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(2) The extent to which the costs are 

reasonable in relation to the objectives, 

design, and potential significance of the 

proposed project. 

(3) The extent to which the costs are 

reasonable in relation to the number of 

persons to be served and to the 

anticipated results and benefits. 

(g) Quality of the management plan. 

(15 points) The Secretary considers the 

quality of the management plan for the 

proposed project. In determining the 

quality of the management plan for the 

proposed project, the Secretary 

considers 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 

milestones for accomplishing project 

tasks. 

(2) The extent to which the time 

commitments of the project director and 

other key project personnel are 

appropriate and adequate to meet the 

objectives of the proposed project. 

(3) The adequacy of procedures for 

ensuring feedback and continuous 

improvement in the operation of the 

proposed project. 

(h) Quality of the project evaluation. 

(20 points) The Secretary considers the 

quality of the evaluation to be 

conducted of the proposed project. In 

determining the quality of the 

evaluation, the Secretary considers the 

following factors: 

(1) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation are thorough, feasible, and 

appropriate to the goals, objectives, and 

outcomes of the proposed project. 

(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 will produce 

quantitative and qualitative data to the 

extent possible. 

(3) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation provide for examining the 

effectiveness of project implementation 

strategies. 

(4) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation will provide timely 

guidance for quality assurance. 

(5) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation will provide performance 

feedback and permit periodic 

assessment of progress toward achieving 

intended outcomes. 

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 also notify you 

informally. 

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 specified by 

the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

performance measures for the Native 

American and Alaska Native Children 

in School Program are: 

(1) The percentage of limited English 

proficiency (LEP) students in the 

program who make gains in English. 

(2) The percentage of LEP students in 

the program who make gains in core 

academic subjects. 

Grantees will be expected to report on 

progress in meeting these performance 

measures for the Native American and 

Alaska Native Children in School 

Program in their Annual Performance 

Report and in their Final Performance 

Report. 

VII. Agency Contact 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Trini Torres, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., Potomac Center Plaza, room 1082, 

Washington, DC 20202–6510. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7134, or by email: trinidad.torres-carrion@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call 

the Federal Relay Service (FRS) 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 program contact person 

listed in this section. 

VIII. Other Information 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may 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: http://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 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.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: November 30, 2005. 

Kathleen Leos, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director, 

Office of English Language Acquisition, 

Language Enhancement, and Academic 

Achievement for Limited English Proficient 

Students. 

[FR Doc. E5–7011 Filed 12–6–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[CFDA Nos: 84.334A and 84.334S] 

Office of Postsecondary Education, 

Teacher and Student Development 

Program Service; Grants and 

Cooperative Agreements; Availability, 

etc. 

ACTION: Notice Announcing Technical 

Assistance Workshops for fiscal year 

(FY) 2006 Gaining Early Awareness and 

Readiness for Undergraduate Programs 

(GEAR UP) program. 

SUMMARY: The Department expects to 

hold competitions for new State and 

Partnership grants under the GEAR UP 

program in FY 2006. This notice 

provides information about four one-day 

technical assistance workshops to assist 

institutions of higher education, local 

educational agencies, and States 

interested in preparing grant 

applications for FY 2006 new awards 

under the Gaining Early. Program staff 

will present information about the 

purpose of the GEAR UP Program, 

selection criteria, application content, 

submission procedures, and reporting 

requirements. 

Although the Department has not yet 

announced an application deadline date 

in the Federal Register for the FY 2006 

competitions, the Department is holding 

these workshops to give potential 

applicants guidance for preparing 

applications for the competitions we 

expect to conduct in FY 2006. Specific 

requirements for the FY 2006 

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competitions will be published in a 

separate Federal Register notice. This 

notice announces the technical 

assistance workshops only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Angela K. Oliphant, Gaining Early 

Awareness and Readiness for 

Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) 

Program, U.S. Department of Education, 

1990 K Street, NW., room 6101, 

Washington, DC 20006–8513. 

Telephone: (202) 502–7676. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call 

the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–

800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities may 

obtain this document in an alternative 

for (e.g., Braille, large print, audio tape, 

or computer diskette) on request to the 

contact person listed in this section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

technical assistance workshops will be 

held as follows: 

1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 

Monday, December 5, 2005, Hilton 

Philadelphia, 4200 City Avenue, 

Philadelphia, PA 19107, Telephone: 

215–879–4000. 

2. St Louis, Missouri: Tuesday, 

December 6, 2005, Sheraton St. Louis, 

400 South 14th Street, St. Louis, MO 

63105, Telephone: 314–231–5007. 

3. Atlanta, Georgia: Thursday, 

December 8, 2005, Holiday Inn Select 

Conference Center, 450 Capitol Avenue, 

Atlanta, GA 30312, Telephone: 404–

591–2000. 

4. Los Angeles, California: Thursday, 

December 8, 2005, The Wilshire Grand 

Los Angeles, 930 Wilshire Boulevard 

90017, Telephone: 213–688–7777. 

All Technical Assistance Workshop 

sessions will be conducted from 9 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. each day. Registration is 8 a.m. 

to 9 a.m. on the day of the session. 

There is no fee for these workshops. 

However, space is limited. Attendees 

are required to make their own 

reservations directly with the hotel. The 

Department has reserved a limited 

number of rooms at each of the hotel 

sites at a special government room rate. 

To reserve this rate, be certain to inform 

the hotel that you are attending the 

‘‘U.S. Department of Education GEAR 

UP Program Technical Assistance 

Workshop.’’ We encourage attendance 

from those who will be responsible for 

providing technical support for 

uploading the application materials 

onto the Department of Education’s 

portal site for electronic grants. 

Assistance to Individuals With 

Disabilities Attending the Technical 

Assistance Workshop 

The technical assistance workshop 

site is accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. If you need an auxiliary aid 

or service to participate in the workshop 

(e.g., interpreting service, assistive 

listening device, or materials in an 

alternative format), notify the contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATON CONTACT. Although we will 

attempt to meet a request, we may not 

be able to make available the requested 

auxiliary aid or service because of 

insufficient time to arrange it. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You may 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: http://www.ed.gov/news/ 

fedregister 

To use PDF, you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have any 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: www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a–21. 

Dated: December 2, 2005. 

Sally L. Stroup, 

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 05–23686 Filed 12–1–05; 3:57 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Overview Information Fund for the 

Improvement of Postsecondary 

Education—Special Focus 

Competition: Program for North 

American Mobility in Higher Education; 

Notice Inviting Applications for New 

Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.116N. 

DATES: Applications Available: 

December 9, 2005. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 17, 2006. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: July 14, 2006. 

Eligible Applicants: Institutions of 

higher education (IHEs) or combinations 

of IHEs and other public and private 

nonprofit institutions and agencies. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration has requested $300,000 

for this program for FY 2006. The actual 

level of funding, if any, depends on 

final congressional action. However, we 

are inviting applications to allow 

enough time to complete the grant 

process if Congress appropriates funds 

for this program. 

Estimated Range of Awards: $25,000–

30,000 for the first year only. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$30,000 for the first year only. $210,000 

for four-year duration of grant. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $215,000 for a single budget 

period of 12 months. The Assistant 

Secretary for Postsecondary Education 

may change the maximum amount 

through a notice published in the 

Federal Register. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 10. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 48 months. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: To provide 

grants or enter into cooperative 

agreements to improve postsecondary 

education opportunities by focusing on 

problem areas or improvement 

approaches in postsecondary education. 

Priority: Under this competition, we 

are particularly interested in 

applications that address the following 

priority. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2006 this 

priority is an invitational priority. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not 

give an application that meets this 

invitational priority a competitive or 

absolute preference over other 

applications. 

This priority is designed to support 

the formation of educational consortia 

of American, Canadian, and Mexican 

institutions to encourage cooperation in 

the coordination of curricula, the 

exchange of students, and the opening 

of educational opportunities among the 

United States, Canada, and Mexico. The 

invitational priority is issued in 

cooperation with Canada and Mexico. 

These awards support only the 

participation of U.S. institutions and 

students in these consortia of American, 

Canadian, and Mexican institutions. 

Canadian and Mexican institutions 

participating in any consortium 

proposal responding to the invitational 

priority may apply, respectively, to 

Human Resources and Skills 

Development Canada (HRSDC) or the 

Mexican Secretariat for Public 

Education (SEP), for additional funding 

under separate but parallel Canadian 

and Mexican competitions.