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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Innovation and Improvement; 

Overview Information; Professional 

Development for Arts Educators 

(PDAE) Program; Notice Inviting 

Applications for New Awards for Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2008 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.351C. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: January 10, 

2008. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent To 

Apply: February 11, 2008. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: February 29, 2008. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: April 29, 2008. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: This program 

supports the implementation of highquality professional development model 

programs in music, dance, drama, media 

arts, or visual arts, including folk arts, 

for arts educators and other 

instructional staff of kindergarten 

through grade 12 (K–12) students in 

high-poverty schools. Grants are 

intended to strengthen the capacity of 

teachers and schools to deliver 

standards-based arts education 

programs and to raise student academic 

achievement in the arts and ensure that 

all students meet challenging State 

academic content standards. 

Priority: This priority is from the 

notice of final priority, requirements, 

and definitions for this program (NFP), 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 30, 2005 (70 FR 16242). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2008 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from 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: 

This priority supports professional 

development programs for K–12 arts 

educators and other instructional staff 

that use innovative instructional 

methods and current knowledge from 

education research and focus on— 

(1) The development, enhancement, 

or expansion of standards-based arts 

education programs; or 

(2) The integration of standards-based 

arts instruction with other core 

academic area content. 

In order to meet this priority, an 

applicant must demonstrate that the 

project for which it seeks funding is 

linked to State and national standards 

intended to enable all students to meet 

challenging expectations, and to 

improve student and school 

performance. 

Note: National standards refers to the arts 

standards developed by the Consortium of 

National Arts Education Association. The 

standards outline what students should know 

and be able to do in the arts. These are not 

Department standards. 

Application Requirement: To be 

eligible for PDAE Program funds, 

applicants must propose to carry out 

professional development programs for 

arts educators and other instructional 

staff of K–12 low-income children and 

youth by implementing projects in 

schools in which 50 percent or more of 

the children enrolled are from lowincome families (based on the poverty 

criteria in Title I, section 1113(a)(5) of 

the Elementary and Secondary 

Education Act of 1965, as amended by 

the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 

(ESEA)). (This requirement is from the 

NFP (see 70 FR 16242–16243)). 

Note: Applicants will be required to 

provide evidence that they are serving such 

schools. 

Definitions: As used in this notice— 

Arts includes music, dance, theater, 

media arts, or visual arts, including folk 

arts. 

Arts educator means a teacher who 

works in music, dance, theater, media 

arts, or visual arts, including folk arts. 

Integrate means to strengthen (i) the 

use of high-quality arts instruction 

within other academic content areas, 

and (ii) the place of the arts as a core 

academic subject in the school 

curriculum. 

Local educational agency (LEA) 

means— 

(a) A public board of education or 

other public authority legally 

constituted within a State for either 

administrative control of or direction of, 

or to perform service functions for, 

public elementary or secondary schools 

in— 

(1) A city, county, township, school 

district, or other political subdivision of 

a State; or 

(2) Such combination of school 

districts or counties a State recognizes 

as an administrative agency for its 

public elementary or secondary schools; 

or 

(b) Any other public institution or 

agency that has administrative control 

and direction of a public elementary or 

secondary school. 

(c) As used in 34 CFR parts 400, 408, 

525, 526 and 527 (vocational education 

programs), the term also includes any 

other public institution or agency that 

has administrative control and direction 

of a vocational education program. 

Note: The definitions for art, art educator 

and integrate are from the NFP (see 70 FR 

16242, 16244). The definition for LEA is from 

34 CFR 77.1. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7271. 

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 priority, requirements, and 

definitions for this program, published 

in the Federal Register on March 30, 

2005 (70 FR 16242). 

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 

only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$6,275,939. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in FY 

2009 from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$100,000–$350,000 for the first year of 

the project. Funding for the second and 

third years is subject to the availability 

of funds and the approval of 

continuation awards (see 34 CFR 

75.253). 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$200,000. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 30. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: An LEA, which 

may be a charter school that is 

considered an LEA under State law and 

regulations, that is acting on behalf of an 

individual school or schools that meets 

the poverty criterion with respect to 

children from low-income families that 

is specified in the application 

requirement section elsewhere in this 

notice, and that must work in 

partnership with one or more of the 

following— 

• A State or local non-profit or 

governmental arts organization; 

• A State educational agency (SEA) or 

regional educational service agency; 

• An institution of higher education; 

or 

• A public or private agency, 

institution, or organization, including a 

museum, an arts education association, 

a library, a theater, or a community- or 

faith-based organization. 


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2. a. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 

program does not require cost sharing or 

matching. 

b. Supplement—Not-Supplant: This 

program involves supplement-notsupplant funding requirements. Under 

section 5551(f)(2) of the ESEA, the 

Secretary requires that assistance 

provided under this program be used 

only to supplement, and not to 

supplant, any other assistance or funds 

made available from non-Federal 

sources for the activities assisted under 

the program. This restriction also has 

the effect of allowing projects to recover 

indirect costs only on the basis of a 

restricted indirect cost rate, according to 

the requirements in 34 CFR 75.563 and 

34 CFR 76.564 through 76.569. As soon 

as they decide to apply, applicants are 

urged to contact the ED Indirect Cost 

Group at (202) 377–3833 for guidance 

about obtaining a restricted indirect cost 

rate to use on the Budget Information 

form (ED Form 524) included with the 

application package. 

3. Coordination Requirement: Under 

section 5551(f)(1) of the ESEA, the 

Secretary requires that each entity 

funded under this program coordinate, 

to the extent practicable, each project or 

program carried out through its grant 

with appropriate activities of public or 

private cultural agencies, institutions, 

and organizations, including museums, 

arts education associations, libraries, 

and theaters. 

IV. Application and Submission 

Information 

1. Address To Request Application 

Package: Education Publications Center 

(ED Pubs), P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 

20794–1398. Telephone, toll free: 1–

877–433–7827. Fax: (301) 470–1244. 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.ed.gov/pubs/ 

edpubs.html or at its e-mail address: 

edpubs@inet.ed.gov. 

If you request an application package 

from ED Pubs, be sure to identify this 

program or competition as follows: 

CFDA number 84.351C. 

Individuals with disabilities can 

obtain a copy of the application package 

in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, 

large print, audiotape, or computer 

diskette) by contacting the person or 

team listed under Alternative 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 

program. 

Notice of Intent To Apply: The 

Department will be able to develop a 

more efficient process for reviewing 

grant applications if it has a better 

understanding of the number of entities 

that intend to apply for funding under 

this competition. Therefore, the 

Secretary strongly encourages each 

potential applicant to notify the 

Department by sending a short e-mail 

message indicating the applicant’s 

intent to submit an application for 

funding. The e-mail need not include 

information regarding the content of the 

proposed application, only the 

applicant’s intent to submit it. The email notification should be sent to 

Isadora Binder at 

Isadora.Binder@ed.gov. 

Applicants that fail to provide this email notification may still apply for 

funding. 

Page Limit: The application narrative 

is where you, the applicant, address the 

selection criteria that reviewers use to 

evaluate your application. Applicants 

are strongly encouraged to limit the 

application (Part III) to the equivalent of 

no more than 25 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, 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, or the 

letters of support. However, the page 

limit does apply to all of the application 

narrative section (Part III). 

3. Submission Dates and Times: 

Applications Available: January 10, 

2008. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

February 11, 2008. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: February 29, 2008. 

Applications for grants under this 

program must be submitted 

electronically using the Grants.gov 

Apply site (Grants.gov). For information 

(including dates and times) about how 

to submit your application 

electronically, or in paper format by 

mail or hand delivery if you qualify for 

an exception to the electronic 

submission requirement, please refer to 

section IV. 6. Other Submission 

Requirements in 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 in 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: April 29, 2008. 

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 

program. 

5. Funding Restrictions: We reference 

regulations outlining funding 

restrictions in the Applicable 

Regulations section in this notice. 

6. Other Submission Requirements: 

Applications for grants under this 

program must be submitted 

electronically unless you qualify for an 

exception to this requirement in 

accordance with the instructions in this 

section. 

a. Electronic Submission of 

Applications. 

Applications for grants under the 

PDAE Program, CFDA Number 84.351C, 

must be submitted electronically using 

the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply 

site at http://www.Grants.gov. Through 

this site, you will be able to download 

a copy of the application package, 

complete it offline, and then upload and 

submit your application. You may not email an electronic copy of a grant 

application to us. 

We will reject your application if you 

submit it in paper format unless, as 

described elsewhere in this section, you 

qualify for one of the exceptions to the 

electronic submission requirement and 

submit, no later than two weeks before 

the application deadline date, a written 

statement to the Department that you 

qualify for one of these exceptions. 

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calculation of the date that is two weeks 

before the application deadline date is 

provided later in this section under 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement. 

You may access the electronic grant 

application for the PDAE Program at 

http://www.Grants.gov. You must search 

for the downloadable application 

package for this program by the CFDA 

number. Do not include the CFDA 

number’s alpha suffix in your search 

(e.g., search for 84.351, not 84.351C). 

Please note the following: 

• When you enter the Grants.gov site, 

you will find information about 

submitting an application electronically 

through the site, as well as the hours of 

operation. 

• Applications received by Grants.gov 

are date and time stamped. Your 

application must be fully uploaded and 

submitted and must be date and time 

stamped by the Grants.gov system no 

later than 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC 

time, on the application deadline date. 

Except as otherwise noted in this 

section, we will not consider your 

application if it is date and time 

stamped by the Grants.gov system later 

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

the application deadline date. When we 

retrieve your application from 

Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are 

rejecting your application because it 

was date and time stamped by the 

Grants.gov system after 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date. 

• The amount of time it can take to 

upload an application will vary 

depending on a variety of factors, 

including the size of the application and 

the speed of your Internet connection. 

Therefore, we strongly recommend that 

you do not wait until the application 

deadline date to begin the submission 

process through Grants.gov. 

• You should review and follow the 

Education Submission Procedures for 

submitting an application through 

Grants.gov that are included in the 

application package for this program to 

ensure that you submit your application 

in a timely manner to the Grants.gov 

system. You can also find the Education 

Submission Procedures pertaining to 

Grants.gov at http://e-Grants.ed.gov/ 

help/ 

GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf. 

• To submit your application via 

Grants.gov, you must complete all steps 

in the Grants.gov registration process 

(see http://www.grants.gov/applicants/ 

get_registered.jsp). These steps include 

(1) registering your organization, a 

multi-part process that includes 

registration with the Central Contractor 

Registry (CCR); (2) registering yourself 

as an Authorized Organization 

Representative (AOR); and (3) getting 

authorized as an AOR by your 

organization. Details on these steps are 

outlined in the Grants.gov 3-Step 

Registration Guide (see http:// 

www.grants.gov/section910/ 

Grants.govRegistrationBrochure.pdf). 

You also must provide on your 

application the same D–U–N–S Number 

used with this registration. Please note 

that the registration process may take 

five or more business days to complete, 

and you must have completed all 

registration steps to allow you to submit 

successfully an application via 

Grants.gov. In addition you will need to 

update your CCR registration on an 

annual basis. This may take three or 

more business days to complete. 

• You will not receive additional 

point value because you submit your 

application in electronic format, nor 

will we penalize you if you qualify for 

an exception to the electronic 

submission requirement, as described 

elsewhere in this section, and submit 

your application in paper format. 

• You must submit all documents 

electronically, including all information 

you typically provide on the following 

forms: 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. 

Please note that two of these forms—the 

SF 424 and the Department of Education 

Supplemental Information for SF 424—

have replaced the ED 424 (Application 

for Federal Education Assistance). 

• 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. 

• After you electronically submit 

your application, you will receive from 

Grants.gov an automatic notification of 

receipt that contains a Grants.gov 

tracking number. (This notification 

indicates receipt by Grants.gov only, not 

receipt by the Department.) The 

Department then will retrieve your 

application from Grants.gov and send a 

second notification to you by e-mail. 

This second notification indicates that 

the Department has received your 

application and has assigned your 

application a PR/Award number (an EDspecified identifying number unique to 

your application). 

• We may request that you provide us 

original signatures on forms at a later 

date. 

Application Deadline Date Extension 

in Case of Technical Issues with the 

Grants.gov System: If you are 

experiencing problems submitting your 

application through Grants.gov, please 

contact the Grants.gov Support Desk, 

toll free, at 1–800–518–4726. You must 

obtain a Grants.gov Support Desk Case 

Number and must keep a record of it. 

If you are prevented from 

electronically submitting your 

application on the application deadline 

date because of technical problems with 

the Grants.gov system, we will grant you 

an extension until 4:30 p.m., 

Washington, DC time, the following 

business day to enable you to transmit 

your application electronically or by 

hand delivery. You also may mail your 

application by following the mailing 

instructions described elsewhere in this 

notice. 

If you submit an application after 4:30 

p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 

application deadline date, please 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in 

section VII in this notice and provide an 

explanation of the technical problem 

you experienced with Grants.gov, along 

with the Grants.gov Support Desk Case 

Number. We will accept your 

application if we can confirm that a 

technical problem occurred with the 

Grants.gov system and that that problem 

affected your ability to submit your 

application by 4:30 p.m., Washington, 

DC time, on the application deadline 

date. The Department will contact you 

after a determination is made on 

whether your application will be 

accepted. 

Note: The extensions to which we refer in 

this section apply only to the unavailability 

of, or technical problems with, the Grants.gov 

system. We will not grant you an extension 

if you failed to fully register to submit your 

application to Grants.gov before the 

application deadline date and time or if the 

technical problem you experienced is 

unrelated to the Grants.gov system. 

Exception to Electronic Submission 

Requirement: You qualify for an 

exception to the electronic submission 

requirement, and may submit your 

application in paper format, if you are 

unable to submit an application through 

the Grants.gov system because—

• You do not have access to the 

Internet; or 

• You do not have the capacity to 

upload large documents to the 

Grants.gov system; and 

• No later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date (14 calendar 

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before the application deadline date 

falls on a Federal holiday, the next 

business day following the Federal 

holiday), you mail or fax a written 

statement to the Department, explaining 

which of the two grounds for an 

exception prevent you from using the 

Internet to submit your application. 

If you mail your written statement to 

the Department, it must be postmarked 

no later than two weeks before the 

application deadline date. If you fax 

your written statement to the 

Department, we must receive the faxed 

statement no later than two weeks 

before the application deadline date. 

Address and mail or fax your 

statement to: Isadora Binder, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., Room 4W246A, 

Washington, DC 20202–5950. 

Fax: (202) 502–5630. 

Your paper application must be 

submitted in accordance with the mail 

or hand delivery instructions described 

in this notice. 

b. Submission of Paper Applications 

by Mail. 

If you qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, you 

may mail (through the U.S. Postal 

Service or a commercial carrier) your 

application to the Department. You 

must mail the original and two copies 

of your application, on or before the 

application deadline date, to the 

Department at the applicable following 

address: 

By mail through the U.S. Postal 

Service: U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Attention: 

(CFDA Number 84.351C), 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202–

4260 or 

By mail through a commercial carrier: 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Application Control Center, Stop 4260, 

Attention: (CFDA Number 84.351C), 

7100 Old Landover Road, Landover, MD 

20785–1506. 

Regardless of which address you use, 

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 qualify for an exception to the 

electronic submission requirement, you 

(or a courier service) may deliver your 

paper application to the Department by 

hand. You 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 84.351C), 550 12th 

Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center 

Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–4260. 

The Application Control Center 

accepts hand deliveries daily between 8 

a.m. and 4:30 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 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. The maximum score for all of 

the selection criteria is 100 points. The 

maximum score for each criterion is 

indicated in parentheses. Each criterion 

also includes the factors that the 

reviewers will consider in determining 

how well an application meets the 

criterion. A note following a selection 

criterion is guidance to help applicants 

in preparing their applications, and is 

not required by statute or regulations. 

The criteria are as follows: 

(1) Significance (20 points). The 

Secretary considers the significance of 

the proposed project by considering the 

following factors: 

(a) The extent to which the proposed 

project is likely to build local capacity 

to provide, improve, or expand services 

that address the needs of the target 

population. 

(b) The potential replicability of the 

proposed project or strategies, 

including, as appropriate, the potential 

for implementation in a variety of 

settings. 

(2) Quality of the project design (20 

points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the design of the proposed 

project by considering the following 

factors: 

(a) The extent to which the goals, 

objectives, and outcomes to be achieved 

by the proposed project are clearly 

specified and measurable. 

(b) The extent to which the proposed 

project is designed to build capacity and 

yield results that will extend beyond the 

period of Federal financial assistance. 

(c) The extent to which the proposed 

project is part of a comprehensive effort 

to improve teaching and learning and 

support rigorous academic standards for 

students. 

(3) Quality of project services (20 

points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the services to be provided by 

the proposed project by considering the 

following factors: 

(a) The quality and sufficiency of 

strategies for ensuring equal access and 

treatment for eligible project 

participants who are members of groups 

that have traditionally been 

underrepresented based on race, color, 

national origin, gender, age, or 

disability. 

(b) The extent to which the training or 

professional development services to be 

provided by the proposed project are of 

sufficient quality, intensity, and 

duration to lead to improvements in 

practice among the recipients of those 

services. 

(c) The likelihood that the services to 

be provided by the proposed project 

will lead to improvements in the 

achievement of students as measured 

against rigorous academic standards. 

(4) Quality of project personnel (10 

points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the personnel who will carry 

out the proposed project by considering 

the following factors: 

(a) The extent to which the applicant 

encourages applications for employment 

from persons who are members of 

groups that have traditionally been 

underrepresented based on race, color, 

national origin, gender, age, or 

disability. 

(b) The qualifications, including 

relevant training and experience, of key 

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(c) The qualifications, including 

relevant training and experience, of 

project consultants or subcontractors. 

(5) Quality of the management plan 

(15 points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the management plan for the 

proposed project by considering the 

adequacy of the management plan to 

achieve the objectives of the proposed 

project on time and within budget, 

including clearly defined 

responsibilities, timelines, and 

milestones for accomplishing project 

tasks. 

(6) Quality of the project evaluation 

(15 points). The Secretary considers the 

quality of the evaluation to be 

conducted of the proposed project by 

considering the following factors: 

(a) The extent to which the methods 

of evaluation include the use of 

objective performance measures that are 

clearly related to the intended outcomes 

of the project and will produce 

quantitative and qualitative data to the 

extent possible. 

(b) The extent to which the evaluation 

will provide guidance about effective 

strategies suitable for replication or 

testing in other settings. 

Note: A strong evaluation plan should be 

included in the application narrative and 

should be used, as appropriate, to shape the 

development of the project from the 

beginning of the grant period. The evaluation 

plan should include benchmarks to monitor 

progress toward specific project objectives 

and also outcome measures to assess the 

impact on teaching and learning, or other 

important outcomes for project participants. 

More specifically, the plan should identify 

the individual or organization that has agreed 

to serve as evaluator for the project and 

describe the qualifications of that evaluator. 

The plan should describe the evaluation 

design, indicating: (1) What types of data will 

be collected; (2) when various types of data 

will be collected; (3) what methods will be 

used; (4) what instruments will be developed 

and when these instruments will be 

developed; (5) how data will be analyzed; (6) 

when reports of results and outcomes will be 

available; and (7) how the applicant will use 

the information collected through the 

evaluation to monitor progress of the funded 

project and to provide accountability 

information both about success at the initial 

site and about effective strategies for 

replication in other settings. Applicants are 

encouraged to devote an appropriate level of 

resources to project evaluation. 

2. Review and Selection Process: 

Additional factors we consider in 

selecting an application for an award are 

as follows: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.217(d)(3)(ii) and (iii), the Secretary 

may consider an applicant’s past 

performance and compliance history 

when evaluating applications and in 

making funding decisions. 

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 Notice (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 in this notice. 

We reference the regulations outlining 

the terms and conditions of an award in 

the Applicable Regulations section in 

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: We have 

established one performance measure 

for the PDAE Program. This measure is: 

The percentage of teachers participating 

in the PDAE Program who receive 

professional development that is 

sustained and intensive. In 

implementing this measure, the 

Department will collect from grantees 

data on the extent to which they provide 

professional development that occurs 

over the course of the school year, 

which may include the summer, and 

that includes a sufficient number of 

hours of participation to make a 

significant difference in teaching and 

learning. Successful applicants will be 

expected to include professional 

development data in their annual 

performance reports to the Department. 

VII. Agency Contacts 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Isadora Binder or Adrienne Dukes, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., Room 4W246A, 

Washington, DC 20202–4260 or by email: PDAE@ed.gov. 

If you use a TDD, call the FRS, toll 

free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

VIII. Other Information 

Alternative Format: Individuals with 

disabilities can obtain this document 

and a copy of the application package in 

an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large 

print, audiotape, or computer diskette) 

on request to the program contact 

persons listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT in section VII in 

this notice. 

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. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1–

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: January 4, 2008. 

Morgan S. Brown, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and 

Improvement. 

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