18296 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 68 / Monday, April 10, 1995 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.: 84.073A–1]

National Diffusion Network (NDN)—

Developer Demonstrators Notice

Inviting Applications for New Awards

for Fiscal Year (FY) 1995

Purpose of Program: To award grants

to support nationwide dissemination of

exemplary educational programs that

have been previously approved by the

Department of Education’s Program

Effectiveness Panel (PEP).

Eligible Applicants: Public or private

nonprofit agencies, organizations, or

institutions (1) that have demonstrated

expertise in the areas of applied

education research and program

dissemination and (2) that have

developed programs, products, or

practices (a) that the PEP has approved

and (b) that are in use in sites that can

be visited.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: May 26, 1995.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: July 25, 1995.

Applications Available: April 10,

1995.

Available Funds: $2,222,000.

Estimated Range of Awards:

$75,000—$180,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$125,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 18.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 48 months.

Budget Period: Up to 12 months.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

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

85, and 86; (b) The regulations in 34

CFR part 98 (Student Rights in

Research, Experimental Programs, and

Testing) and 34 CFR part 99 (Family

Educational Rights and Privacy); and (c)

The regulations for this program in 34

CFR part 785 and 786.

Supplementary Information: This

notice announces a competition for the

FY 1995 new Developer Demonstrator

competition under the National

Diffusion Network (NDN) program. The

NDN program is authorized by Title

XIII, Part B of the Elementary and

Secondary Education Act of 1965, as

amended (20 U.S.C. 8651). The

Secretary has established a competitive

preference priority for this competition

to respond to mandates contained in the

new statute for the National Diffusion

Network. These mandates require the

Secretary to give priority to identifying,

validating, and disseminating effective

schoolwide projects, programs

addressing the needs of high poverty

schools, and programs with the capacity

to offer high quality, sustained technical

assistance.

The Secretary is concerned that

American educators understand and

learn from the effects of projects funded

under this priority and suggests that

such projects provide documentation of

their impact on improving teaching and

learning in one or more education sites.

The Secretary also suggests that

schoolwide projects aim to upgrade the

entire educational program in a school.

Priorities

Competitive Preference Priority

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) and 20

U.S.C. 8651(g)(2) the Secretary gives

preference to applications that meet the

following competitive priority. The

Secretary awards up to 25 points to an

application that carries out in a

particularly effective way all three

activities cited in the priority, or up to

15 points to an application that executes

in a particularly effective way two

activities cited in the priority, or up to

5 points to an application that carries

out in a particularly effective way one

activity cited in the priority. These

points are in addition to any points the

application earns under the selection

criteria for the program:

The Secretary gives priority to

projects that propose nationwide

dissemination of validated educational

projects that incorporate one or more of

the following activities: (1) Effective

schoolwide approaches, (2) approaches

that address the needs of high poverty

schools, (3) approaches with the

capacity to offer high-quality, sustained

technical assistance.

Invitational Priority

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) the

Secretary is particularly interested in

applications that meet the following

invitational priority. However, an

application that meets this invitational

priority does not receive competitive or

absolute preference over other

applications:

Projects that provide documentation

of the project’s impact on improving

teaching and learning in one or more

education sites.

To Request an Application: Voice

Mail: (202) 219–2133; Facsimile

machine: (202) 219–1407; Mail: NDN/

DD Application, 555 New Jersey

Avenue, N.W., Room 506c, Washington,

DC 20208–5643. 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 discretionary

grant competition is the notice

published in the Federal Register.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 8651.

Dated: April 4, 1995.

Sharon P. Robinson,

Assistant Secretary for Educational Research

and Improvement.

[FR Doc. 95–8660 Filed 4–7–95; 8:45 am]

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