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City, Iowa 52243, Contact: Dr. John D.

Roth, Telephone: (319) 337–1030, Fax:

(319) 337–1790.

6. Computerized Placement Tests

(CPTs)/Accuplacer (Reading

Comprehension, Sentence Skills, and

Arithmetic).

Passing Scores: The approved passing

scores on this test are as follows:

Reading Comprehension (52), Sentence

Skills (60), and Arithmetic (36).

Publisher: The test publisher and the

address, contact person, telephone, and

fax number of the test publisher are: The

College Board, 45 Columbus Avenue,

New York, New York 10023–6992

Contact: Ms. Loretta M. Church,

Telephone: (212) 713–8000, Fax: (212)

713–8063.

7. Descriptive Tests: Descriptive Tests

of Language Skills (DTLS) (Reading

Comprehension, Sentence Structure and

Conventions of Written English)—Forms

M–K–3KDT and M–K–3LDT; and

Descriptive Tests of Mathematical Skills

(DTMS) (Arithmetic)—Forms M–K–

3KDT and M–K–3LDT.

Passing Scores: The approved passing

scores on this test are as follows:

Reading Comprehension (108), Sentence

Structure (9), Conventions of Written

English (309), and Arithmetic (506).

Publisher: The test publisher and the

address, contact person, telephone, and

fax number of the test publisher are: The

College Board, 45 Columbus Avenue,

New York, New York 10023–6992,

Contact: Ms. Loretta M. Church,

Telephone: (212) 713–8000, Fax: (212)

713–8063.

8. Test of Adult Basic Education

(TABE): (Reading Total, Total

Mathematics, Total Language)—Forms 5

and 6, Level A, Complete Battery and

Survey Versions.

Passing Scores: The approved passing

scores on this test are as follows:

Reading Total (768), Total Mathematics

(783), Total Language (714).

Publisher: The test publisher and the

address, contact person, telephone, and

fax number of the test publisher are:

CTB/McGraw-Hill, 20 Ryan Ranch

Road, Monterey, California 93940–5703,

Contact: Ms. Rea Christoffersson,

Telephone: (831) 393–7363, Fax: (831)

393–7142.

9. Test of Adult Basic Education

(TABE): (Reading, Total Mathematics,

Language)—Forms 7 and 8, Level A,

Complete Battery and Survey Versions.

Passing Scores: The approved passing

scores on this test are as follows:

Reading (559), Total Mathematics (562),

Language (545).

Publisher: The test publisher and the

address, contact person, telephone, and

fax number of the test publisher are:

CTB/McGraw-Hill, 20 Ryan Ranch

Road, Monterey, California 93940–5703,

Contact: Ms. Rea Christoffersson,

Telephone: (831) 393–7363, Fax: (831)

393–7142.

10. Wonderlic Basic Skills Test

(WBST)—Verbal Forms VS–1 & VS–2,

Quantitative Forms QS–1 & QS–2.

Passing scores: The approved passing

scores on this test are as follows: Verbal

(200) and Quantitative (210).

Publisher: The test publisher and the

address, contact person, telephone, and

fax number of the test publisher are:

Wonderlic Personnel Test, Inc., 1509 N.

Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville, IL 60048–

1380, Contact: Mr. Victor S. Artese,

Telephone: (800) 323–3742, Fax: (847)

680–9492.

Duration of Approval

The Secretary approves each of these

tests for five years, unless the Secretary

withdraws this approval or the

publisher requests that approval of a test

be withdrawn. In either case, the

Secretary will publish a notice in the

Federal Register indicating this change.

Electronic Access to This Document

You may view this document, as well

as all other Department of Education

documents published in the Federal

Register, in text or portable document

format (PDF) on the Internet at either of

the following sites:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm

http://www.ed.gov/news.html

To use PDF you must have Adobe

Acrobat Reader, which is available free

at either of the previous sites. If you

have questions about using PDF, call the

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO),

toll free, at 1–888–293–6498; or in the

Washington, 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: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/

index.html

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1091(d).

Dated: January 9, 2001.

Greg Woods,

Chief Operating Officer, Student Financial

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–1055 Filed 1–11–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.: 84.310A]

Parental Assistance Program

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Priority for

Fiscal Year (FY) 2001.

SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary

proposes to give a competitive

preference in the FY 2001 grant

competition under the Parental

Assistance Program (20 U.S.C. 5911 et

seq.). The program provides grants to

eligible non-profit organizations, and

eligible non-profit organizations in

consortia with local educational

agencies (LEAs), to establish parental

information and resource centers.

Under this competitive preference,

the Assistant Secretary would award up

to 10 additional points to an applicant

that would implement comprehensive

strategies designed to strengthen schoolfamily-community partnerships in order

to help children in low-performing

schools reach high academic standards.

DATES: We must receive your comments

on the proposed priority or before

February 12, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Address all comments about

this proposed priority to Daisy

Greenfield, Office of Elementary and

Secondary Education, U.S. Department

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue,

SW., Room 3E307, Washington, DC

20202–6410, Telephone: (202) 401–

0039, FAX: (202) 205–0303. If you

prefer to send your comments through

the Internet, use the following address:

daisy_greenfield@ed.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Daisy Greenfield, (202) 401–0039. If you

use a telecommunications device for the

deaf (TDD), you may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document in an alternative

format (e.g., Braille, large print,

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to the contact person listed

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Invitation To Comment

Interested persons are invited to

submit comments and recommendations

regarding the proposed priority. All

comments submitted in response to this

notice will be available for public

inspection, during and after the

comment period, in Room 3E307, 400

Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington,

DC, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and

4 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through

Friday of each week except Federal

holidays.

Assistance to Individual With

Disabilities in Reviewing the

Rulemaking Record

On request, the Department supplies

an appropriate aid, such as a reader or

print magnifier, to an individual with a

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disability who needs assistance to

review the comments. If you want to

schedule an appointment for this type of

aid, you may call (202) 205–8113 or

(202) 260–9895. If you use a TDD, you

may call the Federal Information Relay

Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.

Background

Research has shown that one of the

keys to improving the achievement

levels of children is increasing family

and community involvement in

children’s education. Strong schoolfamily-community partnerships include

practices such as the following: (1)

helping families establish home

environments that support children’s

academic success; (2) improving

communication among schools,

families, and the community concerning

all aspects of children’s education; (3)

encouraging effective volunteerism

among families and community

members to enhance classroom

activities and school functions; (4)

providing information to families on

how to encourage their children’s

learning and to assist with curriculumrelated activities; (5) including families

in various aspects of school governance;

and (6) facilitating cooperation and

interaction among schools, families, and

the community to achieve shared goals.

Title IV of the Goals 2000: Educate

America Act, authorizes Parental

Information and Resource Centers

(PIRCs), which seek to increase parents’

knowledge of and confidence in childrearing activities as well as help to build

and strengthen partnerships between

parents and schools in meeting the

educational needs of children. PIRCs are

currently providing information,

training and support services to parents

and professionals who work with

parents. They are also implementing

strategies that foster more frequent and

meaningful opportunities for parents

and schools to work together; this work

may include the full range of schools,

e.g. elementary, secondary, lowperforming, gifted and talented, magnet,

alternative, etc. One of the keys to

improving the achievement levels of

children in low-performing schools,

particularly at-risk children, is

implementing specific strategies to

enhance the involvement and

participation of parents in all aspects of

their children’s education. The

Assistant Secretary proposes to give a

competitive preference to applicants

that would implement comprehensive

strategies designed to enhance parental

involvement in low-performing

schools—in particular, in schools that

have been identified as in need of

improvement under Title I of the

Elementary and Secondary Education

Act. (These are schools that have been

identified as not making continuous and

sustained academic progress toward

meeting state standards. These schools

also tend to have high percentages of

minority and high-poverty students and

are frequently located in rural and urban

areas). To receive this preference, an

applicant must be a consortium that

includes a non-profit organization and

one or more LEAs. The schools to be

assisted by the grant must be lowperforming schools identified as in need

of improvement under Title I. The

Assistant Secretary believes that

consortia applications would be

particularly effective in helping LEAs

and low-performing schools build the

capacity to enhance and sustain highquality parental involvement programs.

The Department currently does not fund

any consortia grants under the Parental

Assistant Program.

The Assistant Secretary will

announce final priorities for these

competitions in a notice in the Federal

Register. The final priorities will be

determined by responses to this notice,

available funds, and other

considerations of the Department.

Competitive Preference

Under 34 CFR 75.105 (c)(2)(i) and

Title IV of the Goals 2000 Educate

America Act, the Assistant Secretary

proposes a competitive preference in the

FY 2001 competition under the Parental

Assistance Program. To receive this

preference, an applicant must—

(1) Consist of a consortium that

includes a non-profit organization and

one or more LEAs with low-performing

schools. The low-performing schools

must be schools identified as in need of

improvement under Section 1116(c) of

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary

Education Act.

(2) Propose to implement

comprehensive strategies designed to

strengthen school-family-community

partnerships in order to help children in

the low-performing schools reach

challenging academic standards. The

applicant must clearly describe the role

of the non-profit organization and the

LEA(s) in conducting these activities

with the identified low-performing

schools.

(3) Provide documentation from the

identified low-performing schools

demonstrating that the schools will

cooperate and coordinate with the

applicant in implementing the proposed

activities.

An applicant that meets the

competitive preference would receive

up to 10 points in the competition.

These points are in addition to any

points the applicant earns under the

selection criteria. The number of points

awarded would be determined on the

basis of how well the applicant

addresses the competitive preference.

Electronic Access to This Document

You may review this document, as

well as all other Department of

Education documents published in the

Federal Register, in text or Adobe

Portable Document Format (PDF) on the

Internet at either of the following sites:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm

http://www.ed.gov/news.html

To use PDF you must have Adobe

Acrobat Reader, which is available free

at either of the preceding sites. If you

have question about using PDF, call the

U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO),

toll free, at 1–888–293–6498; or in the

Washington, 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: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/

index.html

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 59911 et seq.

Dated: January 8, 2001.

Michael Cohen,

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and

Secondary Education

[FR Doc. 01–1054 Filed 1–11–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. ER01–596–000]

Alabama Electric Marketing, LLC;

Notice of Issuance of Order

January 8, 2001.

Alabama Electric Marketing, LLC

(AEM) submitted for filing a rate

schedule under which AEM will engage

in wholesale electric power and energy

transactions at market-based rates. AEM

also requested waiver of various

Commission regulations. In particular,

AEM requested that the Commission

grant blanket approval under 18 CFR

Part 34 of all future issuance of

securities and assumptions of liability

by AEM.

On January 3, 2001, pursuant to

delegated authority, the Director,

Division of Corporate Applications,

Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates,

granted requests for blanket approval

under Part 34, subject to the following:

Within thirty days of the date of the

order, any person desiring to be heard