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number, telephone number, and email
address of the contact person for each
specialty area of this competition. You
can write to the specialty area contact
person at the following address: U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW., Potomac Center Plaza
(PCP), Washington, DC 20202–2600.
If you use a TDD or TTY, call the
Federal Relay Service, toll free, at 1–
800–877–8339.
VIII. Other Information
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document
and a copy of the application package in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) on
request to the program contact persons
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT in section VII of this notice.
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Dated: March 20, 2015.
Sue Swenson,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Special
Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.328M]
Reopening; Applications for New
Awards; Training and Information for
Parents of Children With Disabilities—
Parent Training and Information
Centers
Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
On December 11, 2014, we
published in the Federal Register (79
SUMMARY:
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FR 73557) a notice inviting applications
for the FY 2015 Parent Training and
Information Centers competition (NIA).
The notice established a deadline date
of February 9, 2015, for the transmittal
of applications. This notice reopens the
competition for five days.
DATES:
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: March 30, 2015.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: May 29, 2015.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A
significant number of applications
received in response to the NIA were
not eligible because the applicants did
not follow the formatting or deadline
requirements in the NIA. Consequently,
we did not receive eligible applications
for a number of States. Therefore, we are
reopening the competition to allow
applicants to submit or resubmit
applications that meet the requirements
in the NIA, in order to ensure that
parents in all States can be served by a
Parent Training and Information Center.
Applicants that have already
submitted applications under the FY
2015 Parent Training and Information
Centers competition are encouraged to
review their applications and determine
whether they have met all eligibility
requirements, including formatting
requirements and the deadline for
submission, in the NIA and the
application package, which is available
at https://www2.ed.gov/programs/
oseppic/applicant.html.
Note that the NIA requires double
spacing (no more than three lines per
vertical inch) for all text in the
application narrative, including titles,
headings, footnotes, quotations,
reference citations, and captions, as well
as all text in charts, tables, figures,
graphs, and screen shots.
Applicants may review a recorded
Webinar that discusses the application
requirements at https://
tadnet.adobeconnect.com/
p763v5dg8fm/.
As stated above, applicants may
resubmit applications that may not have
met all formatting requirements.
Applicants that already submitted
timely applications that meet all of the
formatting requirements do not have to
resubmit their applications. If a new
application is not submitted, the
Department will use the application that
was submitted before the February 9,
2015, 4:30 p.m. EST deadline.
Note: Applications that did not meet the
February deadline must be resubmitted to be
considered for review.
Note to Applicants: The notice
published on December 11, 2014,
provides other information that applies
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to this competition. Specifically, the
priority in that notice, entitled ‘‘Parent
Training and Information Centers,’’
identifies the requirements for
applications submitted in response to
this notice, including the eligible
entities, the States from which we are
accepting applications, and the
instructions for submitting applications.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Carmen Sanchez, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
Room 4057, Potomac Center Plaza
(PCP), Washington, DC 20202–2600.
Telephone: (202) 245–6595.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877–
8339.
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document
and a copy of the application package in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) by
contacting the Grants and Contracts
Services Team, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW.,
room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC
20202–2550. Telephone: (202) 245–
7363. If you use a TDD or a TTY, call
the FRS, toll free, at 1–800–877–8339.
Electronic Access to This Document:
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 via the Federal Digital System
at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site 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). To use PDF you must
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available free at the site.
You may also access documents of the
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Register by using the article search
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search feature at this site, you can limit
your search to documents published by
the Department.
Dated: March 18, 2015.
Sue Swenson,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Special
Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Applications for New Awards; ReadyTo-Learn Television
Office of Innovation and
Improvement, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Overview Information:
Ready-to-Learn Television.
Notice inviting applications for new
awards for fiscal year (FY) 2015.
Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.295A.
DATES: Applications Available: March
25, 2015.
Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply:
April 9, 2015.
Date of Pre-Application Webinar: An
informational Webinar will be
announced on the Ready-to-Learn
Television Web site at https://
www2.ed.gov/programs/rtltv/
index.html.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: May 26, 2015.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: July 23, 2015.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The Ready-toLearn Television Program (Ready-toLearn) is designed to: (1) Facilitate
school readiness and academic
achievement by supporting the
development and national distribution
of educational television and interactive
media programming for preschool and
elementary school children and their
parents; (2) develop and disseminate
educational outreach materials and
programs that are designed to deepen
and extend the effectiveness of the
educational television and interactive
media and (3) build social and virtual
communities of parents, educators, and
children devoted to using the media
materials.
Background:
Ready-to-Learn aims to take advantage
of common mass media consumer
technologies in order to reach children
in low-income homes who may be
lacking in educationally-rich learning
opportunities and make it easier for
parents, caregivers, and early learning
providers to find trustworthy materials
that they can use with the children in
their care.
Ready-to-Learn accomplishes this by
using Federal dollars to stimulate the
creation of educational media content
that meets the highest standards of
educational quality, while aiming to be
just as entertaining as the best
commercially produced media
programs. Ready-to-Learn is not meant
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to be a mere subsidy to enable media
producers to create educational content
that would not otherwise be
commercially feasible for them to
produce. Rather, Ready-to-Learn seeks
to bring educators and media producers
together in cooperative working
relationships that would not otherwise
be possible, while also using the Federal
investment to leverage additional
contributions in funding, talent, and
resources.
To succeed, media producers
generally must depart from their typical
ways of working and embrace the
contributions of educators and other
education experts. Experts in subject
matter and pedagogy, instructional
designers, formative researchers, and
other educators will work side by side
and on equal footing with creative and
media production experts in areas such
as storytelling and interactive gameplay
in order to merge their contributions
into a unified and integrated effort.
As in the 2010 competition, in which
Ready-to-Learn supported the
development of educational
‘‘transmedia,’’ we are again looking to
create new, interrelated combinations of
television and interactive media in
which characters, narrative story lines,
and problem-solving are used to connect
the various media products. In order to
make this work, producers may need to
plan how their different products will
work together to execute a cohesive
strategy, and then build a production
model accordingly. Furthermore,
producers may need to think carefully
about how the eventual distribution of
the products will be sequenced and
organized to ensure that users will
experience them in a manner that
reflects this cohesiveness.
Striking the right balance between
innovation and access is key.
Technologies are constantly changing,
and with them come new opportunities
for improving young children’s learning.
Ready-to-Learn seeks to take advantage
of the best educational uses of each
medium and explore how best to
combine both emerging and older media
platforms to reach young children and
their caregivers. With emerging
technologies, it is important, however,
to keep in mind what is available to
low-income users in their homes or
communities and what is accessible to
a wide range of users, particularly those
with disabilities.
Although the television programming
created under Ready-to-Learn has
generally been made accessible to users
who have hearing or vision loss through
captioning and video description, some
of the transmedia created to accompany
these programs has lacked meaningful
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.328M]
Reopening; Applications for New Awards; Training and Information
for Parents of Children With Disabilities--Parent Training and
Information Centers
AGENCY: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: On December 11, 2014, we published in the Federal Register (79
FR 73557) a notice inviting applications for the FY 2015 Parent
Training and Information Centers competition (NIA). The notice
established a deadline date of February 9, 2015, for the transmittal of
applications. This notice reopens the competition for five days.
DATES:
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: March 30, 2015.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: May 29, 2015.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A significant number of applications
received in response to the NIA were not eligible because the
applicants did not follow the formatting or deadline requirements in
the NIA. Consequently, we did not receive eligible applications for a
number of States. Therefore, we are reopening the competition to allow
applicants to submit or resubmit applications that meet the
requirements in the NIA, in order to ensure that parents in all States
can be served by a Parent Training and Information Center.
Applicants that have already submitted applications under the FY
2015 Parent Training and Information Centers competition are encouraged
to review their applications and determine whether they have met all
eligibility requirements, including formatting requirements and the
deadline for submission, in the NIA and the application package, which
is available at https://www2.ed.gov/programs/oseppic/applicant.html.
Note that the NIA requires double spacing (no more than three lines
per vertical inch) for all text in the application narrative, including
titles, headings, footnotes, quotations, reference citations, and
captions, as well as all text in charts, tables, figures, graphs, and
screen shots.
Applicants may review a recorded Webinar that discusses the
application requirements at https://tadnet.adobeconnect.com/p763v5dg8fm/.
As stated above, applicants may resubmit applications that may not
have met all formatting requirements. Applicants that already submitted
timely applications that meet all of the formatting requirements do not
have to resubmit their applications. If a new application is not
submitted, the Department will use the application that was submitted
before the February 9, 2015, 4:30 p.m. EST deadline.
Note: Applications that did not meet the February deadline must
be resubmitted to be considered for review.
Note to Applicants: The notice published on December 11, 2014,
provides other information that applies
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to this competition. Specifically, the priority in that notice,
entitled ``Parent Training and Information Centers,'' identifies the
requirements for applications submitted in response to this notice,
including the eligible entities, the States from which we are accepting
applications, and the instructions for submitting applications.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carmen Sanchez, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Room 4057, Potomac Center Plaza
(PCP), Washington, DC 20202-2600. Telephone: (202) 245-6595.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-
800-877-8339.
Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this
document and a copy of the application package in an accessible format
(e.g., braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc) by contacting
the Grants and Contracts Services Team, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue SW., room 5075, PCP, Washington, DC 20202-2550.
Telephone: (202) 245-7363. If you use a TDD or a TTY, call the FRS,
toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.
Electronic Access to This Document: 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 via the Federal Digital System
at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site 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). To use PDF
you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at the
site.
You may also access documents of the Department published in the
Federal Register by using the article search feature at:
www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, through the advanced search
feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published
by the Department.
Dated: March 18, 2015.
Sue Swenson,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative
Services.
[FR Doc. 2015-06744 Filed 3-24-15; 8:45 am]
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