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1This program was formerly called ‘‘Technology 

and Media Services for Individuals with 

Disabilities.’’ The Department has changed the 

name to Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with Disabilities Program 

and updated the purposes of the program to more 

clearly convey that the program includes accessible 

educational materials. The program’s activities and 

statutory authorization (20 U.S.C. 1474) remain 

unchanged. 

2AEM (also known as accessible instructional 

materials) and technologies enable children with 

disabilities to have access to, be involved in, and 

make progress in the general education curriculum 

(or for infants, toddlers, and preschool children and 

their families to participate in developmental and 

educational activities, such as those related to early 

literacy and numeracy) and assessments. 

3 ‘‘Markup language,’’ in the context of digital 

technology, means a set of standards, as HTML or 

SGML, used to create an appropriate markup 

scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate 

its structure or format. See http://

dictionary.reference.com/browse/markup language. 

4For more information, see http://idpf.org/news/ 

aap-epub-3-implementation-white-paper-nowavailable and www.imsglobal.org/edupub/

EPUB3QTILTICaliper_BestPracticesvd7.pdf. 

Department of the Navy Culture of 

Innovation Initiatives. 

Individuals or interested groups may 

submit written statements for 

consideration by the SECNAV Advisory 

Panel at any time or in response to the 

agenda of a schedule meeting. All 

requests must be submitted to the 

Designated Federal Officer (DFO) at the 

address detailed below. If the written 

statement is in response to the agenda 

mentioned in this meeting notice, it 

must be received at least five days prior 

to the meeting in question. The DFO 

will review all timely submissions with 

the SECNAV Advisory Panel before the 

meeting that is the subject of this notice. 

For further information write to: Deputy 

Under Secretary of the Navy, (Policy), 

Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel, 

Designated Federal Officer, 1000 Navy 

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20350–1000. 

Dated: April 2, 2015. 

N.A. Hagerty-Ford, 

Commander, Judge Advocate General’s Corps, 

U.S. Navy, Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08040 Filed 4–7–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3810–FF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals With 

Disabilities—Research and 

Development Center To Advance the 

Use of New and Emerging 

Technologies to Ensure Accessibility 

AGENCY: Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information 

Notice inviting applications for a new 

award for fiscal year (FY) 2015. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.327B. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: April 8, 2015. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: May 26, 2015. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: July 22, 2015. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purposes of 

the Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with 

Disabilities Program 1 are to improve 

results for students with disabilities by: 

(1) Promoting the development, 

demonstration, and use of technology; 

(2) supporting educational activities 

designed to be of educational value in 

the classroom for students with 

disabilities; (3) providing support for 

captioning and video description that is 

appropriate for use in the classroom; 

and (4) providing accessible educational 

materials to students with disabilities in 

a timely manner. 

Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(v), this priority is from 

allowable activities specified in the 

statute (see sections 674(b) and 681(d) of 

the Individuals with Disabilities 

Education Act (IDEA) (20 U.S.C. 1474(b) 

and 1481(d))). 

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: 

Research and Development Center To 

Advance the Use of New and Emerging 

Technologies To Ensure Accessibility 

Background 

Section 612(a)(23) of IDEA requires 

States to provide educational materials 

in accessible formats in a timely manner 

to students who are blind or have print 

disabilities. Section 613(a)(6) of IDEA 

includes a similar requirement for local 

educational agencies (LEAs). In the 

process of implementing these 

provisions in IDEA, States, LEAs, and 

accessible media producers (AMPs), 

whom States and LEAs employ to 

convert educational materials into 

accessible formats, have encountered 

barriers to the production of highquality accessible educational materials 

(AEM).2 Specifically, they have been 

challenged by limitations of the 

technology available to produce AEM 

that includes accessible graphic content 

(i.e., complex formulae, images, charts, 

tables, graphs, and mathematical 

notation, hereafter referred to as graphic 

content). These barriers are more 

evident in the conversion of science, 

technology, engineering, and 

mathematics (STEM) educational 

materials into accessible formats due to 

their extensive use of graphic content. 

In 2010, the Office of Special 

Education Programs (OSEP) awarded a 

cooperative agreement, the Research 

and Development Center on Digital 

Images and Graphic Content in 

Accessible Instructional Materials, to 

implement a rigorous program of 

research and development to improve 

the cost, quality, usability, and 

availability of graphic content in 

accessible instructional materials and 

the devices and software used to access 

that content for blind, visually 

impaired, and print disabled students. 

While the center has improved the way 

graphic content is produced and 

accessed by children with print 

disabilities, ensuring accessibility to 

complex educational materials, such as 

STEM educational materials with 

graphic content, continues to challenge 

publishers, AMPs, and others who 

develop and produce STEM educational 

materials. The need for research and 

development continues to exist. 

Although the technology, publishing, 

and disability communities are working 

together to develop standards and 

guidelines for producing and accessing 

digital materials and assessments in 

accessible formats, the adoption of these 

standards remains voluntary, thus 

implementation and use of the 

standards are inconsistent. 

Additionally, some standards and 

guidelines may not include markup 

language,3 or may include it as optional, 

resulting in standards and guidelines 

that are insufficient to ensure the 

accessibility of educational materials for 

some children with disabilities.4 A free 

appropriate public education cannot be 

provided to many children with 

disabilities unless the educational 

technologies and materials are 

accessible, consistent with standards 

and guidelines that are uniformly 

applied across technologies, devices, 

tools, products, and software. 

New unexplored technologies, and 

the promise of more powerful 

technologies in the future, provide 

potential opportunities to improve 

access to digital content and educational 


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5The term ‘‘children’’ in this priority includes 

individuals with disabilities ages birth–21. 

materials. Since 2004, administrators, 

teachers, preschool special education 

teachers, early interventionists, and 

parents are more aware of the use of 

AEM by students with print disabilities, 

and of anecdotal reports and 

preliminary data from research projects 

that suggest use of AEM is associated 

with improvements in academic 

performance and progress for some 

children with print disabilities (Abedi & 

Ewers, 2013; Stahl, 2004). Moreover, the 

Division for Early Childhood 

Recommended Practices (April, 2014) 

stresses the importance of ensuring that 

educational materials (e.g., books, toys, 

multimedia content, etc.) are accessible 

to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers 

with disabilities and that the use of 

these materials is supported across 

learning environments. These reports 

and case studies have triggered interest 

in the use of AEM by children with nonprint disabilities and by infants, 

toddlers, and preschoolers with visual 

impairments and other print disabilities 

(e.g., public comment retrieved from 

www.tea.state.tx.us/

index4.aspx?id=25769810909). If 

children with disabilities other than 

print disabilities, and infants, toddlers, 

and preschoolers with disabilities are to 

use AEM, researchers must explore and 

identify the developmental and 

educational needs of these children as 

they relate to the use of AEM. The 

information gained from this work can 

be applied to the development of new 

products, production standards, and 

sources where AEM can be acquired for 

this expanded population of children 

with disabilities. 

To address the issues and challenges 

related to the development, production, 

and dissemination of AEM and to 

ensure that infants, toddlers, and 

children 5 who are blind or have print 

disabilities and those with disabilities 

not traditionally associated with print 

disabilities have full access to 

educational content, including graphic 

content, in accessible formats, OSEP 

proposes to fund a Research and 

Development Center to Advance the Use 

of New and Emerging Technologies to 

Ensure Accessibility. 

Priority 

The purpose of this priority is to fund 

a cooperative agreement to support the 

establishment and operation of a 

Research and Development Center to 

Advance the Use of New and Emerging 

Technologies to Ensure Accessibility 

(Center). Under this priority, the Center 

must conduct a comprehensive review 

of industry accessibility standards and 

their applications. Based on this review, 

the Center must implement a program of 

research and development designed to 

achieve, at a minimum, the following 

outcomes: 

(a) Development, demonstration, and 

use of technologies, devices, tools, 

products, and software that ensure full 

access to educational materials and 

content, including graphic content, 

regardless of the original formats of the 

materials (e.g., print, digital, 

multimedia) for children who are blind 

or have print disabilities and those with 

disabilities not traditionally associated 

with print disabilities; 

(b) Increase the number of new digital 

and multimedia educational materials 

that are ‘‘born accessible’’ (i.e., 

accessibility features are included in the 

original design and production of the 

materials) and are readily available and 

accessible to children who are blind or 

have print disabilities and those with 

disabilities not traditionally associated 

with print disabilities. 

(c) Identification of potential uses of 

new technologies, devices, tools, 

products, and software to enhance the 

accessibility of educational materials, 

especially STEM educational materials, 

for children who are blind or have print 

disabilities and those with disabilities 

not traditionally associated with print 

disabilities; 

(d) Identification of accessibility 

features specific to the needs of children 

with disabilities not traditionally 

associated with print disabilities (e.g., 

autism, hearing impairments, 

intellectual disabilities, English learners 

with disabilities); and 

(e) Increased knowledge sharing 

among technology developers, 

publishers, and end users including 

educators, persons with disabilities, and 

parents of children with disabilities. 

Application Requirements 

In addition to these programmatic 

requirements, to be considered for 

funding under this priority, applicants 

must meet the application and 

administrative requirements in this 

priority. OSEP encourages innovative 

approaches to meeting the following 

requirements: 

(a) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Significance of the Project,’’ how the 

proposed project will achieve and 

maintain expert awareness of the 

current and developing standards and 

uses of technologies that support or 

increase accessibility of educational 

materials for children with disabilities 

by: 

(1) Establishing and maintaining a 

technical format review advisory 

committee. The technical format review 

advisory committee must— 

(i) Consist of no fewer than five 

members representing the full range of 

diverse stakeholders, including at least 

one member from each of the following 

five specific groups: Technology 

developers, publishers, and end users 

including educators, persons with 

disabilities, and parents of children 

with disabilities. Advisory committee 

members should be identified no later 

than six weeks from the award date; 

(ii) Meet no less frequently than twice 

per year during the project period with 

the project director and relevant project 

staff; 

(iii) Evaluate current technologies, 

standards, and guidelines that are used 

and applied in the production and use 

of educational materials to ensure that 

the content is accessible to children 

with disabilities; and 

(iv) Evaluate current devices and 

software that support and ensure access 

to educational materials. 

(2) Leveraging its network of 

professional relationships to increase 

the awareness and application of 

accessibility standards among 

educators, publishers, and technology 

developers. To meet this requirement, 

the applicant must: 

(i) Demonstrate the extent of its 

network of educators, publishers, and 

technology developers; 

(ii) Describe its proposed methods to 

increase the awareness and application 

of accessibility standards by educators, 

publishers, and technology developers; 

and 

(iii) Describe its plan for expanding its 

network to include additional 

stakeholders in order to maintain 

relevant expertise in emerging 

technologies, standards, and guidelines. 

(3) Disseminate information on the 

uses, and potential uses, of emergent 

technologies, devices, tools, products, 

and software and accessibility standards 

and features of AEM for children who 

are blind or have print disabilities and 

those with disabilities not traditionally 

associated with print disabilities. To 

meet this requirement, the applicant 

must describe its plan to: 

(i) Prepare and disseminate reports, 

documents, and other materials 

available in appropriate formats on: 

(A) Current industry standards and 

best practices in the production and 

dissemination of AEM; 

(B) Current technologies used to 

produce AEM; 

(C) Currently available devices and 

software used to access AEM; 


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6The major tasks of CIPP are to guide, coordinate, 

and oversee the design of formative evaluations for 

every large discretionary investment (i.e., those 

awarded $500,000 or more per year and required to 

participate in the 3+2 process) in OSEP’s Technical 

Assistance and Dissemination; Personnel 

Development; Parent Training and Information 

Centers; and Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials programs. The efforts of CIPP are 

expected to enhance individual project evaluation 

plans by providing expert and unbiased technical 

assistance in designing the evaluations with due 

consideration of the project’s budget. CIPP does not 

function as a third-party evaluator. 

(D) Any devices or software 

developed or modified by the Center; 

(E) Processes related to the 

development or modification of 

technologies, standards, and guidelines 

used in the production of AEM, and 

devices and software used to access 

AEM; and 

(F) Related topics, as requested by 

OSEP; and 

(ii) Communicate using a variety of 

media and methods (for example, 

presentations, publications, conference 

attendance, demonstrations) to reach the 

broad range of technology developers, 

publishers, and end users, including 

educators, children with disabilities, 

and parents of children with 

disabilities. 

(b) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Quality of Project Services,’’ how the 

proposed project will— 

(1) Explore the legal issues around the 

provision of AEM for children with 

disabilities not traditionally associated 

with print disabilities. 

(2) Collaborate with publishers and 

distributors of educational materials to 

develop and field test models for 

making AEM available for use by 

children with disabilities traditionally 

not associated with print disabilities. 

(3) Determine potential uses of new 

technologies to enhance the 

accessibility of educational materials. 

(4) Collaborate with publishers, 

AMPs, State educational agencies, 

LEAs, consumers, and technology 

developers, vendors, and others with 

expertise in AEM production, devices, 

and software, to— 

(i) Develop technologies that improve 

access to and readability of educational 

materials containing graphic content, 

including STEM educational materials; 

(ii) Develop tools and products to 

improve the quality and usability of 

AEM and increase the efficiency of 

producing AEM, including the 

production of digital braille files written 

in Unified English Braille; 

(iii) Identify accessibility features 

specific to the needs of children with 

disabilities not traditionally associated 

with print disabilities; and 

(iv) Develop new tools or products 

and modify existing tools and products 

that address the specialized needs of 

children with disabilities not 

traditionally associated with print 

disabilities. 

(c) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Adequacy of Project Resources,’’ how 

the proposed project will— 

(1) Include key personnel, 

consultants, and contractors with 

sufficient qualifications, experience, 

and commitment to carry out the 

proposed activities and achieve the 

project’s intended outcomes. 

(2) Encourage applications for 

employment from persons who are 

members of groups that have 

traditionally been underrepresented 

based on race, color, national origin, 

linguistic diversity, sex, gender identity, 

sexual orientation, age, or disability, as 

appropriate. 

(3) Allocate project resources to carry 

out proposed activities. 

(4) Ensure the proposed costs are 

reasonable in relation to the anticipated 

results and benefits. 

(d) Demonstrate, in the narrative 

section of the application under 

‘‘Quality of Management Plan,’’ how the 

proposed project will— 

(1) Ensure that the project’s intended 

outcomes will be achieved on time and 

within budget. To address this 

requirement, the applicant must 

describe— 

(i) Clearly defined responsibilities for 

key project personnel, consultants, and 

subcontractors, as applicable; and 

(ii) Timelines and milestones for 

accomplishing the project tasks. 

(2) Pursue a diversity of perspectives, 

including families, early intervention 

service providers, educators, publishers, 

designers, developers, vendors, 

researchers, parent training and 

information centers, policy makers, the 

business community, SEAs and lead 

agencies, and other OSEP-funded 

projects. 

(3) Communicate effectively between 

the project and stakeholders and 

between the project and OSEP including 

OSEP-funded projects. To address this 

requirement, the applicant must commit 

to— 

(i) Maintain a Web site that meets 

government or industry-recognized 

standards for accessibility; 

(ii) Communicate and collaborate on 

an ongoing basis with OSEP-funded 

projects, specifically the Center for 

Parent Information and Resources, 

National Instructional Materials Access 

Center, National Center on Accessible 

Educational Materials for Learning, and 

Bookshare and Innovation for 

Education. The collaborations could 

include the joint development of 

products, participation in field-testing, 

and regular communications and 

updates on Center activities; 

(iii) Prior to developing any new 

product, whether paper, digital, or oral, 

discuss the content and purpose of the 

product or event with the OSEP project 

officer; 

(iv) Maintain ongoing communication 

with the OSEP project officer through 

biweekly phone conversations and 

email communication; and 

(v) Submit a quarterly progress report 

to the OSEP project officer. 

(e) In the narrative section of the 

application under ‘‘Quality of the 

Evaluation Plan,’’ include an evaluation 

plan. The evaluation plan must describe 

measures of progress in implementation, 

including the extent to which the 

project’s products and services have 

reached the target population, and 

measures of intended outcomes or 

results of the project’s activities in order 

to assess the effectiveness of those 

activities. 

In the evaluation plan, the applicant 

must commit to— 

(1) Ensure ongoing feedback on the 

quality of project performance from 

technology developers, AEM publishers, 

and end users including educators, 

persons with disabilities, and parents of 

children with disabilities. 

(2) Assess the cost, quality, usability, 

and availability of the technologies, 

including devices and software 

products, that are developed or 

modified by the Center. 

(3) Designate, with the approval of the 

OSEP project officer, a project liaison 

staff person with sufficient dedicated 

time, experience in evaluation, and 

knowledge of the project to work in 

collaboration with the Center to 

Improve Project Performance (CIPP),6

the project director, and the OSEP 

project officer on the following tasks: 

(i) Revise, as needed, the logic model 

submitted in the grant application to 

reflect any changes or clarifications to 

the model discussed at the kick-off 

meeting and to provide for a more 

comprehensive measurement of 

implementation and outcomes; 

(ii) Refine, as needed, the evaluation 

design and instrumentation proposed in 

the grant application consistent with the 

logic model (e.g., preparing evaluation 

questions about significant program 

processes and outcomes, developing 

quantitative or qualitative data 

collections that permit both the 

collection of progress data, including 

fidelity of implementation, as 

appropriate, and the assessment of 


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effectiveness, selecting respondent 

samples if appropriate, designing 

instruments or identifying data sources, 

and identifying analytic strategies); and 

(iii) Revise, as needed, the evaluation 

plan submitted in the grant application 

such that it clearly— 

(A) Specifies the measures and 

associated instruments or sources for 

data appropriate to the evaluation 

questions, suggests analytic strategies 

for those data, provides a timeline for 

conducting the evaluation, and includes 

staff assignments for completion of the 

plan; 

(B) Delineates the data expected to be 

available by the end of the second 

project year for use during the project’s 

intensive review for continued funding 

described under the heading Fourth and 

Fifth Years of the Project; and 

(C) Can be used to assist the project 

director and the OSEP project officer, 

with the assistance of CIPP as needed, 

to specify the performance measures to 

be addressed in the project’s Annual 

Performance Report. 

(4) Cooperate with CIPP staff in order 

to accomplish the tasks described in 

paragraph (e)(3) of these application 

requirements. 

(5) Dedicate sufficient funds in each 

budget year to cover the costs of 

carrying out the tasks described in 

paragraphs (e)(3) and (e)(4) of these 

application requirements and 

implementing the evaluation plan. 

(f) In the narrative under ‘‘Required 

Project Assurances’’ or the appendices 

as directed, the applicant must— 

(1) Include, in Appendix A, a logic 

model that depicts, at a minimum, the 

project’s proposed goals, activities, 

outputs, and outcomes. A logic model 

communicates how a project will 

achieve its outcomes and provides a 

framework for both the formative and 

summative evaluations of the project. 

Note: The following Web sites provide 

more information on logic models: www.

researchutilization.org/matrix/logicmodel_

resource3c.html and www.tadnet.org/pages/

589. 

(2) Include, in Appendix A, a 

conceptual framework for the project. 

(3) Include, in Appendix A, personloading charts (charts listing 

information such as key project staff, 

their full-time equivalent, and the 

number of days allocated to each major 

activity) and timelines to illustrate the 

management plan described in the 

narrative. 

(4) Include in the budget: 

(i) Attendance at the following: 

(A) A one and one-half day kick-off 

meeting to be held in Washington, DC, 

after receipt of the award, and an annual 

planning meeting held in Washington, 

DC, with the OSEP project officer during 

each subsequent year of the project 

period. 

Note: Within 30 days of receipt of the 

award, a post-award teleconference must be 

held between the OSEP project officer and 

the grantee’s project director or other 

authorized representative. 

(B) A three-day project directors’ 

meeting in Washington, DC, during each 

year of the project period. 

(C) One two-day trip annually to 

attend Department briefings, 

Department-sponsored conferences, and 

other meetings, as requested by OSEP. 

(D) A one-day meeting in Washington, 

DC, as described under the heading 

Fourth and Fifth Years of the Project. 

(ii) A line item for a summative 

evaluation to be conducted by an 

independent third party. 

(iii) A line item for an annual setaside of five percent of the grant amount 

to support emerging needs that are 

consistent with the proposed project’s 

activities, as those needs are identified 

in consultation with OSEP. 

Note: With approval from the OSEP project 

officer, the Center must reallocate any 

remaining funds from this annual set-aside 

no later than the end of the third quarter of 

each budget period. 

Fourth and Fifth Years of the Project 

In deciding whether to continue 

funding the Center for the fourth and 

fifth years, the Secretary will consider 

the requirements of 34 CFR 75.253(a), as 

well as— 

(a) The recommendation of a review 

team consisting of experts selected by 

the Secretary. This intensive review will 

be conducted during a one-day meeting 

in Washington, DC, that will be held 

during the last half of the second year 

of the project period; 

(b) The timeliness and effectiveness 

with which all requirements of the 

negotiated cooperative agreement have 

been or are being met by the Center; and 

(c) The quality, relevance, and 

usefulness of the Center’s activities and 

products and the degree to which the 

Center’s activities and products have 

contributed to changed practice and 

improved student access to the general 

education curriculum through improved 

access to high-quality AEM and devices. 

References 

Abedi, J., & Ewers, N. (2013, February). 

Smarter balanced assessment 

consortium: Accommodations for 

English language learners and students 

with disabilities. Retrieved from 

www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/

wp-content/uploads/2012/08/

Accomodations-for-under-representedstudents.pdf. 

Division for Early Childhood of the Council 

for Exceptional Children. (2014, April). 

Recommended Practices in Early 

Intervention/Early Childhood Special 

Education 2014. Retrieved from http://

dec.membershipsoftware.org/files/DEC%

20RPs%206%2025%202014%

20final1.pdf. 

Stahl, S. (2004). The promise of accessible 

textbooks: Increased achievement for all 

students. Wakefield, MA: National 

Center on Accessing the General 

Curriculum. Retrieved from http://

aim.cast.org/learn/historyarchive/

backgroundpapers/promise_of_

accessible_textbooks#.VE6MEfldXYg. 

Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking: 

Under the Administrative Procedure Act 

(APA) (5 U.S.C. 553) the Department 

generally offers interested parties the 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

priorities and requirements. Section 

681(d) of IDEA, however, makes the 

public comment requirements of the 

APA inapplicable to the priority in this 

notice. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1474 and 

1481. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations in 34 CFR 

parts 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, 84, 86, 97, 98, 

and 99. (b) The Office of Management 

and Budget 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. (c) 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. 

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 

(IHEs) only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Cooperative 

agreement. 

Estimated Available Funds: $700,000 

for the first year; and $1,200,000 for 

each subsequent year. 

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. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $700,000 for the first year or 

$1,200,000 for a subsequent year. The 

Assistant Secretary for Special 

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may change the maximum amount 

through a notice published in the 

Federal Register. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 1. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months with 

an optional additional 24 months based 

on performance. Applications must 

include plans for both the 36-month 

award and the 24-month extension. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: SEAs; LEAs, 

including public charter schools that are 

considered LEAs under State law; IHEs; 

other public agencies; private nonprofit 

organizations; freely associated States 

and outlying areas; Indian tribes or 

tribal organizations; and for-profit 

organizations. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost sharing or 

matching. 

3. Other General Requirements: (a) 

Recipients of funding under this 

competition must make positive efforts 

to employ and advance in employment 

qualified individuals with disabilities 

(see section 606 of IDEA). 

(b) Each applicant for, and recipient 

of, funding under this program must 

involve individuals with disabilities, or 

parents of individuals with disabilities 

ages birth through 26, in planning, 

implementing, and evaluating the 

project (see section 682(a)(1)(A) of 

IDEA). 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: You can obtain an application 

package via the Internet or from the 

Education Publications Center (ED 

Pubs). To obtain a copy via the Internet, 

use the following address: www.ed.gov/ 

fund/grant/apply/grantapps/index.html. 

To obtain a copy from ED Pubs, write, 

fax, or call the following: ED Pubs, U.S. 

Department of Education, P.O. Box 

22207, Alexandria, VA 22304. 

Telephone, toll free: 1–877–433–7827. 

FAX: (703) 605–6794. If you use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) or a text telephone (TTY), call, 

toll free: 1–877–576–7734. 

You can contact ED Pubs at its Web 

site, also: www.EDPubs.gov or at its 

email address: edpubs@inet.ed.gov. 

If you request an application from ED 

Pubs, be sure to identify this 

competition as follows: CFDA number 

84.327B. 

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 person or team listed 

under Accessible Format in section VIII 

of this notice. 

2. 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. 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 

no more than 70 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, including titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

reference citations, and captions, as well 

as all text in charts, tables, figures, 

graphs, and screen shots. 

• Use a font that is 12 point or larger. 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

New, or Arial. An application submitted 

in any other font (including Times 

Roman or Arial Narrow) will not be 

accepted. 

The page limit and double-spacing 

requirement 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 abstract (follow the 

guidance provided in the application 

package for completing the abstract), the 

table of contents, the list of priority 

requirements, the resumes, the reference 

list, the letters of support, or the 

appendices. However, the page limit 

and double-spacing requirement does 

apply to all of part III, the application 

narrative, including all text in charts, 

tables, figures, graphs, and screen shots. 

We will reject your application if you 

exceed the page limit in the application 

narrative section or if you apply 

standards other than those specified in 

this notice and the application package. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: April 8, 2015. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: May 26, 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: July 22, 2015. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

competition is subject to E. O. 12372 

and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. 

Information about Intergovernmental 

Review of Federal Programs under E. O. 

12372 is in the application package for 

this program. 

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 

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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: www2.ed.gov/

fund/grant/apply/sam-faqs.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 

Research and Development Center to 

Advance the Use of New and Emerging 

Technologies to Ensure Accessibility 

competition, CFDA number 84.327B, 

must be submitted 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 Research and 

Development Center to Advance the Use 

of New and Emerging Technologies to 

Ensure Accessibility competition at 

www.Grants.gov. You must search for 

the downloadable application package 

for this competition by the CFDA 

number. Do not include the CFDA 

number’s alpha suffix in your search 

(e.g., search for 84.327, not 84.327B). 

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 competition 

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. Additional, 

detailed information on how to attach 

files is in the application instructions. 

• 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 

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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 

exception prevents you from using the 

Internet to submit your application. 

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: Glinda Hill, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW., room 4063, Potomac 

Center Plaza (PCP), Washington, DC 

20202–2600. FAX: (202) 245–7617. 

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 84.327B), 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 84.327B), 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 34 

CFR 75.210 and are listed in the 

application package. 

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. Additional Review and Selection 

Process Factors: In the past, the 

Department has had difficulty finding 

peer reviewers for certain competitions 

because so many individuals who are 

eligible to serve as peer reviewers have 

conflicts of interest. The standing panel 

requirements under section 682(b) of 

IDEA also have placed additional 

constraints on the availability of 

reviewers. Therefore, the Department 

has determined that for some 

discretionary grant competitions, 

applications may be separated into two 

or more groups and ranked and selected 

for funding within specific groups. This 

procedure will make it easier for the 

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ensuring that greater numbers of 

individuals who are eligible to serve as 

reviewers for any particular group of 

applicants will not have conflicts of 

interest. It also will increase the quality, 

independence, and fairness of the 

review process, while permitting panel 

members to review applications under 

discretionary grant competitions for 

which they also have submitted 

applications. However, if the 

Department decides to select an equal 

number of applications in each group 

for funding, this may result in different 

cut-off points for fundable applications 

in each group. 

4. 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 the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA), the Department has 

established a set of performance 

measures, including long-term 

measures, that are designed to yield 

information on various aspects of the 

effectiveness and quality of the 

Educational Technology, Media, and 

Materials for Individuals with 

Disabilities Program. These measures 

are included in the application package 

and focus on the extent to which 

projects are of high quality, are relevant 

to improving outcomes of children with 

disabilities, contribute to improving 

outcomes for children with disabilities, 

and generate evidence of validity and 

availability to appropriate populations. 

Projects funded under this competition 

are required to submit data on these 

measures as directed by OSEP. 

Grantees will be required to report 

information on their project’s 

performance in annual performance 

reports and additional performance data 

to the Department (34 CFR 75.590 and 

75.591). 

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: 

Glinda Hill, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 4063, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2600. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7376. 

If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the 

Federal Relay Service (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) by 

contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., 

Room 5037, 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: April 2, 2015. 

Sue Swenson, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services. 

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