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Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room 

2E105, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions related to collection activities 

or burden, please call Kathy Axt, 540– 

776–7742 or electronically mail 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please do not 

send comments here. We will ONLY 

accept comments in this mailbox when 

the regulations.gov site is not available 

to the public for any reason. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Study of Clinical 

Practice in Traditional Teacher 

Preparation Programs in Missouri. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 2,800. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 1,176. 

Abstract: This study will collect 

information about the clinical practice 

(student teaching and field experience) 

components of traditional teacher 

preparation programs (TPPs). The study 

will use a survey of first-year public 

school teachers in Missouri to collect 

information about: (1) the characteristics 

of clinical practice in traditional TPPs 

completed by first-year teachers; and (2) 

how clinical practice in traditional TPPs 

varies among certification tracks 

completed by first-year teachers. The 

study will be implemented during the 

2014–15 school year. 

Dated: January 8, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00459 Filed 1–14–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No. ED–2013–ICCD–0133] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Survey of Principals of Rural Schools 

Receiving School Improvement Grants 

and Using the Transformation 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences/ 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(IES), Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is 

proposing a new information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before February 

14, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting 

Docket ID number ED–2013–ICCD–0133 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. Please note that 

comments submitted by fax or email 

and those submitted after the comment 

period will not be accepted. Written 

requests for information or comments 

submitted by postal mail or delivery 

should be addressed to the Director of 

the Information Collection Clearance 

Division, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, 

Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room 2E107, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions related to collection activities 

or burden, please call Kathy Axt, 540– 

776–7742 or electronically mail 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please do not 

send comments here. We will ONLY 

accept comments in this mailbox when 

the regulations.gov site is not available 

to the public for any reason. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Survey of 

Principals of Rural Schools Receiving 

School Improvement Grants and Using 

the Transformation. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals or households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 221. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 58. 

Abstract: This study collects survey 

data from principals of schools that 

received federal School Improvement 

Grants (SIGs) in cohort 1 and 

implemented the school transformation 

model. Rural schools and districts often 

face steep challenges when trying to 

implement the kinds of staff 

replacement and on-site professional 

development practices required in the 

transformation model. By examining the 

implementation of the SIG 

transformation model in challenging 

rural settings, the study will produce 

findings that can help policymakers, 

rural schools, and their partners plan for 

school improvement. Our study will do 

this in two ways: (1) By asking 

principals to specify the extent to which 

the transformation activities were 


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implemented and the challenges to 

implementation, and (2) by identifying 

which activities were supported by 

technical assistance providers and how 

sufficient principals found this support. 

Dated: January 9, 2014. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00572 Filed 1–14–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; Credit 

Enhancement for Charter School 

Facilities Program 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Overview Information: Credit 

Enhancement for Charter School 

Facilities Program. Notice inviting 

applications for new awards for fiscal 

year (FY) 2014. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.354A. 

DATES: Applications Available: January 

15, 2014. 

Date of Pre-Application Webinar (all 

times are Washington, DC time): 

Wednesday, January 29, 2014, at 2:00 

p.m., Washington, DC time. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 3, 2014. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: April 30, 2014. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: This program 

provides grants to eligible entities to 

permit them to enhance the credit of 

charter schools so that they can access 

private-sector and other non-Federal 

capital in order to acquire, construct, 

and renovate facilities at a reasonable 

cost. Grant projects awarded under this 

program will be of sufficient size, scope, 

and quality to enable the grantees to 

implement effective strategies for 

reaching that objective. 

Priorities: This competition includes 

one competitive preference priority and 

one invitational priority. 

Competitive Preference Priority: In 

accordance with 34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(ii), 

this priority is from the regulations for 

this program (34 CFR 225.12). 

For FY 2014 and any subsequent year 

in which we make awards from the list 

of unfunded applicants from this 

competition, this priority is a 

competitive preference priority. Under 

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

an additional 15 points to an 

application, depending on how well the 

application meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

The capacity of charter schools to 

offer public school choice in those 

communities with the greatest need for 

school choice based on— 

(1) The extent to which the applicant 

would target services to geographic 

areas in which a large proportion or 

number of public schools have been 

identified for improvement, corrective 

action, or restructuring under Title I of 

the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as 

amended. 

Note: In order to receive competitive 

preference points under this priority, 

applicants serving charter schools in States 

operating under ESEA Flexibility that have 

opted to waive the requirement in ESEA 

section 1116(b) for local educational agencies 

(LEAs) to identify for improvement, 

corrective action, or restructuring, as 

appropriate, their Title I schools that fail to 

make adequate yearly progress (AYP) for two 

or more consecutive years should target 

services to geographic areas in which a large 

proportion or number of public schools have 

been identified as priority or focus schools, 

or belonging to a subset of other Title I 

schools specifically identified as lowachieving under the State’s approved ESEA 

flexibility request (see the June 7, 2012, 

‘‘ESEA Flexibility’’ document at http://

www.ed.gov/esea/flexibility). 

(2) The extent to which the applicant 

would target services to geographic 

areas in which a large proportion of 

students perform below proficient on 

State academic assessments; and 

(3) The extent to which the applicant 

would target services to communities 

with large proportions of students from 

low-income families. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2014 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: The applicant 

proposes a grant project that 

demonstrates its ability to partner with 

new actors and/or leverage new sources 

of capital and untapped non-Federal 

programs in order to finance charter 

school facilities. 

Definitions: The following definitions 

are from 34 CFR 77.1(c): 

Ambitious means promoting 

continued, meaningful improvement for 

program participants or for other 

individuals or entities affected by the 

grant, or representing a significant 

advancement in the field of education 

research, practices, or methodologies. 

When used to describe a performance 

target, whether a performance target is 

ambitious depends upon the context of 

the relevant performance measure and 

the baseline for that measure. 

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. 

Performance measure means any 

quantitative indicator, statistic, or 

metric used to gauge program or project 

performance. 

Performance target means a level of 

performance that an applicant would 

seek to meet during the course of a 

project or as a result of a project. 

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. 

Strong theory means a rationale for 

the proposed process, product, strategy, 

or practice that includes a logic model. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7223– 

7223j. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 

84, 86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The Education 

Department debarment and suspension 

regulations in 2 CFR part 3485. (c) The 

regulations for this program in 34 CFR 

part 225. 

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: The 

Administration’s budget request for FY 

2014 does not include funds for this 

program. However, we are inviting 

applications at this time to allow 

enough time to complete the grant 

process if Congress appropriates funds 

for the program. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in FY 


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