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including State and local arts agencies
involved in arts education. Prior
competitions under this program have
been open to applications from a variety
of public and private education and arts
organizations. We have received
feedback from stakeholders that
collaborative programs are being
effectively managed by such entities. In
addition, various types of organizations
are in positions to effectively manage
and evaluate model arts integration
programs that serve needy school
children.
Definitions
Proposed Definitions
Several important terms associated
with this program are not defined in the
authorizing statute. We, therefore,
propose, for the purpose of this
program, to define the following terms:
Arts includes music, dance, theater,
media, and visual arts, including folk
arts.
Integrating means (i) encouraging the
use of high-quality arts instruction in
other academic/content areas and (ii)
strengthening the place of the arts as a
core academic subject in the school
curriculum.
Based on research, when used with
respect to an activity or a program,
means that, to the extent possible, the
activity or program is based on the most
rigorous theory, research, and
evaluation available and is effective in
improving student achievement and
performance and other program
objectives.
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The potential costs associated with
the proposed priority, requirements, and
definitions in this notice are minimal
while the benefits are significant.
Grantees may incur some costs
associated with completing the
application process in terms of staff and
partner time, copying, and mailing or
delivery.
The benefit of the proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions in this
notice is that grants supported under
this program will be able to provide
information on effective models. This
information will be helpful to schools
and communities looking for guidance
on how to improve the educational
performance of at-risk children and
youth by providing arts education
services and programs—especially
programs incorporating arts education
standards.
Intergovernmental Review
This program is subject to Executive
Order 12372 and the regulations in 34
CFR part 79. One of the objectives of the
Executive Order is to foster an
intergovernmental partnership and a
strengthened federalism. The Executive
Order relies on processes developed by
State and local governments for
coordination and review of proposed
Federal financial assistance.
This document provides early
notification of our specific plans and
action for this program.
Electronic Access to This Document
This notice of proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions has been
reviewed in accordance with Executive
Order 12866. Under the terms of the
order, we have assessed the potential
costs and benefits of this regulatory
action.
The potential costs associated with
the notice of proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions are those
resulting from statutory requirements
and those we have determined as
necessary for administering this
program effectively and efficiently.
In assessing the potential costs and
benefits—both quantitative and
qualitative—of this notice of proposed
priority, requirements, and definitions,
we have determined that the benefits of
the proposed priority, requirements, and
definitions justify the costs.
We also have determined that this
regulatory action does not unduly
interfere with State, local, and tribal
governments in the exercise of their
governmental functions.
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number 84.351D Arts in Education Model
Development and Dissemination)
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Dated: January 7, 2005.
Nina Shokraii Rees,
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and
Improvement.
[FR Doc. E5–122 Filed 1–12–05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Professional Development for Arts
Educators Program
Office of Innovation and
Improvement, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Assistant Deputy
Secretary for Innovation and
Improvement proposes a priority,
requirements, and definitions under the
Professional Development for Arts
Educators program. We may use this
priority and these requirements and
definitions for competitions in fiscal
year (FY) 2005 and later years. We take
this action to focus Federal financial
assistance on an identified national
need for professional development for
arts educators that focuses on the
development, enhancement, and
expansion of standards-based arts
instruction or that integrates arts
instruction with other subject area
content, and to improve student
achievement of low-income students in
kindergarten through grade 12 (K–12).
We intend the priority, requirements,
and definitions to improve the
performance of needy children and to
increase the amount of information on
effective professional development for
arts educators that is available
nationally.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before February 14, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments about
the proposed priority, requirements, and
definitions to Carol Sue Fromboluti,
U.S. Department of Education, 400
Maryland Avenue, SW., room 4W233,
Washington, DC 20202–5943. If you
prefer to send your comments through
the Internet, use the following address:
comments@ed.gov.
You must include the term ‘‘artspd’’
in the subject line of your electronic
message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carol Sue Fromboluti. Telephone: (202)
205–9654 or via Internet:
Carol.Fromboluti@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–
800–877–8339.
Individuals with disabilities may
obtain this document in an alternative
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format (e.g., Braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) on
request to the contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Invitation To Comment
We invite you to submit comments
regarding the proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions in this
notice. To ensure that your comments
have maximum effect in developing the
notice of final priority, requirements,
and definitions, we urge you to identify
clearly the specific proposed priority,
requirement, or definition that each
comment addresses.
We invite you to assist us in
complying with the specific
requirements of Executive Order 12866
and its overall requirement of reducing
regulatory burden that might result from
the proposed priority, requirements, and
definitions. Please let us know of any
further opportunities we should take to
reduce potential costs or increase
potential benefits while preserving the
effective and efficient administration of
the program.
During and after the comment period,
you may inspect all public comments
about the proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions in room
4W242, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC, between the hours of
8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., eastern time,
Monday through Friday of each week
except Federal holidays.
Assistance to Individuals With
Disabilities in Reviewing the
Rulemaking Record
On request, we will supply an
appropriate aid, such as a reader or
print magnifier, to an individual with a
disability who needs assistance to
review the comments or other
documents in the public rulemaking
record for the proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions. If you
want to schedule an appointment for
this type of aid, please contact the
person listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
We will announce the final priority,
requirements, and definitions in a
notice in the Federal Register. We will
determine the final priority,
requirements, and definitions after
considering responses to this notice and
other information available to the
Department. This notice does not
preclude us from proposing additional
priorities, requirements, and definitions,
subject to meeting applicable
rulemaking requirements.
Note: This notice does not solicit
applications. In any year in which we
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choose to use the proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions, we invite
applications through a notice in the
Federal Register. When inviting
applications, we designate the priority
as absolute, competitive preference, or
invitational. The effect of each type of
priority follows:
Absolute Priority: Under an absolute
priority we consider only applications
that meet the priority (34 CFR
75.105(c)(3)).
Competitive Preference Priority:
Under a competitive preference priority
we give competitive preference to an
application by either (1) awarding
additional points, depending on how
well or the extent to which the
application meets the priority (34 CFR
75.105(c)(2)(i)); or (2) selecting an
application that meets the competitive
priority over an application of
comparable merit that does not meet the
priority (34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(ii)).
Invitational Priority: Under an
invitational priority we are particularly
interested in applications that meet the
invitational priority. However, we do
not give an application that meets the
invitational priority a competitive or
absolute preference over other
applications (34 CFR 75.105(c)(1)).
Discussion of Proposed Priority,
Requirements, and Definitions
Through this program, the
Department intends to fund model
professional development programs for
music, dance, drama, and visual arts
educators of K–12 students in highpoverty schools. The purpose of this
program is to strengthen standardsbased arts education programs and to
help ensure that all students meet
challenging State academic content
standards and challenging State student
academic achievement standards in the
arts.
Priority
Proposed Priority
We propose the following priority for
this program:
This priority supports professional
development programs for K–12 arts
educators 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
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linked to State and national standards
intended to enable all students to meet
challenging expectations, and to
improving student and school
performance.
Rationale: It is the intent of this
program to provide professional
development programs for arts
educators that can be linked to student
achievement, including performance on
State or local standardized tests. While
arts content and achievement standards
have been voluntarily adopted in many
States throughout the country, teachers
often need professional development on
how to implement education standards
both for arts programs and for programs
designed to integrate arts with other
subject areas. The proposed priority
would support projects that would
provide professional development
services that are linked to learning
standards.
Requirements
Proposed Application Requirement
We propose the following application
requirement for this program:
To be eligible for Professional
Development for Arts Educators
Program funds, applicants must propose
to carry out professional development
programs for art educators of K–12 lowincome children and youth by
implementing projects in schools in
which 50 percent or more of the
children enrolled are from low-income
families (based on the poverty criteria
set out 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)).
Rationale: Studies have found that
improving the quality of arts education
has a particularly positive impact on
students from low-income backgrounds.
We believe this poverty requirement is
necessary in order to focus services on
the most needy children.
Proposed Eligibility Requirement
We propose the following eligibility
requirement for this program:
To be eligible to receive funding
under the Professional Development for
Arts Educators program, an applicant
must be—
A local educational agency (LEA),
which may be a charter school that is
considered an LEA, that is acting on
behalf of an individual school or
schools that meets the poverty criterion
with respect to children from lowincome families that is specified in the
application requirement elsewhere in
this notice, and that must work in
partnership with one or more of the
following—
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(1) A State or local non-profit or
governmental arts organization;
(2) A State educational agency (SEA)
or regional educational service agency;
(3) An institution of higher education;
or
(4) 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.
Rationale: The most effective
professional development programs are
systemic and have the full support of
school leadership. Therefore, it is
essential that eligibility be limited to
LEAs. Professional development in the
area of arts education is often enhanced
when it taps the expertise of
professional arts organizations or other
entities. Accordingly, an LEA would be
required to partner with one of these
organizations.
interfere with State, local, and tribal
governments in the exercise of their
governmental functions.
Summary of Potential Costs and
Benefits
Definitions
Proposed Definitions
Intergovernmental Review
The terms ‘‘arts educator’’ and
‘‘integrate’’, which are important
concepts associated with this program,
are not defined in the authorizing
statute. We, therefore, propose, for the
purpose of this program, to define these
terms as follows:
Arts educator means a teacher who
works in music, drama, dance, or the
visual arts.
Integrate means, in the context of
projects funded under this program, 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.
This program is subject to Executive
Order 12372 and the regulations in 34
CFR part 79. One of the objectives of the
Executive order is to foster an
intergovernmental partnership and
strengthened federalism. The Executive
order relies on processes developed by
State and local governments for
coordination and review of proposed
Federal financial assistance.
This document provides early
notification of our specific plans and
action for this program.
This notice of proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions has been
reviewed in accordance with Executive
Order 12866. Under the terms of the
order, we have assessed the potential
costs and benefits of this regulatory
action.
The potential costs associated with
the notice of proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions are those
resulting from statutory requirements
and those we have determined as
necessary for administering this
program effectively and efficiently.
In assessing the potential costs and
benefits—both quantitative and
qualitative—of this notice of proposed
priority, requirements, and definitions,
we have determined that the benefits of
the proposed priority, requirements, and
definitions justify the costs.
We also have determined that this
regulatory action does not unduly
VerDate jul<14>2003
17:46 Jan 12, 2005
Jkt 205001
Dated: January 7, 2005.
Nina Shokraii Rees,
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and
Improvement.
[FR Doc. E5–125 Filed 1–12–05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
The potential costs associated with
the proposed priority, requirements, and
definitions in this notice are minimal,
while the benefits are significant.
Grantees may incur some costs
associated with completing the
application process in terms of staff and
partner time, copying, and mailing or
delivery.
The benefit of the proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions in this
notice is that grantees will develop
professional development programs for
arts educators, especially those
programs that incorporate arts education
standards and are designed to improve
the educational performance of at-risk
children and youth.
Executive Order 12866
2401
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 the following site: https://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: https://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/
index.html.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7271.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number 84.351C Professional Development
for Arts Educators)
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services, Individuals
With Disabilities Education Act, as
Amended by the Individuals With
Disabilities Education Improvement
Act of 2004
Notice of public meeting to seek
comments and suggestions on regulatory
issues under the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as
amended by the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Improvement Act
of 2004.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Secretary announces
plans to hold the first of a series of
informal public meetings to seek
comments and suggestions from the
public prior to developing and
publishing proposed regulations to
implement programs under the recently
revised Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act.
Date and Time of Public Meeting:
Friday, January 28, 2005 from 3:30 p.m.
to 5:30 p.m. and from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30
p.m.
ADDRESSES: University of Delaware,
University of Delaware Conference
Center, John M. Clayton Hall, Room 106,
100 Pencader Way, Newark, DE 19716.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Troy
R. Justesen. Telephone: (202) 245–7468.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On December 3, 2004, the President
signed into law Pub. L. 108–446, the
Individuals with Disabilities Education
Improvement Act of 2004, amending the
Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA). Copies of the new law may
be obtained at the following Web site:
https://www.gpoaccess.gov/plaws/
index.html.
Enactment of the new law provides an
opportunity to consider improvements
in the regulations implementing the
IDEA (including both formula and
discretionary grant programs) that
would strengthen the Federal effort to
ensure every child with a disability has
available a free appropriate public
education that—
(1) Is of high quality, and
(2) Is designed to achieve the high
standards reflected in the No Child Left
Behind Act and regulations.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Professional Development for Arts Educators Program
AGENCY: Office of Innovation and Improvement, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of proposed priority, requirements, and definitions.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement
proposes a priority, requirements, and definitions under the
Professional Development for Arts Educators program. We may use this
priority and these requirements and definitions for competitions in
fiscal year (FY) 2005 and later years. We take this action to focus
Federal financial assistance on an identified national need for
professional development for arts educators that focuses on the
development, enhancement, and expansion of standards-based arts
instruction or that integrates arts instruction with other subject area
content, and to improve student achievement of low-income students in
kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12). We intend the priority,
requirements, and definitions to improve the performance of needy
children and to increase the amount of information on effective
professional development for arts educators that is available
nationally.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before February 14, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments about the proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions to Carol Sue Fromboluti, U.S. Department
of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 4W233, Washington, DC
20202-5943. If you prefer to send your comments through the Internet,
use the following address: comments@ed.gov.
You must include the term ``artspd'' in the subject line of your
electronic message.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carol Sue Fromboluti. Telephone: (202)
205-9654 or via Internet: Carol.Fromboluti@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may
call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an
alternative
[[Page 2400]]
format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on
request to the contact person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Invitation To Comment
We invite you to submit comments regarding the proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions in this notice. To ensure that your
comments have maximum effect in developing the notice of final
priority, requirements, and definitions, we urge you to identify
clearly the specific proposed priority, requirement, or definition that
each comment addresses.
We invite you to assist us in complying with the specific
requirements of Executive Order 12866 and its overall requirement of
reducing regulatory burden that might result from the proposed
priority, requirements, and definitions. Please let us know of any
further opportunities we should take to reduce potential costs or
increase potential benefits while preserving the effective and
efficient administration of the program.
During and after the comment period, you may inspect all public
comments about the proposed priority, requirements, and definitions in
room 4W242, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC, between the hours
of 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., eastern time, Monday through Friday of each
week except Federal holidays.
Assistance to Individuals With Disabilities in Reviewing the Rulemaking
Record
On request, we will supply an appropriate aid, such as a reader or
print magnifier, to an individual with a disability who needs
assistance to review the comments or other documents in the public
rulemaking record for the proposed priority, requirements, and
definitions. If you want to schedule an appointment for this type of
aid, please contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
We will announce the final priority, requirements, and definitions
in a notice in the Federal Register. We will determine the final
priority, requirements, and definitions after considering responses to
this notice and other information available to the Department. This
notice does not preclude us from proposing additional priorities,
requirements, and definitions, subject to meeting applicable rulemaking
requirements.
Note: This notice does not solicit applications. In any year in
which we choose to use the proposed priority, requirements, and
definitions, we invite applications through a notice in the Federal
Register. When inviting applications, we designate the priority as
absolute, competitive preference, or invitational. The effect of each
type of priority follows:
Absolute Priority: Under an absolute priority we consider only
applications that meet the priority (34 CFR 75.105(c)(3)).
Competitive Preference Priority: Under a competitive preference
priority we give competitive preference to an application by either (1)
awarding additional points, depending on how well or the extent to
which the application meets the priority (34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i)); or
(2) selecting an application that meets the competitive priority over
an application of comparable merit that does not meet the priority (34
CFR 75.105(c)(2)(ii)).
Invitational Priority: Under an invitational priority we are
particularly interested in applications that meet the invitational
priority. However, we do not give an application that meets the
invitational priority a competitive or absolute preference over other
applications (34 CFR 75.105(c)(1)).
Discussion of Proposed Priority, Requirements, and Definitions
Through this program, the Department intends to fund model
professional development programs for music, dance, drama, and visual
arts educators of K-12 students in high-poverty schools. The purpose of
this program is to strengthen standards-based arts education programs
and to help ensure that all students meet challenging State academic
content standards and challenging State student academic achievement
standards in the arts.
Priority
Proposed Priority
We propose the following priority for this program:
This priority supports professional development programs for K-12
arts educators 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 improving student and school performance.
Rationale: It is the intent of this program to provide professional
development programs for arts educators that can be linked to student
achievement, including performance on State or local standardized
tests. While arts content and achievement standards have been
voluntarily adopted in many States throughout the country, teachers
often need professional development on how to implement education
standards both for arts programs and for programs designed to integrate
arts with other subject areas. The proposed priority would support
projects that would provide professional development services that are
linked to learning standards.
Requirements
Proposed Application Requirement
We propose the following application requirement for this program:
To be eligible for Professional Development for Arts Educators
Program funds, applicants must propose to carry out professional
development programs for art educators 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 low-income families (based on the
poverty criteria set out 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)).
Rationale: Studies have found that improving the quality of arts
education has a particularly positive impact on students from low-
income backgrounds. We believe this poverty requirement is necessary in
order to focus services on the most needy children.
Proposed Eligibility Requirement
We propose the following eligibility requirement for this program:
To be eligible to receive funding under the Professional
Development for Arts Educators program, an applicant must be--
A local educational agency (LEA), which may be a charter school
that is considered an LEA, 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 elsewhere in this notice, and that must work in partnership
with one or more of the following--
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(1) A State or local non-profit or governmental arts organization;
(2) A State educational agency (SEA) or regional educational
service agency;
(3) An institution of higher education; or
(4) 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.
Rationale: The most effective professional development programs are
systemic and have the full support of school leadership. Therefore, it
is essential that eligibility be limited to LEAs. Professional
development in the area of arts education is often enhanced when it
taps the expertise of professional arts organizations or other
entities. Accordingly, an LEA would be required to partner with one of
these organizations.
Definitions
Proposed Definitions
The terms ``arts educator'' and ``integrate'', which are important
concepts associated with this program, are not defined in the
authorizing statute. We, therefore, propose, for the purpose of this
program, to define these terms as follows:
Arts educator means a teacher who works in music, drama, dance, or
the visual arts.
Integrate means, in the context of projects funded under this
program, 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.
Executive Order 12866
This notice of proposed priority, requirements, and definitions has
been reviewed in accordance with Executive Order 12866. Under the terms
of the order, we have assessed the potential costs and benefits of this
regulatory action.
The potential costs associated with the notice of proposed
priority, requirements, and definitions are those resulting from
statutory requirements and those we have determined as necessary for
administering this program effectively and efficiently.
In assessing the potential costs and benefits--both quantitative
and qualitative--of this notice of proposed priority, requirements, and
definitions, we have determined that the benefits of the proposed
priority, requirements, and definitions justify the costs.
We also have determined that this regulatory action does not unduly
interfere with State, local, and tribal governments in the exercise of
their governmental functions.
Summary of Potential Costs and Benefits
The potential costs associated with the proposed priority,
requirements, and definitions in this notice are minimal, while the
benefits are significant. Grantees may incur some costs associated with
completing the application process in terms of staff and partner time,
copying, and mailing or delivery.
The benefit of the proposed priority, requirements, and definitions
in this notice is that grantees will develop professional development
programs for arts educators, especially those programs that incorporate
arts education standards and are designed to improve the educational
performance of at-risk children and youth.
Intergovernmental Review
This program is subject to Executive Order 12372 and the
regulations in 34 CFR part 79. One of the objectives of the Executive
order is to foster an intergovernmental partnership and strengthened
federalism. The Executive order relies on processes developed by State
and local governments for coordination and review of proposed Federal
financial assistance.
This document provides early notification of our specific plans and
action for this program.
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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7271.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 84.351C Professional
Development for Arts Educators)
Dated: January 7, 2005.
Nina Shokraii Rees,
Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement.
[FR Doc. E5-125 Filed 1-12-05; 8:45 am]
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