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Dated: February 5, 2015. 

Nadya Chinoy Dabby, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02710 Filed 2–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; Arts in 

Education National Program 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information: Arts in 

Education National Program (AENP). 

Notice inviting applications for new 

awards for fiscal year (FY) 2015. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.351F. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: February 10, 

2015. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to 

Apply: March 12, 2015. 

Date of Informational Webinar: The 

AENP intends to hold a Webinar 

designed to provide technical assistance 

to interested applicants. Detailed 

information regarding this Webinar will 

be provided on the AENP Web site at 

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/

artsnational/index.html. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 13, 2015. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 10, 2015. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The AENP 

supports national-level, high-quality 

Arts 1 education activities and services 

for children and youth, with special 

emphasis on serving Children from 

Low-income Families and Children with 

Disabilities. 

Priorities: This notice includes one 

absolute priority, two competitive 

preference priorities, and one 

invitational priority. The absolute 

priority is from the notice of final 

priority, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria for this program, 

published in the Federal Register on 

June 15, 2012 (77 FR 35953) (2012 NFP). 

The competitive preference priorities 

and invitational priority are from the 

notice of final supplemental priorities 

and definitions for discretionary grant 

programs, published in the Federal 

Register on December 10, 2014 (79 FR 

73425) (Supplemental Priorities). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2015 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Absolute Priority: Model Projects. 

One or more high-quality projects that 

are designed to develop and implement, 

or expand, initiatives in Arts education 

and Arts Integration on a national level 

for pre-kindergarten-through-grade-12 

children and youth, with special 

emphasis on serving Children from 

Low-income Families and Children with 

Disabilities. In order to meet this 

priority, an applicant must demonstrate 

that the project for which it seeks 

funding will provide services and 

develop initiatives in multiple schools 

and school districts throughout the 

country, including in at least one urban, 

at least one rural, and at least one Highneed Community. 

Competitive Preference Priorities: For 

FY 2015 and any subsequent year in 

which we make awards from the list of 

unfunded applicants from this 

competition, these priorities are 

competitive preference priorities. Under 

34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we award up to 

an additional five points to an 

application, depending on how well the 

application meets Competitive 

Preference Priority 1. We award up to an 

additional five points to an application 

that meets Competitive Preference 

Priority 2. The total number of points an 

application may receive for addressing 

the competitive preference priorities is 

10. 

These priorities are: 

Competitive Preference Priority 1: 

Supporting High-Need Students (0 to 5 

points). 

(a) Projects that are designed to 

improve: 

(i) Academic outcomes; 

(ii) Learning environments; or 

(iii) Both, 

(b) For one or more of the following 

groups of students: 

(i) High-need Students. 

(ii) Students served by Rural Local 

Educational Agencies. 

(iii) Students with disabilities. 

(iv) English learners. 

(v) Students in Lowest-performing 

Schools. 

(vi) Students who are living in 

poverty and are served by schools with 

high concentrations of students living in 

poverty. 

(vii) Disconnected Youth or migrant 

youth. 

(viii) Low-skilled Adults. 

(ix) Students who are members of 

federally recognized Indian tribes. 

Competitive Preference Priority 2: 

Promoting Science, Technology, 

Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) 

Education (0 to 5 points). 

Projects that are designed to improve 

Student Achievement or other related 

outcomes by addressing one or both of 

the following: 

(a) Increasing the preparation of 

teachers or other educators in STEM 

subjects through activities that may 

include building content knowledge and 

pedagogical content knowledge, and 

increasing the number and quality of 

Authentic STEM Experiences. 

(b) Providing students with increased 

access to rigorous and engaging STEM 

coursework and Authentic STEM 

Experiences that may be integrated 

across multiple settings. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2015 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an invitational priority. 

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

give an application that meets this 

invitational priority a competitive or 

absolute preference over other 

applications. 

This priority is: 

Invitational Priority: Improving 

Parent, Family, and Community 

Engagement. 

Projects that are designed to improve 

student outcomes through 

implementing initiatives that improve 

Community Engagement or the 

relationships between parents or 


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families and school or program staff by 

cultivating Sustained Partnerships. 

Definitions: 

The definitions for the terms ‘‘Arts,’’ 

‘‘Arts Educator,’’ ‘‘Arts Integration,’’ 

‘‘Child from Low-income Family,’’ 

‘‘Children with Disabilities,’’ ‘‘Highneed Community,’’ and ‘‘National Nonprofit Arts Education Organization’’ are 

from the 2012 NFP. The definitions for 

the terms ‘‘Evidence of Promise,’’ ‘‘Logic 

Model,’’ ‘‘Quasi-experimental Design 

Study,’’ ‘‘Randomized Controlled Trial,’’ 

‘‘Relevant Outcome,’’ and ‘‘Strong 

Theory’’ are from 34 CFR 77.1(c). The 

definition for the term ‘‘Sustained and 

Intensive’’ is specific to the AENP’s 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA) measure only. All other 

definitions are from the Supplemental 

Priorities. 

Arts means music, dance, theater, 

media arts, and visual arts, including 

folk arts. 

Arts educator means a teacher or 

other instructional staffer who works in 

music, dance, theater, media arts, or 

visual arts, including folk arts. 

Arts integration means (i) using highquality arts instruction within other 

academic content areas, and (ii) 

strengthening the arts as a core 

academic subject in the school 

curriculum. 

Authentic STEM experiences means 

laboratory, research-based, or 

experiential learning opportunities in a 

STEM (science, technology, engineering, 

and mathematics) subject in informal or 

formal settings. 

Child from low-income family means 

a child who is determined by a State 

educational agency or local educational 

agency (LEA) to be a child, in prekindergarten through grade 12, from a 

low-income family, on the basis of (a) 

the child’s eligibility for free or reducedprice lunches under the Richard B. 

Russell National School Lunch Act, (b) 

the child’s eligibility for medical 

assistance under the Medicaid program 

under title XIX of the Social Security 

Act, (c) the family having an income 

that meets the poverty criteria 

established by the U.S Department of 

Commerce, or (d) the family’s receipt of 

assistance under part A of title IV of the 

Social Security Act. 

Children with disabilities means 

children who meet the definition of 

‘‘individual with a disability’’ 

applicable to Section 504 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 

which definition is set out at 29 U.S.C. 

705(20)(B). 

Community engagement means the 

systematic inclusion of community 

organizations as partners with State 

educational agencies, LEAs, or other 

educational institutions, or their school 

or program staff to accomplish activities 

that may include developing a shared 

community vision, establishing a shared 

accountability agreement, participating 

in shared data-collection and analysis, 

or establishing community networks 

that are focused on shared communitylevel outcomes. These organizations 

may include faith- and communitybased organizations, institutions of 

higher education (including minorityserving institutions eligible to receive 

aid under title III or title V of the Higher 

Education Act of 1965 (HEA)), 

businesses and industries, labor 

organizations, State and local 

government entities, or Federal entities 

other than the Department. 

Disconnected youth means lowincome individuals, ages 14–24, who 

are homeless, are in foster care, are 

involved in the justice system, or are not 

working or not enrolled in (or at risk of 

dropping out of) an educational 

institution. 

Evidence of promise means there is 

empirical evidence to support the 

theoretical linkage(s) between at least 

one critical component and at least one 

relevant outcome presented in the logic 

model for the proposed process, 

product, strategy, or practice. 

Specifically, evidence of promise means 

the conditions in both paragraphs (i) 

and (ii) of this definition are met: 

(i) There is at least one study that is 

a— 

(A) Correlational study with statistical 

controls for selection bias; 

(B) Quasi-experimental design study 

that meets the What Works 

Clearinghouse Evidence Standards with 

reservations; or 

(C) Randomized controlled trial that 

meets the What Works Clearinghouse 

Evidence Standards with or without 

reservations. 

(ii) The study referenced in paragraph 

(i) of this definition found a statistically 

significant or substantively important 

(defined as a difference of 0.25 standard 

deviations or larger) favorable 

association between at least one critical 

component and one relevant outcome 

presented in the logic model for the 

proposed process, product, strategy, or 

practice. 

High-minority school means a school 

as that term is defined by a local 

educational agency (LEA), which must 

define the term in a manner consistent 

with its State’s Teacher Equity Plan, as 

required by section 1111(b)(8)(C) of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA). The 

applicant must provide the definition(s) 

of High-minority school used in its 

application. 

High-need community means (i) a 

political subdivision of a State or 

portion of a political subdivision of a 

State, in which at least 50 percent of the 

children are from low-income families; 

or (ii) a political subdivision of a State 

that is among the 10 percent of political 

subdivisions of the State having the 

greatest numbers of such children. For 

the purposes of determining if a 

community meets this definition, the 

term ‘‘low-income families’’ means 

families that have an income that meets 

the poverty criteria established by the 

U.S. Department of Commerce for the 

most recent fiscal year for which 

satisfactory data are available. 

High-need students means students 

who are at risk of educational failure or 

otherwise in need of special assistance 

and support, such as students who are 

living in poverty, who attend Highminority Schools, who are far below 

grade level, who have left school before 

receiving a Regular High School 

Diploma, who are at risk of not 

graduating with a diploma on time, who 

are homeless, who are in foster care, 

who have been incarcerated, who have 

disabilities, or who are English learners. 

Logic model (also referred to as theory 

of action) means a well-specified 

conceptual framework that identifies 

key components of the proposed 

process, product, strategy, or practice 

(i.e., the active ‘‘ingredients’’ that are 

hypothesized to be critical to achieving 

the relevant outcomes) and describes 

the relationships among the key 

components and outcomes, theoretically 

and operationally. 

Low-skilled adult means an adult with 

low literacy and numeracy skills. 

Lowest-performing schools means— 

For a State with an approved request 

for flexibility under the ESEA, Priority 

Schools or Tier I and Tier II Schools that 

have been identified under the School 

Improvement Grants program. 

For any other State, Tier I and Tier II 

Schools that have been identified under 

the School Improvement Grants 

Program. 

National non-profit arts education 

organization means an organization of 

national scope that is supported by staff 

or affiliates at the State and local levels 

and that has a demonstrated history of 

advancing high-quality Arts education 

and Arts Integration for Arts Educators, 

education leaders, artists, and students 

through professional development, 

partnerships, educational programming, 

and supporting systemic school reform. 

Persistently-lowest achieving school 

means, as determined by the State— 

(a)(1) Any Title I school that has been 

identified for improvement, corrective 

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1116 of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(ESEA), and that— 

(i) Is among the lowest-achieving five 

percent of Title I schools in 

improvement, corrective action, or 

restructuring or the lowest-achieving 

five Title I schools in improvement, 

corrective action, or restructuring in the 

State, whichever number of schools is 

greater; or 

(ii) Is a high school that has had a 

graduation rate, as defined in 34 CFR 

200.19(b), that is less than 60 percent 

over a number of years; and 

(2) Any secondary school that is 

eligible for, but does not receive, Title 

I funds that: 

(i) Is among the lowest-achieving five 

percent of secondary schools or the 

lowest-achieving five secondary schools 

in the State that are eligible for, but do 

not receive, Title I funds, whichever 

number of schools is greater; or 

(ii) Is a high school that has had a 

graduation rate, as defined in 34 CFR 

200.19(b), that is less than 60 percent 

over a number of years. 

(b) To identify the lowest-achieving 

schools, a State must take into account 

both: 

(i) The academic achievement of the 

‘‘all students’’ group in a school in 

terms of proficiency on the State’s 

assessments under section 1111(b)(3) of 

the ESEA, in reading/language arts and 

mathematics combined; and 

(ii) The school’s lack of progress on 

those assessments over a number of 

years in the ‘‘all students’’ group. 

Priority schools means schools that, 

based on the most recent data available, 

have been identified as among the 

lowest-performing schools in the State. 

The total number of Priority Schools in 

a State must be at least five percent of 

the Title I schools in the State. A 

priority school is— 

(a) A school among the lowest five 

percent of Title I schools in the State 

based on the achievement of the ‘‘all 

students’’ group in terms of proficiency 

on the statewide assessments that are 

part of the SEA’s differentiated 

recognition, accountability, and support 

system, combined, and has 

demonstrated a lack of progress on those 

assessments over a number of years in 

the ‘‘all students’’ group; 

(b) A Title I-participating or Title Ieligible high school with a graduation 

rate that is less than 60 percent over a 

number of years; or 

(c) A Tier I or Tier II school under the 

School Improvement Grant (SIG) 

program that is using SIG funds to 

implement a school intervention model. 

Quasi-experimental design study 

means a study using a design that 

attempts to approximate an 

experimental design by identifying a 

comparison group that is similar to the 

treatment group in important respects. 

These studies, depending on design and 

implementation, can meet What Works 

Clearinghouse Evidence Standards with 

reservations (but not What Works 

Clearinghouse Evidence Standards 

without reservations). 

Randomized controlled trial means a 

study that employs random assignment 

of, for example, students, teachers, 

classrooms, schools, or districts to 

receive the intervention being evaluated 

(the treatment group) or not to receive 

the intervention (the control group). The 

estimated effectiveness of the 

intervention is the difference between 

the average outcomes for the treatment 

group and for the control group. These 

studies, depending on design and 

implementation, can meet What Works 

Clearinghouse Evidence Standards 

without reservations. 

Relevant outcome means the student 

outcome(s) (or the ultimate outcome if 

not related to students) the proposed 

process, product, strategy, or practice is 

designed to improve, consistent with 

the specific goals of a program. 

Regular high school diploma means 

the standard high school diploma that is 

awarded to students in the State and 

that is fully aligned with the State’s 

academic content standards or a higher 

diploma and does not include a General 

Education Development (GED) 

credential, certificate of attendance, or 

any alternative award. 

Rural local educational agency means 

an LEA that is eligible under the Small 

Rural School Achievement (SRSA) 

program or the Rural and Low-Income 

School (RLIS) program authorized under 

title VI, part B of the ESEA. Eligible 

applicants may determine whether a 

particular LEA is eligible for these 

programs by referring to information on 

the Department’s Web site at 

www2.ed.gov/nclb/freedom/local/

reap.html. 

Strong theory means a rationale for 

the proposed process, product, strategy, 

or practice that includes a logic model. 

Student achievement means— 

For grades and subjects in which 

assessments are required under section 

1111(b)(3) of the ESEA: (1) A student’s 

score on such assessments; and, as 

appropriate, (2) other measures of 

student learning, such as those 

described in the subsequent paragraph, 

provided that they are rigorous and 

comparable across schools within an 

LEA. 

For grades and subjects in which 

assessments are not required under 

section 1111(b)(3) of the ESEA: (1) 

Alternative measures of student learning 

and performance, such as student 

results on pre-tests, end-of-course tests, 

and objective performance-based 

assessments; (2) student learning 

objectives; (3) student performance on 

English language proficiency 

assessments; and (4) other measures of 

student achievement that are rigorous 

and comparable across schools within 

an LEA. 

Sustained and Intensive, as used in 

the GPRA measure set forth under 

Performance Measures in section VI of 

this notice, means to complete 40 hours 

of professional development and 75 

percent of the total number of 

professional development hours offered 

over a period of six or more months. 

Sustained partnership means a 

relationship that has demonstrably 

adequate resources and other support to 

continue beyond the funding period and 

that consist of community organizations 

as partners with an LEA and one or 

more of its schools. These organizations 

may include faith- and communitybased organizations, institutions of 

higher education (including minorityserving institutions eligible to receive 

aid under title III or title V of the HEA), 

businesses and industries, labor 

organizations, State and local 

government entities, or Federal entities 

other than the Department. 

Tier I schools means— 

(a) A Title I school that has been 

identified as in improvement, corrective 

action, or restructuring under section 

1116 of the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(ESEA) and that is identified by the SEA 

under paragraph (a)(1) of the definition 

of Persistently-lowest Achieving School. 

(b) An elementary school that is 

eligible for Title I, Part A funds that— 

(1)(i) Has not made adequate yearly 

progress for at least two consecutive 

years; or 

(ii) Is in the State’s lowest quintile of 

performance based on proficiency rates 

on the State’s assessments under section 

1111(b)(3) of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (ESEA) in reading/language 

arts and mathematics combined; and 

(2) Is no higher achieving than the 

highest-achieving school identified by 

the SEA under paragraph (a)(1)(i) of the 

definition of Persistently-lowest 

Achieving School. 

Tier II schools means— 

(a) A secondary school that is eligible 

for, but does not receive, Title I, Part A 

funds and is identified by the State 

educational agency (SEA) under 

paragraph (a)(2) of the definition of 

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(b) A secondary school that is eligible 

for Title I, Part A funds that— 

(1)(i) Has not made adequate yearly 

progress for at least two consecutive 

years; or 

(ii) Is in the State’s lowest quintile of 

performance based on proficiency rates 

on the State’s assessments under section 

1111(b)(3) of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (ESEA), in reading/language 

arts and mathematics combined; and 

(2)(i) Is no higher achieving than the 

highest-achieving school identified by 

the SEA under paragraph (a)(2)(i) of the 

definition of Persistently-lowest 

Achieving School; or 

(ii) Is a high school that has had a 

graduation rate, as defined in 34 CFR 

200.19(b), that is less than 60 percent 

over a number of years. 

What Works Clearinghouse Evidence 

Standards means the standards set forth 

in the What Works Clearinghouse 

Procedures and Standards Handbook 

(Version 3.0, March 2014), which can be 

found at the following link: http://

ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/

DocumentSum.aspx?sid=19. 

Application Requirements: The 

following eligibility and application 

requirements are from the 2012 NFP and 

apply to this competition. 

1. To be eligible for an award, an 

applicant must be a National Non-profit 

Arts Education Organization. 

2. An applicant must describe in its 

application how it would serve Children 

from Low-income Families and 

Children with Disabilities. 

3. An applicant must describe in its 

application how it would implement the 

following activities and services at the 

national level: 

(i) Professional development based on 

State or national standards for prekindergarten-through-grade-12 Arts 

Educators. 

Note: The term ‘‘national standards’’ was 

used, but not defined, in the 2005 NFP. Since 

then, the program has described ‘‘national 

standards’’ as the Arts standards developed 

by the Consortium of National Arts 

Education Associations (Consortium) or 

another comparable set of national arts 

standards. The standards developed by the 

Consortium outline what students should 

know and be able to do in the Arts. Although 

the program considers these standards 

‘‘national standards,’’ these standards are not 

established or endorsed by the Department. 

(ii) Development and dissemination of 

instructional materials, including online 

resources, in music, dance, theater, 

media arts, and visual arts, including 

folk arts, for Arts Educators. 

(iii) Arts-based educational 

programming in music, dance, theater, 

media arts, and visual arts, including 

folk arts, for pre-kindergarten-throughgrade-12 students and Arts Educators. 

(iv) Community and national outreach 

activities and services that strengthen 

and expand partnerships among 

schools, school districts, and 

communities throughout the country. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7271. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) EDGAR in 

34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, 84, 86, 

97, 98, and 99. (b) The OMB Guidelines 

to Agencies on Governmentwide 

Debarment and Suspension 

(Nonprocurement)in 2 CFR part 180, as 

adopted and amended as regulations of 

the Department in 2 CFR part 3485, and 

the Uniform Administrative 

Requirements, Cost Principles, and 

Audit Requirements for Federal Awards 

in 2 CFR part 200, as adopted and 

amended in 2 CFR part 3474. (c) The 

2012 NFP (77 FR 35953). (d) The 

Supplemental Priorities (79 FR 73425). 

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: 

$6,700,000. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in FY 

2016 from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 1. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months 

(subject to availability of funds). 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: National Nonprofit Arts Education Organizations. 

2. a. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost sharing or 

matching. 

b. Supplement-Not-Supplant: This 

program involves supplement-notsupplant funding requirements. Under 

section 5551(f)(2) of the ESEA, the 

Secretary requires that assistance 

provided under this program be used 

only to supplement, and not to 

supplant, any other assistance or funds 

made available from non-Federal 

sources for the activities assisted under 

the program. This requirement has the 

effect of requiring grantees to use a 

restricted indirect cost rate, according to 

the requirements in 34 CFR 75.563 and 

34 CFR 76.564 through 76.569. The 

restricted indirect cost rate excludes 

certain costs from the rate that 

otherwise would be recovered under a 

standard indirect cost rate. As soon as 

applicants decide to apply, they are 

urged to contact the ED Indirect Cost 

Group at (202) 245–7784 for guidance 

about obtaining a restricted indirect cost 

rate to use on the Budget Information 

form (ED Form 524) included with the 

application package. 

c. Coordination Requirement: Under 

section 5551(f)(1) of the ESEA, the 

Secretary requires that each entity 

funded under this program coordinate, 

to the extent practicable, each project or 

program carried out with funds awarded 

under this program with appropriate 

activities of public or private cultural 

agencies, institutions, and 

organizations, including museums, arts 

education associations, libraries, and 

theaters. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: Asheley McBride, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW., Room 4W240, 

Washington, DC 20202–5960 or by 

email: AENP15Competition@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. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

in an accessible format (e.g., braille, 

large print, audiotape, or compact disc) 

by contacting the program contact 

person listed in this section. 

2.a. 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. 

Notice of Intent to Apply: March 12, 

2015. 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 email 

message indicating the applicant’s 

intent to submit an application for 

funding. The email need not include 

information regarding the content of the 

proposed application, only the 

applicant’s intent to submit it. The 

email notification should be sent to the 

AENP program inbox at: 

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Eligible entities that fail to provide 

this email 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. We suggest you limit 

the application narrative to the 

equivalent of no more than 50 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. 

• Double space (no more than three 

lines per vertical inch) all text in the 

application narrative, except for titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

references, captions, charts, tables, 

figures, and graphs. 

• Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger or no smaller than 10 pitch 

(characters per inch). 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

New, or Arial. 

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, the page limit does apply to 

all of the application narrative section. 

b. Submission of Proprietary 

Information: Given the types of projects 

that may be proposed in applications for 

the AENP, an application may include 

business information that the applicant 

considers proprietary. The Department’s 

regulations define ‘‘business 

information’’ in 34 CFR 5.11. 

Because we plan to make successful 

applications available to the public, you 

may wish to request confidentiality of 

business information. 

Consistent with Executive Order 

12600, please designate in your 

application any information that you 

feel is exempt from disclosure under 

Exemption 4 of the Freedom of 

Information Act. In the appropriate 

Appendix section of your application, 

under ‘‘Other Attachments Form,’’ 

please list the page number or numbers 

on which we can find this information. 

For additional information please see 34 

CFR 5.11(c). 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: February 10, 

2015. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to 

Apply: March 12, 2015. 

Date of Informational Webinar: The 

AENP intends to hold a webinar 

designed to provide technical assistance 

to interested applicants. Detailed 

information regarding this webinar will 

be provided on the AENP Web site at 

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/

artsnational/index.html. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 13, 2015. 

Applications for grants under this 

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 in paper format by 

mail or hand delivery if you qualify for 

an exception to the electronic 

submission requirement, please refer to 

section IV.7. Other Submission 

Requirements of 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 in section VII of this notice. If 

the Department provides an 

accommodation or auxiliary aid to an 

individual with a disability in 

connection with the application 

process, the individual’s application 

remains subject to all other 

requirements and limitations in this 

notice. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 10, 2015. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

program 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. Data Universal Numbering System 

Number, Taxpayer Identification 

Number, and System for Award 

Management: To do business with the 

Department of Education, you must— 

a. Have a Data Universal Numbering 

System (DUNS) number and a Taxpayer 

Identification Number (TIN); 

b. Register both your DUNS number 

and TIN with the System for Award 

Management (SAM) (formerly the 

Central Contractor Registry (CCR)), the 

Government’s primary registrant 

database; 

c. Provide your DUNS number and 

TIN on your application; and 

d. Maintain an active SAM 

registration with current information 

while your application is under review 

by the Department and, if you are 

awarded a grant, during the project 

period. 

You can obtain a DUNS number from 

Dun and Bradstreet. A DUNS number 

can be created within one to two 

business days. 

If you are a corporate entity, agency, 

institution, or organization, you can 

obtain a TIN from the Internal Revenue 

Service. If you are an individual, you 

can obtain a TIN from the Internal 

Revenue Service or the Social Security 

Administration. If you need a new TIN, 

please allow two to five weeks for your 

TIN to become active. 

The SAM registration process can take 

approximately seven business days, but 

may take upwards of several weeks, 

depending on the completeness and 

accuracy of the data entered into the 

SAM database by an entity. Thus, if you 

think you might want to apply for 

Federal financial assistance under a 

program administered by the 

Department, please allow sufficient time 

to obtain and register your DUNS 

number and TIN. We strongly 

recommend that you register early. 

Note: Once your SAM registration is active, 

you will need to allow 24 to 48 hours for the 

information to be available in Grants.gov and 

before you can submit an application through 

Grants.gov. 

If you are currently registered with 

SAM, you may not need to make any 

changes. However, please make certain 

that the TIN associated with your DUNS 

number is correct. Also note that you 

will need to update your registration 

annually. This may take three or more 

business days. 

Information about SAM is available at 

www.SAM.gov. To further assist you 

with obtaining and registering your 

DUNS number and TIN in SAM or 

updating your existing SAM account, 

we have prepared a SAM.gov Tip Sheet, 

which you can find at: http://

www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/samfaqs.html. 

In addition, if you are submitting your 

application via Grants.gov, you must (1) 

be designated by your organization as an 

Authorized Organization Representative 

(AOR); and (2) register yourself with 

Grants.gov as an AOR. Details on these 

steps are outlined at the following 

Grants.gov Web page: www.grants.gov/

web/grants/register.html. 

7. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

competition 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 AENP, CFDA number 

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electronically using the 

Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site 

at 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 email 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 the AENP at 

www.Grants.gov. You must search for 

the downloadable application package 

for this program by the CFDA number. 

Do not include the CFDA number’s 

alpha suffix in your search (e.g., search 

for 84.351, not 84.351F). 

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 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC 

time, on the application deadline date. 

Except as otherwise noted in this 

section, we will not accept your 

application if it is received—that is, date 

and time stamped by the Grants.gov 

system—after 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, on the application deadline 

date. We do not consider an application 

that does not comply with the deadline 

requirements. 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 

4:30:00 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 under News and Events on 

the Department’s G5 system home page 

at www.G5.gov. 

• 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: the 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. 

• You must upload any narrative 

sections and all other attachments to 

your application as files in a PDF 

(Portable Document) read-only, nonmodifiable format. Do not upload an 

interactive or fillable PDF file. If you 

upload a file type other than a readonly, non-modifiable PDF 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 email. 

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, 

toll free, 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 4:30:00 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 

4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the application deadline date, please 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in 

section VII of this notice 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 4:30:00 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 

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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: Asheley McBride, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW., Room 4W240, 

Washington, DC 20202–5950. 

Telephone: (202) 202–453–6500 or by 

email: AENP15Competition@ed.gov. 

FAX: (202) 205–5630. 

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 following 

address: U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.351F), LBJ Basement 

Level 1, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

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 84.351F), 550 12th 

Street SW., Room 7039, Potomac Center 

Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

The Application Control Center accepts 

hand deliveries daily between 8:00 a.m. 

and 4:30:00 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 

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 

2012 NFP for this program and from 34 

CFR 75.210, and are as follows: 

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. 

The selection criteria are as follows: 

(1) Significance (15 points). 

The Secretary reviews each 

application to determine the extent to 

which— 

(a) The proposed project is likely to 

build State and local capacity to 

provide, improve, or expand Arts 

education and Arts Integration that 

address the needs of children and 

youth, with special emphasis on serving 

Children from Low-income Families 

and Children with Disabilities; and 

(b) The applicant has a history of 

three or more years of demonstrated 

excellence in the areas of Arts education 

and Arts Integration on a national scale. 

(2) Quality of the project design (35 

points). The Secretary reviews each 

application to determine the extent to 

which— 

(a) The design of the proposed project 

is appropriate to, and will successfully 

address, the Arts education needs of 

pre-kindergarten-through-grade-12 

children and youth, with special 

emphasis on Children from Low-income 

Families and Children with Disabilities; 

(b) The proposed project will provide 

high-quality professional development 

for pre-kindergarten-through-grade-12 

Arts Educators who provide instruction 

in music, dance, drama, media arts, or 

visual arts, including folk arts; 

(c) The proposed project is supported 

by Strong Theory. 

Note: The Secretary encourages the 

applicant to consider measures and targets 

tied to their grant activities. The measures 

and targets should be sufficient to gauge the 

progress throughout the grant period, and 

show results by the end of the grant period. 

The Department’s Regional Educational 

Laboratories (RELs) seek to build the capacity 

of States and school districts to incorporate 

data and research into education decision 

making. Each REL provides research support 

and technical assistance to its region but 

makes learning opportunities available to 

educators everywhere. For example, the REL 

Northeast and Islands has created the 

following resource on Logic Models: http:// 

relpacific.mcrel.org/ELM.html. 

(3) Quality of project services (25 

points). 

In determining the quality of the 

services to be provided by the proposed 

project, the Secretary considers the 

extent to which— 

(a) The services to be provided by the 

proposed project involve the 

collaboration of appropriate partners in 

order to maximize the effectiveness of 

project services; and 

(b) The proposed project will provide 

services and initiatives that will reach 

students and Arts Educators in multiple 

schools and school districts in urban, 

rural, and High-need Communities 

throughout the country. 

(4) Quality of the project evaluation 

(25 points). 

The Secretary considers the quality of 

the evaluation to be conducted of 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) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation will provide performance 

feedback and permit periodic 

assessment of progress toward achieving 

intended outcomes. 

(c) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation will, if well-implemented, 

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2. Review and Selection Process: We 

remind potential applicants that in 

reviewing applications in any 

discretionary grant competition, the 

Secretary may consider, under 34 CFR 

75.217(d)(3), the past performance of the 

applicant in carrying out a previous 

award, such as the applicant’s use of 

funds, achievement of project 

objectives, and compliance with grant 

conditions. The Secretary may also 

consider whether the applicant failed to 

submit a timely performance report or 

submitted a report of unacceptable 

quality. 

In addition, in making a competitive 

grant award, the Secretary also requires 

various assurances including those 

applicable to Federal civil rights laws 

that prohibit discrimination in programs 

or activities receiving Federal financial 

assistance from the Department of 

Education (34 CFR 100.4, 104.5, 106.4, 

108.8, and 110.23). 

3. Special Conditions: Under 2 CFR 

3474.10, the Secretary may impose 

special conditions and, in appropriate 

circumstances, high-risk conditions on a 

grant if the applicant or grantee is not 

financially stable; has a history of 

unsatisfactory performance; has a 

financial or other management system 

that does not meet the standards in 2 

CFR part 200, subpart D; has not 

fulfilled the conditions of a prior grant; 

or is otherwise not responsible. 

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); or we may send you an email 

containing a link to access an electronic 

version of your GAN. We may notify 

you informally, also. 

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: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

in 2 CFR part 170 should you receive 

funding under the competition. This 

does not apply if you have an exception 

under 2 CFR 170.110(b). 

(b) 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 directed by the Secretary 

under 34 CFR 75.118. The Secretary 

may also require more frequent 

performance reports under 34 CFR 

75.720(c). For specific requirements on 

reporting, please go to www.ed.gov/

fund/grant/apply/appforms/

appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: Under 

GPRA, the Secretary has established 

four performance measures to assess the 

effectiveness of this program. Projects 

funded under this competition will be 

expected to collect and report to the 

Department data related to these 

measures. Applications should, but are 

not required to, discuss in the 

application narrative how they propose 

to collect these data. The four GPRA 

performance measures are: (1) The total 

number of students who participate in 

standards-based Arts education 

sponsored by the grantee; (2) the 

number of teachers participating in the 

grantee’s program who receive 

professional development that is 

Sustained and Intensive; (3) the total 

number of students from low-income 

families who participate in standardsbased Arts education sponsored by the 

grantee; and (4) the total number of 

students with disabilities who 

participate in standards-based Arts 

education sponsored by the grantee. 

5. Continuation Awards: In making a 

continuation award under 34 CFR 

75.253, the Secretary considers, among 

other things: whether a grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the goals and objectives of the project; 

whether the grantee has expended funds 

in a manner that is consistent with its 

approved application and budget; and, 

if the Secretary has established 

performance measurement 

requirements, the performance targets in 

the grantee’s approved application. In 

making a continuation grant, the 

Secretary also considers whether the 

grantee is operating in compliance with 

the assurances in its approved 

application, including those applicable 

to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Asheley McBride, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 4W, Washington, DC 20202–5950. 

Telephone: (202) 453–6500, or by email: 

AENP15Competition@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the 

FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

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

print, audiotape, or compact disc) on 

request to the program contact person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT in section VII of this notice. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

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 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 Adobe 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: February 4, 2015. 

Nadya Chinoy Dabby, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02596 Filed 2–9–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.101A.] 

Proposed Waiver and Extension of the 

Project Period for the Native American 

Career and Technical Education 

Program 

AGENCY: Office of Career, Technical, and 

Adult Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Proposed waiver and extension 

of the project period. 

SUMMARY: For the Native American 

Career and Technical Education 

Program (NACTEP), the Secretary 


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