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1The following Web site provides more 

information on the RTT Assessment Program: 

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetopassessment/index.html. 

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 

http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/ 

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: The 

Secretary has established one 

performance indicator for this program: 

The percentage of individuals targeted 

for services who receive services during 

each year of the project period. All 

grantees will be required to submit an 

annual performance report documenting 

their contribution in assisting the 

Department in measuring the 

performance of the program against this 

indicator, as well as performance on 

project-specific indicators. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: Jill 

Staton, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 

4W245, Washington, DC 20202. 

Telephone: (202) 401–2091 or by e-mail: 

FSCS@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 document 

and a copy of the application package in 

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

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

by contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7363. If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

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

fedregister. To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

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: June 3, 2010. 

James H. Shelton, III, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

[FR Doc. 2010–13781 Filed 6–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services; Overview 

Information; Technical Assistance on 

Data Collection—General Supervision 

Enhancement Grants: Alternate 

Academic Achievement Standards; 

Notice Inviting Applications for New 

Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.373X. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: June 8, 2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 23, 2010. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 21, 2010. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: Under section 

616(i)(2) of the Individuals with 

Disabilities Education Act, as amended 

(IDEA), the Department may make 

awards to provide technical assistance 

to improve the capacity of States to meet 

data collection requirements. 

Priority: This priority is from the 

notice of final priorities for this 

program, published in the Federal 

Register on July 9, 2007 (72 FR 37212). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2010 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards based on the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3), we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Technical Assistance on Data 

Collection—General Supervision 

Enhancement Grants-Alternate 

Academic Achievement Standards 

(GSEG) 

Background: 

On April 9, 2010, the Department 

issued a notice inviting applications for 

new awards under the Race to the Top 

(RTT) Assessment Program (75 FR 

18171),1 indicating its intention to 

support States in developing new 

alternate assessments based on alternate 

academic achievement standards. This 

notice announces a separate 

competition for GSEG grants through 

which States may receive funding for 

the development of new alternate 

assessments for students with the most 

significant cognitive disabilities. 

Through the invitational priority 

announced in this notice, we are 

encouraging States to develop alternate 

assessments that fit coherently with the 

assessment systems to be developed 

under the RTT Assessment Program. 

Under section 1111(b)(1) of Title I of 

the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965, as amended 

(ESEA), a State is required to adopt 

challenging student academic 

achievement standards and to apply the 

same standards ‘‘to all schools and 

children in the State.’’ In developing the 

Title I ESEA regulations implementing 

this provision, the Department 

acknowledged that, although all 

children can learn challenging content, 

evaluating that learning through the use 

of alternate academic achievement 

standards is appropriate for a small, 

limited percentage of students who are 

within one or more of the existing 

categories of disability under IDEA (e.g., 

autism, multiple disabilities, traumatic 

brain injury, mental retardation), and 

whose cognitive impairments may 

prevent them from attaining grade-level 

achievement standards, even with the 

very best instruction. Accordingly, the 

Department adopted regulations, in 34 

CFR 200.1(d), permitting States to 

measure the achievement of a limited 

percentage of students—those with the 

most significant cognitive disabilities— 

against challenging, but alternate, 

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The Title I, Part A regulations in 34 

CFR 200.6(a)(2)(ii)(B) also permit a State 

to develop alternate assessments based 

on alternate academic achievement 

standards. Alternate assessments that 

are used by States and local educational 

agencies (LEAs) under the ESEA must 

be designed to generate valid data that 

can be used for purposes of school, 

district, and State accountability. They 

must meet the requirements in 34 CFR 

200.2 (State Responsibilities for 

Assessment) and 34 CFR 200.3 

(Designing State Academic Assessment 

Systems) and fit coherently in the 

State’s overall assessment system under 

34 CFR 200.2. Under the provisions of 

34 CFR 200.2(b), an alternate assessment 

must, among other things, be: (1) 

Aligned with a State’s alternate 

academic achievement standards and 

provide coherent information about 

student attainment of those standards; 

(2) valid and reliable for the purposes 

for which the assessment is used; (3) 

consistent with relevant, nationallyrecognized professional and technical 

standards; and (4) supported by 

evidence from test publishers or other 

relevant sources that the assessment is 

of adequate technical quality for each 

purpose required under the ESEA. 

States that adopt alternate academic 

achievement standards are required 

under IDEA, as reflected in 34 CFR 

300.160(c), to develop and implement 

alternate assessments that are aligned 

with the State’s challenging academic 

content standards and that measure the 

achievement of children with the most 

significant cognitive disabilities. States 

must include alternate assessment data 

in their State Performance Plan and 

Annual Performance Reports relative to 

performance and participation of 

children with disabilities on State 

assessments under IDEA. 

Priority: 

The Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services 

establishes a priority for grants to 

support States with one or more of the 

following activities: (1) Development of 

alternate academic achievement 

standards aligned with the State’s 

academic content standards; (2) 

development of high-quality alternate 

assessments using universal design 

principles, to the extent possible, that 

measure the achievement of students 

with the most significant cognitive 

disabilities based on those standards; (3) 

reporting on the participation and 

performance of students with 

disabilities on alternate assessments 

based on alternate academic 

achievement standards; and (4) 

development of clear and appropriate 

guidelines for IEP Teams to use in 

determining which students should be 

assessed based on alternate academic 

achievement standards, and the 

development and implementation of 

training on those guidelines for IEP 

Teams. 

Applicants must include information 

in their applications on how they will 

work with experts in large-scale 

assessment and special education to 

ensure that they are designing alternate 

academic achievement standards, and 

assessments based on those standards, 

that: (1) Address the needs of students 

with the most significant cognitive 

disabilities; (2) validly, reliably, and 

accurately measure student 

performance; and (3) result in highquality data for use in evaluating the 

performance of schools, districts, and 

States. The experts selected should 

represent the range of skills needed to 

develop assessments based on alternate 

academic achievement standards for 

students with the most significant 

cognitive disabilities that will meet the 

peer review guidelines for assessments 

published by the Department that are 

available at: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/ 

elsec/guid/saaprguidance.pdf. Skill sets 

for experts must include experience 

with one or more of the following: (1) 

Large scale assessment; (2) standardssetting techniques; (3) assessment and 

measurement of children with 

disabilities; (4) accommodations and 

supports to assess grade-level content; 

(5) working with States to develop 

assessments; (6) development of 

criterion-referenced tests and 

instruments; (7) psychometric 

evaluation; (8) conducting studies of the 

technical adequacy of assessment 

instruments; (9) research and publishing 

in the area of assessment and 

psychometrics; and (10) applying the 

principles of universal design to largescale assessments. 

Projects funded under this priority 

also must— 

(a) Budget to attend a three-day 

Project Directors’ meeting in 

Washington, DC; 

(b) If the project maintains a Web site, 

include relevant information and 

documents in a format that meets a 

government or industry-recognized 

standard for accessibility; and 

(c) Provide a written assurance that 

the State’s Assessment Office (i.e., the 

office that addresses accountability 

under Title I of the ESEA) was given the 

opportunity to contribute to the 

formulation of the application. 

Under this competition we are 

particularly interested in applications 

that address the following priority. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2010 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, 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. 

Background: 

The RTT Assessment Program 

supports the development of new 

assessment systems that are to be used 

by multiple States; are valid, reliable, 

and fair; and measure student 

knowledge and skills against a common 

set of college- and career-ready 

standards in English/language arts 

(ELA) and mathematics in grades 3 to 8 

and at least once in high school. The 

RTT Assessment Program requires that 

the Comprehensive Assessment Systems 

developed under the program include 

all students who have been identified as 

students with disabilities under IDEA 

who are not eligible to participate in 

alternate assessments based on alternate 

academic achievement standards. 

The assessment systems developed 

under the RTT Assessment Program 

must also produce student achievement 

data and student growth data that can be 

used to determine whether individual 

students are college- and career-ready. 

Information gathered from the RTT 

assessments should be useable in 

informing— 

(i) Determinations of school 

effectiveness for purposes of 

accountability under Title I of the ESEA; 

(ii) Determinations of individual 

principal and teacher effectiveness for 

purposes of evaluation; 

(iii) Determinations of principal and 

teacher professional development and 

support needs; and 

(iv) Teaching, learning, and program 

improvement. 

States are obligated, under Title I of 

the ESEA, IDEA, and section 504 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 

to ensure that all children with 

disabilities are included in State 

assessment systems. States or consortia 

of States may apply under the absolute 

priority in this notice for a grant to 

develop alternate academic achievement 

standards and alternate assessments for 

students with the most significant 

cognitive disabilities. Given that the 

RTT Assessment program does not 

support the development of alternate 

assessments based on alternate 

academic achievement standards, we 

encourage States under this competition 

to develop assessments that fit 

coherently with the Comprehensive 

Assessment Systems to be developed by 

State consortia under the RTT 

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This invitational priority is: 

The Secretary is particularly 

interested in projects from consortia of 

States to develop alternate assessment 

systems for students with the most 

significant cognitive disabilities that fit 

coherently with the assessment systems 

to be developed under the RTT 

Assessment Program. These alternate 

assessment systems must measure 

student knowledge and skills against a 

common set of college- and career-ready 

standards in ELA and mathematics held 

in common by States in the consortia 

and the related alternate assessments, 

for grades 3 through 8, and at least one 

grade in high school. The Secretary is 

also interested in projects that propose 

the development of alternate assessment 

systems that use approaches to 

technology, assessment administration, 

scoring, reporting, and other factors that 

facilitate the coherent inclusion of these 

assessments within States’ 

Comprehensive Assessment Systems. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1411(c) 

and 1416(i)(2). 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 

84, 85, 86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The notice 

of final priorities for this program, 

published in the Federal Register on 

July 9, 2007 (72 FR 37212). 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 

apply to all applicants except federally 

recognized Indian tribes. 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 

apply to institutions of higher education 

(IHEs) only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Cooperative 

agreement. 

Estimated Available Funds for Year 1: 

$22,000,000. 

Estimated Range of Awards for Year 

1: $1,300,000–$1,500,000 per State. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards for 

Year 1: $1,400,000 per State. 

Estimated Available Funds for Years 

2–4: $11,000,000. 

Estimated Range of Awards for Years 

2–4: $650,000–$750,000 per State. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards for 

Years 2–4: $700,000 per State. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget for a 

single budget period of 12 months that 

exceeds $1,500,000 per State in year one 

and $750,000 per State in years two 

through four. We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding the stated maximum award 

amount, unless the application involves 

a consortium, or any other group of 

eligible parties that meets the 

requirements of 34 CFR 75.127 through 

75.129. The level of funding for a 

consortium, or any other group of 

States, outlying areas (OAs), or freely 

associated States (FAS) will reflect the 

combined total that the eligible 

applicants comprising the consortium, 

or group, would have received if they 

had applied separately. The Secretary 

does not intend to make more than one 

award to serve a single State, OA, or 

FAS. The Assistant Secretary for Special 

Education and Rehabilitative Services 

may change the maximum amount 

through a notice published in the 

Federal Register. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 15 (less 

if consortia receive awards). 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 48 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: State 

educational agencies (SEAs), OAs, FAS, 

and, if endorsed by the SEA to apply 

and carry out the project on behalf of 

the SEA, local educational agencies 

(LEAs), public charter schools that are 

LEAs under State law, institutions of 

higher education (IHEs), tribes or tribal 

organizations, other public agencies, 

private nonprofit organizations, and forprofit organizations. 

Note: States, OAs, and FAS are encouraged 

to form consortia with any other group of 

eligible parties that meet the requirements in 

34 CFR 75.127 through 75.129 to apply under 

the priority in this notice. A consortium is 

any combination of eligible entities. The 

Secretary views the formation of consortia as 

an effective and efficient strategy to address 

the requirements of the priority in this 

notice. 

2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

competition does not require cost 

sharing or matching. 

3. Other: General Requirements—The 

projects funded under this competition 

must make positive efforts to employ 

and advance in employment qualified 

individuals with disabilities (see section 

606 of IDEA). 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address To Request Application 

Package: Education Publications Center 

(ED Pubs), U.S. Department of 

Education, P.O. Box 22207, Alexandria, 

VA 22304. Telephone, toll free: 1–877– 

433–7827. FAX: (703) 605–6794. If you 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD), call, toll free: 1–877–576– 

7734. 

You can contact ED Pubs at its Web 

site, also: http://www.EDPubs.gov or at 

its e-mail address: edpubs@inet.ed.gov. 

If you request an application package 

from ED Pubs, be sure to identify this 

competition as follows: CFDA number 

84.373X. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

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

large print, audiotape, or computer 

diskette) by contacting the person or 

team listed under Accessible Format in 

section VIII of this notice. 

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 Part III 

to the equivalent of no more than 40 

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, abstracts, 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 

references, or the letters of support. 

However, the page limit does apply to 

all of the application narrative section 

(Part III). 

We will reject your application if you 

exceed the page limit; or if you apply 

other standards and exceed the 

equivalent of the page limit. 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: June 8, 2010. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 23, 2010. 

Applications for grants under this 

competition may be submitted 

electronically using the Electronic Grant 

Application System (e-Application) 

accessible through the Department’s eGrants Web site, or in paper format by 

mail or hand delivery. For information 

(including dates and times) about how 


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to submit your application 

electronically, or in paper format by 

mail or hand delivery, please refer to 

section IV. 7. 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. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 21, 2010. 

4. Intergovernmental Review: This 

program is subject to Executive Order 

12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR 

part 79. Information about 

Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs under Executive Order 12372 

is in the application package for this 

competition. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We reference 

regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section of this notice. 

6. Data Universal Numbering System 

Number, Taxpayer Identification 

Number, and Central Contractor 

Registry: To do business with the 

Department of Education, (1) You must 

have a Data Universal Numbering 

System (DUNS) number and a Taxpayer 

Identification Number (TIN); (2) you 

must register both of those numbers 

with the Central Contractor Registry 

(CCR), the Government’s primary 

registrant database; and (3) you must 

provide those same numbers on your 

application. 

You can obtain a DUNS number from 

Dun and Bradstreet. A DUNS number 

can be created within one business day. 

If you are a corporate entity, agency, 

institution, or organization, you can 

obtain a TIN from the Internal Revenue 

Service. If you are an individual, you 

can obtain a TIN from the Internal 

Revenue Service or the Social Security 

Administration. If you need a new TIN, 

please allow 2–5 weeks for your TIN to 

become active. 

The CCR registration process may take 

five or more business days to complete. 

If you are currently registered with the 

CCR, you may not need to make any 

changes. However, please make certain 

that the TIN associated with your DUNS 

number is correct. Also note that you 

will need to update your CCR 

registration on an annual basis. This 

may take three or more business days to 

complete. 

7. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

competition may be submitted 

electronically or in paper format by mail 

or hand delivery. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications. 

If you choose to submit your 

application to us electronically, you 

must use e-Application, accessible 

through the Department’s e-Grants Web 

site at: http://e-grants.ed.gov. 

While completing your electronic 

application, you will be entering data 

online that will be saved into a 

database. You may not e-mail an 

electronic copy of a grant application to 

us. 

Please note the following: 

• Your participation in e-Application 

is voluntary. 

• You must complete the electronic 

submission of your grant application by 

4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the application deadline date. EApplication will not accept an 

application for this competition after 

4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, on 

the application deadline date. 

Therefore, we strongly recommend that 

you do not wait until the application 

deadline date to begin the application 

process. 

• The hours of operation of the eGrants Web site are 6:00 a.m. Monday 

until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday; and 6:00 

a.m. Thursday until 8:00 p.m. Sunday, 

Washington, DC time. Please note that, 

because of maintenance, the system is 

unavailable between 8:00 p.m. on 

Sundays and 6:00 a.m. on Mondays, and 

between 7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays and 

6:00 a.m. on Thursdays, Washington, 

DC time. Any modifications to these 

hours are posted on the e-Grants Web 

site. 

• You will not receive additional 

point value because you submit your 

application in electronic format, nor 

will we penalize you if you submit your 

application in paper format. 

• You must submit all documents 

electronically, including all information 

you typically provide on the following 

forms: the 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. 

• Prior to submitting your electronic 

application, you may wish to print a 

copy of it for your records. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive an 

automatic acknowledgment that will 

include a PR/Award number (an 

identifying number unique to your 

application). 

• Within three working days after 

submitting your electronic application, 

fax a signed copy of the SF 424 to the 

Application Control Center after 

following these steps: 

(1) Print SF 424 from e-Application. 

(2) The applicant’s Authorizing 

Representative must sign this form. 

(3) Place the PR/Award number in the 

upper right hand corner of the hardcopy signature page of the SF 424. 

(4) Fax the signed SF 424 to the 

Application Control Center at (202) 

245–6272. 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on other forms at a 

later date. 

Application Deadline Date Extension 

in Case of System Unavailability: If you 

are prevented from electronically 

submitting your application on the 

application deadline date because eApplication is unavailable, we will 

grant you an extension of one business 

day to enable you to transmit your 

application electronically, by mail, or by 

hand delivery. We will grant this 

extension if— 

(1) You are a registered user of eApplication and you have initiated an 

electronic application for this 

competition; and 

(2) (a) E-Application is unavailable for 

60 minutes or more between the hours 

of 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, on the application deadline 

date; or 

(b) E-Application is unavailable for 

any period of time between 3:30 p.m. 

and 4:30:00 p.m., Washington, DC time, 

on the application deadline date. 

We must acknowledge and confirm 

these periods of unavailability before 

granting you an extension. To request 

this extension or to confirm our 

acknowledgment of any system 

unavailability, you may contact either 

(1) the person listed elsewhere in this 

notice under For Further Information 

Contact (see VII. Agency Contact) or (2) 

the e-Grants help desk at 1–888–336– 

8930. If e-Application is unavailable 

due to technical problems with the 

system and, therefore, the application 

deadline is extended, an e-mail will be 


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sent to all registered users who have 

initiated an e-Application. 

Extensions referred to in this section 

apply only to the unavailability of eApplication. If e-Application is 

available, and, for any reason, you are 

unable to submit your application 

electronically or you do not receive an 

automatic acknowledgment of your 

submission, you may submit your 

application in paper format by mail or 

hand delivery in accordance with the 

instructions in this notice. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Mail. 

If you submit your application in 

paper format by mail (through the U.S. 

Postal Service or a commercial carrier), 

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 84.373X), 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. 

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 submit your application in 

paper format by hand delivery, you (or 

a courier service) 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 84.373X), 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 

grant 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 

1. Selection Criteria: The selection 

criteria for this program are from 34 CFR 

75.210 and are listed in the application 

package. 

2. Review and Selection Process: In 

the past, the Department has had 

difficulty finding peer reviewers for 

certain competitions because so many 

individuals who are eligible to serve as 

peer reviewers have conflicts of interest. 

The Standing Panel requirements under 

IDEA also have placed additional 

constraints on the availability of 

reviewers. Therefore, the Department 

has determined that, for some 

discretionary grant competitions, 

applications may be separated into two 

or more groups and ranked and selected 

for funding within specific groups. This 

procedure will make it easier for the 

Department to find peer reviewers, by 

ensuring that greater numbers of 

individuals who are eligible to serve as 

reviewers for any particular group of 

applicants will not have conflicts of 

interest. It also will increase the quality, 

independence, and fairness of the 

review process, while permitting panel 

members to review applications under 

discretionary grant competitions for 

which they also have submitted 

applications. However, if the 

Department decides to select an equal 

number of applications in each group 

for funding, this may result in different 

cut-off points for fundable applications 

in each group. 

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 

http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/ 

appforms/appforms.html. 

4. Performance Measures: Under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993 (GPRA), the Department has 

developed a performance measure that 

will be used to evaluate the overall 

effectiveness of projects funded under 

this competition. This measure is: The 

percentage of General Supervision 

Enhancement Grantee products and 

services that are of high-quality, 

relevance, and usefulness, as 

determined by Annual Performance 

Report submissions and reviews of 

grantee work products. To ensure that 

the Department has the data needed for 

this measure, grantees will be expected 

to participate in mid-term assessments 

of progress towards stated goals and 

objectives, and will also be required to 

report information on their projects’ 

performance in annual reports to the 

Department (34 CFR 75.590). The 

Department will also determine at the 

end of the grantee’s project period 

whether the grantee has been successful 

in achieving the purposes of its award. 

VII. Agency Contact 

For Further Information Contact: 

Susan Weigert, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 4078, Potomac Center Plaza (PCP), 

Washington, DC 20202–2550. 

Telephone: (202) 245–6522. 

If you use a TDD, call the Federal 

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

877–8339. 


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VIII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

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

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

by contacting the Grants and Contracts 

Services Team, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 

20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245– 

7363. If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

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

fedregister. To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

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: June 3, 2010. 

Alexa Posny, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2010–13783 Filed 6–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Full-Service Community Schools 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.215J 

AGENCY: Office of Innovation and 

Improvement, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of final priorities, 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of Education 

announces priorities, requirements, 

definitions, and selection criteria for the 

Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) 

program. The Secretary may use these 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria for competitions in 

fiscal year (FY) 2010 and later years. We 

take this action to focus Federal 

assistance on supporting collaboration 

among schools and entities within a 

community in the provision of 

comprehensive academic, social, and 

health services for students, students’ 

family members, and community 

members. We intend the priorities to 

support the improvement of student 

outcomes through their promotion of 

strong school-community partnerships 

that support effective resource 

coordination and service delivery. The 

FSCS program is a ‘‘place-based’’ 

program that can leverage investments 

by focusing resources in targeted places, 

drawing on the compounding effects of 

well-coordinated actions. Place-based 

approaches can also streamline 

otherwise redundant and disconnected 

programs. 

DATES: Effective Date: These priorities, 

requirements, definitions, and selection 

criteria are effective July 8, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill 

Staton, U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 

4W245, Washington, DC 20202–5970. 

Telephone (202) 401–2091 or by e-mail: 

FSCS@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD), call the 

Federal Relay Service, toll free, at 1– 

800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of Program: The Fund for the 

Improvement of Education (FIE), which 

is authorized by section 5411 of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA), 

supports nationally significant programs 

to improve the quality of elementary 

and secondary education at the State 

and local levels and help all children 

meet challenging academic content and 

academic achievement standards. The 

FSCS program, which is funded under 

FIE, encourages coordination of 

academic, social, and health services 

through partnerships among (1) public 

elementary and secondary schools; (2) 

the schools’ local educational agencies 

(LEAs); and (3) community-based 

organizations, non-profit organizations, 

and other public or private entities. The 

purpose of this collaboration is to 

provide comprehensive academic, 

social, and health services for students, 

students’ family members, and 

community members that will result in 

improved educational outcomes for 

children. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7243– 

7243b. 

We published a notice of proposed 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria for this program in the 

Federal Register on February 8, 2010 

(75 FR 6188–6192). That notice 

contained background information and 

our reasons for proposing the particular 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria. 

There are differences between the 

notice of proposed priorities, 

requirements, definitions and selection 

criteria (NPP) and this notice of final 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria (NFP) as discussed in 

the Analysis of Comments and Changes 

section elsewhere in this notice. 

Public Comment: In response to our 

invitation in the NPP, 11 parties 

submitted comments on the proposed 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria. 

Generally, we do not address 

technical and other minor changes, or 

suggested changes the law does not 

authorize us to make under the 

applicable statutory authority. In 

addition we do not address general 

comments that raised concerns not 

directly related to the proposed 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria. 

Analysis of Comments and Changes: 

An analysis of the comments and of any 

changes in the priorities, requirements, 

definitions, and selection criteria since 

publication of the notice of proposed 

priorities, requirements, definitions, and 

selection criteria follows. We discuss 

substantive issues under the title of the 

item to which they pertain. 

Absolute Priority—Eligible Services 

Comment: Two commenters suggested 

that services provided under the FSCS 

program include strong alignment of 

academic supports and enrichment 

activities with existing resources for 

remedial programming. In addition, one 

commenter noted the importance of 

aligning remedial education and 

academic enrichment activities with 

State standards, curricula, and academic 

achievement data to ensure stronger 

connections between school day and 

after-school activities. 

Discussion: We agree that remedial 

education, academic supports, and 

enrichment activities should be clearly 

and deliberately aligned with other key 

components of successful schools (e.g., 

a State’s high academic standards; 

rigorous curricula; effective teachers; 

effective school leadership; welldesigned assessments and 

accountability systems; positive school 

climates; and strong professional 

development) and are modifying the 

absolute priority accordingly. We 

believe that such coordination and 

alignment are likely to support student 

academic success by promoting costeffective school-community 

partnerships that are tailored to the 

needs of students and schools. 

Changes: We have revised the service 

category regarding remedial education 

in the absolute priority. This category 

now reads ‘‘Remedial education, aligned 

with academic supports and other 

enrichment activities, providing 

students with a comprehensive 

academic program.’’ 


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