Peer Review Opportunities With the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE); Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE); Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA); Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE); and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), 19289-19291 [2023-06675]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 62 / Friday, March 31, 2023 / Notices text or 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. The Department is committed to making its publications available to all members of the public. If you have difficulty understanding English, you may, free of charge, request language assistance services for Department information by calling 1– 800–USA–LEARN (1–800–872–5327) (TTY: 1–800–877–8339) or email us at Ed.Language.Assistance@ed.gov. James F. Lane, Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary Delegated the Authority to Perform the Functions and Duties of the Assistant Secretary Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education. [FR Doc. 2023–06697 Filed 3–30–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Peer Review Opportunities With the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE); Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE); Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA); Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE); and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education; Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; Office of English Language Acquisition; Office of Postsecondary Education; and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The U.S. Department of Education (Department) announces opportunities for individuals to participate in its peer review process for competitive grant funding under the programs administered by OCTAE, OESE, OELA, OPE, and OSERS. DATES: Requests to serve as a peer reviewer for fiscal year 2023 will be accepted on an ongoing basis, aligned with this year’s grant competition schedule. Requests to serve as a peer reviewer should be submitted at least four weeks prior to the program’s application deadline noted on the Department’s website under ‘‘Forecast ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:54 Mar 30, 2023 Jkt 259001 of Funding Opportunities’’ at www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edliteforecast.html. This notice highlights the specific needs of OCTAE, OESE, OELA, OPE, and OSERS. ADDRESSES: An individual interested in serving as a peer reviewer must register and upload his or her resume in the Department’s grants management system known as ‘‘G5’’ at www.g5.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: OCTAE: Daphnne Bonaparte, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 10–358, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202– 5076. Telephone: (202) 987–1561. Email: CTE@ed.gov. OESE: Andrew Brake, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 3W344, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453–6136. Email: andrew.brake@ed.gov. OELA: Celeste McLaughlin, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room H3214, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202– 5076. Telephone: (202) 245–7693. Email: NAM@ed.gov. OPE: Tonya Hardin, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 2C205, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453–7694. Email: tonya.hardin@ed.gov. OSERS: Kate Friday, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 5081B, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202–5076. Telephone: (202) 245–7605. Email: kate.friday@ed.gov. If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7–1–1. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of the Department is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. The Department pursues its mission by funding grant programs that will improve access to high-quality educational opportunities and programs that pursue innovations in teaching and learning with a focus on underserved students. The Department also funds programs in other areas as authorized by statute. Grant funds are awarded to State educational agencies; local educational agencies (i.e., school districts); State, local, or Tribal governments; nonprofit organizations; institutions of higher education; and other entities through a competitive process referred to as a grant competition. Each year the Department convenes panels of external education professionals and practitioners to serve PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 19289 as peer reviewers.1 Peer reviewers evaluate and score submitted applications against competitionspecific criteria and announced priorities. Application scores are then used to inform the Secretary’s funding decisions. Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, directs Federal agencies to ‘‘assess whether underserved communities and their members face systemic barriers in accessing benefits and opportunities available pursuant to those policies and programs.’’ The Department is committed to increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of peer reviewers—an important element of the Department’s efforts to implement this Executive order. Moreover, the Department is particularly interested in peer reviewers who represent diverse experiences and perspectives, including experiences working with diverse and underserved communities, and whose expertise pertains to OCTAE, OESE, OELA, OPE, and OSERS grant competitions, and this emphasis on increasing peer reviewer diversity is included in the Department’s Agency Equity Plan, available at www2.ed.gov/documents/ equity/2022-equity-plan.pdf. This year, OCTAE is managing one grant competition: Career-Connected High School Initiative. This year, OESE is managing approximately 25 grant competitions to fund a range of projects that support, education innovation and research; educator growth and diversity; magnet schools; charter schools; literacy; history and civics; family engagement; community schools; Indian education; school infrastructure; and out-of-school time learning, among others. OELA is managing one grant competition: Native American and Alaska Native Children in School Program. OPE is managing approximately 20 grant competitions to fund a wide range of projects, including projects to support improvements in educational quality, management, and financial stability at colleges and universities that enroll high numbers of underserved students; projects designed to increase college enrollment among students in highpoverty schools; projects designed to 1 Please note that the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) uses different peer review processes and procedures than those described in this notice. More information on the IES peer review process can be found at: https://ies.ed.gov/director/sro/ application_review.asp. IES also administers its research grant competitions on a different timeline from other offices in the Department. E:\FR\FM\31MRN1.SGM 31MRN1 ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 19290 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 62 / Friday, March 31, 2023 / Notices increase college participation among low-income parent students by providing high-quality child care; projects designed to strengthen foreign language instruction, area and international studies, teaching and research, professional preparation and development for educators, and curriculum development at the K–12, graduate, and postsecondary levels; and other innovative projects designed to improve postsecondary education, including a new Postsecondary Student Success Grants competition under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, a tiered evidence grant program designed to develop and rigorously evaluate evidence-based interventions to improve postsecondary completion outcomes. OSERS is managing nearly 20 grant competitions. The competitions in OSERS’ Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) include those under the following programs: State Personnel Development Grants; Personnel Development; Technical Assistance and Dissemination; Educational Technology, Media, and Materials; Parent Training and Information; and Technical Assistance on State Data Collection. The remaining competitions in OSERS’ Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) are Section 21: Capacity Building in Traditionally Underserved Populations and the Disability Innovation Fund. The Department seeks to expand its pool of peer reviewers to ensure that applications are evaluated by individuals with up-to-date and relevant knowledge of educational interventions and practices across the learning continuum, from early education to college and career, in a variety of learning settings. Department peer reviewers are education professionals and practitioners who have gained subject matter expertise through their education and work as teachers, professors, principals, administrators, school counselors, researchers, evaluators, content developers, or vocational rehabilitation professionals or interpreters. Peer reviewers can be active education professionals in any educational level or sector, or those who are retired but stay informed of current educational content and issues. No prior experience as a peer reviewer is required. Peer reviewers for each competition will be selected based on several factors, including each reviewer’s programspecific expertise, the number of applications to be reviewed, and the diversity and availability of prospective reviewers. Individuals selected to serve VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:54 Mar 30, 2023 Jkt 259001 as peer reviewers are expected to participate in training; independently read, score, and provide written evaluative comments on assigned applications; and participate in facilitated panel discussions with other peer reviewers. Panel discussions are held via conference calls or in-person, as identified for the specific competition. The time commitment for peer reviewers is usually several hours a day over a period of two to four weeks. Peer reviewers receive an honorarium payment as monetary compensation for successfully reviewing applications. If you are interested in serving as a peer reviewer for the Department, you should first review the program web pages of the grant programs that match your area of expertise. You can access information on each grant program from the link provided on the Department’s grants forecast page at www2.ed.gov/ fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html. If you have documented experience that you believe qualifies you to serve as a peer reviewer for one or more specific grant programs, please register in G5, at www.g5.gov, which allows the Department to manage and assign potential peer reviewers to competitions that may draw upon their professional backgrounds and expertise. A toolkit that includes helpful information on how to be considered as a peer reviewer for programs administered by the Department can be found at www2.ed.gov/documents/peer-review/ peer-reviewer-toolkit.pptx. Neither the submission of a resume nor registration in G5 guarantees you will be selected to be a peer reviewer. In addition to registering in G5, some OPE and OSERS/RSA peer reviews may require being registered in the System for Award Management (SAM). Since registration for this process can take longer than a week, interested individuals are encouraged to register in advance of being contacted by the Department. In addition to registering in G5, some OSERS/OSEP peer reviews require being approved to serve on the Office of Special Education’s Standing Panel. Individuals should express their interest to serve as a peer reviewer for OSEP competitions directly to the competition manager listed in the Notice Inviting Applications at least four weeks prior to the application closing date. If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for the OCTAE competition (Chart 5 of the Forecast of Funding Opportunities), you must also send your resume to CTE@ed.gov. The subject line of the email should read ‘‘Prospective 2023 Peer Reviewer.’’ PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for OESE competitions (Chart 2), you must also send your resume to OESEPeerReviewRecruitment@ed.gov. If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for the OELA competition (Chart 6), you must also send your resume to NAM@ed.gov. The subject line of the email should read ‘‘Prospective 2023 Peer Reviewer.’’ If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for RSA competitions (Chart 4B) also send your resume to RSAPeerReview@ed.gov and osersprs@ed.gov. The subject line of the email should read ‘‘Prospective 2023 Peer Reviewer.’’ In the body of the email, list all programs for which you would like to be considered to serve as a peer reviewer. Requests to serve as a peer reviewer should be submitted at least four weeks prior to the program’s application deadline, noted on the forecast page, to provide program offices with sufficient time to review resumes and determine an individual’s suitability to serve as a peer reviewer for a specific competition. If you are selected to serve as a peer reviewer, the program office will contact you. Accessible Format: On request to the person(s) listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with disabilities can obtain this document and a copy of the application package in an accessible format. The Department will provide the requestor with an accessible format that may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 file, braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc, or other accessible format. Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this document is the document published in the Federal Register. You may access the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations at www.govinfo.gov. 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 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. Program Authority: Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, as amended by the Strengthening E:\FR\FM\31MRN1.SGM 31MRN1 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 62 / Friday, March 31, 2023 / Notices Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Pub. L. 115–224); Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.); Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.); Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.); and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 701 et seq.). Roberto J. Rodriguez, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. [FR Doc. 2023–06675 Filed 3–30–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY [Case Number 2022–008; EERE–2022–BT– WAV–0027] Energy Conservation Program: Notification of Petition for Waiver of Alliance Laundry Systems From the Department of Energy Clothes Washer Test Procedure and Notification of Grant of Interim Waiver Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy. ACTION: Notification of petition for waiver and grant of an interim waiver; request for comments. AGENCY: This notification announces receipt of and publishes a petition for waiver and interim waiver from Alliance Laundry Systems (‘‘Alliance’’), which seeks a waiver for a specified residential clothes washer basic models from the U.S. Department of Energy (‘‘DOE’’) test procedure used for determining the efficiency of clothes washers. DOE also gives notification of an Interim Waiver Order that requires Alliance to test and rate the specified residential clothes washer basic models in accordance with the alternate test procedure set forth in the Interim Waiver Order. DOE solicits comments, data, and information concerning Alliance’s petition and its suggested alternate test procedure to inform DOE’s final decision on Alliance’s waiver request. SUMMARY: Written comments and information are requested and will be accepted on or before May 1, 2023. ADDRESSES: Interested persons are encouraged to submit comments using the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov under docket number EERE–2022–BT–WAV–0027. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Alternatively, interested ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 DATES: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:54 Mar 30, 2023 Jkt 259001 persons may submit comments, identified by docket number EERE– 2022–BT–WAV–0027, by any of the following methods: Email: AllianceLaundry SystemsCW2022WAV0027@ee.doe.gov. Include the case number [Case No. 2022–008] in the subject line of the message. Postal Mail: Appliance and Equipment Standards Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Building Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–5B, Petition for Waiver [Case No. 2022–008], 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585–0121. If possible, please submit all items on a compact disc (‘‘CD’’), in which case it is not necessary to include printed copies. Hand Delivery/Courier: Appliance and Equipment Standards Program, U.S. Department of Energy, Building Technologies Office, 950 L’Enfant Plaza SW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20024. Telephone: (202) 287–1445. If possible, please submit all items on a CD, in which case it is not necessary to include printed copies. No telefacsimiles (‘‘faxes’’) will be accepted. For detailed instructions on submitting comments and additional information on this process, see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. Docket: The docket for this activity, which includes Federal Register notices, public meeting attendee lists and transcripts (if a public meeting is held), comments, and other supporting documents/materials, is available for review at www.regulations.gov. All documents in the docket are listed in the www.regulations.gov index. However, not all documents listed in the index may be publicly available, such as information that is exempt from public disclosure. The docket web page can be found at www.regulations.gov/docket/EERE2022-BT-WAV-0027. The docket web page contains instructions on how to access all documents, including public comments, in the docket. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Julia Hegarty, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–5B, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585–0121. Telephone: (202) 586–0729. Email: AS_ Waiver_Request@ee.doe.gov. Ms. Melanie Lampton, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel, Mail Stop GC–33, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585–0103. Telephone: (240) 751–5157. Email: Melanie.Lampton@hq.doe.gov. PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 19291 DOE is publishing Alliance’s petition for waiver in its entirety, pursuant to 10 CFR 430.27(b)(1)(iv).1 DOE is also publishing the Interim Waiver Order granted to Alliance, which serves as notification of DOE’s determination regarding Alliance’s petition for an interim waiver, pursuant to 10 CFR 430.27(e)(3). DOE invites all interested parties to submit in writing by May 1, 2023, comments and information on all aspects of the petition, including the alternate test procedure. Pursuant to 10 CFR 430.27(d), any person submitting written comments to DOE must also send a copy of such comments to the petitioner. The contact information for the petitioner is Daryl Johnson, Daryl.Johnson@alliancels.com, P.O. Box 990, Shepard Street, Ripon, WI 54971. Submitting comments via www.regulations.gov. The www.regulations.gov web page will require you to provide your name and contact information. Your contact information will be viewable to DOE Building Technologies staff only. Your contact information will not be publicly viewable except for your first and last names, organization name (if any), and submitter representative name (if any). If your comment is not processed properly because of technical difficulties, DOE will use this information to contact you. If DOE cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, DOE may not be able to consider your comment. However, your contact information will be publicly viewable if you include it in the comment or in any documents attached to your comment. Any information that you do not want to be publicly viewable should not be included in your comment, nor in any document attached to your comment. If this instruction is followed, persons viewing comments will see only first and last names, organization names, correspondence containing comments, and any documents submitted with the comments. Do not submit to www.regulations.gov information for which disclosure is restricted by statute, such as trade secrets and commercial or financial information (hereinafter referred to as Confidential Business Information (‘‘CBI’’)). Comments submitted through www.regulations.gov cannot be claimed as CBI. 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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 2023)]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Peer Review Opportunities With the U.S. Department of Education's 
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE); Office of 
Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE); Office of English Language 
Acquisition (OELA); Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE); and Office 
of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)

AGENCY: Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education; Office of 
Elementary and Secondary Education; Office of English Language 
Acquisition; Office of Postsecondary Education; and Office of Special 
Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Education (Department) announces 
opportunities for individuals to participate in its peer review process 
for competitive grant funding under the programs administered by OCTAE, 
OESE, OELA, OPE, and OSERS.

DATES: Requests to serve as a peer reviewer for fiscal year 2023 will 
be accepted on an ongoing basis, aligned with this year's grant 
competition schedule. Requests to serve as a peer reviewer should be 
submitted at least four weeks prior to the program's application 
deadline noted on the Department's website under ``Forecast of Funding 
Opportunities'' at www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html. 
This notice highlights the specific needs of OCTAE, OESE, OELA, OPE, 
and OSERS.

ADDRESSES: An individual interested in serving as a peer reviewer must 
register and upload his or her resume in the Department's grants 
management system known as ``G5'' at www.g5.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
    OCTAE: Daphnne Bonaparte, U.S. Department of Education, 400 
Maryland Avenue SW, Room 10-358, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 
20202-5076. Telephone: (202) 987-1561. Email: [email protected].
    OESE: Andrew Brake, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland 
Avenue SW, Room 3W344, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453-6136. 
Email: [email protected].
    OELA: Celeste McLaughlin, U.S. Department of Education, 400 
Maryland Avenue SW, Room H3214, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 
20202-5076. Telephone: (202) 245-7693. Email: [email protected].
    OPE: Tonya Hardin, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland 
Avenue SW, Room 2C205, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453-7694. 
Email: [email protected].
    OSERS: Kate Friday, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland 
Avenue SW, Room 5081B, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202-5076. 
Telephone: (202) 245-7605. Email: [email protected].
    If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and 
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of the Department is to promote 
student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by 
fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. The 
Department pursues its mission by funding grant programs that will 
improve access to high-quality educational opportunities and programs 
that pursue innovations in teaching and learning with a focus on 
underserved students. The Department also funds programs in other areas 
as authorized by statute. Grant funds are awarded to State educational 
agencies; local educational agencies (i.e., school districts); State, 
local, or Tribal governments; nonprofit organizations; institutions of 
higher education; and other entities through a competitive process 
referred to as a grant competition.
    Each year the Department convenes panels of external education 
professionals and practitioners to serve as peer reviewers.\1\ Peer 
reviewers evaluate and score submitted applications against 
competition-specific criteria and announced priorities. Application 
scores are then used to inform the Secretary's funding decisions.
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    \1\ Please note that the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) 
uses different peer review processes and procedures than those 
described in this notice. More information on the IES peer review 
process can be found at: https://ies.ed.gov/director/sro/application_review.asp. IES also administers its research grant 
competitions on a different timeline from other offices in the 
Department.
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    Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for 
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, directs Federal 
agencies to ``assess whether underserved communities and their members 
face systemic barriers in accessing benefits and opportunities 
available pursuant to those policies and programs.'' The Department is 
committed to increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of peer 
reviewers--an important element of the Department's efforts to 
implement this Executive order. Moreover, the Department is 
particularly interested in peer reviewers who represent diverse 
experiences and perspectives, including experiences working with 
diverse and underserved communities, and whose expertise pertains to 
OCTAE, OESE, OELA, OPE, and OSERS grant competitions, and this emphasis 
on increasing peer reviewer diversity is included in the Department's 
Agency Equity Plan, available at www2.ed.gov/documents/equity/2022-equity-plan.pdf.
    This year, OCTAE is managing one grant competition: Career-
Connected High School Initiative.
    This year, OESE is managing approximately 25 grant competitions to 
fund a range of projects that support, education innovation and 
research; educator growth and diversity; magnet schools; charter 
schools; literacy; history and civics; family engagement; community 
schools; Indian education; school infrastructure; and out-of-school 
time learning, among others.
    OELA is managing one grant competition: Native American and Alaska 
Native Children in School Program.
    OPE is managing approximately 20 grant competitions to fund a wide 
range of projects, including projects to support improvements in 
educational quality, management, and financial stability at colleges 
and universities that enroll high numbers of underserved students; 
projects designed to increase college enrollment among students in 
high-poverty schools; projects designed to

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increase college participation among low-income parent students by 
providing high-quality child care; projects designed to strengthen 
foreign language instruction, area and international studies, teaching 
and research, professional preparation and development for educators, 
and curriculum development at the K-12, graduate, and postsecondary 
levels; and other innovative projects designed to improve postsecondary 
education, including a new Postsecondary Student Success Grants 
competition under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary 
Education, a tiered evidence grant program designed to develop and 
rigorously evaluate evidence-based interventions to improve 
postsecondary completion outcomes.
    OSERS is managing nearly 20 grant competitions. The competitions in 
OSERS' Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) include those under 
the following programs: State Personnel Development Grants; Personnel 
Development; Technical Assistance and Dissemination; Educational 
Technology, Media, and Materials; Parent Training and Information; and 
Technical Assistance on State Data Collection. The remaining 
competitions in OSERS' Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) are 
Section 21: Capacity Building in Traditionally Underserved Populations 
and the Disability Innovation Fund.
    The Department seeks to expand its pool of peer reviewers to ensure 
that applications are evaluated by individuals with up-to-date and 
relevant knowledge of educational interventions and practices across 
the learning continuum, from early education to college and career, in 
a variety of learning settings. Department peer reviewers are education 
professionals and practitioners who have gained subject matter 
expertise through their education and work as teachers, professors, 
principals, administrators, school counselors, researchers, evaluators, 
content developers, or vocational rehabilitation professionals or 
interpreters. Peer reviewers can be active education professionals in 
any educational level or sector, or those who are retired but stay 
informed of current educational content and issues. No prior experience 
as a peer reviewer is required.
    Peer reviewers for each competition will be selected based on 
several factors, including each reviewer's program-specific expertise, 
the number of applications to be reviewed, and the diversity and 
availability of prospective reviewers. Individuals selected to serve as 
peer reviewers are expected to participate in training; independently 
read, score, and provide written evaluative comments on assigned 
applications; and participate in facilitated panel discussions with 
other peer reviewers. Panel discussions are held via conference calls 
or in-person, as identified for the specific competition. The time 
commitment for peer reviewers is usually several hours a day over a 
period of two to four weeks. Peer reviewers receive an honorarium 
payment as monetary compensation for successfully reviewing 
applications.
    If you are interested in serving as a peer reviewer for the 
Department, you should first review the program web pages of the grant 
programs that match your area of expertise. You can access information 
on each grant program from the link provided on the Department's grants 
forecast page at www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html. If 
you have documented experience that you believe qualifies you to serve 
as a peer reviewer for one or more specific grant programs, please 
register in G5, at www.g5.gov, which allows the Department to manage 
and assign potential peer reviewers to competitions that may draw upon 
their professional backgrounds and expertise. A toolkit that includes 
helpful information on how to be considered as a peer reviewer for 
programs administered by the Department can be found at www2.ed.gov/documents/peer-review/peer-reviewer-toolkit.pptx. Neither the 
submission of a resume nor registration in G5 guarantees you will be 
selected to be a peer reviewer.
    In addition to registering in G5, some OPE and OSERS/RSA peer 
reviews may require being registered in the System for Award Management 
(SAM). Since registration for this process can take longer than a week, 
interested individuals are encouraged to register in advance of being 
contacted by the Department. In addition to registering in G5, some 
OSERS/OSEP peer reviews require being approved to serve on the Office 
of Special Education's Standing Panel. Individuals should express their 
interest to serve as a peer reviewer for OSEP competitions directly to 
the competition manager listed in the Notice Inviting Applications at 
least four weeks prior to the application closing date.
    If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for the 
OCTAE competition (Chart 5 of the Forecast of Funding Opportunities), 
you must also send your resume to [email protected]. The subject line of the 
email should read ``Prospective 2023 Peer Reviewer.''
    If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for OESE 
competitions (Chart 2), you must also send your resume to 
[email protected].
    If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for the 
OELA competition (Chart 6), you must also send your resume to 
[email protected]. The subject line of the email should read ``Prospective 
2023 Peer Reviewer.''
    If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for RSA 
competitions (Chart 4B) also send your resume to [email protected] 
and [email protected]. The subject line of the email should read 
``Prospective 2023 Peer Reviewer.'' In the body of the email, list all 
programs for which you would like to be considered to serve as a peer 
reviewer.
    Requests to serve as a peer reviewer should be submitted at least 
four weeks prior to the program's application deadline, noted on the 
forecast page, to provide program offices with sufficient time to 
review resumes and determine an individual's suitability to serve as a 
peer reviewer for a specific competition. If you are selected to serve 
as a peer reviewer, the program office will contact you.
    Accessible Format: On request to the person(s) listed under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with disabilities can obtain 
this document and a copy of the application package in an accessible 
format. The Department will provide the requestor with an accessible 
format that may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), a 
thumb drive, an MP3 file, braille, large print, audiotape, or compact 
disc, or other accessible format.
    Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this 
document is the document published in the Federal Register. You may 
access the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of 
Federal Regulations at www.govinfo.gov. 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 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.
    Program Authority: Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education 
Act of 2006, as amended by the Strengthening

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Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Pub. L. 115-
224); Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 
U.S.C. 6301 et seq.); Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 
U.S.C. 1001 et seq.); Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 
U.S.C. 1400 et seq.); and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended by 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 701 et seq.).

Roberto J. Rodriguez,
Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2023-06675 Filed 3-30-23; 8:45 am]
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