65794 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 245 / Thursday, December 20, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.902B]

National Assessment of Educational

Progress (NAEP), Secondary Analysis

Program

ACTION: Notice inviting applications for

new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2002.

Purpose of Program: To encourage the

preparation of reports that would not

otherwise be available and that apply

new approaches to the analysis and

reporting of the NAEP and NAEP High

School Transcript Studies data.

Analyses and reports prepared under

this program should potentially be

useful to the general public, parents,

educators, educational researchers, or

policy makers.

For FY 2002, the competition for new

awards focuses on projects designed to

meet the priorities we describe in the

PRIORITIES section of this application

notice.

Eligible Applicants: Public or private

organizations and consortia of

organizations.

Applications Available: December 21,

2001.

The application package for this

competition is also available on line at:

http://ed.gov/GrantApps/

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: March 8, 2002.

Estimated Available Funds: $700,000.

The estimated amount of funds

available for new awards is based on the

Administration’s request for NAEP for

FY 2002. The actual level of funding for

the secondary analysis program, if any,

depends on final congressional action.

However, we are inviting applications to

allow enough time to complete the grant

process before the end of the fiscal year,

if Congress appropriates funds for this

program.

Estimated Range of Awards:

$15,000—$100,000.

Estimated Average Size of Awards:

$85,000.

Maximum Award: We will reject any

application that proposes a budget

exceeding $100,000 for a single budget

period of 18 months.

Estimated Number of Awards: 6–8.

Note: The Department is not bound by any

estimates in this notice.

Project Period: Up to 18 months.

Page Limit: The application narrative

(Part III of the application) is where you,

the applicant, address the selection

criteria that reviewers use to evaluate

your application. You must limit Part III

to the equivalent of no more than 60

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.

• You must 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).

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, you must

include all of the application narrative

in Part III.

We will reject your application if—

• You apply these standards and

exceed the page limit; or

• You apply other standards and

exceed the equivalent of the page limit.

Applicable Regulations: (a) The

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in

34 CFR parts 74, 75 (except for those

provisions of part 75 noted in 34 CFR

700.5(a)), 77, 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 97, 98,

and 99. (b) The regulations in 34 CFR

part 700.

Priorities

Invitational Priorities

We are particularly interested in

applications that meet one or more of

the invitational priorities listed in this

section of this notice. Under 34 CFR

75.105(c)(1) we do not give an

application that meets one or more of

the priorities a competitive or absolute

preference over other applications.

Invitational Priority 1—Projects that

use NAEP achievement data alone or in

combination with other data sets to

assist policy makers and educators who

make decisions about curriculum and

instruction.

Invitational Priority 2—Projects

designed to assist States in analyzing,

interpreting and reporting their Statelevel NAEP results.

Invitational Priority 3—Projects that

include the development of analytic

procedures that improve precision with

which NAEP estimates group and

subgroup performance.

Invitational Priority 4—Projects that

develop improved sampling procedures

for national or State-level NAEP.

Invitational Priority 5—Projects to

analyze and report data using statistical

software developed by the project to

permit more advanced analytic

techniques to be readily applied to

NAEP data.

FOR APPLICATIONS AND FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT: Alex Sedlacek,

U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K

Street, NW., room 8007, Washington,

DC 20006. Telephone: (202) 502–7446

or via Internet: Alex.Sedlacek@ed.gov

If you use a telecommunications

device for the deaf (TDD), you may call

the Federal Information Relay Service

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document in an alternative

format (e.g., Braille, large print,

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to the program contact person

listed under FOR APPLICATIONS AND

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain a copy of the application package

in an alternative format by contacting

the program person listed under FOR

APPLICATIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. However, the Department is

not able to reproduce in an alternative

format the standard forms included in

the application package.

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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9010.

Dated: December 17, 2001.

Grover J. Whitehurst,

Assistant Secretary for Educational Research

and Improvement.

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