Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 76 / Thursday, April 20, 1995 / Notices 19819

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: July 31, 1995.

Applications Available: April 21,

1995.

Available Funds: $5,150,000.

Estimated Range of Awards:

$100,000–$709,862. (The amount paid

to an SEA shall not exceed five percent

of the total amount awarded to LEAs

within the State under part A of Title

VII of the Elementary and Secondary

Education Act, P.L. 100–297 for fiscal

year 1994, except that in no case shall

the amount paid to any SEA be less than

$100,000).

Estimated Number of Awards: 47.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 36 months.

Applicable Regulations: The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85,

and 86.

Selection Criteria

In evaluating applications for grants

under this program, the Secretary uses

the selection criteria in 34 CFR 75.210.

The regulations in 34 CFR 75.210

provide that the Secretary may award

up to 100 points for the selection

criteria, including a reserved 15 points.

For this competition, the Secretary

distributes the 15 points as follows:

Plan of operation (34 CFR

75.210(B)(3)). Eight points are added to

this criterion for a possible total of 23

points.

Evaluation (34 CFR 75.210(b)(6)).

Seven points are added to this criterion

for a possible total of 12 points.

For Applications or Information

Contact: Luis A. Catarineau, U.S.

Department of Education, 600

Independence Avenue, SW., Room

5090, Switzer Building, Washington,

D.C. 20202–6510. Telephone: (202) 205–

9907. 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. 7454.

Dated: April 11, 1995.

Eugene E. Garcia,

Director, Office of Bilingual Education and

Minority Languages Affairs.

[FR Doc. 95–9721 Filed 4–19–95; 8:45 am]

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Bilingual Education: Teachers and

Personnel Grants; Notice Inviting

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal

Year (FY) 1995

Purpose of Program: The purpose of

this program is to provide grants for

preservice and inservice professional

development for bilingual education

teachers, administrators, pupil services

personnel, and other educational

personnel who are either involved in, or

preparing to be involved in, the

provision of educational services for

children and youth of limited English

proficiency (LEP).

Eligible Applicants: (a) Institutions of

higher education (IHEs) that have

entered into consortia arrangements

with local educational agencies (LEAs)

or State educational agencies (SEAs). (b)

SEAs proposing inservice professional

development programs. (c) LEAs

proposing inservice professional

development programs.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: May 30, 1995.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: July 31, 1995.

Applications Available: April 21,

1995.

Available Funds: $5,630,000.

Estimated Range of Awards:

$140,000–$200,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$170,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 33.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 60 months.

Applicable Regulations: The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

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

85, and 86.

Priorities

Invitational Priority: The Secretary is

particularly interested in applications

that meet the following invitational

priority. However, under 34 CFR

75.105(c)(1) an application that meets

this invitational priority does not

receive competitive or absolute

preference over other applications:

IHEs with experience in providing

bilingual education teacher training

programs that propose to assist other

IHEs to develop new training programs

for bilingual education teachers.

Competitive Priority: Under 34 CFR

75.105(c)(2)(i) and 20 U.S.C. 7473(b),

the Secretary gives a competitive

preference to applications that meet the

following priority:

IHEs, in consortia with SEAs or LEAs,

which offer degree programs that

prepare new bilingual education

teachers, in order to increase the

availability of educators to provide

high-quality education to LEP students.

The Secretary awards an additional 10

points to applications that meet the

priority.

Selection Criteria

In evaluating applications for grants

under this program, the Secretary uses

the selection criteria in 34 CFR 75.210.

The regulations in 34 CFR 75.210

provide that the Secretary may award

up to 100 points for the selection

criteria, including a reserved 15 points.

For this competition, the Secretary

distributes the 15 points as follows:

Plan of operation (34 CFR

75.210(b)(3)). Eight points are added to

this criterion for a possible total of 23

points.

Evaluation plan (34 CFR 75.210(b)(6)).

Seven points are added to this criterion

for a possible total of 12 points.

For Applications or Information

Contact: Cindy Ryan, U.S. Department

of Education, 600 Independence

Avenue, SW., Room 5090, Switzer

Building, Washington, D.C. 20202–6510.

Telephone: (202) 205–8842. 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. 7473.

Dated: April 11, 1995.

Eugene E. Garcia,

Director, Office of Bilingual Education and

Minority Languages Affairs.

[FR Doc. 95–9722 Filed 4–19–95; 8:45 am]

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