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Delegation of Authority: The Secretary 

of Education has delegated authority to 

Daniel T. Madzelan, Director, 

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Dated: March 19, 2009. 

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[FR Doc. E9–6449 Filed 3–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Vocational and Adult 

Education; Native Hawaiian Career and 

Technical Education Program 

(NHCTEP); Notice Inviting Applications 

for New Awards Using Fiscal Year (FY) 

2008 Funds. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.259A. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: March 24, 

2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 23, 2009. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Native 

Hawaiian Career and Technical 

Education Program (NHCTEP) provides 

grants to eligible applicants to plan, 

conduct, and administer programs, or 

portions of programs, that are 

authorized by and consistent with the 

purposes of section 116 of the Carl D. 

Perkins Career and Technical Education 

Act of 2006 (Act) for the benefit of 

Native Hawaiians. 

Background: Under section 116(h) of 

the Act, eligible community-based 

organizations receive NHCTEP grants to 

plan, conduct, and administer programs, 

or portions thereof, that are consistent 

with the purposes of section 116 of the 

Act, for the benefit of Native Hawaiians. 

Section 116(e) of the Act provides that 

educational programs, services, and 

activities funded under NHCTEP must 

support and help to improve career and 

technical education programs. (20 

U.S.C. 2326(e)) This requirement, along 

with the statutory definition of career 

and technical education, aligns 

NHCTEP with other programs 

authorized under the Act that require 

grantees to offer a sequence of courses 

that provides individuals with coherent 

and rigorous content aligned with 

challenging academic standards and 

relevant technical knowledge and skills 

needed to prepare for further education 

and careers in current or emerging 

professions. (20 U.S.C. 2302(5)) 

Under this competition the Secretary 

awards grants to carry out projects that 

provide organized educational activities 

offering a sequence of courses that— 

(a) Provide individuals with coherent 

and rigorous content aligned with 

challenging academic standards and 

relevant technical knowledge and skills 

needed to prepare for further education 

and careers in current or emerging 

professions; 

(b) Provide technical skill proficiency, 

an industry-recognized credential, a 

certificate, or an associate degree; and 

(c) Include competency-based applied 

learning that contributes to the 

academic knowledge, higher-order 

reasoning and problem-solving skills, 

work attitudes, general employability 

skills, technical skills, and occupationspecific skills, and knowledge of all 

aspects of an industry, including 

entrepreneurship, of an individual. 

Projects may include prerequisite 

courses (other than remedial courses) 

that meet the definitional requirements 

of section 3(5)(A) of the Act. (20 U.S.C. 

2302(5)(A)). 

Requirements: The Assistant 

Secretary for Vocational and Adult 

Education has established the following 

requirements for this program. These 

requirements are from the notice of final 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria published elsewhere in this 

issue of the Federal Register. 

Authorized Programs, Services, and 

Activities: 

(a) Authorized Programs. Under this 

competition the Secretary awards grants 

to carry out projects that— 

(1) Develop new programs, services, 

or activities or improve or expand 

existing programs, services, or activities 

that are consistent with the purposes of 

the Act. In other words, the Department 

will support ‘‘expansions’’ or 

‘‘improvements’’ that include, but are 

not necessarily limited to, the expansion 

of effective programs or practices; 

upgrading of activities, equipment, or 

materials; increasing staff capacity; 

adoption of new technology; 

modification of curriculum; or 

implementation of new policies to 

improve program effectiveness and 

outcomes; and 

(2) Fund a career and technical 

education program, service, or activity 

that— 

(i) Is a new program, service, or 

activity that was not provided by the 

applicant during the instructional term 

(a defined period, such as a semester, 

trimester, or quarter, within the 

academic year) that preceded the 

request for funding under NHCTEP; 

(ii) Will improve or expand an 

existing career and technical education 

program; or 

(iii) Inherently improves career and 

technical education. A program, service, 

or activity ‘‘inherently improves career 

and technical education’’ if it— 

(A) Develops new career and 

technical education programs of study 

for approval by the appropriate 

accreditation agency; 

(B) Strengthens the rigor of the 

academic and career and technical 

components of funded programs; 

(C) Uses curriculum that is aligned 

with industry-recognized standards and 

will result in students attaining 

industry-recognized credentials, 

certificates, or degrees; 

(D) Integrates academics (other than 

remedial courses) with career and 

technical education programs through a 

coherent sequence of courses to help 

ensure learning in the core academic 

and career and technical subjects; 

(E) Links career and technical 

education at the secondary level with 

career and technical education at the 

postsecondary level, and facilitates 

students’ pursuit of a baccalaureate 

degree; 

(F) Expands the scope, depth, and 

relevance of curriculum, especially 

content that provides students with a 

comprehensive understanding of all 

aspects of an industry and a variety of 

hands-on, job-specific experiences; or 

(G) Offers— 

(1) Work-related experience, 

internships, cooperative education, 

school-based enterprises, studies in 

entrepreneurship, community service 

learning, and job shadowing that are 

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related to career and technical 

education programs; 

(2) Coaching/mentoring, support 

services, and extra help for students 

after school, on the weekends, or during 

the summer so they can meet higher 

standards; 

(3) Career guidance and academic 

counseling for students participating in 

career and technical education programs 

under NHCTEP; 

(4) Placement services for students 

who have successfully completed career 

and technical education programs and 

attained a technical skill proficiency 

that is aligned with industry-recognized 

standards; 

(5) Professional development 

programs for teachers, counselors, and 

administrators; 

(6) Strong partnerships among 

grantees and local educational agencies, 

postsecondary institutions, community 

leaders, adult education providers, and, 

as appropriate, other entities, such as 

employers, labor organizations, parents, 

and local partnerships, to enable 

students to achieve State academic 

standards and attain career and 

technical skills; 

(7) The use of student assessment and 

evaluation data to continually improve 

instruction and staff development; or 

(8) Research, development, 

demonstration, dissemination, 

evaluation and assessment, capacitybuilding, and technical assistance 

related to career and technical 

education programs. 

(b) Student stipends. 

(1) A portion of an award under this 

program may be used to provide 

stipends (as defined elsewhere in this 

notice under the heading Definitions) to 

help students meet the costs of 

participation in a NHCTEP project. 

(2) To be eligible for a stipend a 

student must— 

(i) Be enrolled in a career and 

technical education project funded 

under this program; 

(ii) Be in regular attendance in a 

NHCTEP project and meet the training 

institution’s attendance requirement; 

(iii) Maintain satisfactory progress in 

his or her program of study according to 

the training institution’s published 

standards for satisfactory progress; and 

(iv) Have an acute economic need 

that— 

(A) Prevents participation in a project 

funded under this program without a 

stipend; and 

(B) Cannot be met through a workstudy program. 

(3) The amount of a stipend is the 

greater of either the minimum hourly 

wage prescribed by State or local law, or 

the minimum hourly wage established 

under the Fair Labor Standards Act. 

(4) A grantee may award a stipend 

only if the stipend combined with other 

resources the student receives does not 

exceed the student’s financial need. A 

student’s financial need is the difference 

between the student’s cost of attendance 

and the financial aid or other resources 

available to defray the student’s cost of 

attending a NHCTEP project. 

(5) To calculate the amount of a 

student’s stipend, a grantee must 

multiply the number of hours a student 

actually attends career and technical 

education instruction by the amount of 

the minimum hourly wage that is 

prescribed by State or local law or by 

the minimum hourly wage that is 

established under the Fair Labor 

Standards Act. The grantee must reduce 

the amount of a stipend if necessary to 

ensure that it does not exceed the 

student’s financial need. 

Example: If a grantee uses the Fair 

Labor Standards Act minimum hourly 

wage of $7.25 and a student attends 

classes for 20 hours a week, the 

student’s stipend would be $145 for the 

week during which the student attends 

classes ($7.25 x 20 = $145). If the 

program lasts 16 weeks and the 

student’s total financial need is $2,000, 

the grantee must reduce the weekly 

stipend to $125, because the total 

stipend for the course would otherwise 

exceed the student’s financial need by 

$320 (or $20 a week). 

Note: Grantees must maintain records that 

fully support their decisions to award 

stipends to students, as well as the amounts 

that are paid, such as proof of a student’s 

enrollment in the NHCTEP project, stipend 

applications, timesheets showing the number 

of hours of student attendance that are 

confirmed in writing by an instructor, 

student financial status information, and 

evidence that a student could not participate 

in the NHCTEP project without a stipend. 

(See generally 20 U.S.C. 1232f; 34 CFR 

75.700–75.702; 75.730; and 75.731) 

(6) An eligible student may earn a 

stipend when taking a course for the 

first time, although a stipend may not be 

provided to a student for a particular 

course if the student has already taken, 

completed, and had the opportunity to 

benefit from the course and is merely 

repeating the course. 

(7) An applicant must include, in its 

application, the procedure it intends to 

use in determining student eligibility for 

stipends and stipend amounts, and its 

oversight procedures for the awarding 

and payment of stipends. 

(c) Direct assistance to students. A 

grantee may provide direct assistance 

(as defined elsewhere in this notice 

under the heading Definitions) to a 

student only if the following conditions 

are met: 

(1) The recipient of the direct 

assistance is an individual who is a 

member of a special population (as 

defined in section 3(29) of the Act) and 

who is participating in a NHCTEP 

project. 

(2) The direct assistance is needed to 

address barriers to the individual’s 

successful participation in a NHCTEP 

project. 

(3) The direct assistance is part of a 

broader, more generally focused 

program or activity for addressing the 

needs of an individual who is a member 

of a special population. 

Note: Direct assistance to individuals who 

are members of special populations is not, by 

itself, a ‘‘program or activity for special 

populations.’’ 

(4) The grant funds used for direct 

assistance must be expended to 

supplement, and not supplant, 

assistance that is otherwise available 

from non-Federal sources. For example, 

generally, a community-based 

organization could not use NHCTEP 

funds to provide child care for single 

parents if non-Federal funds previously 

were made available for this purpose, or 

if non-Federal funds are used to provide 

child care services for single parents 

participating in non-career and 

technical education programs and these 

services otherwise (in the absence of 

NHCTEP funds) would have been 

available to career and technical 

education students. 

(5) In determining how much of the 

NHCTEP grant funds it will use for 

direct assistance to an eligible student, 

a grantee— 

(i) May only provide assistance to the 

extent that it is needed to address 

barriers to the individual’s successful 

participation in career and technical 

education; and 

(ii) Considers whether the specific 

services to be provided are a reasonable 

and necessary cost of providing career 

and technical education programs for 

special populations. However, the 

Secretary does not envision a 

circumstance in which it would be a 

reasonable and necessary expenditure of 

NHCTEP project funds for a grantee to 

utilize a majority of a project’s budget to 

pay direct assistance to students, in lieu 

of providing the students served by the 

project with career and technical 

education. 

(d) Career and technical education 

agreement. Any applicant that is not 

proposing to provide career and 

technical education directly to Native 

Hawaiian students and proposes instead 

to pay one or more qualified educational 

entities to provide such career and 

technical education to Native Hawaiian 

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students must include with its 

application a written career and 

technical education agreement between 

the applicant and the educational entity. 

The written agreement must describe 

the commitment between the applicant 

and the educational entity and must 

include, at a minimum, a statement of 

the responsibilities of the applicant and 

the entity. The agreement must be 

signed by the appropriate individuals 

on behalf of each party, such as the 

authorizing official or administrative 

head of the applicant Native Hawaiian 

community-based organization. 

(e) Supplement-Not-Supplant. 

Grantees may not use funds under 

NHCTEP to replace otherwise available 

non-Federal funding for ‘‘direct 

assistance to students’’ (as defined 

elsewhere in this notice under the 

heading Definitions) and family 

assistance programs. For example, 

NHCTEP funds must not be used to 

supplant non-Federal funds to pay the 

costs of students’ tuition, dependent 

care, transportation, books, supplies, 

and other costs associated with 

participation in a career and technical 

education program. 

Further, funds under NHCTEP may 

not be used to replace Federal student 

financial aid. The Act does not 

authorize the Secretary to fund projects 

that serve primarily as entities through 

which students may apply for and 

receive tuition and other financial 

assistance. 

Evaluation Requirements: 

To help ensure the high quality of 

NHCTEP projects and the achievement 

of the goals and purposes of section 

116(h) of the Act, each grantee must 

budget for and conduct an ongoing 

evaluation of the effectiveness of its 

project. An independent evaluator must 

conduct the evaluation. The evaluation 

must— 

(a) Be appropriate for the project and 

be both formative and summative in 

nature; and 

(b) Include— 

(1) Collection and reporting of the 

performance measures for NHCTEP that 

are identified in the Performance 

Measures section of this notice; and 

(2) Qualitative and quantifiable data 

with respect to— 

(i) Academic and career and technical 

competencies demonstrated by the 

participants and the number and kinds 

of academic and work credentials 

acquired by individuals, including their 

participation in programs providing 

skill proficiency assessments, industry 

certifications, or training at the associate 

degree level that is articulated with an 

advanced degree option; 

(ii) Enrollment, completion, and 

placement of participants by gender, for 

each occupation for which training was 

provided; 

(iii) Job or work skill attainment or 

enhancement, including participation in 

apprenticeship and work-based learning 

programs, and student progress in 

achieving technical skill proficiencies 

necessary to obtain employment in the 

field for which the student has been 

prepared, including attainment or 

enhancement of technical skills in the 

industry the student is preparing to 

enter; 

(iv) Activities, during the formative 

stages of the project, to help guide and 

improve the project, as well as a 

summative evaluation that includes 

recommendations for disseminating 

information on project activities and 

results; 

(v) The number and percentage of 

students who obtained industryrecognized credentials, certificates, or 

degrees; 

(vi) The outcomes of students’ 

technical assessments, by type and 

scores, if available; 

(vii) The rates of attainment of a 

proficiency credential or certificate, in 

conjunction with a secondary school 

diploma; 

(viii) The effectiveness of the project, 

including a comparison between the 

intended and observed results and a 

demonstration of a clear link between 

the observed results and the specific 

treatment given to project participants; 

(ix) The extent to which information 

about or resulting from the project was 

disseminated at other sites, such as 

through the grantee’s development and 

use of guides or manuals that provide 

step-by-step directions for practitioners 

to follow when initiating similar efforts; 

and 

(x) The impact of the project, e.g., 

follow-up data on students’ 

employment, sustained employment, 

promotions, further and continuing 

education or training, or the impact the 

project had on Native Hawaiian 

economic development or career and 

technical education activities. 

Performance Measures: The Assistant 

Secretary establishes the following core 

factors and measures for evaluating the 

overall effectiveness of the NHCTEP and 

projects supported under this program. 

(a) Number of Secondary, 

Postsecondary, and Adult Projects. The 

number of secondary, postsecondary, 

and adult programs that— 

(1) Apply industry-recognized skill 

standards so that students can earn skill 

certificates in those projects; and 

(2) Offer skill competencies, related 

assessments, and industry-recognized 

skill certificates in an area of study 

offered by secondary and postsecondary 

institutions. 

(b) Secondary Projects. The 

percentage of participating secondary 

career and technical education students 

who— 

(1) Meet or exceed State proficiency 

standards in reading/language arts and 

mathematics; 

(2) Attain a secondary school diploma 

or its State-recognized equivalent, or a 

proficiency credential in conjunction 

with a secondary school diploma; 

(3) Attain career and technical 

education skill proficiencies aligned 

with industry-recognized standards; and 

(4) Are placed in postsecondary 

education, advanced training, military 

service, or employment in high-skill, 

high-wage, and high-demand 

occupations or in current or emerging 

occupations. 

(c) Postsecondary Projects. 

The percentage of participating 

postsecondary students in career and 

technical education programs who— 

(1) Receive postsecondary degrees, 

certificates, or credentials; 

(2) Attain career and technical 

education skill proficiencies aligned 

with industry-recognized standards; 

(3) Receive industry-recognized 

credentials, certificates, or degrees; 

(4) Are retained in postsecondary 

education or transfer to a baccalaureate 

degree program; and 

(5) Are placed in military service or 

apprenticeship programs, or are placed 

in employment, receive an employment 

promotion, or retain employment. 

(d) Adult Projects. The percentage of 

participating adult career and technical 

education students who— 

(1) Enroll in a postsecondary 

education or training program; 

(2) Attain career and technical 

education skill proficiencies aligned 

with industry-recognized standards; 

(3) Receive industry-recognized 

credentials, certificates, or degrees; and 

(4) Are placed in employment, receive 

an employment promotion, or retain 

employment. 

Note: All grantees must submit an annual 

performance report addressing these 

performance measures, to the extent feasible 

and to the extent that they apply to each 

grantee’s NHCTEP project. 

Additional Statutory Requirement: 

Limitation on services. Section 315 of 

the Act prohibits the use of funds 

received under the Act to provide career 

and technical education programs to 

students prior to the seventh grade, 

except that equipment and facilities 

purchased with funds under the Act 

may be used by such students. (20 

U.S.C. 2395) 

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Definitions: The following definitions 

govern this program. The definitions of 

the terms acute economic need, 

coherent sequence of courses, direct 

assistance to students, and stipend are 

from the notice of final requirements, 

definitions, and selection criteria 

published elsewhere in this issue of the 

Federal Register. The definitions of the 

remaining terms are from section 3 of 

the Act (20 U.S.C. 2303). 

Acute economic need means an 

income that is at or below the national 

poverty level according to the latest 

available data from the U.S. Department 

of Commerce or the U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services Poverty 

Guidelines. 

Career and technical education means 

organized educational activities that— 

(a) Offer a sequence of courses that— 

(1) Provides individuals with 

coherent and rigorous content aligned 

with challenging academic standards 

and relevant technical knowledge and 

skills needed to prepare for further 

education and careers in current or 

emerging professions; 

(2) Provides technical skills 

proficiency, an industry-recognized 

credential, a certificate, or an associate 

degree; and 

(3) May include prerequisite courses 

(other than remedial courses) that meet 

the requirements of this definition; and 

(b) Include competency-based applied 

learning that contributes to the 

academic knowledge, higher-order 

reasoning and problem-solving skills, 

work attitudes, general employability 

skills, technical skills, and occupationspecific skills, and knowledge of all 

aspects of an industry, including 

entrepreneurship, of an individual. (20 

U.S.C. 2302(5)) 

Coherent sequence of courses means a 

series of courses in which career and 

academic education are integrated, and 

that directly relates to, and leads to, 

both academic and occupational 

competencies. The term includes 

competency-based education and 

academic education, and adult training 

or retraining, including sequential units 

encompassed within a single adult 

retraining course that otherwise meets 

the requirements of this definition. 

Direct assistance to students means 

tuition, dependent care, transportation, 

books, and supplies that are necessary 

for a student to participate in a project 

funded under this program. 

Individual with a disability means an 

individual with any disability (as 

defined in section 3 of the Americans 

with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 

12102)). (20 U.S.C. 2302(17)) 

Individual with limited English 

proficiency means a secondary school 

student, an adult, or an out-of-school 

youth, who has limited ability in 

speaking, reading, writing, or 

understanding the English language, 

and— 

(a) Whose native language is a 

language other than English; or 

(b) Who lives in a family or 

community environment in which a 

language other than English is the 

dominant language. (20 U.S.C. 2302(16)) 

Native Hawaiian means any 

individual any of whose ancestors were 

natives, prior to 1778, of the area that 

now comprises the State of Hawaii. (20 

U.S.C. 2326(a)(4)) 

Non-traditional fields means 

occupations or fields of work, including 

careers in computer science, technology, 

and other current and emerging highskill occupations, for which individuals 

from one gender comprise less than 25 

percent of the individuals employed in 

each such occupation or field of work. 

(20 U.S.C. 2302(20)) 

Special populations means— 

(a) Individuals with disabilities; 

(b) Individuals from economically 

disadvantaged families, including foster 

children; 

(c) Individuals preparing for nontraditional fields; 

(d) Single parents, including single 

pregnant women; 

(e) Displaced homemakers; and 

(f) Individuals with limited English 

proficiency. (20 U.S.C. 2302(29)) 

Stipend means a subsistence 

allowance— 

(a) For a student who is enrolled in a 

career and technical education program 

funded under the NHCTEP; 

(b) For a student who has an acute 

economic need that cannot be met 

through work-study programs; and 

(c) That is necessary for the student to 

participate in a project funded under 

this program. 

Support services means services 

related to curriculum modification, 

equipment modification, classroom 

modification, supportive personnel, and 

instructional aids and devices. (20 

U.S.C. 2302(31)) 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 2326(a)– 

(h). 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 81, 82, 84, 85, 

86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The notice of final 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria published elsewhere in this 

issue of the Federal Register. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$2,898,270 is available for the NHCTEP 

from the FY 2008 appropriation. 

Funding for the second and third years 

is subject to the availability of funds and 

to a grantee meeting the requirements of 

34 CFR 75.253. Contingent upon the 

availability of funds and the quality of 

applications, we may make additional 

awards in FY 2010 from the list of 

unfunded applicants from this 

competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$250,000—$500,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$289,827. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 10. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants 

(a) Community-based organizations 

primarily serving and representing 

Native Hawaiians. For purposes of the 

NHCTEP, a community-based 

organization means a public or private 

organization that provides career and 

technical education, or related services, 

to individuals in the Native Hawaiian 

community. 

(b) Any community-based 

organization may apply individually or 

as a part of a consortium with one or 

more eligible community-based 

organizations. (34 CFR 75.127) 

2. a. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not involve cost sharing 

or matching requirements, but does 

involve supplement-not-supplant 

funding provisions. (See the 

Supplement-Not-Supplant section of 

this notice.) 

b. Supplement-Not-Supplant: In 

accordance with section 311(a) of the 

Act, funds under this program may not 

be used to supplant non-Federal funds 

used to carry out career and technical 

education activities and tech prep 

program activities. Furthermore, the 

prohibition against supplanting also 

means that grantees are required to use 

their negotiated restricted indirect cost 

rates under this program. (34 CFR 

75.563) 

The Secretary cautions applicants not 

to plan to use funds under NHCTEP to 

replace otherwise available non-Federal 

funding for ‘‘direct assistance to 

students,’’ (as defined elsewhere in this 

notice) and family assistance programs. 

For example, NHCTEP funds must not 

be used to supplant non-Federal funds 

to pay the costs of students’ tuition, 

dependent care, transportation, books, 

supplies, and other costs associated 

with participation in a career and 

technical education program. 

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Further, funds under NHCTEP may 

not be used to replace Federal student 

financial aid. The Secretary wishes to 

highlight that the Act does not authorize 

the Secretary to fund projects that serve 

primarily as entities through which 

students may apply for and receive 

tuition and other financial assistance. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address to Request Application 

Package: Nancy Essey, U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., room 11070, Potomac Center Plaza 

(PCP), Washington, DC 20202–7241. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7789. Fax: (202) 

245–7170 or by e-mail: 

nancy.essey@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

You can also obtain an application 

package via the Internet from the 

following address: http:// 

www.grants.gov/. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy the application package in 

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

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

by contacting the program contact 

person listed in this section. 

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 the 

application narrative [Part III] to 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, including titles, 

headings, footnotes, quotations, 

references, and captions, as well as all 

text in charts, tables, figures, and 

graphs. 

• Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger or no smaller than 10 pitch 

(characters per inch). 

• 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 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, the bibliography, the 

letters of support, or documentation of 

the applicant’s eligibility. However, the 

page limit does apply to all of the 

application narrative section [Part III]. 

Our reviewers will not read any pages 

of your application that exceed the page 

limit. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: March 24, 

2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 23, 2009. 

Applications for grants under this 

program 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 by mail or hand 

delivery if you qualify for an exception 

to the electronic submission 

requirement, please refer to section IV.6. 

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. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is not subject to Executive 

Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 

CFR part 79. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We reference 

regulations outlining funding restriction 

in the Applicable Regulations section of 

this notice. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

program 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 

NHCTEP, CFDA number 84.259A, 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 e-mail 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 NHCTEP 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 84.259, not 84.259A). 

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 

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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 at http://e-Grants.ed.gov/

help/GrantsgovSubmission

Procedures.pdf. 

• To submit your application via 

Grants.gov, you must complete all steps 

in the Grants.gov registration process 

(see http://www.grants.gov/applicants/ 

get_registered.jsp). These steps include 

(1) registering your organization, a 

multi-part process that includes 

registration with the Central Contractor 

Registry (CCR); (2) registering yourself 

as an Authorized Organization 

Representative (AOR); and (3) getting 

authorized as an AOR by your 

organization. Details on these steps are 

outlined in the Grants.gov 3-Step 

Registration Guide (see http:// 

www.grants.gov/section910/ 

Grants.govRegistrationBrochure.pdf). 

You also must provide on your 

application the same D-U-N-S Number 

used with this registration. Please note 

that the registration process may take 

five or more business days to complete, 

and you must have completed all 

registration steps to allow you to submit 

successfully an application via 

Grants.gov. In addition you will need to 

update your CCR registration on an 

annual basis. This may take three or 

more business days to complete. 

• 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: 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 attach any narrative 

sections of your application as files in 

a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich text), or 

.PDF (Portable Document) format. If you 

upload a file type other than the three 

file types specified in this paragraph 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 e-mail. 

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 

exception prevent 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: Nancy Essey, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., room 11070, PCP, 

Washington, 20202–7241. FAX: (202) 

245–7170. 

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 84.259A), 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: 

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(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 84.259A), 550 12th 

Street, SW., Room 7041, 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 

Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this program are from the 

notice of final requirements, definitions, 

and selection criteria published 

elsewhere in this issue of the Federal 

Register and are as follows: 

(a) Quality of the project design. (35 

points) In determining the quality of the 

design of the proposed project, we 

consider the following factors: 

(1) The extent to which the design of 

the proposed project is appropriate to 

and will successfully address the needs 

of the target population or other 

identified needs (as evidenced by such 

data as local labor market demand, 

occupational trends, and surveys). (5 

points) 

(2) The extent to which goals, 

objectives, and outcomes are clearly 

specified and measurable. (For example, 

we look for clear descriptions of 

proposed student career and technical 

education activities; recruitment and 

retention strategies; expected student 

enrollments, completions, and 

placements in jobs, military specialties, 

and continuing education/training 

opportunities; the number of teachers, 

counselors, and administrators to be 

trained; and identification of 

requirements for each program of study 

to be provided under the project, 

including related training areas and a 

description of performance outcomes.) 

(10 points) 

(3) The extent to which the proposed 

project will establish linkages with 

other appropriate agencies (e.g., 

community, State, and other Federal 

resources) and organizations providing 

services to the target population in order 

to improve services to students and 

strengthen outcomes for the proposed 

project. (5 points) 

(4) The extent to which the services 

to be provided by the proposed project 

will create and offer activities that focus 

on enabling participants to obtain the 

skills necessary to gain employment in 

high-skill, high-wage, and high-demand 

occupations in emerging fields or in a 

specific career field. (5 points) 

(5) The extent to which the services 

to be provided by the proposed project 

will create opportunities for students to 

acquire skills identified by the State at 

the secondary level or by industryrecognized career and technical 

education programs for licensure, 

degree, certification, or as required by a 

career or profession. (5 points) 

(6) The extent to which the proposed 

project will provide opportunities for 

high-quality training or professional 

development services that— 

(i) Are of sufficient quality, intensity, 

and duration to lead to improvements in 

practice among instructional personnel; 

(ii) Will improve and increase 

instructional personnel’s knowledge 

and skills to help students meet 

challenging and rigorous academic and 

career and technical skill proficiencies; 

(iii) Will advance instructional 

personnel’s understanding of effective 

instructional strategies that are 

supported by scientifically based 

research; and 

(iv) Include professional development 

plans that clearly address ways in 

which learning gaps will be addressed 

and how continuous review of 

performance will be conducted to 

identify training needs. (5 points) 

(b) Quality of the management plan. 

(15 points) In determining the quality of 

the management plan for the proposed 

project, we consider the following 

factors: 

(1) The adequacy of the management 

plan to achieve the objectives of the 

proposed project on time and within 

budget, including clearly defined 

responsibilities, timelines, and the 

milestones and performance standards 

for accomplishing project tasks. (5 

points) 

(2) The extent to which the time 

commitments of the project director and 

other key project personnel, including 

instructors, are appropriate and 

adequate to meet the objectives of the 

proposed project. (5 points) 

(3) The adequacy of procedures for 

ensuring feedback and continuous 

improvement in the operation of the 

proposed project. (5 points) 

(c) Quality of data collection plan. (10 

points) In determining the quality of the 

data collection plan, we consider the 

following factors: 

(1) The adequacy of procedures and 

methods for collecting data. (5 points) 

(2) The adequacy of the data 

collection plan in allowing comparison 

with other similar secondary, 

postsecondary, and adult career and 

technical education programs. (5 points) 

(d) Quality of project personnel. (25 

points) In determining the quality of 

project personnel, we consider the 

following factors: 

(1) The extent to which the applicant 

encourages applications for employment 

from persons who are members of 

groups that have traditionally been 

underrepresented based on race, color, 

national origin, gender, age, or 

disability. (5 points) 

(2) The qualifications, including 

relevant training, expertise, and 

experience, of the project director. (5 

points) 

(3) The qualifications, including 

relevant training, expertise, and 

experience, of key project personnel, 

especially the extent to which the 

project will use instructors who are 

certified to teach in the field in which 

they will provide instruction. (10 

points) 

(4) The qualifications, including 

training, expertise, and experience, of 

project consultants. (5 points) 

(e) Adequacy of resources. (15 points) 

In determining the adequacy of 

resources for the proposed project, we 

consider the following factors: 

(1) The adequacy of support, 

including facilities, equipment, 

supplies, and other resources, from the 

applicant organization(s) and the 

entities to be served, including the 

evidence and relevance of commitments 

(e.g., articulation agreements, 

memoranda of understanding, letters of 

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support, or commitments to employ 

project participants) of the applicant, 

local employers, or entities to be served 

by the project. (5 points) 

(2) The extent to which the budget is 

adequate and costs are reasonable in 

relation to the objectives and design of 

the proposed project. (5 points) 

(3) The potential for continued 

support of the project after Federal 

funding ends. (5 points) 

(f) Quality of the project evaluation. 

(20 points) In determining the quality of 

the evaluation, we consider the 

following factors: 

(1) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation proposed by the grantee 

are thorough, feasible, and appropriate 

to the goals, objectives, and outcomes of 

the proposed project. (5 points) 

(2) 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 the performance 

measures discussed elsewhere in this 

notice and will produce quantitative 

and qualitative data, to the extent 

possible. (5 points) 

(3) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation will provide performance 

feedback and continuous improvement 

toward achieving intended outcomes. (5 

points) 

(4) The quality of the proposed 

evaluation to be conducted by an 

external evaluator with the necessary 

background and technical expertise to 

carry out the evaluation. (5 points) 

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). 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: 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), Federal 

departments and agencies must clearly 

describe the goals and objectives of their 

programs, identify resources and actions 

needed to accomplish these goals and 

objectives, develop a means of 

measuring progress made, and regularly 

report on their achievement. One 

important source of program 

information on successes and lessons 

learned is the project evaluation 

conducted under individual grants. The Department has established the 

following core factors and measures for 

evaluating the overall effectiveness of 

the NHCTEP and projects supported 

under this program. Consequently, we 

advise an applicant for a grant under 

this program to give careful 

consideration to these core factors and 

measures. (a) Number of Secondary, 

Postsecondary, and Adult Projects. The 

number of secondary, postsecondary, 

and adult programs that— (1) Apply industry-recognized skill 

standards so that students can earn skill 

certificates in those projects; and (2) Offer skill competencies, related 

assessments, and industry-recognized 

skill certificates in an area of study 

offered by secondary and postsecondary 

institutions. 

(b) Secondary Projects. The 

percentage of participating secondary 

career and technical education students 

who— 

(1) Meet or exceed State proficiency 

standards in reading/language arts and 

mathematics; 

(2) Attain a secondary school diploma 

or its State-recognized equivalent, or a 

proficiency credential in conjunction 

with a secondary school diploma; (3) Attain career and technical 

education skill proficiencies aligned 

with industry-recognized standards; and (4) Are placed in postsecondary 

education, advanced training, military 

service, or employment in high-skill, 

high-wage, and high-demand 

occupations or in current or emerging 

occupations. (c) Postsecondary Projects. The percentage of participating 

postsecondary students in career and 

technical education programs who— (1) Receive postsecondary degrees, 

certificates, or credentials; 

(2) Attain career and technical 

education skill proficiencies aligned 

with industry-recognized standards; 

(3) Receive industry-recognized 

credentials, certificates, or degrees; 

(4) Are retained in postsecondary 

education or transfer to a baccalaureate 

degree program; and 

(5) Are placed in military service or 

apprenticeship programs, or are placed 

in employment, receive an employment 

promotion, or retain employment. 

(d) Adult Projects. The percentage of 

participating adult career and technical 

education students who— 

(1) Enroll in a postsecondary 

education or training program; 

(2) Attain career and technical 

education skill proficiencies aligned 

with industry-recognized standards; 

(3) Receive industry-recognized 

credentials, certificates, or degrees; and 

(4) Are placed in employment, receive 

an employment promotion, or retain 

employment. 

Note: All grantees must submit an annual 

performance report addressing these 

performance measures, to the extent feasible 

and to the extent that they apply to each 

grantee’s NHCTEP project. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Nancy Essey, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 11070, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–7241. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7789, or by e-mail: nancy.essey@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this notice and a 

copy of the application package in an 

accessible format (e.g., Braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

person listed under For Further 

Informaiton Contact in section VII of 

this notice. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

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) on the Internet at the 

following site: www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister. 

To use PDF you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 

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DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: 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 on GPO 

Access at: www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: March 19, 2009. 

Dennis L. Berry, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Vocational and 

Adult Education. 

[FR Doc. E9–6444 Filed 3–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Native Hawaiian Career and Technical 

Education Program (NHCTEP); Catalog 

of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.259A 

AGENCY: Office of Vocational and Adult 

Education, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of final requirements, 

definitions, and selection criteria. 

SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for 

Vocational and Adult Education 

establishes requirements, definitions, 

and selection criteria under the Native 

Hawaiian Career and Technical 

Education Program (NHCTEP). The 

Assistant Secretary may use these 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria in competitions in fiscal year 

(FY) 2009 and later years. 

Effective Date: These requirements, 

definitions, and selection criteria are 

effective April 23, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy Essey, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Room 11070, Potomac Center Plaza 

(PCP), Washington, DC 20202–7241. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7789 or by e-mail: 

nancy.essey@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 

1–800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of Program: The Native 

Hawaiian Career and Technical 

Education Program provides grants to 

eligible applicants to plan, conduct, and 

administer programs, or portions of 

programs, that are authorized by and 

consistent with the purposes of section 

116 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and 

Technical Education Act of 2006 (Act) 

for the benefit of Native Hawaiians. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 2326(a)– 

(h). 

We published a notice of proposed 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria for this program in the Federal 

Register on January 23, 2009 (74 FR 

4155). That notice contained 

background information and our reasons 

for proposing the particular 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria. We are not repeating that 

information in this notice. 

There are no differences between the 

proposed requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria we published on 

January 23, 2009 and these final 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria. 

Public Comment: In response to our 

invitation in the notice of proposed 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria, we did not receive any 

comments on the proposed 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria. 

Final Requirements: Consistent with 

the Act, the Assistant Secretary 

establishes the following requirements 

for this program. We may apply these 

requirements in any year in which this 

program is in effect. 

I. Authorized Programs, Services, and 

Activities 

(a) Authorized Programs. In 

accordance with section 116(e) of the 

Act, under this program, NHCTEP 

projects must— 

(1) Develop new programs, services, 

or activities or improve or expand 

existing programs, services, or activities 

that are consistent with the purposes of 

the Act. In other words, the Department 

will support ‘‘expansions’’ or 

‘‘improvements’’ that include, but are 

not necessarily limited to, the expansion 

of effective programs or practices; 

upgrading of activities, equipment, or 

materials; increasing staff capacity; 

adoption of new technology; 

modification of curriculum; or 

implementation of new policies to 

improve program effectiveness and 

outcomes; and 

(2) Fund a career and technical 

education program, service, or activity 

that— 

(i) Is a new program, service, or 

activity that was not provided by the 

applicant during the instructional term 

(a defined period, such as a semester, 

trimester, or quarter, within the 

academic year) that preceded the 

request for funding under NHCTEP; 

(ii) Will improve or expand an 

existing career and technical education 

program; or 

(iii) Inherently improves career and 

technical education. A program, service, 

or activity ‘‘inherently improves career 

and technical education’’ if it— 

(A) Develops new career and 

technical education programs of study 

for approval by the appropriate 

accreditation agency; 

(B) Strengthens the rigor of the 

academic and career and technical 

components of funded programs; 

(C) Uses curriculum that is aligned 

with industry-recognized standards and 

will result in students attaining 

industry-recognized credentials, 

certificates, or degrees; 

(D) Integrates academics (other than 

remedial courses) with career and 

technical education programs through a 

coherent sequence of courses to help 

ensure learning in the core academic 

and career and technical subjects; 

(E) Links career and technical 

education at the secondary level with 

career and technical education at the 

postsecondary level, and facilitates 

students’ pursuit of a baccalaureate 

degree; 

(F) Expands the scope, depth, and 

relevance of curriculum, especially 

content that provides students with a 

comprehensive understanding of all 

aspects of an industry and a variety of 

hands-on, job-specific experiences; or 

(G) Offers— 

(1) Work-related experience, 

internships, cooperative education, 

school-based enterprises, studies in 

entrepreneurship, community service 

learning, and job shadowing that are 

related to career and technical 

education programs; 

(2) Coaching/mentoring, support 

services, and extra help for students 

after school, on the weekends, or during 

the summer so they can meet higher 

standards; 

(3) Career guidance and academic 

counseling for students participating in 

career and technical education programs 

under NHCTEP; 

(4) Placement services for students 

who have successfully completed career 

and technical education programs and 

attained a technical skill proficiency 

that is aligned with industry-recognized 

standards; 

(5) Professional development 

programs for teachers, counselors, and 

administrators; 

(6) Strong partnerships among 

grantees and local educational agencies, 

postsecondary institutions, community 

leaders, adult education providers, and, 

as appropriate, other entities, such as 

employers, labor organizations, parents, 

and local partnerships, to enable 

students to achieve State academic 

standards and attain career and 

technical skills; 

(7) The use of student assessment and 

evaluation data to improve continually 

instruction and staff development; or 

(8) Research, development, 

demonstration, dissemination, 

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