate training for

parents in ways to support their

children’s educational progress. There

must also be comprehensive evaluation

of the projects’ activities.

Competitive Preference Priority—

Empowerment Zone or Enterprise

Community

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we give

preference and award five (5) points to

an application that meets this

competitive priority.

Projects that implement model

programs in one or more schools in an

Empowerment Zone or Enterprise

Community or that primarily serve

students who reside in the EZ or EC.

Applicants must ensure that the

proposed program relates to the strategic

plan and will be an integral part of the

Empowerment Zone or Enterprise

Community program.

For Applications and Further

Information Contact: Kelley Berry or Liz

Barnes, U.S. Department of Education,

555 New Jersey Avenue, NW., room 502,

Washington, DC 20208–5645. Facsimile

machine: (202) 219–2053. Telephone:

(202) 219–2096 or (202) 219–2210,

respectively. 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 either of the program contact

persons listed under For Applications

and Further Information Contact.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format by contacting

either person. 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. 8031–8036.

Dated: February 4, 2000.

C. Kent McGuire,

Assistant Secretary for Educational Research

and Improvement.

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