[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 53 (Monday, March 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14868-14873]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6708]




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Part IV





Department of Education





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Magnet Schools Assistance Program, Applications for New Awards for 
Fiscal Year 1995; Notice

Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 53 / Monday, March 20, 1995 / Notices 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.: 84.165A]


Magnet Schools Assistance Program; Notice Inviting Applications 
for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 1995

Purpose of Program Provides grants to eligible local educational 
agencies and consortia of such agencies to support magnet schools that 
are part of approved desegregation plans.
Eligible Applicants: Local educational agencies (LEAs) and consortia of 
such agencies.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 12, 1995.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: July 11, 1995.
Applications Available: March 20, 1995.
Available Funds: $111,359,000.
Estimated Range of Awards: $200,000-$4,000,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $1,855,983.
Estimated Number of Awards: 60.

    Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this 
notice.

Project Period: Up to 36 months.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General 
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR Parts 75 as published in 
the Federal Register on June 10, 1994 (59 FR 30258), 77, 79, 80, 81, 
82, 85 and 86; and (b) the regulations in 34 CFR Part 280 as amended in 
this issue of the Federal Register.

Priorities

Background

    The Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) makes grants to 
eligible LEAs and consortia of LEAs for programs that are designed to 
support----
    <bullet> The elimination, reduction, or prevention of minority 
group isolation in public elementary and secondary schools with 
substantial proportions of minority group children;
    <bullet> The development and implementation of magnet school 
projects that will assist in achieving systemic reform and providing 
all children the opportunity to meet challenging State content 
standards and challenging student performance standards;
    <bullet> the development and design of innovative educational 
methods and practices; and
    <bullet> courses of instruction within magnet schools that will 
substantially strengthen the knowledge of academic subjects and the 
grasp of tangible and marketable vocational skills of students 
attending those magnet schools.

Competitive Priorities

    Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) and 34 CFR 280.32(b)-(f), the 
Secretary gives preference to applications that meet competitive 
priorities. Depending upon how well an application meets each priority, 
the Secretary awards additional points to the application for each 
priority up to the maximum number of points available for that 
priority. These points are in addition to any points the applicant 
earns under the selection criteria in 34 CFR 280.31.
    The Secretary will award up to a total of 45 points for the 
following competitive priorities:
    <bullet> Need for assistance. (15 points) The Secretary evaluates 
the applicant's need for assistance under this part, by considering--
    <bullet> (a) The costs of fully implementing the magnet schools 
project as proposed;
    <bullet> (b) The resources available to the applicant to carry out 
the project if funds under the program were not provided;
    <bullet> (c) The extent to which the costs of the project exceed 
the applicant's resources; and
    <bullet> (d) The difficulty of effectively carrying out the 
approved plan and the project for which assistance is sought, including 
consideration of how the design of the magnet school project--e.g., the 
type of program proposed, the location of the magnet school within the 
LEA--impacts on the applicant's ability to successfully carry out the 
approved plan.
    <bullet> New or revised magnet schools projects. (10 points) The 
Secretary determines the extent to which the applicant proposes to 
carry out new magnet schools projects or significantly revise existing 
magnet schools projects.
    <bullet> Selection of students. (10 points) The Secretary 
determines the extent to which the applicant proposes to select 
students to attend magnet schools by methods such as lottery, rather 
than through academic examination.
    <bullet> Innovative approaches and systemic reform. (5 points) The 
Secretary determines the extent to which the project for which 
assistance is sought proposes to implement innovative educational 
approaches that are consistent with the State's and LEA's systemic 
reform plans, if any, under Title III of Goals 2000: Educate America 
Act.
    <bullet> Collaborative efforts. (5 points) The Secretary determines 
the extent to which the project for which assistance is sought proposes 
to draw on comprehensive community involvement plans.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Applicants must submit with their 
applications one of the following types of desegregation plans: (1) A 
plan required by a court order; (2) a plan required by a State agency 
or official of competent jurisdiction; (3) a plan required by the 
Office for Civil Rights (OCR), United States Department of Education 
(ED), under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI plan); 
or (4) a voluntary plan adopted by the applicant.
    Under the regulations, applicants are required to provide all of 
the information required under the regulations at Sec. 280.20 (a)-(g) 
in order to satisfy the civil rights eligibility requirements found in 
Sec. 280.2 (a)(2) and (b) of the regulations. In the past, if 
necessary, ED requested enrollment data or other information from 
applicants after their applications were submitted utilizing the 
procedures set forth in Sec. 280.20(h). However, that follow-up process 
delayed awards under the program. In order to respond to requests from 
applicants and grantees that the Department announce MSAP awards 
earlier in the year, ED has modified the application review process for 
this competition.
    Specifically, when conducting eligibility reviews of desegregation 
plans, under Sec. 280.2 the Department will not follow up with 
applicants to obtain additional information or clarification. 
Accordingly, in order to satisfy the civil rights eligibility 
requirements found in Sec. 280.2 (a)(2) and (b) of the regulations, it 
is very important that an applicant provide all of the information 
required under the regulations at Sec. 280.20 (a)-(g). This notice 
describes that information.
    In addition to the particular data and other items for required and 
voluntary plans, described separately in the information that follows, 
an application must include:
    <bullet> Signed civil rights assurances (included in the 
application package);
    <bullet> A copy of the applicant's desegregation plan; and
    <bullet> An assurance that the plan is being implemented or will be 
implemented if the application is funded.

Required Plans

1. Plans Required by a Court Order
    An applicant that submits a plan required by a court, State agency 
or official of competent jurisdiction, must submit complete and signed 
copies of all court or State documents demonstrating that the magnet 
schools are a part of the approved plan. Examples of the types of 
documents that would meet this requirement include--
    <bullet> A Federal or State court order that establishes or amends 
a previous order [[Page 14869]] or orders by establishing additional or 
different specific magnet schools;
    <bullet> A Federal or State court order that requires or approves 
the establishment of one or more unspecified magnet schools or that 
authorizes the inclusion of magnet schools at the discretion of the 
applicant.
2. Plans Required by a State Agency or Official of Competent 
Jurisdiction
    An applicant submitting a plan ordered by a State agency or 
official of competent jurisdiction must provide documentation that 
shows that the plan was ordered based upon a determination that State 
law was violated. In the absence of this documentation, the applicant 
should consider its plan to be a voluntary plan and submit the data and 
information necessary for voluntary plans.
3. Title VI Required Plans
    An applicant that submits a plan required by OCR under Title VI 
must submit a complete copy of the plan demonstrating that magnet 
schools are part of the approved plan.
4. Modifications to Required Plans
    A previously approved desegregation plan that does not include the 
magnet school or program for which the applicant is now seeking 
assistance must be modified to include the magnet school component. The 
modification to the plan must be approved by the court, agency or 
official, that originally approved the plan. An applicant that wishes 
to modify a previously approved OCR Title VI plan to include different 
or additional magnet schools must submit the proposed modification for 
review and approval to the OCR Regional Office that approved its 
original plan.
    An applicant should indicate in its application if it is seeking to 
modify its previously approved plan. However, all applicants must 
submit proof to ED of approval of all modifications to their plans by 
April 17, 1995.

Voluntary Plans

    A voluntary desegregation plan must be approved each time an 
application is submitted for funding. Even if ED has approved a 
voluntary desegregation plan in an LEA in the past, the plan must be 
resubmitted to ED for approval as part of the application.
    An applicant submitting a voluntary desegregation plan must include 
in its application:
    <bullet> A copy of a school board resolution or other evidence of 
final official action adopting and implementing the desegregation plan, 
or agreeing to adopt and implement the desegregation plan upon the 
award of assistance.
    <bullet> Enrollment and other information as required by the 
regulations at Sec. 280.20(f) and (g) for applicants with voluntary 
desegregation plans. Enrollment data and information are critical to 
ED's determination of an applicant's eligibility under a voluntary 
desegregation plan.
    A voluntary desegregation plan is a plan to reduce, eliminate, or 
prevent minority group isolation (MGI), either at a magnet school or at 
a feeder school--a school from which students are drawn to attend the 
magnet school. Under Sec. 280.2, the establishment of the magnet school 
cannot result in an increase in MGI at a magnet school or any feeder 
school above the districtwide percentage of minority group students at 
the grade levels served by the magnet school.
    The following example and those in subsequent sections of this 
notice are designed to assist applicants in the preparation of their 
application. The examples illustrate the types of data and information 
that have proven successful in the past for satisfying the voluntary 
desegregation plan regulation requirements.
    District A has a districtwide percentage of 65.5 percent for its 
minority student population in elementary schools. District A has six 
elementary schools with the following minority student populations:

1. School A--67 percent.
2. School B--58 percent.
3. School C--64 percent.
4. School D--76 percent.
5. School E--47 percent.
6. School F--81 percent.

    District A has five minority group isolated schools, i.e., five 
schools with minority student enrollment of over 50 percent. District A 
seeks funding to establish a magnet program at School F to reduce MGI 
at that school. For District A to be eligible for a grant, the 
establishment of the magnet program at School F should not increase the 
minority student enrollment at feeder school C to more than 65.5 
percent (the districtwide percentage). Also, the establishment of the 
magnet program should not increase the minority student enrollment at 
feeder schools A or D at all because those schools are already above 
the districtwide percentage for minority students. If projected 
enrollments at a magnet or feeder school indicate that there will be an 
increase in MGI, District A should provide an explanation in its 
application for the increase that shows it is not caused by the 
establishment of the magnet program. See the discussion below.
    An applicant that proposes to establish new magnet schools must 
submit projected data for each magnet and feeder school that show that 
the magnet schools and all feeders will maintain eligibility for the 
entire three-year period of the grant. Projected data are included in 
the examples below.
Objective: Reduction of Minority Group Isolation in Existing Magnet 
Schools
    In situations where the applicant intends to reduce minority 
isolation in an existing magnet program, whether in the magnet school 
or in one or more of the feeder schools, and minority isolation has 
increased, the applicant must provide data and information to 
demonstrate that the increase was not due to the applicant's magnet 
program, in accordance with Sec. 280.20(g). See the following examples.

Options for Demonstrating Reduction

1. Magnet School Analysis

    District Z has two existing magnet high schools that began their 
magnet programs in different years. All of the other schools in the 
district are feeder schools to one or both of the magnet schools. 
District Z has six feeder schools and a districtwide minority 
enrollment of 59.95 percent. Since becoming a magnet school, 
Enterprise Magnet has increased its MGI from 74.40 percent to 76.55 
percent. Because of this increase, this school would be found 
ineligible unless the increase in MGI was not caused by the magnet 
school. This may be shown through data indicating an increase either 
in minority enrollment districtwide or in the area served by the 
magnet school.
    If District Z's districtwide minority enrollment has become more 
minority isolated due to districtwide demographic changes in the 
student population and if a magnet or a feeder school's increase in 
MGI is less than the districtwide increase in MGI, ED will conclude 
that the school's increase in MGI was not the result of the magnet 
programs, but due to the overall effect of demographic changes in 
the district as a whole.

                                                                                                                
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                                                             Base year                                         Current year                             
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 District Z magnet school & base year                    Minority           Nonminority                      Minority           Nonminority     Increase
                                           Total   ----------------------------------------    Total   ----------------------------------------  in MGI 
                                        enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent          
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Jefferson (1993)......................        459        349     76.03       110     23.97        514        356     69.26       158     30.74  ........
Enterprise (1991).....................        375        279     74.40        96     25.60        388        297     76.55        91     23.45     2.15%
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Note: ``Base Year'' is the year prior to the year each school became a magnet.                                                                          


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                                                             Base year                                         Current year                             
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   Feeder school (ranked in order of                     Minority           Nonminority                      Minority           Nonminority     Increase
   descending minority enrollments)        Total   ----------------------------------------    Total   ----------------------------------------  in MGI 
                                        enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent          
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Rose..................................        398        301     75.63        97     24.37        401        278     69.33       123     30.67  ........
Rocky Mount...........................        289        199     68.86        90     31.14        291        211     72.51        80     27.49     3.65%
Wheeler...............................        239        144     60.25        95     39.75        250        153     61.20        97     38.80     0.95%
King..................................        289        144     49.83       145     50.17        277        149     53.79       128     46.21  ........
Tinker................................        451        211     46.78       240     53.22        423        221     52.25       202     47.75  ........
Holly.................................        481        122     25.36       359     74.64        450        130     28.89       320     71.11  ........
Districtwide..........................      2,981      1,749     58.67     1,232     41.33      2,994      1,795     59.95     1,199     40.05     1.28%
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                                                                           1995-1996 Projected                                 1996-1997 Projected                          1997-1998           
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          Projected magnet school & base year                           Minority       Nonminority                    Minority       Nonminority                    Minority       Non-minority 
                                                           Total   ----------------------------------    Total   ----------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------
                                                        enrollment  Number  Percent  Number  Percent  enrollment  Number  Percent  Number  Percent  enrollment  Number  Percent  Number  Percent
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Jefferson (1993)......................................       500       335      67      165      33        510       337      66      173      34        515       340      66      175      34 
Enterprise (1991).....................................       390       289      74      101      26        400       288      72      112      28        410       295      72      115      28 
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                                                                     1995-1996 Projected                           1996-1997 Projected                           1997-1998 Projected            
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                     Feeder School                                      Minority       Nonminority                    Minority       Nonminority                    Minority       Nonminority  
                                                           Total   ----------------------------------    Total   ----------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------
                                                        enrollment  Number  Percent  Number  Percent  enrollment  Number  Percent  Number  Percent  enrollment  Number  Percent  Number  Percent
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Rose..................................................       400       272      68      128      32        400       272      68      128      32        400       264      66      136      34 
Rocky Mount...........................................       300       210      70       90      30        300       210      70       90      30        300       204      68       96      32 
Wheeler...............................................       250       148      59      102      41        250       148      59      102      41        250       148      59      103      41 
King..................................................       280       151      54      129      46        280       151      54      129      46        280       151      54      129      46 
Tinker................................................       430       232      54      198      46        430       232      54      198      46        430       232      54      198      46 
Holly.................................................       460       161      35      299      65        460       184      40      276      60        460       207      45      253      55 
Districtwide..........................................     3,010     1,798      60    1,212      40      3,030     1,822      60    1,208      40      3,045     1,841      60    1,204      40 
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  However, as with the magnet Enterprise, if the MGI in a magnet 
increases above the districtwide increase, an applicant must 
demonstrate that the magnet is not causing the problem. In order to 
show that the increase in MGI at a particular school is not the result 
of the operation of a magnet, a district should provide student 
transfer data on the number of minority and nonminority students that 
attend the magnet program from the other feeder schools in the district 
for the current year. If, by subtracting from the magnet enrollment 
those students that came from other schools, the MGI is higher than the 
districtwide average, it can be concluded that the increase in MGI was 
not caused by the magnet school.

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Current year student                     Current year                   
  transfer data for  ---------------------------------------------------
 magnet schools that                   Minority           Nonminority   
increase in minority             ---------------------------------------
group isolation over     Total                                          
  the districtwide    enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
minority enrollment.                                                    
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Enterprise..........        388        297     76.55        91     23.45
Students transferred                                                    
 to Jefferson to                                                        
 attend magnet                                                          
 program............         25          4  ........        21  ........
                     ---------------------------------------------------
Magnet school                                                           
 minority enrollment                                                    
 with transfer                                                          
 students                                                               
 ``returned'' to                                                        
 feeders............        363        293     80.72        70     19.28
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Current year student                     Current year                   
  transfer data for  ---------------------------------------------------
 feeder schools that                   Minority           Nonminority   
increase in minority             ---------------------------------------
group isolation over     Total                                          
  the districtwide    enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
minority enrollment.                                                    
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Rocky Mount.........        291        211     72.51        80     27.49
    Students                                                            
     attending                                                          
     Jefferson......         21         16  ........         5  ........
    Students                                                            
     attending                                                          
     Enterprise.....         19         15  ........         4  ........
                     ---------------------------------------------------
Feeder school                                                           
 minority enrollment                                                    
 with transfer                                                          
 students                                                               
 ``returned''from                                                       
 magnet.............        331        242     73.11        89     26.89
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2. Feeder School Analysis
    In District Z, two feeder schools, Rocky Mount and Wheeler, 
increased in MGI by 3.65 percent and 0.95 percent respectively. Since 
Wheeler's MGI increase of 0.95 percent is less than the districtwide 
MGI increase of 1.28 percent, Wheeler's MGI increase was due to the 
demographic changes in the district and further scrutiny of Wheeler is 
not required.
    Because Rocky Mount, a feeder school to magnet programs at 
Jefferson and Enterprise, increased in MGI over the districtwide 
average from 68.86 percent to 72.51 percent, this would make both 
Jefferson and Enterprise ineligible unless the district demonstrates 
that the increase was not because of the magnet programs. The clearest 
way for an applicant to show this is to provide student transfer data 
on the number of minority and nonminority students that left Rocky 
Mount to attend magnet programs at Jefferson and Enterprise. By adding 
the number of students that transferred to the magnet programs to Rocky 
Mount's total enrollment, ED can determine whether the increase was due 
to the magnet program. If it can be demonstrated that without the 
magnet program, the MGI at the feeder school would be even higher, 
these magnet schools would be found eligible.
    Some applicants may find it impossible to provide the type of 
student transfer data referred to above. In some cases, these 
applicants may be able to present demographic or other statistical data 
and information that would satisfy the requirements of the statute and 
regulations. This demographic data must persuasively demonstrate that 
the operation of a proposed magnet school would reduce, eliminate, or 
prevent minority group isolation in the applicant's magnet schools and 
would not result in an increase of MGI at one of the applicant's feeder 
schools above the districtwide percentage for minority students at the 
same grade levels as those served in the magnet school. (34 CFR 
Sec. 280.20(g)). For example, an applicant might include data provided 
to it by a local social service agency about the numbers and 
concentration of families in a recent influx of immigrants into the 
neighborhood or attendance zone of the feeder school.
3. Additional Base-Year Data
    If an applicant believes that comparing a magnet program's current-
year enrollment data with its base year--i.e., the year prior to the 
year each school became a magnet or a feeder--enrollment data is 
misleading due to significant changes that have occurred in attendance 
zones or other factors affecting the magnet school or in the closing 
and combining of other schools with the magnet school, additional and 
more recent enrollment data for an alternative to the base year may be 
submitted along with a justification for its submission.

Objective: Conversion of an Existing School to a New Magnet Program

    District X will convert Williams, an existing elementary school, 
to a new elementary magnet program. Currently, Williams has a 
minority enrollment of 94.67 percent. The district projects that the 
magnet program will reduce minority group isolation at Williams to 
89 percent in the first year of the project. The projection of 
enrollment should be based upon reasonable assumptions and should 
clearly state the basis for these assumptions, e.g., parent or 
student interest surveys, or other objective indicators, such as 
waiting lists for other magnet schools in the district.

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                                                                     Current year                                     1995-1996 Projected               
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            District X Magnet School                               Minority           Nonminority                      Minority          Nonminority--  
                                                     Total   ----------------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------------
                                                  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
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Williams........................................        450        426     94.67        24      5.33        450        400        89        50        11
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                                                                     Current year                                     1995-1996 Projected               
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  Feeder School (Ranked in order of descending                     Minority          Nonminority--                     Minority           Nonminority   
              minority enrollments)                  Total   ----------------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------------
                                                  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
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Shaw............................................        398        179     44.97       219     55.03        400        190        48       210        53
Lincoln.........................................        477        186     38.99       291     61.01        480        210        44       270        56
Districtwide....................................      1,325        791     59.70       534     40.30      1,330        800        60       530        40
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                                                                  1996-1997 Projected                                 1997-1998 Projected               
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                  Magnet School                                    Minority          Nonminority--                     Minority           Nonminority   
                                                     Total   ----------------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------------
                                                  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
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Williams........................................        450        392        87        59        13        450        383        85        67        15
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                                                                  1996-1997 Projected                                 1997-1998 Projected               
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  Feeder School (Ranked in order of descending                     Minority          Nonminority--                     Minority           Nonminority   
              minority enrollments)                  Total   ----------------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------------
                                                  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
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Shaw............................................        410        200        49       210        51        420        215        51       205        49
Lincoln.........................................        490        220        45       270        55        500        235        47       265        53
Districtwide....................................      1,350        812        60       538        40      1,370        833        61       537        39
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Objective: Construction of New Magnet School/Reopening a Closed School

    District Y will construct a new school, Barton, and open its 
magnet program in 1996. There is no preexisting school, and 
consequently, it appears that no enrollment data are readily 
available to use as a comparison. However, the district estimates 
that if the proposed magnet school had opened as a ``neighborhood 
school,'' without a magnet program designed to attract students from 
outside the ``neighborhood'' or attendance zone, it would have a 
minority enrollment of 67 percent. This estimate was based on 
national census data, supplemented by more current data on the 
neighborhood provided by the local county government. The district 
further reasonably anticipates, based on surveys and other 
indicators, that when the new school opens as a magnet school in 
1996, it will have a minority enrollment of 58 percent.

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                                                          Current year                                            1995-96 Projected                     
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      District Y Magnet School                                         Nonminority                     Minority                 Nonminority             
                                         Total     Minority  ------------------------------   Total  ---------------------------------------------------
                                      enrollment  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    percent  Enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
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Barton..............................        600         400      66.67       200     33.33        --         --         --        --       --           
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Note: Since this magnet will not open until 1996, the current year is the base year. Provide hypothetical base year data for what the school would look 
  like if it had opened as a neighborhood school. For example, census data could be used to estimate the hypothetical enrollment.                       


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                                                                                 Current year                                1995-96 projected          
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  Feeder School (ranked in order of descending       Total         Minority           Nonminority                      Minority           Nonminority   
              minority enrollments)               Enrollment ----------------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------------
                                                               Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
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Clark...........................................        298        101     33.89       197     66.11         --         --        --        --        --
Topper..........................................        324        111     34.26       213     65.74         --         --        --        --        --
Districtwide....................................      1,222        612     50.08       610     49.92         --         --        --        --        --
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                                                                  1996-1997 Projected                                 1997-1998 Projected               
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                  Magnet School                                    Minority           Nonminority                      Minority           Nonminority   
                                                     Total   ----------------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------------
                                                  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
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Barton..........................................        600        336        58       250        42        580        331        57       249        43
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                                                                   1996-97 Projected                                   1997-98 Projected                
                                                 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Feeder School (ranked in order of descending                     Minority           Nonminority                      Minority           Nonminority   
              minority enrollments)                  Total   ----------------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------------
                                                  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
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Clark...........................................        300        125        42       175        58        310        136        44       174        56
Topper..........................................        330        135        41       195        59        340        146        43       194        57
Districtwide....................................      1,230        610        50       620        50      1,230        613        50       617        50
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Objective: Reduction, Elimination, or Prevention of MGI at Targeted 
Feeder Schools

    Many applicants apply for MSAP funding to reduce, eliminate, or 
prevent minority group isolation at a magnet school. However, some 
applicants have established magnet programs at schools that are not 
minority-isolated for the purpose of reducing, eliminating, or 
preventing minority isolation at one or more targeted feeder 
schools. The data requirements and analysis for this type of magnet 
program are the same as described for ``Existing Magnet Schools.'' 
In this example, MGI is being reduced in each of the targeted feeder 
schools.

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                                                                     Base Year                                    Current Year                          
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                Magnet School                                   Minority            Nonminority                               Minority       Nonminority
                                                  Total   ------------------------------------------   Total    Percent --------------------            
                                               enrollment   Percent   Number    Percent  Enrollment   number              Number    Percent             
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Douglas......................................        505        129     25.54       376      74.46        520       221     42.50       299       57.50 
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                                                                       Base year                                         Current year                   
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  Feeder School (ranked in order of descending                     Minority           Nonminority                      Minority           Nonminority   
             minority enrollments.)                  Total   ----------------------------------------    Total   ---------------------------------------
                                                  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent  enrollment   Number    Percent   Number    Percent
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North...........................................        398        309     77.64        89     22.36        401        275     68.58       126     31.42
Central.........................................        312        239     76.60        73     23.40        300        229     76.33        71     23.67
South...........................................        289        205     70.93        84     29.07        302        189     62.58       113     37.42
Districtwide....................................      1,504        882     58.64       622     41.36      1,523        914     60.01       609     39.99
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                                                                             1995-96 Projected                               1996-97 Projected                         1997-98 Projected        
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                  Magnet School                      Total        Minority         Nonminority                    Minority         Nonminority                    Minority         Nonminority  
                                                  enrollment ------------------------------------    Total   ------------------------------------    Total   -----------------------------------
                                                               Number  Percent   Number  Percent  enrollment   Number  Percent   Number  Percent  enrollment   Number  Percent   Number  Percent
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Douglas.........................................        520       234       45      286       55        525       247       47      278       53        530       276       52      254       48
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                                                                 1995-96 Projected                               1996-97 Projected                               1997-98 Projected              
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                  Feeder School                                   Minority         Nonminority                    Minority         Nonminority                    Minority         Nonminority  
                                                     Total   ------------------------------------    Total   ------------------------------------    Total   -----------------------------------
                                                  enrollment   Number  Percent   Number  Percent  enrollment   Number  Percent   Number  Percent  enrollment   Number  Percent   Number  Percent
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North...........................................        410       275       67      135       33        410       267       65      143       35        410       258       63      152       37
Central.........................................        300       225       75       75       25        300       222       74       78       26        300       204       68       96       32
South...........................................        310       186       60      124       40        310       186       60      124       40        310       186       60      124       40
Districtwide....................................      1,540       920       60      620       40      1,545       922       60      623       40      1,550       924       60      626       40
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Objective: Prevention of Minority Group Isolation

    An applicant that applies for MSAP funding for the purposes of 
preventing minority isolation must demonstrate that without the 
intervention of the magnet program, the magnet school or targeted 
feeder school will become minority-isolated within the project 
period. Generally this may be documented by showing a trend in the 
enrollment data for the proposed school. For example, if a 
neighborhood school currently has a 45 percent minority enrollment 
and, for the last three years, minority enrollment has increased an 
average of three percent each year (36 percent, 39 percent, and 42 
percent), it is reasonable to expect that, in three years, the 
school would exceed 50 percent thereby becoming minority-isolated 
during the project period without the intervention of a magnet. The 
applicant in this example should submit this enrollment data in its 
application.
    The preceding examples are not intended to be an exhaustive set 
of examples. Applicants with questions about their desegregation 
plans and the information required in support of those desegregation 
plans (including applicants that find that these examples do not fit 
their circumstances and applicants who find that the enrollment data 
requested is unavailable or do not reflect accurately the 
effectiveness of their proposed magnet program) are encouraged to 
contact ED for technical assistance, prior to submitting their 
application by calling the contact person listed under the ``FOR 
APPLICATIONS OR INFORMATION'' heading.

FOR APPLICATIONS OR INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven L. Brockhouse, U.S. 
Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., Portals Room 
4509, Washington, DC 20202-6140. Telephone (202) 260-2476. Individuals 
who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the 
Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 
a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
    Information about the Department's funding opportunities, including 
copies of application notices for discretionary grant competitions, can 
be viewed on the Department's electronic bulletin board (ED Board), 
telephone (202) 260-9950; or on the Internet Gopher Server at 
GOPHER.ED.GOV (under Announcements, Bulletins, and Press Releases). 
However, the official application notice for a dsicretionary grant 
competition is the notice published in the Federal Register.

    Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 3021-3032.

    Dated: March 8, 1995.
Thomas W. Payzant,
Assistant Secretary, Elementary and Secondary Education.
[FR Doc. 95-6708 Filed 3-17-95; 8:45 am]
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