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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of English Language
Acquisition, Language Enhancement,
and Academic Achievement for
Limited English Proficient Students;
Overview Information; Foreign
Language Assistance Program—Local
Educational Agencies; Notice Inviting
Applications for New Awards for Fiscal
Year (FY) 2008
[Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.293B].
Dates: Applications Available: March
27, 2008.
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply:
April 11, 2008.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: April 30, 2008.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: June 30, 2008.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The Foreign
Language Assistance Program (FLAP)
provides grants to local educational
agencies (LEAs) for innovative model
programs providing for the
establishment, improvement, or
expansion of foreign language study for
elementary and secondary school
students. Under this competition, as
required by the fiscal year 2008
Appropriations Act, 5-year grants will
be awarded to LEAs to work in
partnership with one or more
institutions of higher education (IHEs)
to establish or expand articulated
programs of study in languages critical
to United States national security in
order to enable successful students to
achieve a superior level of proficiency
in those languages as they advance from
elementary school through high school
and college. In addition, an LEA that
receives a grant under this program
must use the funds to support programs
that show the promise of being
continued beyond the grant period and
demonstrate approaches that can be
disseminated to and duplicated in other
LEAs. Projects supported under this
program may also include a professional
development component.
Priorities: This notice involves an
absolute priority and four competitive
preference priorities. The absolute
priority is from Public Law 110–161, the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of
2008, Division G, Title III, School
Improvement Programs. In accordance
with 34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(iv),
Competitive Preference Priorities #1
through #4 are from section 5493 of the
Foreign Language Assistance Act of
2001 (20 U.S.C. 7259b).
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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:
Sequential Study of Critical Languages
This priority supports projects to
establish or expand articulated
programs of study in foreign language
learning that exclusively teach one or
more of the following languages critical
to United States national security—
Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese,
Russian, and languages in the Indic,
Iranian, and Turkic language families.
Such programs must be designed to
enable successful students to achieve a
superior level of proficiency in those
languages as they advance from
elementary school through high school
and college.
The following definitions apply to
this priority:
(1) Articulated program of study. Each
grade level of the elementary-schoolthrough-college foreign language
program is designed to expand
sequentially on the achievement
students have made in the previous
level, with a goal of achieving a superior
level of language proficiency.
(2) Superior level of language
proficiency. A proficiency level of 3, as
measured by the Federal Interagency
Language Roundtable (ILR), achieved by
a student.
Competitive Preference Priorities: For
FY 2008, and any subsequent year in
which we make awards from the list of
unfunded applicants from this
competition, these priorities are
competitive preference priorities. Under
34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(ii) we give
preference to an application that meets
one or more of these priorities over an
application of comparable merit that
does not meet the priorities.
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Note: There is no advantage to addressing
all four competitive preference priorities.
Creating a program around all four priorities
may result in an unfocused program design.
We give preference to applications describing
programs that address any of these priorities.
These priorities are:
Competitive Preference Priority #1.
Projects that include intensive summer
foreign language programs for
professional development.
Competitive Preference Priority #2.
Projects that link non-native English
speakers in the community with the
schools in order to promote two-way
language learning.
Competitive Preference Priority #3.
Projects that make effective use of
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technology, such as computer-assisted
instruction, language laboratories, or
distance learning, to promote foreign
language study.
Competitive Preference Priority #4.
Projects that promote innovative
activities, such as foreign language
immersion, partial foreign language
immersion, or content-based
instruction.
Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking:
Under the Administrative Procedure Act
(5 U.S.C. 553) the Department generally
offers interested parties the opportunity
to comment on rules. Section 437(d)(1)
of the General Education Provisions Act
(GEPA), however, allows the Secretary
to exempt from rulemaking rules
governing the first grant competition
under a new or substantially revised
program authority. This program was
substantially revised by Public Law
110–161, the Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2008, Division G,
Title III, School Improvement Programs
and, therefore, qualifies for this
exemption. In order to ensure timely
grant awards, the Secretary has decided
to forgo public comment under section
437(d)(1) of GEPA on the absolute
priority and definitions in this notice.
The absolute priority and definitions
will apply to the FY 2008 grant
competition only.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7259a–
7259b and Public Law 110–161, the
Consolidated Appropriations Act of
2008, Division G, Title III, School
Improvement Programs.
Applicable Regulations: The
Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in
34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84,
85, 97, 98 and 99.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds:
$2,360,000.
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–$300,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards:
$200,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 12.
Note: The Department is not bound by any
estimates in this notice.
Project Period: 60 months.
Applications that request funding for a
project period of other than 60 months
will be deemed ineligible and will not
be read.
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III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: LEAs,
including charter schools that are
considered LEAs under State law, in
partnership with one or more
institutions of higher education.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: Section
5492(c)(2) of the Foreign Language
Assistance Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C.
7259a(c)) requires that the Federal share
of a project funded under this program
for each fiscal year be 50 percent. For
example, an LEA requesting $100,000 in
Federal funding for its foreign language
program each fiscal year must match
that amount with $100,000 of nonFederal funding for each year. Section
80.24 of EDGAR addresses Federal costsharing requirements.
If an LEA does not have adequate
resources to pay the non-Federal share
of the cost, a waiver may be requested.
An LEA may request a waiver of part or
all of the matching requirement. The
waiver request should be submitted by
letter to the Secretary of Education and
included in the application. An
authorized representative of the school
district, such as the Superintendent of
Schools, should sign the letter. Further
information on submitting a waiver
request is included in the application
package.
The request for waiver should—
• Provide an explanation, supported
with appropriate documentation, of the
basis for the LEA’s position that it does
not have adequate resources to pay the
non-Federal share of the cost of the
project.
• Specify the amount, if any, of the
non-Federal share that the LEA can pay.
We recommend that LEAs that are
unable to provide the required level of
non-Federal support for their project
provide as much non-Federal support as
possible.
IV. Application and Submission
Information
1. Address to Request Application
Package: Yvonne Putney-Mathieu, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue, SW., Room 10070, PCP,
Washington, DC 20202–6500.
Telephone: (202) 245–7155, or by email: yvonne.mathieu@ed.gov.
Note: Please include ‘‘FLAP Application
Request’’ in the subject heading of your email.
If you use a telecommunications device for
the deaf (TDD), call the Federal Relay Service
(FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877–8339.
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 program contact person listed
in this section.
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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
competition.
Notice of Intent to Apply: If you
intend to apply for a grant under this
competition, contact Yvonne Mathieu
by e-mail: yvonne.mathieu@ed.gov.
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Note: Please include ‘‘FLAP Intent to
Apply’’ in the subject heading of your e-mail.
The e-mail should specify: (1) The LEA
name, (2) city, (3) state, (4) number of grants,
and (5) language(s) of instruction. We do not
consider an application that does not comply
with the deadline requirements established
in this notice. However, we will consider an
application submitted by the deadline date
for transmittal of applications, even if the
applicant did not provide us notice of its
intent to apply.
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 the application narrative to
the equivalent of no more than 35 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 two-page abstract. However, the page
limit does apply to all of the application
narrative section in Part III.
We will reject your application if you
exceed the page limit or if you apply other
standards and exceed the equivalent of the
page limit.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: March 27,
2008.
Deadline for Notice of Intent to
Apply: April 11, 2008.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: April 30, 2008.
Applications for grants under this
program may be submitted
electronically using the Grants.gov
Apply site (https://www.grants.gov), or in
paper format by mail or hand delivery.
For information (including dates and
times) about how to submit your
application electronically, or by mail or
hand delivery, please refer to section
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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: June 30, 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 may be submitted
electronically or in paper format by mail
or hand delivery.
a. Electronic Submission of
Applications
To comply with the President’s
Management Agenda, we are
participating as a partner in the
Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site.
The Foreign Language Assistance
Program, CFDA Number 84.293B, is
included in this project. We request
your participation in Grants.gov.
If you choose to submit your
application electronically, you must use
the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply
site at https://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.
You may access the electronic grant
application for the Foreign Language
Assistance Program at https://
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 84.293, not for 84.293B).
Please note the following:
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• Your participation in Grants.gov is
voluntary.
• 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 https://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 https://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 https://
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
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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 submit your
application in paper format.
• If you submit your application
electronically, 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—Non-Construction
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).
• If you submit your application
electronically, 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 passwordprotected 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
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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 either person listed elsewhere in
this notice under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT 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.
b. Submission of Paper Applications by
Mail
If you submit your application in
paper format by mail (through the U.S.
Postal Service or a commercial carrier),
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 84.293B),
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
84.293B), 7100 Old Landover Road,
Landover, MD 20785–1506.
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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 submit your application in
paper format by hand delivery, you (or
a courier service) 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 84.293B), 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 Secretary
evaluates an application by determining
how well the proposed project meets the
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following selection criteria. The
selection criteria for this program are
from 34 CFR 75.210 of EDGAR.
Applicants are not required to address
the criteria as outlined in the Notes.
However, the Notes we have included
are guidance to assist applicants in
understanding each criterion as they
prepare their applications and are not
required by statute or regulation. In
addressing each criterion, applicants are
encouraged to make explicit
connections to relevant aspects of the
Purpose of the Program including the
Absolute Priority as described in section
I of this notice. The maximum score for
all of these criteria is 100 points. The
maximum score for each criterion is
indicated in parentheses.
(a) Need for project. (5 points)
The Secretary considers the need for
the proposed project. In determining the
need for the proposed project, the
Secretary considers the following factor:
(1) The extent to which specific gaps
or weaknesses in services,
infrastructure, or opportunities have
been identified and will be addressed by
the proposed project, including the
nature and magnitude of those gaps or
weaknesses.
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Notes for (a) Need for project: The
Secretary encourages applicants to describe
current characteristics of the LEA and
targeted schools, including the specific
foreign languages offered and, for each
foreign language offered, the number of
students enrolled in classes, grade levels
served or, in the case of secondary education,
the course levels served; the number of
schools providing instruction; the type of
foreign language instructional model
provided; and, the minutes of instruction per
day and number of days per week.
Applicants are also encouraged to address
how the proposed project will increase
enrollment in critical foreign languages
during the course of the grant by adding
languages, adding grades or course levels,
recruiting students, and expanding to
additional schools. Finally, applicants are
encouraged to describe how the proposed
project will improve instruction by hiring
highly qualified teachers, improving teacher
skills through professional development,
expanding the curriculum, and increasing the
minutes of instruction per day or week.
(b) Quality of the project design. (60
points)
The Secretary considers the quality of
the design of the proposed project. In
determining the quality of the design of
the proposed project, the Secretary
considers the following factors:
(1) The extent to which the goals,
objectives, and outcomes to be achieved
by the proposed project are clearly
specified and measurable.
(2) The extent to which the design for
implementing and evaluating the
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proposed project will result in
information to guide possible
replication of project activities or
strategies, including information about
the effectiveness of the approach or
strategies employed by the project.
(3) 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.
(4) The extent to which the design of
the proposed project reflects up-to-date
knowledge from research and effective
practice.
(5) The extent to which the proposed
project will establish linkages with
other appropriate agencies and
organizations providing services to the
target population.
(6) 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.
Notes for (b) Quality of the project
design—factors 1 through 6: The Secretary
encourages applicants to address the factors
under this criterion by discussing the extent
to which the proposed project addresses key
components of project design, such as
measurable objectives for all Government
Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
measures, including measures of improved
student foreign language proficiency and
expected student achievement. Further, the
applicant is encouraged to describe the
extent to which the proposed project will use
its ambitious project objectives and will
ensure that they are challenging, raise
expectations, provide ways for students to
demonstrate progress, and are specific to
each year served by the grant. Finally, the
applicant is encouraged to describe the
extent to which performance guidelines for
K–12 students are incorporated by targeting
the student proficiency level of Advanced, as
measured by the American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), for
students exiting the K–12 program.
The Secretary encourages applicants to
discuss their plans to develop and implement
an articulated curriculum with minimal
content repetition, so that students in the
project will, when they graduate from high
school, have the skills needed to achieve a
superior level of proficiency by the end of an
undergraduate program.
The Secretary encourages applicants to
address the extent to which the proposed
project describes how it will disseminate its
innovative model and best practices for
duplication by other LEAs.
The Secretary encourages applicants to
describe the specific assessments to be used
or, if assessments are not available, how
assessments will be developed and how
assessment results will be used to inform
decisions on instruction and articulation.
The Secretary encourages applicants to
describe a plan to carry out activities under
the grant as part of their required partnership
with one or more IHEs, including how each
member will be involved in the planning,
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development, and implementation of the
project; the resources to be provided by each
partner; the rationale for selecting the
partner(s); the specific activities that the
partner(s) will contribute to the grant during
each year of the project; and the identity of
each member of the partnership, including
contact information, with a one-page letter of
commitment from the partner(s) in an
appendix to the application narrative.
The Secretary encourages applicants to
address the commitment of partner(s) to
building local capacity so that the program
will be institutionalized and sustained after
Federal funds are expended.
The Secretary encourages applicants to
discuss the overall project model, its key
components, and the degree to which the
model’s key components are based on sound
research and practice.
The Secretary encourages applicants to
include evidence of how they will establish
linkages with the State educational agency,
foreign language organizations, communitybased organizations, and the heritage
communities of the target language(s) in
order to support the program. Further, the
Secretary encourages applicants to address
the extent to which the proposed project
encourages parental involvement.
Finally, the Secretary encourages
applicants to include information on how
they will use State and national standards for
foreign language learning (including
standards related to communication,
cultures, connections, comparisons, and
communities) as a framework for teaching
and learning.
(c) Quality of project personnel. (10
points)
The Secretary considers the quality of
the personnel who will carry out the
proposed project. In determining the
quality of project personnel, the
Secretary considers 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. In addition,
the Secretary considers the following
factors:
(1) The qualifications, including
relevant training and experience, of the
project director.
(2) The qualifications, including
relevant training and experience, of key
project personnel.
Note for (c) Quality of project personnel—
factors 1 and 2: The Secretary encourages
applicants to address the factors under this
criterion by including position descriptions
(not resumes) for the project director and
other key personnel. Further, the applicant is
encouraged to describe the qualifications,
including relevant training and experience,
of current district employees who will be
teaching critical languages, and, if applicable,
how the proposed project plans to recruit
highly qualified teachers of critical
languages. Finally the applicant is
encouraged to include the qualifications,
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including relevant training and experience,
of other key project personnel and
consultants.
(d) Quality of the management plan.
(10 points)
The Secretary considers the quality of
the management plan for the proposed
project. In determining the quality of the
management plan for the proposed
project, the Secretary considers the
following factors:
(1) 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.
(2) The extent to which the time
commitments of the project director and
other key project personnel are
appropriate and adequate to meet the
objectives of the proposed project.
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Notes for (d) Quality of the management
plan—factors 1 and 2: Section 75.112 of
EDGAR requires an applicant to include a
narrative that describes how and when, in
each budget period of the project, the
applicant plans to meet each project
objective. The Secretary encourages
applicants to address the factors under this
criterion by including in this narrative a
clear, well thought-out implementation plan
that includes annual timelines, key project
milestones, a schedule of activities with
sufficient time for developing an adequate
implementation plan, and the persons
responsible for each management activity.
The Secretary encourages applicants to
include the percentage of time the project
director, partner staff, consultants, and other
key personnel will spend on the project.
Finally, each applicant is encouraged to
address this criterion by describing the roles
of the LEA and its IHE partner(s) in each
phase of the proposed project.
(e) Quality of the project evaluation.
(15 points)
The Secretary considers the quality of
the evaluation to be conducted of the
proposed project. In determining the
quality of the evaluation, the Secretary
considers the following factors:
(1) The extent to which the methods
of evaluation are thorough, feasible, and
appropriate to the goals, objectives, and
outcomes of the proposed project.
(2) 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.
(3) The extent to which the methods
of evaluation will provide performance
feedback and permit periodic
assessment of progress toward achieving
intended outcomes.
Notes for (e) Quality of the project
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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 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 applicant
is encouraged to describe how it will select
an independent, objective evaluator who has
experience in evaluating foreign language
programs and who will play an active role in
the design and development of the project.
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; (5) how the 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 effective strategies for replication in
other settings. Applicants are encouraged to
devote an appropriate level of resources to
project evaluation.
The Secretary encourages applicants to
address the factors under this criterion by
describing how the evaluation plan is aligned
with the goals, objectives and activities
described in the Quality of Project Design
criterion. In addition, each applicant is
encouraged to provide how each objective
will be evaluated and when the applicant
will collect, analyze, and report quantitative
and qualitative data. (The specific
performance measures established for the
overall Foreign Language Assistance Program
are discussed under Performance Measures
in section VI of this notice.) Grantees are
required to submit annual performance
reports for each of the first four years of the
grant and a final evaluation at the end of the
fifth year. Further, the Secretary encourages
applicants to address this criterion by
describing how they will monitor progress
toward specific project objectives and
outcome measures, in order to assess the
impact on teaching and learning or other
important project outcomes. Each applicant
is encouraged to describe how it will monitor
progress in meeting annual targets
established for project objectives, as well as
for the GPRA measures.
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 Notification
(GAN). We may also notify you
informally.
If your application is not evaluated or
not selected for funding, we notify you.
2. Administrative and National Policy
Requirements: We identify
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administrative and national policy
requirements in the application package
and reference these and other
requirements in the Applicable
Regulations section of this notice.
We reference the regulations outlining
the terms and conditions of an award in
the Applicable Regulations section of
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. Grant Administration: Applicants
should budget for a two-day meeting for
project directors to be held in
Washington, DC.
4. 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 specified by
the Secretary in 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
https://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/
appforms/appforms.html.
5. Performance Measures: In response
to the Government Performance and
Results Act (GPRA), the Department
developed three objectives for
evaluating the overall effectiveness of
the Foreign Language Assistance
Program (FLAP) LEA program.
Objective 1: To expand foreign
language study for students served by
FLAP.
Measure 1.1 of 2: The number of
students participating in foreign
language instruction in the target
languages(s) in the schools served by
FLAP.
Measure 1.2 of 2: The number of
minutes of foreign language instruction
in the target languages(s) provided in
the schools served by FLAP.
Objective 2: To expand foreign
language study in critical languages for
students served by the FLAP program.
Measure 2.1 of 1: The number of
students participating in critical
languages in the schools served by
FLAP.
Objective 3: To improve the foreign
language proficiency of students served
by FLAP.
Measure 3.1 of 1: The number of
students in FLAP projects who meet
ambitious project objectives for foreign
language proficiency.
We will expect each LEA funded
under this competition to document
how its project is helping the
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Department meet these performance
measures. Grantees will be expected to
report on progress in meeting these
performance measures for FLAP in their
Annual Performance Report and in their
Final Performance Report.
VII. Agency Contacts
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rebecca Richey, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Potomac Center Plaza, room 10080,
Washington, DC 20202. Telephone:
(202) 245–7133, or by e-mail:
rebecca.richey@ed.gov or Sharon
Coleman, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Potomac
Center Plaza, room 10071, Washington,
DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 245–7124,
or by e-mail: sharon.coleman@ed.gov.
If you use TDD, call 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: https://www.ed.gov/news/
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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.
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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.
Dated: March 19, 2008.
Margarita P. Pinkos,
Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director,
Office of English Language Acquisition,
Language Enhancement, and Academic
Achievement for Limited English Proficient
Students.
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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
Election Data Collection Grant
Program
United States Election
Assistance Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Funding Opportunity Title: Election
Data Collection Grant Program.
Announcement Type: Competitive
Grant—Initial.
Funding Opportunity Number: EAC–
08–001.
CFDA Number: 90.400.
DATES: Applications are due by 4 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time on April 28,
2008.
SUMMARY: On December 22, 2007,
Congress authorized the Omnibus
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2008.
Public Law 110–161 authorized the U.S.
Election Assistance Commission (‘‘the
EAC’’) to award $10 million in grants to
States to implement an election data
collection program (‘‘the program’’).
Under the Administrative Provision of
the Act (Section 501), the EAC shall
establish a program to provide a grant of
$2 million to each of five eligible States
to improve the collection of precinct
level data relating to the November 2008
Federal elections. The program is
designed to: (a) Develop and document
a series of administrative and
procedural best practices in election
data collection that can be replicated by
other States; (b) improve data collection
processes; (c) enhance the capacity of
States and their jurisdictions to collect
accurate and complete election data;
and (d) document and describe
particular administrative and
management data collection practices,
as well as particular data collection
policies and procedures. For more
information please visit https://
www.eac.gov.
I. Funding Opportunity Description
The announcement for this grant
program is authorized by the Omnibus
Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year (FY)
2008, Public Law (Pub. L.) 110–161,
Title V. Under the Act, the U.S. Election
Assistance Commission (EAC or
Commission) is sanctioned to award
grants to States for improving the
collection of precinct-level data for
Federal elections. This announcement
offers the applicant State the
opportunity to provide for the collection
of such data in a common electronic
format to be determined by the
Commission.
Election Data Collection Grant Program
Public Law 110–161 authorizes the
EAC to award $10,000,000 in grants to
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States to implement a data collection
program for the Federal elections
scheduled to be held in November 2008.
Of that sum, $2 million will be provided
to each of five eligible applicants.
The EAC is soliciting proposals from
States to improve the collection of data
at the precinct level for the November
2008 Federal elections. In general, a
precinct is defined as an administrative
division of a county or municipality to
which voters have been assigned by
their residing address for voting.
Grantees will be required to report to
the EAC on all data elements as
described in Appendix A. (Appendix A
is available at the Web site https://
www.submitgrant.net or https://
www.eac.gov.) States that receive an
award are also required to report, at a
minimum, precinct level data for
questions 1, 2, 18a, 23, 29, and 30.
The purpose of the Election Data
Collection Grant Program is to:
• Develop and document a series of
administrative and procedural best
practices in election data collection that
can be replicated by other States;
• Improve data collection processes;
• Enhance the capacity of States and
their jurisdictions to collect accurate
and complete election data; and
• Document and describe particular
administrative and management data
collection practices, as well as
particular data collection policies and
procedures.
State grantees will use the grant funds
in part to implement new data
collection procedures, systems, and/or
methodologies for the November 2008
election. They will have until March
2009 to report the data collected from
that election to the EAC. They will also
be required to submit to the EAC a semiannual program report, which is due six
months following the inception of the
grant, as well as a final program report,
which is due June 1, 2009. Additionally,
States must submit an SF 269 financial
report on January 15, 2009, for the
period beginning on the date of award
of the contract and ending on December
31, 2008; and on July 31, 2009 for the
period beginning January 1, 2008 and
ending on the close out of the grant
program.
Not later than June 30, 2009, the EAC
will submit a report to Congress on the
impact of the grant program on States’
ability to effectively collect Federal
election data. The EAC will consult
with States receiving grants under the
program, along with the Election
Assistance Commission Board of
Advisors, to compile the report. The
report will include recommendations to
improve the collection of data relating
to regularly scheduled general elections
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and
Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students; Overview
Information; Foreign Language Assistance Program--Local Educational
Agencies; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year
(FY) 2008
[Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.293B].
Dates: Applications Available: March 27, 2008.
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: April 11, 2008.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 30, 2008.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: June 30, 2008.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The Foreign Language Assistance Program (FLAP)
provides grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) for innovative
model programs providing for the establishment, improvement, or
expansion of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school
students. Under this competition, as required by the fiscal year 2008
Appropriations Act, 5-year grants will be awarded to LEAs to work in
partnership with one or more institutions of higher education (IHEs) to
establish or expand articulated programs of study in languages critical
to United States national security in order to enable successful
students to achieve a superior level of proficiency in those languages
as they advance from elementary school through high school and college.
In addition, an LEA that receives a grant under this program must use
the funds to support programs that show the promise of being continued
beyond the grant period and demonstrate approaches that can be
disseminated to and duplicated in other LEAs. Projects supported under
this program may also include a professional development component.
Priorities: This notice involves an absolute priority and four
competitive preference priorities. The absolute priority is from Public
Law 110-161, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008, Division G,
Title III, School Improvement Programs. In accordance with 34 CFR
75.105(b)(2)(iv), Competitive Preference Priorities 1 through
4 are from section 5493 of the Foreign Language Assistance Act
of 2001 (20 U.S.C. 7259b).
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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:
Sequential Study of Critical Languages
This priority supports projects to establish or expand articulated
programs of study in foreign language learning that exclusively teach
one or more of the following languages critical to United States
national security--Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, and
languages in the Indic, Iranian, and Turkic language families. Such
programs must be designed to enable successful students to achieve a
superior level of proficiency in those languages as they advance from
elementary school through high school and college.
The following definitions apply to this priority:
(1) Articulated program of study. Each grade level of the
elementary-school-through-college foreign language program is designed
to expand sequentially on the achievement students have made in the
previous level, with a goal of achieving a superior level of language
proficiency.
(2) Superior level of language proficiency. A proficiency level of
3, as measured by the Federal Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR),
achieved by a student.
Competitive Preference Priorities: For FY 2008, and any subsequent
year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applicants from
this competition, these priorities are competitive preference
priorities. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(ii) we give preference to an
application that meets one or more of these priorities over an
application of comparable merit that does not meet the priorities.
Note: There is no advantage to addressing all four competitive
preference priorities. Creating a program around all four priorities
may result in an unfocused program design. We give preference to
applications describing programs that address any of these
priorities.
These priorities are:
Competitive Preference Priority #1. Projects that include intensive
summer foreign language programs for professional development.
Competitive Preference Priority #2. Projects that link non-native
English speakers in the community with the schools in order to promote
two-way language learning.
Competitive Preference Priority #3. Projects that make effective
use of technology, such as computer-assisted instruction, language
laboratories, or distance learning, to promote foreign language study.
Competitive Preference Priority #4. Projects that promote
innovative activities, such as foreign language immersion, partial
foreign language immersion, or content-based instruction.
Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking: Under the Administrative Procedure
Act (5 U.S.C. 553) the Department generally offers interested parties
the opportunity to comment on rules. Section 437(d)(1) of the General
Education Provisions Act (GEPA), however, allows the Secretary to
exempt from rulemaking rules governing the first grant competition
under a new or substantially revised program authority. This program
was substantially revised by Public Law 110-161, the Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2008, Division G, Title III, School Improvement
Programs and, therefore, qualifies for this exemption. In order to
ensure timely grant awards, the Secretary has decided to forgo public
comment under section 437(d)(1) of GEPA on the absolute priority and
definitions in this notice. The absolute priority and definitions will
apply to the FY 2008 grant competition only.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7259a-7259b and Public Law 110-161,
the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008, Division G, Title III,
School Improvement Programs.
Applicable Regulations: The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 80, 81,
82, 84, 85, 97, 98 and 99.
II. Award Information
Type of Award: Discretionary grants.
Estimated Available Funds: $2,360,000.
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-$300,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $200,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 12.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: 60 months. Applications that request funding for a
project period of other than 60 months will be deemed ineligible and
will not be read.
III. Eligibility Information
1. Eligible Applicants: LEAs, including charter schools that are
considered LEAs under State law, in partnership with one or more
institutions of higher education.
2. Cost Sharing or Matching: Section 5492(c)(2) of the Foreign
Language Assistance Act of 2001 (20 U.S.C. 7259a(c)) requires that the
Federal share of a project funded under this program for each fiscal
year be 50 percent. For example, an LEA requesting $100,000 in Federal
funding for its foreign language program each fiscal year must match
that amount with $100,000 of non-Federal funding for each year. Section
80.24 of EDGAR addresses Federal cost-sharing requirements.
If an LEA does not have adequate resources to pay the non-Federal
share of the cost, a waiver may be requested. An LEA may request a
waiver of part or all of the matching requirement. The waiver request
should be submitted by letter to the Secretary of Education and
included in the application. An authorized representative of the school
district, such as the Superintendent of Schools, should sign the
letter. Further information on submitting a waiver request is included
in the application package.
The request for waiver should--
Provide an explanation, supported with appropriate
documentation, of the basis for the LEA's position that it does not
have adequate resources to pay the non-Federal share of the cost of the
project.
Specify the amount, if any, of the non-Federal share that
the LEA can pay.
We recommend that LEAs that are unable to provide the required
level of non-Federal support for their project provide as much non-
Federal support as possible.
IV. Application and Submission Information
1. Address to Request Application Package: Yvonne Putney-Mathieu,
U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 10070,
PCP, Washington, DC 20202-6500. Telephone: (202) 245-7155, or by e-
mail: yvonne.mathieu@ed.gov.
Note: Please include ``FLAP Application Request'' in the subject
heading of your e-mail.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call
the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
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 program
contact person listed in this section.
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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 competition.
Notice of Intent to Apply: If you intend to apply for a grant under
this competition, contact Yvonne Mathieu by e-mail:
yvonne.mathieu@ed.gov.
Note: Please include ``FLAP Intent to Apply'' in the subject
heading of your e-mail. The e-mail should specify: (1) The LEA name,
(2) city, (3) state, (4) number of grants, and (5) language(s) of
instruction. We do not consider an application that does not comply
with the deadline requirements established in this notice. However,
we will consider an application submitted by the deadline date for
transmittal of applications, even if the applicant did not provide
us notice of its intent to apply.
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 the application narrative to the equivalent of no more than 35
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
two-page abstract. However, the page limit does apply to all of the
application narrative section in Part III.
We will reject your application if you exceed the page limit or
if you apply other standards and exceed the equivalent of the page
limit.
3. Submission Dates and Times:
Applications Available: March 27, 2008.
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: April 11, 2008.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: April 30, 2008.
Applications for grants under this program may be submitted
electronically using the Grants.gov Apply site (https://www.grants.gov),
or in paper format by mail or hand delivery. For information (including
dates and times) about how to submit your application electronically,
or by mail or hand delivery, 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: June 30, 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 may be submitted electronically or in paper format by mail
or hand delivery.
a. Electronic Submission of Applications
To comply with the President's Management Agenda, we are
participating as a partner in the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site.
The Foreign Language Assistance Program, CFDA Number 84.293B, is
included in this project. We request your participation in Grants.gov.
If you choose to submit your application electronically, you must
use the Governmentwide Grants.gov Apply site at https://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 e-mail an electronic copy of a grant
application to us.
You may access the electronic grant application for the Foreign
Language Assistance Program at https://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 84.293, not for 84.293B).
Please note the following:
Your participation in Grants.gov is voluntary.
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 https://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 https://
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 https://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
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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 submit your application in paper format.
If you submit your application electronically, 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--Non-Construction 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).
If you submit your application electronically, 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 ED-specified
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 either person listed
elsewhere in this notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 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.
b. Submission of Paper Applications by Mail
If you submit your application in paper format by mail (through the
U.S. Postal Service or a commercial carrier), 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 84.293B), 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
84.293B), 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 submit your application in paper format by hand delivery,
you (or a courier service) 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
84.293B), 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 Secretary evaluates an application by
determining how well the proposed project meets the
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following selection criteria. The selection criteria for this program
are from 34 CFR 75.210 of EDGAR. Applicants are not required to address
the criteria as outlined in the Notes. However, the Notes we have
included are guidance to assist applicants in understanding each
criterion as they prepare their applications and are not required by
statute or regulation. In addressing each criterion, applicants are
encouraged to make explicit connections to relevant aspects of the
Purpose of the Program including the Absolute Priority as described in
section I of this notice. The maximum score for all of these criteria
is 100 points. The maximum score for each criterion is indicated in
parentheses.
(a) Need for project. (5 points)
The Secretary considers the need for the proposed project. In
determining the need for the proposed project, the Secretary considers
the following factor:
(1) The extent to which specific gaps or weaknesses in services,
infrastructure, or opportunities have been identified and will be
addressed by the proposed project, including the nature and magnitude
of those gaps or weaknesses.
Notes for (a) Need for project: The Secretary encourages
applicants to describe current characteristics of the LEA and
targeted schools, including the specific foreign languages offered
and, for each foreign language offered, the number of students
enrolled in classes, grade levels served or, in the case of
secondary education, the course levels served; the number of schools
providing instruction; the type of foreign language instructional
model provided; and, the minutes of instruction per day and number
of days per week.
Applicants are also encouraged to address how the proposed
project will increase enrollment in critical foreign languages
during the course of the grant by adding languages, adding grades or
course levels, recruiting students, and expanding to additional
schools. Finally, applicants are encouraged to describe how the
proposed project will improve instruction by hiring highly qualified
teachers, improving teacher skills through professional development,
expanding the curriculum, and increasing the minutes of instruction
per day or week.
(b) Quality of the project design. (60 points)
The Secretary considers the quality of the design of the proposed
project. In determining the quality of the design of the proposed
project, the Secretary considers the following factors:
(1) The extent to which the goals, objectives, and outcomes to be
achieved by the proposed project are clearly specified and measurable.
(2) The extent to which the design for implementing and evaluating
the proposed project will result in information to guide possible
replication of project activities or strategies, including information
about the effectiveness of the approach or strategies employed by the
project.
(3) 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.
(4) The extent to which the design of the proposed project reflects
up-to-date knowledge from research and effective practice.
(5) The extent to which the proposed project will establish
linkages with other appropriate agencies and organizations providing
services to the target population.
(6) 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.
Notes for (b) Quality of the project design--factors 1 through
6: The Secretary encourages applicants to address the factors under
this criterion by discussing the extent to which the proposed
project addresses key components of project design, such as
measurable objectives for all Government Performance and Results Act
(GPRA) measures, including measures of improved student foreign
language proficiency and expected student achievement. Further, the
applicant is encouraged to describe the extent to which the proposed
project will use its ambitious project objectives and will ensure
that they are challenging, raise expectations, provide ways for
students to demonstrate progress, and are specific to each year
served by the grant. Finally, the applicant is encouraged to
describe the extent to which performance guidelines for K-12
students are incorporated by targeting the student proficiency level
of Advanced, as measured by the American Council on the Teaching of
Foreign Languages (ACTFL), for students exiting the K-12 program.
The Secretary encourages applicants to discuss their plans to
develop and implement an articulated curriculum with minimal content
repetition, so that students in the project will, when they graduate
from high school, have the skills needed to achieve a superior level
of proficiency by the end of an undergraduate program.
The Secretary encourages applicants to address the extent to
which the proposed project describes how it will disseminate its
innovative model and best practices for duplication by other LEAs.
The Secretary encourages applicants to describe the specific
assessments to be used or, if assessments are not available, how
assessments will be developed and how assessment results will be
used to inform decisions on instruction and articulation.
The Secretary encourages applicants to describe a plan to carry
out activities under the grant as part of their required partnership
with one or more IHEs, including how each member will be involved in
the planning, development, and implementation of the project; the
resources to be provided by each partner; the rationale for
selecting the partner(s); the specific activities that the
partner(s) will contribute to the grant during each year of the
project; and the identity of each member of the partnership,
including contact information, with a one-page letter of commitment
from the partner(s) in an appendix to the application narrative.
The Secretary encourages applicants to address the commitment of
partner(s) to building local capacity so that the program will be
institutionalized and sustained after Federal funds are expended.
The Secretary encourages applicants to discuss the overall
project model, its key components, and the degree to which the
model's key components are based on sound research and practice.
The Secretary encourages applicants to include evidence of how
they will establish linkages with the State educational agency,
foreign language organizations, community-based organizations, and
the heritage communities of the target language(s) in order to
support the program. Further, the Secretary encourages applicants to
address the extent to which the proposed project encourages parental
involvement.
Finally, the Secretary encourages applicants to include
information on how they will use State and national standards for
foreign language learning (including standards related to
communication, cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities)
as a framework for teaching and learning.
(c) Quality of project personnel. (10 points)
The Secretary considers the quality of the personnel who will carry
out the proposed project. In determining the quality of project
personnel, the Secretary considers 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. In addition, the
Secretary considers the following factors:
(1) The qualifications, including relevant training and experience,
of the project director.
(2) The qualifications, including relevant training and experience,
of key project personnel.
Note for (c) Quality of project personnel--factors 1 and 2: The
Secretary encourages applicants to address the factors under this
criterion by including position descriptions (not resumes) for the
project director and other key personnel. Further, the applicant is
encouraged to describe the qualifications, including relevant
training and experience, of current district employees who will be
teaching critical languages, and, if applicable, how the proposed
project plans to recruit highly qualified teachers of critical
languages. Finally the applicant is encouraged to include the
qualifications,
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including relevant training and experience, of other key project
personnel and consultants.
(d) Quality of the management plan. (10 points)
The Secretary considers the quality of the management plan for the
proposed project. In determining the quality of the management plan for
the proposed project, the Secretary considers the following factors:
(1) 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.
(2) The extent to which the time commitments of the project
director and other key project personnel are appropriate and adequate
to meet the objectives of the proposed project.
Notes for (d) Quality of the management plan--factors 1 and 2:
Section 75.112 of EDGAR requires an applicant to include a narrative
that describes how and when, in each budget period of the project,
the applicant plans to meet each project objective. The Secretary
encourages applicants to address the factors under this criterion by
including in this narrative a clear, well thought-out implementation
plan that includes annual timelines, key project milestones, a
schedule of activities with sufficient time for developing an
adequate implementation plan, and the persons responsible for each
management activity. The Secretary encourages applicants to include
the percentage of time the project director, partner staff,
consultants, and other key personnel will spend on the project.
Finally, each applicant is encouraged to address this criterion by
describing the roles of the LEA and its IHE partner(s) in each phase
of the proposed project.
(e) Quality of the project evaluation. (15 points)
The Secretary considers the quality of the evaluation to be
conducted of the proposed project. In determining the quality of the
evaluation, the Secretary considers the following factors:
(1) The extent to which the methods of evaluation are thorough,
feasible, and appropriate to the goals, objectives, and outcomes of the
proposed project.
(2) 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.
(3) The extent to which the methods of evaluation will provide
performance feedback and permit periodic assessment of progress toward
achieving intended outcomes.
Notes for (e) Quality of the project evaluation--factors 1
through 3. 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 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 applicant is encouraged to describe how it
will select an independent, objective evaluator who has experience
in evaluating foreign language programs and who will play an active
role in the design and development of the project. 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; (5) how the 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 effective strategies for replication in other settings.
Applicants are encouraged to devote an appropriate level of
resources to project evaluation.
The Secretary encourages applicants to address the factors under
this criterion by describing how the evaluation plan is aligned with
the goals, objectives and activities described in the Quality of
Project Design criterion. In addition, each applicant is encouraged
to provide how each objective will be evaluated and when the
applicant will collect, analyze, and report quantitative and
qualitative data. (The specific performance measures established for
the overall Foreign Language Assistance Program are discussed under
Performance Measures in section VI of this notice.) Grantees are
required to submit annual performance reports for each of the first
four years of the grant and a final evaluation at the end of the
fifth year. Further, the Secretary encourages applicants to address
this criterion by describing how they will monitor progress toward
specific project objectives and outcome measures, in order to assess
the impact on teaching and learning or other important project
outcomes. Each applicant is encouraged to describe how it will
monitor progress in meeting annual targets established for project
objectives, as well as for the GPRA measures.
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
Notification (GAN). We may also notify you informally.
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 of this notice.
We reference the regulations outlining the terms and conditions of
an award in the Applicable Regulations section of 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. Grant Administration: Applicants should budget for a two-day
meeting for project directors to be held in Washington, DC.
4. 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 specified by the Secretary in
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 https://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms/appforms.html.
5. Performance Measures: In response to the Government Performance
and Results Act (GPRA), the Department developed three objectives for
evaluating the overall effectiveness of the Foreign Language Assistance
Program (FLAP) LEA program.
Objective 1: To expand foreign language study for students served
by FLAP.
Measure 1.1 of 2: The number of students participating in foreign
language instruction in the target languages(s) in the schools served
by FLAP.
Measure 1.2 of 2: The number of minutes of foreign language
instruction in the target languages(s) provided in the schools served
by FLAP.
Objective 2: To expand foreign language study in critical languages
for students served by the FLAP program.
Measure 2.1 of 1: The number of students participating in critical
languages in the schools served by FLAP.
Objective 3: To improve the foreign language proficiency of
students served by FLAP.
Measure 3.1 of 1: The number of students in FLAP projects who meet
ambitious project objectives for foreign language proficiency.
We will expect each LEA funded under this competition to document
how its project is helping the
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Department meet these performance measures. Grantees will be expected
to report on progress in meeting these performance measures for FLAP in
their Annual Performance Report and in their Final Performance Report.
VII. Agency Contacts
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebecca Richey, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Potomac Center Plaza, room 10080,
Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 245-7133, or by e-mail:
rebecca.richey@ed.gov or Sharon Coleman, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Potomac Center Plaza, room 10071, Washington,
DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 245-7124, or by e-mail:
sharon.coleman@ed.gov.
If you use TDD, call 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: 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/.
Dated: March 19, 2008.
Margarita P. Pinkos,
Assistant Deputy Secretary and Director, Office of English Language
Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited
English Proficient Students.
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