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TABLE B—2021–2022 AWARD YEAR DEADLINE DATES BY WHICH AN INSTITUTION MUST SUBMIT DISBURSEMENT INFORMATION FOR THE PELL GRANT, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN SERVICE GRANT, DIRECT LOAN AND TEACH GRANT PROGRAMS 1—Continued 

Which program? What is submitted? Under what circumstances is it 

submitted? Where is it submitted? 

What are the deadlines 

for disbursement and for 

submission of records 

and information? 

TEACH Grant and Direct Loan 

programs.

An origination or disbursement 

record.

(a) A program review or initial 

audit finding under 34 CFR 

690.83;.

(b) A late disbursement under 

34 CFR 668.164(j); or.

(c) Disbursements previously 

blocked as a result of another institution failing to 

post a downward adjustment..

............................................. When the institution is fully 

reconciled and is ready to 

submit all additional data for 

the program and the award 

year. 

Pell Grant and Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant programs.An origination or disbursement 

record.

It is after the deadline submission date and the institution 

has received approval of its 

request for an extension to 

the deadline submission 

date based on a natural disaster, other unusual circumstances, or an administrative error made by the Department..

Via the COD website at: 

https://cod.ed.gov.

The earlier of: 

(a) A date designated by the 

Secretary after consultation 

with the institution; or 

(b) February 1, 2023. 

Pell Grant and Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant programs.An origination or disbursement 

record.

It is after the deadline submission date and the institution 

has received approval of its 

request for administrative relief to extend the deadline 

submission date based on a 

student’s reentry to the institution within 180 days after 

initially withdrawing.3.

Via the COD website at: 

https://cod.ed.gov.

The earlier of: 

(a) 15 days after the student 

reenrolls; or 

(b) May 2, 2023. 

1A COD Processing Year is a period of time in which institutions are permitted to submit Direct Loan records to the COD System that are related to a given award 

year. For a Direct Loan, the period of time includes loans that have a loan period covering any day in the 2021–2022 award year. 2Transmissions must be completed and accepted before the designated processing time on the deadline submission date. The designated processing time is published annually via an electronic announcement posted to the Knowledge Center via FSA’s Partner Connect website at: (https://fsapartners.ed.gov/home/). If transmissions are started at the designated time, but are not completed until after the designated time, those transmissions will not meet the deadline. In addition, any 

transmission submitted on or just prior to the deadline date that is rejected may not be reprocessed because the deadline will have passed by the time the user gets 

the information notifying him or her of the rejection. 3Applies only to students enrolled in clock-hour and nonterm credit-hour educational programs. 

Note: The COD System must accept origination data for a student from an institution before it accepts disbursement information from the institution for that student. 

Institutions may submit origination and disbursement data for a student in the same transmission. However, if the origination data is rejected, the disbursement data is 

rejected. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for Selection as a 

Performance Partnership Pilot; 

Performance Partnership Pilots for 

Disconnected Youth 

AGENCY: Office of Career, Technical, and 

Adult Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(ED or Department) is issuing a notice 

inviting applications for selection as a 

performance partnership pilot for fiscal 

year (FY) 2021 under the Performance 

Partnership Pilots for Disconnected 

Youth (P3) authority. This notice relates 

to the approved information collection 

under OMB control number 1830–0575. 

DATES: 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: August 23, 2021. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: October 22, 2021. 

Deadline for Requests for Technical 

Assistance (optional): July 26, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Braden Goetz, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue SW, Room 11141, Potomac 

Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7405. Email: 

DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov. Or Corinne 

Sauri, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 10362, 

Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 245–6412. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Braden Goetz, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room 10401, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: 

(202) 245–7405. Email: 

DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov. Or Corinne 

Sauri, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 10362, 

Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 245–6412. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Pilot Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: P3 was first 

authorized by Congress in FY 2014 by 

the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2014 (2014 Act), and the authority has 

been included by Congress in 

appropriations acts each year since FY 

2014, most recently in the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2021 (Pub. L. 116– 

260) (2021 Act). The FY 2021 P3 

authority enables pilot sites to blend FY 

2021 Federal funds and obtain waivers 

of program requirements, including 

statutory, regulatory, and administrative 

requirements that are barriers to 

achieving improved outcomes for youthserving programs included in the 

authority. Under P3, pilots can test 

innovative strategies to achieve 

significant improvements in 


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1Lewis, Kristen (2020), A Decade Undone: Youth 

Disconnection in the Age of Coronavirus. New 

York: Measure of America, Social Science Research 

Council. Retrieved from: https://ssrc-static.s3.

amazonaws.com/moa/ADecadeUndone.pdf. 

2 Kochhar, Rakesh (June 9, 2020), Fact Tank News 

in Numbers: Hispanic women, immigrants, young 

adults, those with less education hit hardest by 

COVID–19 job losses. Washington, DC: Pew 

Research Center. Retrieved from: https://

www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/09/ 

hispanic-women-immigrants-young-adults-thosewith-less-education-hit-hardest-by-covid-19-joblosses/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/09/ 

hispanic-women-immigrants-young-adults-thosewith-less-education-hit-hardest-by-covid-19-joblosses/. 

3Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of 

Labor (May 7, 2021), Labor Force Statistics from the 

Current Population Survey. Retrieved from: https:// 

www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htmwww.

bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm. 

4Lewis, op cit., p. 22. 

5https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2021/01/27/2021-01923/economic-relief-related-tothe-covid-19-pandemicwww.federalregister.gov/ 

documents/2021/01/27/2021-01923/economicrelief-related-to-the-covid-19- 

pandemicwww.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2021/01/27/2021-01923/economic-relief-related-tothe-covid-19-pandemicwww.federalregister.gov/ 

documents/2021/01/27/2021-01923/economicrelief-related-to-the-covid-19-pandemic. 

6https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2021/01/25/2021-01753/advancing-racial-equityand-support-for-underserved-communities-throughthe-federal-governmentwww.federalregister.gov/ 

documents/2021/01/25/2021-01753/advancingracial-equity-and-support-for-underservedcommunities-through-the-federal-government. 

7 DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs was first 

authorized to enter into performance agreements by 

the Consolidated and Further Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2015. 

8For the purposes of P3, discretionary funds are 

funds that Congress appropriates on an annual 

basis, rather than through a standing authorization. 

They exclude ‘‘entitlement’’ (or mandatory) 

programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, 

Medicaid, most Foster Care IV–E programs, 

Vocational Rehabilitation State Grants, and 

Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. 

Discretionary programs administered by the 

Agencies support a broad set of public services, 

including education, workforce development, 

health and mental health, and other low-income 

assistance programs. 

educational, employment, and other key 

outcomes for disconnected youth using 

the flexibility provided by P3. 

Background: 

The economic crisis that has resulted 

from the coronavirus disease 2019 

(COVID–19) pandemic threatens to erase 

nearly a decade of progress in reducing 

the percentage of young people ages 16 

to 24 in the United States who are 

neither employed nor enrolled in 

school, also known as disconnected 

youth. Between 2010 and 2018, the most 

recent year for which complete data are 

available, the percentage of youth who 

were disconnected dropped from 14.7 

percent to 11.2 percent.1 However, the 

COVID–19 recession has had a severe 

impact on the employment of young 

adults ages 16 to 24, with one-quarter of 

them losing their jobs from February to 

May 2020.2 While the youth 

unemployment rate has declined 

somewhat since that time, it remains 

high. In April 2021, the unemployment 

rate for 16- to 19-year-olds was 12.3 

percent, while the unemployment rate 

for 20- to 24-year-olds was 10.5 

percent.3

Even prior to the current recession, 

however, large gaps in the percentage of 

young people ages 16 to 24 who were 

neither working nor enrolled in school 

persisted among young people of 

different racial and ethnic groups. In 

2018, the disconnection rate for white 

youth was 9.2 percent, while the 

disconnection rates for Black, Hispanic, 

and Native American youth were 17.4 

percent, 12.8 percent, and 23.4 percent, 

respectively. While the overall 

disconnection rate was lowest for Asian 

youth, 6.2 percent, there were high rates 

of disconnection among some Asian 

subgroups, with 13.8 percent of 

Cambodian youth and 10.2 percent of 

Hmong youth disconnected in 2018.4

President Biden has committed the 

full resources of the Federal government 

to reversing the economic crisis caused 

by the pandemic. In Executive Order 

14002, Economic Relief Related to the 

COVID–19 Pandemic, he directed 

Federal agencies to consider actions that 

improve access to, reduce unnecessary 

barriers to, and improve coordination 

among programs funded in whole or in 

part by the Federal Government.5 In 

Executive Order 13985, Advancing 

Racial Equity and Support for 

Underserved Communities Through the 

Federal Government, the President 

committed the Administration to a 

whole-of-government equity agenda to 

address inequities and systemic racism. 

Federal agencies were challenged to 

take a comprehensive approach to 

advancing equity for all, including 

people of color and others who have 

been historically underserved, 

marginalized, and adversely affected by 

persistent poverty and inequality.6 P3 

may be a useful tool for advancing 

policy objectives in both Executive 

orders. 

P3 gives ED; the Departments of Labor 

(DOL), Health and Human Services 

(HHS), and Justice (DOJ); 7 the 

Corporation for National and 

Community Service (CNCS); and the 

Institute of Museum and Library 

Services (collectively, the Agencies) 

authority, provided certain conditions 

and requirements are met, to waive 

Federal statutory and regulatory 

requirements that inhibit access to 

assistance and effective service delivery 

for disconnected youth. 

P3 authorizes the Agencies to enter 

into Performance Partnership 

Agreements (performance agreements) 

with State, local, or Tribal governments. 

The performance agreements provide 

pilots with additional flexibility in the 

use of certain of the Agencies’ 

discretionary funds,8 including 

competitive and formula grant funds. 

Pilots must include two or more Federal 

programs (at least one of which is 

administered in whole or in part by a 

State, local, or Tribal government) that 

are targeted on disconnected youth, or 

designed to prevent youth from 

disconnecting from school or work, and 

that provide education, training, 

employment, and other related social 

services. Entities that seek to participate 

in these pilots should commit to 

achieving significant improvements in 

outcomes for disconnected youth in 

exchange for flexibility permitted under 

P3. The authorizing statute states that 

improving outcomes for disconnected 

youth means increasing the rate at 

which individuals between the ages of 

14 and 24 (who are low-income and 

either homeless, in foster care, involved 

in the juvenile justice system, 

unemployed, or not enrolled in or at 

risk of dropping out of an educational 

institution) achieve success in meeting 

educational, employment, or other key 

goals (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2014, Division H, Section 526(a)(2)). 

This notice invites applications for 

selection as FY 2021 pilots and offers 

opportunities for prospective applicants 

to obtain optional technical assistance 

from the Agencies prior to applying. 

The purpose of the pre-application 

technical assistance is to help 

prospective applicants identify and 

propose to address, through waivers, 

blending of funds, or other flexibilities, 

Federal barriers to effective and 

integrated service delivery that will 

improve the educational and 

employment outcomes of disconnected 

youth. 

If interest in technical assistance 

exceeds the Agencies’ capacity to 

provide it, the Agencies will give first 

priority to assisting eligible entities that 

intend to serve communities that have 

experienced civil unrest because the 

statutory authority for FY 2021 directs 

the Agencies to include such 

communities among the designated 

pilots. Second priority will be given to 

requests for technical assistance from 

applicants that propose to serve the 

highest numbers of disconnected youth. 

Flexibilities Available Under P3 

P3 provides important opportunities 

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9The list of previously granted waivers is 

available at https://youth.gov/sites/default/files/P3- 

Waiver-List-FINAL_2018-12-10.pdf. 

10Transitional jobs are time-limited, subsidized 

paid work experiences that are provided in 

combination with education and training services 

for individuals who are chronically unemployed or 

have an inconsistent work history to establish a 

work history, demonstrate success in the 

workplace, and develop the skills that lead to entry 

into and retention in unsubsidized employment. 

See section 134(d)(5) of WIOA. 

11The YouthBuild grant program is authorized by 

section 171 of WIOA (29 U.S.C. 3226). 

12The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness 

for Undergraduate Programs grant program is 

authorized by section 404A of the Higher Education 

Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a–21). 

13The Transitional Living grant program is 

authorized by section 321 of the Juvenile Justice 

and Delinquency Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 11221). 

For this program, the term ‘‘homeless youth’’ is 

defined in 45 CFR 1351.1(f) as ‘‘a person under 18 

years of age who is in need of services and without 

a place of shelter where he or she receives 

supervision and care.’’ 

and their effectiveness in addressing the 

needs of disconnected youth. The 

Agencies have published on Youth.gov 

a list of the waivers previously granted 

to pilots under the prior rounds of P3 

in which pilots were designated.9 These 

waivers were helpful to the pilots that 

received them, and, in this latest round, 

the Agencies hope that applicants 

propose even more ambitious and bold 

efforts to remove Federal constraints on 

effective and innovative service delivery 

for disconnected youth. We provide 

several examples below. 

These examples are provided for 

illustrative purposes only, and the 

allowability of specific proposals will 

depend on the unique circumstances of 

individual applicants. Any waivers 

must be consistent with the statutory 

safeguards that apply to P3, discussed 

below, and the Agencies will consider 

whether the inclusion of a program in 

a specific pilot is consistent with, or 

conflicts with, other significant legal or 

policy considerations. Also, the 

Agencies will review the blending of 

competitive grants on a case-by-case 

basis to consider how the scope, 

objectives, and target populations of the 

existing award align with the proposed 

pilot. Any changes in terms and 

conditions of the existing competitive 

grant awards required for pilot purposes 

must be justified by the applicant. In 

addition, the Agencies can only waive 

Federal statutory or regulatory 

requirements. The Agencies encourage 

applicants to analyze whether their 

request also requires State or local rule 

changes to implement, as those rules are 

not under the jurisdiction of the 

Agencies to waive for P3. 

Example A: P3 enables State, local, 

and Tribal governments to blend dollars 

from multiple Federal funding streams 

to provide more comprehensive, holistic 

services for youth without having to 

allocate costs among the contributing 

programs and separately track and 

report on each source of funding. For 

example, a State could propose to use 

P3 to support a comprehensive 

education, training, and reentry services 

program for youthful offenders before, 

during, and after their confinement. 

Funding for the project could be 

contributed from the Governor’s reserve 

of the State’s Workforce Innovation and 

Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I Youth 

program grant, the State’s Juvenile 

Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act 

Title II State grant, and the State 

educational agency’s Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965 

(ESEA) Title I, Part D grant for 

Prevention and Intervention Programs 

for Children and Youth Who are 

Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk of 

Dropping Out. The State also could 

propose to use P3 to waive the statutory 

performance indicators and reporting 

requirements under the three programs, 

replacing them with one set of 

indicators tailored to match the 

objectives of the project that the State 

reports on annually. Funds available to 

the State for evaluation under section 

116(e)(1) of WIOA could be used to 

evaluate the program. 

Example B: A number of Federal grant 

programs that award funds by formula 

to States, such as the Carl D. Perkins 

Career and Technical Education Act of 

2006, as amended by the Strengthening 

Career and Technical Education for the 

21st Century Act (Perkins V), require or 

allow States to set aside funds for Statelevel activities. In most cases, program 

statutes specify through a list of 

authorized or required activities how 

States may or must use funds reserved 

for State-level activities. A State could 

request a waiver that would allow it to 

use State-level funds to support an 

activity that goes beyond the required 

and permissive activities set out in the 

relevant program statute. More 

specifically, a State might propose to 

use funds for an activity that, while not 

clearly included as an allowable use of 

funds under the relevant statutory list of 

authorized activities, is designed to 

improve outcomes for disconnected 

youth and is consistent with the 

statutory purposes of the program. For 

example, section 124 of Perkins V 

contains a list of allowable activities 

that States may use State-level set-aside 

funds to support. Through P3, a State 

might seek a waiver to allow it to use 

State-level Perkins V set-aside funds to 

support an activity that is designed to 

improve career and technical education, 

even though that activity is not 

specifically included as an authorized 

activity under section 124 of Perkins V. 

A State could propose to blend State 

leadership funds available under section 

124 of Perkins V with funds available to 

the State from its Student Support and 

Academic Enrichment Grant under Title 

IV, Part A of the ESEA to support career 

and technical education instruction for 

disconnected youth who are working in 

transitional 10 jobs that are part of a 

construction project that aims to bring 

high-speed internet connectivity to six 

rural counties in a remote area of the 

State. The local workforce development 

boards that serve the six counties under 

WIOA could contribute funds for the 

project from their WIOA Title I Adult 

program grants, obtaining a waiver to 

increase the share of local WIOA Title 

I Adult funds that can be spent on 

transitional jobs from 10 to 15 percent. 

Example C: Some Federal programs 

contain statutory or regulatory 

requirements that limit the duration of 

an individual’s participation in a 

program. Due to service interruptions 

and disruptions caused by the 

pandemic, participants may not have 

been able to take full advantage of the 

opportunities provided by a program 

over the last year. A P3 applicant could 

seek flexibility to waive eligibility 

requirements to extend the duration of 

an individual’s participation in the 

program as part of a larger strategy to 

compensate for the time and learning 

that youth lost to the pandemic. For 

example, a State, local, or Tribal 

governmental unit administering a 

YouthBuild grant 11 could seek to 

extend program services to individuals 

beyond 24 months; a State recipient of 

a 7-year Gaining Early Awareness and 

Readiness for Undergraduate Programs 

grant 12 could seek to extend services 

through a participant’s second year of 

enrollment in an institution of higher 

education; and a private nonprofit 

organization managing a Transitional 

Living program grant 13 for homeless 

youth could apply in partnership with 

a State, local, or Tribal government to 

extend the duration of its services 

beyond 540 days or to serve youth older 

than age 21. 

Example D: P3 authority can also be 

used by applicants to propose changes 

to projects funded under multiple 

Federal grants that are each, separately, 

intended to support programs designed 

to help disconnected youth achieve 

greater success in meeting their 

educational and employment goals. A 

public college or university that is 


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14See 34 CFR 643.3 (Talent Search), 34 CFR 644.3 

(Educational Opportunity Centers), 34 CFR 645.3 

(Upward Bound), 34 CFR 646.3 (Student Support 

Services), and 34 CFR 647.3 (Ronald E. McNair 

Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program). 

15 In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) began implementing the DACA policy, which 

allows youth who were brought to the United States 

as children and who meet certain criteria to request 

consideration for deferred action, involving a caseby-case determination by DHS not to pursue an 

individual’s removal from the United States for an 

initial two-year period as a matter of prosecutorial 

discretion. DACA recipients can live and go to 

school in the United States and may be eligible to 

obtain work authorization while their deferred 

action remains in effect. For more information, see 

https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/considerationof-deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivalsdacawww.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-ofdeferred-action-for-childhood-arrivalsdacawww.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-ofdeferred-action-for-childhood-arrivalsdacawww.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-ofdeferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca. 

16The Secretary of Homeland Security may 

designate a foreign country for Temporary Protected 

Status (TPS) due to conditions in the country that 

temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from 

returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where 

the country is unable to handle the return of its 

nationals adequately. United States Citizenship and 

Immigration Services may grant TPS to eligible 

nationals of certain countries (or parts of countries), 

who are already in the United States. During a 

designated period, individuals who are TPS 

beneficiaries are not removable from the United 

States and can obtain work authorization. For more 

information, see https://www.uscis.gov/ 

humanitarian/temporary-protectedstatuswww.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporaryprotected-statuswww.uscis.gov/humanitarian/ 

temporary-protected-statuswww.uscis.gov/ 

humanitarian/temporary-protected-status. 

considered a unit of State or local 

government could request waivers to 

blend discretionary, non-entitlement 

student aid funds under Title IV of the 

Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA), 

dollars received through various Federal 

formula programs, and competitive 

grant funds in ways that would achieve 

better outcomes for disconnected youth. 

For example, a public college or 

university might propose to increase the 

share of the Federal Work Study (FWS) 

program funds available for Job Location 

and Development programs and waive 

the 25 percent cap on the amount of the 

school’s allocation that may be used to 

pay wages to students employed with 

private, for-profit organizations so that it 

could use all or more than 25 percent of 

its FWS funds to provide students who 

are at risk of dropping out with 

subsidized career internships in the 

private sector that are aligned with 

students’ educational and career goals. 

To help students identify their career 

goals, the college or university could 

partner with a local American Job 

Center, which uses funds from the 

WIOA Title I Adult program, to provide 

students with intensive career 

counseling and information relating to 

local occupations in demand and their 

earnings and skill requirements. 

Similarly, a community college could 

request waivers to blend and use a 

portion of a TRIO Educational 

Opportunity Center grant and its WIOA 

Title II Adult Education and Family 

Literacy Act program subgrant to 

implement an intensive integrated 

education and training program for 

young adults who lack a high school 

credential. 

Example E: P3 waivers can help a 

State, local, or Tribal government and 

its partners use funds from multiple 

competitive and formula grants more 

cohesively and effectively and relieve 

some of the paperwork or reporting 

requirements associated with these 

grants. For example, a State or local 

government could establish a pilot in 

partnership with a community-based 

organization that serves Native 

Hawaiians that is the recipient of a 

Social and Economic Development 

Strategies grant from the Administration 

for Native Americans in HHS, a Native 

Hawaiian Education program grant 

under the ESEA and a Native Hawaiian 

Career and Technical Education grant 

from ED, and an Indian and Native 

American Program Employment and 

Training Grant from DOL. Under the 

pilot, this organization could work with 

its governmental partner to obtain P3 

waivers and other flexibilities that 

would enable it to blend these funds to 

carry out a pre-apprenticeship program 

for Native Hawaiian youth that prepares 

them for a Registered Apprenticeship. 

Through P3, it also could request to 

replace the reporting requirements 

associated with each of these grants 

with a single set of outcome goals that 

the governmental partner and the 

organization deem most critical for 

Native Hawaiian youth. 

Example F: P3 waivers can help 

programs reach currently unserved 

disconnected youth. Current ED 

regulations for the TRIO programs limit 

participation in these programs to 

citizens or permanent residents of the 

United States, or individuals who are in 

the United States for other than a 

temporary purpose who provide 

evidence from the Immigration and 

Naturalization Service of their intent to 

become a permanent resident.14

Applying in partnership with affiliated 

local public institutions of higher 

education that administer TRIO grants, 

a multi-State consortium of public 

college or university systems that are 

considered units of State government 

could seek a waiver of this requirement 

so that their affiliated schools could use 

TRIO funds to serve disconnected youth 

who qualify for the Deferred Action for 

Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program 15

or who have Temporary Protected 

Status.16

Example G: P3 waivers can make 

childcare more accessible for youth who 

are parents and pursuing a 

postsecondary degree or credential but 

at risk of leaving without a degree or 

credential or employment due to the 

lack of childcare. A public college or 

university that receives funds under the 

Strengthening Institutions program 

authorized by Title III, Part A of the 

HEA could obtain a waiver of the 

regulatory prohibition against using a 

portion of these funds for childcare 

services in order to augment the 

childcare services it provides with its 

Child Care Access Means Parents in 

School Program grant. Although the P3 

authority provides broad waiver 

authority to increase flexibility and 

relieve burden in order to improve the 

effectiveness of Federal funding for 

disconnected youth, it is important to 

note that there are some limitations on 

the waivers. In particular, as stated in 

the original statutory authority for P3, 

the P3 waivers— 

• May not involve any requirement 

related to nondiscrimination, wage and 

labor standards, or the allocation of 

funds to State and sub-State levels; 

• Must be consistent with the 

statutory purposes of the Federal 

program for which such discretionary 

funds were appropriated; 

• May not result in denying or 

restricting the eligibility of any 

individual for any of the services that 

(in whole or in part) are funded by the 

agency’s programs and Federal 

discretionary funds that are involved in 

the pilot; 

• Based on the best available 

information, may not otherwise 

adversely affect vulnerable populations 

that are the recipients of such services; 

• Must be necessary to achieve the 

outcomes of the pilot as specified in the 

performance agreement, and no broader 

in scope than is necessary to achieve 

such outcomes; and 

• Must result in either: (a) Realizing 

efficiencies by simplifying reporting 

burdens or reducing administrative 

barriers with respect to such 

discretionary funds; or (b) increasing the 

ability of individuals to obtain access to 

services that are provided by the 

discretionary funds. 

FY 2021 

P3 was reauthorized for FY 2021 for 

programs administered by all of the six 

Agencies, and the Agencies may select 

up to 10 pilots. 


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17Applicants are encouraged to consult the list of 

examples of programs that are potentially eligible 

for inclusion in pilots at https://youth.gov/youthtopics/reconnecting-youth/performancepartnership-pilots. 18Local governments that are requesting waivers 

of requirements in State-administered programs are 

strongly encouraged to consult with the State 

agencies that administer the programs in preparing 

their applications. 

An applicant must propose to include 

FY 2021 funds from at least one of the 

six Agencies. 

If Congress extends the P3 authority 

in future years, pilots may propose to 

amend the number of Federal programs 

supporting pilot activities using future 

funding appropriated. However, 

authority for pilots to expand in future 

years is subject to congressional action 

as well as agency discretion. 

Application Requirements: 

The application requirements for this 

opportunity are from the notice of final 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria for this program 

published on April 28, 2016, in the 

Federal Register (81 FR 25339) (P3 NFP) 

and are as follows: 

(a) Executive summary. The applicant 

must provide an executive summary 

that briefly describes the proposed pilot, 

the flexibilities being sought, and the 

interventions or systems changes that 

would be implemented by the applicant 

and its partners to improve outcomes for 

disconnected youth. 

(b) Flexibility, including waivers: 

Federal requests for flexibility, 

including waivers. For each program to 

be included in a pilot, the applicant 

must complete Table 1, Requested 

Flexibility. The applicant must identify 

two or more discretionary Federal 

programs that will be included in the 

pilot,17 at least one of which must be 

administered (in whole or in part) by a 

State, local, or Tribal government.18 In 

Table 1, the applicant must identify one 

or more program requirements that 

would inhibit implementation of the 

pilot and request that the requirement(s) 

be waived in whole or in part. Examples 

of potential waiver requests and other 

requests for flexibility include, but are 

not limited to, blending of funds and 

changes to align eligibility 

requirements, allowable uses of funds, 

and performance reporting. 

TABLE 1—REQUESTED FLEXIBILITY

Program name Federal Agency 

Program requirements 

to be waived in whole 

or in part 

Statutory or regulatory 

citation 

Name of program 

grantee 

Blending 

funds? 

(yes/no) 

Note: Please note in ‘‘Name of Program Grantee’’ if the grantee is a State, local, or Tribal government, or nongovernmental entity. 

Program Requirements: 

The program requirement for this 

opportunity is from the P3 NFP. 

Performance Agreement. Each P3 

pilot, along with other non-Federal 

government entities involved in the 

partnership, must enter into a 

performance agreement that will 

include, at a minimum, the following 

(as required by section 526(c)(2) of 

Division H of the 2014 Act): 

(a) The length of the agreement; 

(b) The Federal programs and 

federally funded services that are 

involved in the pilot; 

(c) The Federal discretionary funds 

that are being used in the pilot; 

(d) The non-Federal funds that are 

involved in the pilot, by source (which 

may include private funds as well as 

governmental funds) and by amount; 

(e) The State, local, or Tribal programs 

that are involved in the pilot; 

(f) The populations to be served by 

the pilot; 

(g) The cost-effective Federal 

oversight procedures that will be used 

for the purpose of maintaining the 

necessary level of accountability for the 

use of the Federal discretionary funds; 

(h) The cost-effective State, local, or 

Tribal oversight procedures that will be 

used for the purpose of maintaining the 

necessary level of accountability for the 

use of the Federal discretionary funds; 

(i) The outcome (or outcomes) that the 

pilot is designed to achieve; 

(j) The appropriate, reliable, and 

objective outcome measurement 

methodology that will be used to 

determine whether the pilot is 

achieving, and has achieved, specified 

outcomes; 

(k) The statutory, regulatory, or 

administrative requirements related to 

Federal mandatory programs that are 

barriers to achieving improved 

outcomes of the pilot; and 

(l) Criteria for determining when a 

pilot is not achieving the specified 

outcomes that it is designed to achieve 

and subsequent steps, including: 

(1) The consequences that will result; 

and 

(2) The corrective actions that will be 

taken in order to increase the likelihood 

that the pilot will achieve such 

specified outcomes. 

Definitions: The following definitions 

are from the P3 NFP. 

Blended funding is a funding and 

resource allocation strategy that uses 

multiple existing funding streams to 

support a single initiative or strategy. 

Blended funding merges two or more 

funding streams, or portions of multiple 

funding streams, to produce greater 

efficiency and/or effectiveness. Funds 

from each individual stream lose their 

award-specific identity, and the blended 

funds together become subject to a 

single set of reporting and other 

requirements, consistent with the 

underlying purposes of the programs for 

which the funds were appropriated. 

An interim indicator is a marker of 

achievement that demonstrates progress 

toward an outcome and is measured at 

least annually. 

Outcomes are the intended results of 

a program or intervention. They are 

what applicants expect their projects to 

achieve. An outcome can be measured 

at the participant level (for example, 

changes in employment retention or 

earnings of disconnected youth) or at 

the system level (for example, improved 

efficiency in program operations or 

administration). 

A waiver provides flexibility in the 

form of relief, in whole or in part, from 

specific statutory, regulatory, or 

administrative requirements that have 

hindered the ability of a State, locality, 

or Tribe to organize its programs and 

systems or provide services in ways that 

best meet the needs of its target 

populations. Under P3, waivers provide 

flexibility in exchange for a pilot’s 

commitment to improve programmatic 

outcomes for disconnected youth 

consistent with underlying statutory 

authorities and purposes. 

Program Authority: Section 524 of Title 

III, Division H of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2021 (Pub. L. 116–260). 

Note: Projects will be awarded and 

must be operated in a manner consistent 

with the nondiscrimination 


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19Section 524(a), Title III, Division H, 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Public Law 

116–260. 

requirements contained in Federal civil 

rights laws. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations in 34 CFR 

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

99, and such other regulations as the 

Agencies may apply based on the 

programs included in a particular pilot. 

(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 as regulations of 

the Department in 2 CFR part 3474. (d) 

The P3 NFP. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 

86 apply to institutions of higher 

education only. 

II. Performance Pilot Designation 

Information 

Type of Award: Flexibility. 

Estimated Available Funds: None. 

Estimated Number of Designations: 10 

pilots. 

Project Period: FY 2021 pilots may 

operate for as long as FY 2021 

appropriated funds remain available to 

pilots to obligate to support project 

activities, but not past September 30, 

2025. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: The lead 

applicant must be a State, local, or 

Tribal government entity, represented 

by a chief executive, such as a governor, 

mayor, or other elected leader, or the 

head of a State, local, or Tribal agency. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost sharing or 

matching. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Application Submission 

Instructions: Applicants must submit 

completed applications to 

DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov unless 

electronic submission is not possible. 

Where electronic submission is not 

possible (e.g., you do not have access to 

the internet), you must provide a 

written statement that you intend to 

submit a paper application. Send this 

written statement no later than two 

weeks before the application deadline 

date (14 calendar days or, if the 14th 

calendar day before the application 

deadline date falls on a Federal holiday, 

the next business day following the 

Federal holiday). If you mail your 

written statement to the Department, it 

must be postmarked no later than two 

weeks before the application deadline 

date. Please send this statement to the 

person listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

notice. If you submit a paper 

application, 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, 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. 

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. 

We will not consider applications 

postmarked after the application 

deadline date. 

2. Submission of Proprietary 

Information: Given the types of projects 

that may be proposed in applications for 

the P3 opportunity, your application 

may include business information that 

you consider proprietary. In 34 CFR 

5.11 we define ‘‘business information’’ 

and describe the process we use in 

determining whether any of that 

information is proprietary and, thus, 

protected from disclosure under 

Exemption 4 of the Freedom of 

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552, as 

amended). 

Because we plan to make successful 

applications available to the public, 

including performance agreements, and 

may make all applications available, 

you may wish to request confidentiality 

of business information. 

Consistent with Executive Order 

12600, please designate in your 

application any information that you 

believe is exempt from disclosure under 

Exemption 4. In the appropriate 

appendix section of your application, 

please list the page number or numbers 

on which we can find this information. 

For additional information please see 34 

CFR 5.11(c). 

3. Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is subject to Executive Order 

12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 79. 

4. Recommended Page Limit: The 

application narrative is where you, the 

applicant, provide the information 

specified in the application 

requirements and address the selection 

criteria that reviewers use to evaluate 

your application. We recommend that 

you (1) limit the application narrative to 

no more than five pages and (2) use 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. 

• Use a font that is either 12 point or 

larger. 

• Use one of the following fonts: 

Times New Roman, Courier, Courier 

New, or Arial. 

5. Requests for Technical Assistance: 

For interested eligible entities, the 

Agencies are offering technical 

assistance over the next several months 

that will help prospective applicants to 

identify Federal impediments to 

effective and integrated service delivery 

for disconnected youth and flexibilities 

that can be removed under P3 and to 

develop an application submission for a 

P3 pilot. The Agencies want to engage 

with as many eligible entities as 

possible and will accept technical 

assistance requests on a rolling basis 

until July 26, 2021. If interest in 

technical assistance exceeds the 

Agencies’ capacity to provide it, the 

Agencies will give first priority to 

assisting eligible entities that intend to 

serve communities that have 

experienced civil unrest, because the 

statutory authority for FY 2021 directs 

the Agencies to include such 

communities among the designated 

pilots.19 Second priority will be given to 

requests for technical assistance from 

applicants that propose to serve the 

highest numbers of disconnected youth. 

To request technical assistance, please 

email DisconnectedYouth@ed.gov with 

the subject line ‘‘Request for Technical 

Assistance,’’ and include the 

prospective applicant’s name, a contact 

person’s name and email address, and 

the names of the Federal programs that 

the prospective applicant is interested 

in including in a P3 pilot. Applicants 

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may still apply for designation as a 

pilot; applicants that do request 

technical assistance are not bound to 

apply or bound by the information 

provided in their initial request for 

technical assistance. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications under this opportunity 

must be submitted electronically unless 

electronic submission is not possible. 

Please note the following: 

• The Department is not publishing 

an application package for this program. 

To submit an application, provide all of 

the information specified in the 

application requirements. Additionally, 

complete and submit Standard Form 

424B, Assurances for Non-Construction 

Programs (available at www2.ed.gov/ 

fund/grant/apply/appforms/ 

appforms.html) with your application. 

• The Department must receive your 

application by 11:59 p.m. Eastern 

Standard Time on August 23, 2021. We 

will notify you if we are rejecting your 

application because it was received after 

the application deadline date. 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on forms at a later 

date. 

V. Application Review Information 

1. Review and Selection Process: The 

Department will screen applications 

that are submitted in accordance with 

the requirements in this notice and will 

determine which applications are 

eligible to be read based on whether 

they have met the eligibility and 

application requirements. 

The Secretary of Education (Secretary) 

will also consider compliance with 

assurances, including those applicable 

to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

(such as, for ED programs, 34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

2. Review of Requests for Flexibility, 

Including Blending of Funds and Other 

Waivers: Representatives of the 

Agencies that administer programs 

under which flexibility in Federal 

requirements is sought will evaluate 

whether the flexibility, including 

blending of funds and other waivers, 

requested by applicants meets the 

statutory requirements for P3 and is 

otherwise appropriate. For example, if 

an applicant is seeking flexibility under 

programs administered by HHS and 

DOL, its requests for flexibility will be 

reviewed by HHS and DOL officials. 

Applicants may be asked to participate 

in telephone calls at this point in the 

process in order to clarify requests for 

flexibility and other aspects of their 

proposals. 

3. Selecting Finalists: Agency officials 

may recommend projects for selection 

by the Secretary. In consultation with 

the other Agencies, the Secretary will 

select up to 10 finalists after considering 

the recommendations of the Agencies 

that administer the programs for which 

the applicants are seeking flexibility, 

and other information, including an 

applicant’s performance and use of 

funds and compliance history under a 

previous award under any agency 

program. In selecting pilots, the 

Secretary will first give priority to 

applicants that will serve communities 

that have experienced civil unrest, to 

address the statutory requirement that 

designated pilots include communities 

that have experienced civil unrest, and 

will then select those applications that 

will serve the highest numbers of 

disconnected youth. 

For each finalist, ED and any other 

Agencies implicated in the pilot will 

negotiate the performance agreement. If 

a performance agreement cannot be 

finalized for an applicant, an alternative 

applicant may be selected as a finalist 

instead. The recommended projects will 

be considered finalists until 

performance agreements are signed by 

all parties, and pilot designation will be 

awarded only after finalization and 

approval of each finalist’s performance 

agreement. 

VI. Designation Administration 

Information 

1. Designation Notices: If your 

application is successful, we notify your 

U.S. Representative(s) and U.S. Senators 

and send you a letter notification of 

your selection as a pilot. We may notify 

you informally, also. 

If your application is not evaluated or 

not selected as a pilot, we will notify 

you. 

2. Performance Measures: The 

performance agreement for each pilot 

will include outcome measures, interim 

indicators, and targets. 

VII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document in an accessible format. 

The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, or 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 

www.govinfo.gov. 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 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: June 21, 2021. 

Amy Loyd, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Career, 

Technical, and Adult Education. 

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