21396 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 83 / Monday, May 1, 1995 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.168E]

Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional

Development Federal Activities

Program: Initial Teacher Professional

Development Projects. Notice Inviting

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal

Year 1995

Purpose of Program: To support

activities that develop and implement

high-quality professional development

for K–2 teachers in the core academic

subjects, and that are likely to generate

findings of national significance and to

stimulate reform in the field of teacher

professional development nationally.

Eligible Applicants: The Secretary is

authorized to make grants to local

educational agencies, educational

service agencies, State educational

agencies, State agencies for higher

education, institutions of higher

education, and other public and private

agencies, organizations, and

institutions.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: June 23, 1995.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: August 23, 1995.

Applications Available: May 8, 1995.

Available Funds: $3,000,000.

Estimated Range of Awards:

$300,000–$500,000 per year.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$400,000 per year.

Estimated Number of Awards: 6–9.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 36 months.

Budget Period: Up to 12 months.

Applicable Regulations: The

Education Department General

Administration Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR Parts 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81,

85, and 86.

Priority: The notice of final priority as

published elsewhere in this issue of the

Federal Register applies to this

competition. Only applications that

meet this priority will be considered.

This program and priority support

GOALS 2000, the President’s strategy

for moving the Nation toward

achievement of the National Education

Goals.

For Applications or Information,

Contact: Carolyn Warren, Annora

Dorsey, or Trudy Turner, U.S.

Department of Education, Room 502,

555 New Jersey Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20208–572. FAX

request for application to (202) 219–106;

telephone (202) 219–206. Individuals

who use a telecommunications device

for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339 between the hours of 8

a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday

through Friday of each week except

Federal holidays.

Information about the Department’s

funding opportunities, including copies

of application notices for discretionary

grant competitions, can be viewed on

the Department’s electronic bulletin

board (ED Board), telephone (202) 260–

9950; or on the Internet Gopher Server

at GOPHER.ED.GOV (under

Announcements, Bulletins, and Press

Releases). However the official

application notice for a discretionary

grant competition is the notice

published in the Federal Register.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6621–

6622.

Dated: April 26, 1995.

Sharon P. Robinson,

Assistant Secretary for Educational Research

and Improvement.

[FR Doc. 95–10636 Filed 4–28–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

Eisenhower Professional Development

Federal Activities Program—Initial

Teacher Professional Development

Projects

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of final priority for (FY)

Fiscal Year 1995.

SUMMARY: The Secretary announces an

absolute priority for a FY 1995

competition under the Dwight D.

Eisenhower Professional Development

Federal Activities Program to support

innovative Statewide policies and

practices in the broad area of initial

professional development for K–12

teachers of core academic subjects.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This absolute priority

takes effect May 31, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Trudy Turner or Annora Dorsey, U.S.

Department of Education, 555 New

Jersey Avenue, N.W., Room 500,

Washington, D.C. 20208–5572. Fax:

(202) 219–2106; Telephone: (202) 219–

2206. Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time,

Monday through Friday except Federal

holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The goal

of the Dwight D. Eisenhower

Professional Development Program is to

provide K–12 teachers with sustained

and intensive high-quality professional

development that will improve teaching

in the core academic subjects, and that

is consistent with challenging State

content standards, in order to enable all

children to meet challenging State

student performance standards. The

Secretary has supported, and will

continue to support, in-service

professional development of K–12

teachers. However, the Secretary

believes these efforts must be integrated

with additional attention to initial

teacher professional development and

alignment of State requirements for

licensure and induction with

challenging State content and student

performance standards if sustained

change is to occur in American

education.

Funded projects should address

reform of all aspects of teacher

preparation, including recruitment and

selection of teacher candidates,

collaboration of colleges of education

with colleges of arts and sciences,

curriculum and instruction offered in

teacher preparation programs, faculty

incentives and development strategies,

clinical experiences of teacher

candidates, State-level licensing policies

and procedures, and support for

teachers in the initial years of teaching

in schools.

Absolute Priority

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) the

Secretary gives an absolute preference to

applications that meet the following

priority. The Secretary will fund under

this competition only applications that

meet this priority.

Initial Teacher Professional

Development Projects

The Secretary will support projects to

promote Statewide reform in the area of

K–12 preservice teacher professional

development, including preparation,

licensing, and induction (first 1–3 years

of teaching). Each project must form a

consortium of the State education

agency, State agency of higher

education, one or more institutions of

higher education, and one or more local

education agencies to develop and

implement a plan for aligning State

policies regarding teacher licensing and

induction at the State and local levels

with challenging State content and

student performance standards in the

core academic subjects.

Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking

In accordance with the

Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C.

553), it is the practice of the Department

of Education to offer interested parties

the opportunity to comment on

proposed regulations that are not taken

directly from statute. Ordinarily, this

practice would have applied to the

absolute priority in this notice.