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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No. ED–2013–ICCD–0147]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
Measuring Educational Gain in the
National Reporting System for Adult
Education
Office of Career, Technical and
Adult Education (OCTE), Department of
Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is
proposing an extension of an existing
information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before March
27, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in
response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov by selecting
Docket ID number ED–2013–ICCD–
0147or via postal mail, commercial
delivery, or hand delivery. If the
regulations.gov site is not available to
the public for any reason, ED will
temporarily accept comments at
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note that
comments submitted by fax or email
and those submitted after the comment
period will not be accepted; ED will
ONLY accept comments during the
comment period in this mailbox when
the regulations.gov site is not available.
Written requests for information or
comments submitted by postal mail or
delivery should be addressed to the
Director of the Information Collection
Clearance Division, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
LBJ, Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room
2E105, Washington, DC 20202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Michelle
Meier, 202–245–7890.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
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requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
of information technology. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: Measuring
Educational Gain in the National
Reporting System for Adult Education.
OMB Control Number: 1830–0567.
Type of Review: An extension without
change of an existing collection of
information.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, or Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 15.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 600.
Abstract: Title 34 of the Code of
Federal Regulations part 462 establishes
procedures the Secretary uses to
consider literacy tests for use in the
National Reporting System (NRS) for
adult education. This information is
used by the Secretary to determine the
suitability of published literacy tests to
measure and report educational gain
under the NRS.
Dated: February 20, 2014.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and
Records Management Services, Office of
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2013–ICCD–0155]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request;
GEPA Section 427 Guidance for All
Grant Applications
Office of the Secretary/Office of
the Deputy Secretary (OS), Department
of Education (ED).
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Notice.
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is
proposing an extension of an existing
information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before March
27, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in
response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov by selecting
Docket ID number ED–2013–ICCD–0155
or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov
site is not available to the public for any
reason, ED will temporarily accept
comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov.
Please note that comments submitted by
fax or email and those submitted after
the comment period will not be
accepted; ED will ONLY accept
comments during the comment period
in this mailbox when the
regulations.gov site is not available.
Written requests for information or
comments submitted by postal mail or
delivery should be addressed to the
Director of the Information Collection
Clearance Division, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
LBJ, Mailstop L–OM–2–2E319, Room
2E105, Washington, DC 20202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Alfreida
Pettiford, 202–245–6110.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general
public and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed,
revised, and continuing collections of
information. This helps the Department
assess the impact of its information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. It also
helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. ED is
soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that
is described below. The Department of
Education is especially interested in
public comment addressing the
following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the
Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner;
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the Department enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
SUMMARY:
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information to be collected; and (5) how
might the Department minimize the
burden of this collection on the
respondents, including through the use
of information technology. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: GEPA Section 427
Guidance for All Grant Applications.
OMB Control Number: 1894–0005.
Type of Review: An extension of an
existing information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, or Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 12,396.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 18,594.
Abstract: On October 20, 1994, the
Improving America’s Schools Act,
Public Law 103–382 (The Act), became
law. The Act added a provision to the
General Education Provisions Act
(GEPA). Section 427 of GEPA requires
an applicant for assistance under
Department programs to develop and
describe in the grant application the
steps it proposes to take to ensure
equitable access to, and equitable
participation in, its proposed project for
students, teachers, and other program
beneficiaries with special needs. The
current GEPA Section 427 guidance for
discretionary grant applications and
formula grant applications has approval
through March 31, 2014, the Department
is requesting an extension of this
approval.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and
Records Management Services, Office of
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Applications for New Awards; Arts in
Education Model Development and
Dissemination Program
Office of Innovation and
Improvement, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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Overview Information
Arts in Education Model Development
and Dissemination Program
Notice inviting applications for new
awards for fiscal year (FY) 2014.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.351D.
Applications Available: February
25, 2014.
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Deadline for Notice of Intent to
Apply: March 27, 2014.
Date of Pre-Application Meeting:
March 18, 2014.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: April 28, 2014.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: June 25, 2014.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The Arts in
Education Model Development and
Dissemination (AEMDD) program
supports the enhancement, expansion,
documentation, evaluation, and
dissemination of innovative, cohesive
models that are based on research and
have demonstrated that they
effectively—(1) integrate standardsbased arts education into the core
elementary and middle school
curriculum; (2) strengthen standardsbased arts instruction in these grades;
and (3) improve students’ academic
performance, including their skills in
creating, performing, and responding to
the arts. Projects funded through the
AEMDD program are intended to
increase the amount of nationally
available information on effective
models for arts education that integrate
the arts with standards-based education
programs.
Priorities: This competition includes
one absolute priority and two
competitive preference priorities that
are explained in the following
paragraphs. Absolute priority 1 is from
the notice of final priority,
requirements, and definitions for this
program, published in the Federal
Register on March 30, 2005 (70 FR
16234). The competitive preference
priorities are from the notice of
supplemental priorities and definitions
for discretionary grant programs,
published in the Federal Register on
December 15, 2010 (75 FR 78486), and
corrected on May 12, 2011 (76 FR
27637) (Supplemental Priorities).
Absolute Priority: For FY 2014 and
any subsequent year in which we make
awards from the list of unfunded
applicants from this competition, this
priority is an absolute priority. Under 34
CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only
applications that meet this priority.
This priority is:
This priority supports projects that
enhance, expand, document, evaluate,
and disseminate innovative, cohesive
models that are based on research and
have demonstrated their effectiveness in
(1) integrating standards-based arts
education into the core elementary or
middle school curriculum, (2)
strengthening standards-based arts
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instruction in the elementary or middle
school grades, and (3) improving the
academic performance of students in
elementary or middle school grades,
including their skills in creating,
performing, and responding to the arts.
In order to meet this priority, an
applicant must demonstrate that the
model project for which it seeks funding
(1) serves only elementary school or
middle school grades, or both, and (2)
is linked to State and national standards
intended to enable all students to meet
challenging expectations and to improve
student and school performance.
Note: The term ‘‘national standards’’ was
used in the notice of final priority,
requirements, and definitions for this
program, published in the Federal Register
on March 30, 2005 (70 FR 16234). Since that
time, the program has described ‘‘national
standards’’ to mean the arts standards
developed by the Consortium of National
Arts Education Associations or another
comparable set of national arts standards.
The standards developed by the Consortium
outline what students should know and be
able to do in the arts. Although the program
considers these ‘‘national standards,’’ they
are not established or endorsed by the
Department.
Competitive Preference Priorities: For
FY 2014 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)(i), we award up to
an additional 5 points to an applicant
that meets Priority 1, and up to an
additional 5 points to an applicant that
meets Priority 2. Therefore, the
maximum number of competitive
preference points that an application
can receive under this competition is 10
points, depending on how well the
application meets one or both of these
priorities.
An applicant must identify in the
project narrative section of its
application the priority or priorities it
wishes the Department to consider for
purposes of earning the competitive
preference priority points.
These priorities are:
Priority 1—Turning Around
Persistently Lowest-Achieving Schools
(0 to 5 points).
Projects that are designed to address
one or more of the following priority
areas:
(a) Improving student achievement (as
defined in this notice) in persistently
lowest-achieving schools (as defined in
this notice).
(b) Providing services to students
enrolled in persistently lowestachieving schools (as defined in this
notice).
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2013-ICCD-0155]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; GEPA Section 427 Guidance for All Grant Applications
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary/Office of the Deputy Secretary (OS),
Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing an extension of an
existing information collection.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
March 27, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov by selecting Docket ID number ED-2013-ICCD-
0155 or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. If the
regulations.gov site is not available to the public for any reason, ED
will temporarily accept comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note
that comments submitted by fax or email and those submitted after the
comment period will not be accepted; ED will ONLY accept comments
during the comment period in this mailbox when the regulations.gov site
is not available. Written requests for information or comments
submitted by postal mail or delivery should be addressed to the
Director of the Information Collection Clearance Division, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Mailstop L-OM-2-
2E319, Room 2E105, Washington, DC 20202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Alfreida Pettiford, 202-245-6110.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with
an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's
information collection requirements and provide the requested data in
the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The
Department of Education is especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to
the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden
accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the
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information to be collected; and (5) how might the Department minimize
the burden of this collection on the respondents, including through the
use of information technology. Please note that written comments
received in response to this notice will be considered public records.
Title of Collection: GEPA Section 427 Guidance for All Grant
Applications.
OMB Control Number: 1894-0005.
Type of Review: An extension of an existing information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 12,396.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 18,594.
Abstract: On October 20, 1994, the Improving America's Schools Act,
Public Law 103-382 (The Act), became law. The Act added a provision to
the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA). Section 427 of GEPA
requires an applicant for assistance under Department programs to
develop and describe in the grant application the steps it proposes to
take to ensure equitable access to, and equitable participation in, its
proposed project for students, teachers, and other program
beneficiaries with special needs. The current GEPA Section 427 guidance
for discretionary grant applications and formula grant applications has
approval through March 31, 2014, the Department is requesting an
extension of this approval.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy,
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2014-03907 Filed 2-24-14; 8:45 am]
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