Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.: Bilingual education and minority languages affairs— National Assessment of Educational Progress Secondary Analysis Program,

[Federal Register: November 17, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 221)]

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Part V

Department of Education

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)--Secondary Analysis Program; Notice

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.902B]

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)--Secondary Analysis Program; Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2000

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 2000, 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: November 22, 1999.

Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: January 19, 2000.

Available Funds: $700,000.

The estimated amount of funds available for new awards is based on the Administration's request for this program for FY 2000. The actual level of funding, 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. The Assistant Secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) may change the maximum amount through a notice published in the Federal Register.

Estimated Number of Awards: 7-9.

Project Period: Up to 18 months.

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

Page Limit: The application narrative (Part III of the application) is where you, the applicant, address the selection criteria reviewers use to evaluate your application. You must limit Part III to the equivalent of no more than 60 pages, using the following standards:

‹bullet› A `page' is 8.5'' x 11'', on one side only, with 1'' margins at the top, bottom, and both sides.

‹bullet› 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.

‹bullet› Use a font that is either 12-point or larger or no smaller that 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.

If, to meet the page limit, you use more than one side of the page, you use a larger page or you use a print size, spacing, or margins smaller than the standards in this notice, we will reject your application.

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, and 86; and (b) the regulations in 34 CFR Part 700.

Priorities

We are particularly interested in applications that meet one or more of the following invitational priorities.

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not give to an application that meets 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 State-level 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 FURTHER INFORMATION OR APPLICATIONS CONTACT: Alex Sedlacek, U.S. Department of Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, NW., room 404B, Washington, DC 20208-5653. Telephone: (202) 219-1734. E-mail: 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 FURTHER INFORMATION OR APPLICATIONS CONTACT.

Individuals with disabilities also may obtain a copy of the application package in an alternative format by contacting the program person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR APPLICATIONS CONTACT. However, the Department is not able to reproduce in an alternative format the standard forms included in the application package.

Electronic Access to This Document

You may view this document, as well as all other Department of Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Internet at either of the following sites:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.htm http://www.ed.gov/news.html

To use the PDF you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader Program with Search, which is available free at either of the previous sites. If you have questions about using the PDF, call the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1-888-293-6498; or in the Washington, D.C., 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.access.gpo.gov/nara/index.html.

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

Dated: November 12, 1999. C. Kent McGuire, Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement.

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