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This may be a formal or informal 

contract, cooperative agreement, 

memorandum of understanding, or 

related document; 

(g) Annual documentation from the 

scholar’s IHE to verify dates of deferral, 

if applicable. The documentation may 

be prepared by the scholar’s advisor or 

department chair and must include: 

Confirmation of enrollment date, 

estimated graduation date, confirmation 

that the scholar is enrolled in a full-time 

course of study, and confirmation of the 

scholar’s intent to fulfill the service 

obligation upon completion of the 

program. 

Grantees are required to report 

annually to RSA on the data elements 

described above using the RSA Grantee 

Reporting Form, OMB number 1820– 

0617, an electronic reporting system 

supported by the RSA Management 

Information System (RSA MIS). In 

addition, grantees are required to utilize 

all forms required by RSA to prepare 

and process repayment, as well as 

requests for deferral and exceptions. 

The RSA Grantee Reporting Form 

collects specific data, including the 

number of scholars entering the 

rehabilitation workforce, the 

rehabilitation field each scholar enters, 

and the type of employment setting each 

scholar chooses (e.g., State VR agency, 

nonprofit service provider, or 

professional practice group). This form 

allows RSA to measure the progress 

towards achieving the goal of increasing 

the number of qualified VR personnel 

working in State VR and related 

agencies. 

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: See 

chart in the Award Information section 

in this notice for the name, room 

number, telephone number, and email 

address of the contact person for each 

specialty area of this competition. You 

can write to the specialty area contact 

person at the following address: U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW., Potomac Center Plaza 

(PCP), Washington, DC 20202–2600. 

If you use a TDD or TTY, call the 

Federal Relay Service, 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 persons 

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: March 20, 2015. 

Sue Swenson, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2015–06880 Filed 3–24–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.328M] 

Reopening; Applications for New 

Awards; Training and Information for 

Parents of Children With Disabilities— 

Parent Training and Information 

Centers 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On December 11, 2014, we 

published in the Federal Register (79 

FR 73557) a notice inviting applications 

for the FY 2015 Parent Training and 

Information Centers competition (NIA). 

The notice established a deadline date 

of February 9, 2015, for the transmittal 

of applications. This notice reopens the 

competition for five days. 

DATES:

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 30, 2015. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 29, 2015. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A 

significant number of applications 

received in response to the NIA were 

not eligible because the applicants did 

not follow the formatting or deadline 

requirements in the NIA. Consequently, 

we did not receive eligible applications 

for a number of States. Therefore, we are 

reopening the competition to allow 

applicants to submit or resubmit 

applications that meet the requirements 

in the NIA, in order to ensure that 

parents in all States can be served by a 

Parent Training and Information Center. 

Applicants that have already 

submitted applications under the FY 

2015 Parent Training and Information 

Centers competition are encouraged to 

review their applications and determine 

whether they have met all eligibility 

requirements, including formatting 

requirements and the deadline for 

submission, in the NIA and the 

application package, which is available 

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

oseppic/applicant.html. 

Note that the NIA requires double 

spacing (no more than three lines per 

vertical inch) for all text in the 

application narrative, including titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

reference citations, and captions, as well 

as all text in charts, tables, figures, 

graphs, and screen shots. 

Applicants may review a recorded 

Webinar that discusses the application 

requirements at http://

tadnet.adobeconnect.com/

p763v5dg8fm/. 

As stated above, applicants may 

resubmit applications that may not have 

met all formatting requirements. 

Applicants that already submitted 

timely applications that meet all of the 

formatting requirements do not have to 

resubmit their applications. If a new 

application is not submitted, the 

Department will use the application that 

was submitted before the February 9, 

2015, 4:30 p.m. EST deadline. 

Note: Applications that did not meet the 

February deadline must be resubmitted to be 

considered for review. 

Note to Applicants: The notice 

published on December 11, 2014, 

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to this competition. Specifically, the 

priority in that notice, entitled ‘‘Parent 

Training and Information Centers,’’ 

identifies the requirements for 

applications submitted in response to 

this notice, including the eligible 

entities, the States from which we are 

accepting applications, and the 

instructions for submitting applications. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carmen Sanchez, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 4057, Potomac Center Plaza 

(PCP), Washington, DC 20202–2600. 

Telephone: (202) 245–6595. 

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. 

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) by 

contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7363. If you use a TDD or a TTY, call 

the FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

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: March 18, 2015. 

Sue Swenson, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2015–06744 Filed 3–24–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; ReadyTo-Learn Television 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information: 

Ready-to-Learn Television. 

Notice inviting applications for new 

awards for fiscal year (FY) 2015. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.295A. 

DATES: Applications Available: March 

25, 2015. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

April 9, 2015. 

Date of Pre-Application Webinar: An 

informational Webinar will be 

announced on the Ready-to-Learn 

Television Web site at http://

www2.ed.gov/programs/rtltv/

index.html. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: May 26, 2015. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: July 23, 2015. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Ready-toLearn Television Program (Ready-toLearn) is designed to: (1) Facilitate 

school readiness and academic 

achievement by supporting the 

development and national distribution 

of educational television and interactive 

media programming for preschool and 

elementary school children and their 

parents; (2) develop and disseminate 

educational outreach materials and 

programs that are designed to deepen 

and extend the effectiveness of the 

educational television and interactive 

media and (3) build social and virtual 

communities of parents, educators, and 

children devoted to using the media 

materials. 

Background: 

Ready-to-Learn aims to take advantage 

of common mass media consumer 

technologies in order to reach children 

in low-income homes who may be 

lacking in educationally-rich learning 

opportunities and make it easier for 

parents, caregivers, and early learning 

providers to find trustworthy materials 

that they can use with the children in 

their care. 

Ready-to-Learn accomplishes this by 

using Federal dollars to stimulate the 

creation of educational media content 

that meets the highest standards of 

educational quality, while aiming to be 

just as entertaining as the best 

commercially produced media 

programs. Ready-to-Learn is not meant 

to be a mere subsidy to enable media 

producers to create educational content 

that would not otherwise be 

commercially feasible for them to 

produce. Rather, Ready-to-Learn seeks 

to bring educators and media producers 

together in cooperative working 

relationships that would not otherwise 

be possible, while also using the Federal 

investment to leverage additional 

contributions in funding, talent, and 

resources. 

To succeed, media producers 

generally must depart from their typical 

ways of working and embrace the 

contributions of educators and other 

education experts. Experts in subject 

matter and pedagogy, instructional 

designers, formative researchers, and 

other educators will work side by side 

and on equal footing with creative and 

media production experts in areas such 

as storytelling and interactive gameplay 

in order to merge their contributions 

into a unified and integrated effort. 

As in the 2010 competition, in which 

Ready-to-Learn supported the 

development of educational 

‘‘transmedia,’’ we are again looking to 

create new, interrelated combinations of 

television and interactive media in 

which characters, narrative story lines, 

and problem-solving are used to connect 

the various media products. In order to 

make this work, producers may need to 

plan how their different products will 

work together to execute a cohesive 

strategy, and then build a production 

model accordingly. Furthermore, 

producers may need to think carefully 

about how the eventual distribution of 

the products will be sequenced and 

organized to ensure that users will 

experience them in a manner that 

reflects this cohesiveness. 

Striking the right balance between 

innovation and access is key. 

Technologies are constantly changing, 

and with them come new opportunities 

for improving young children’s learning. 

Ready-to-Learn seeks to take advantage 

of the best educational uses of each 

medium and explore how best to 

combine both emerging and older media 

platforms to reach young children and 

their caregivers. With emerging 

technologies, it is important, however, 

to keep in mind what is available to 

low-income users in their homes or 

communities and what is accessible to 

a wide range of users, particularly those 

with disabilities. 

Although the television programming 

created under Ready-to-Learn has 

generally been made accessible to users 

who have hearing or vision loss through 

captioning and video description, some 

of the transmedia created to accompany 

these programs has lacked meaningful 


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