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reports from all grantees to determine Deadline for Intergovernmental Register on March 15, 2004 (69 FR
the accomplishment level. Review: September 7, 2004. 12254).
Eligible Applicants: Local educational Absolute Priorities: For FY 2003 these
VII. Agency Contacts priorities are absolute priorities. Under
agencies (LEAs), including schools
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only
Deborah I. Walsh or Dorothy Marshall, (BIA schools), applying on behalf of applications that meet these priorities.
U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K large public high schools are eligible. These priorities are:
Street, NW., suite 7000, Washington, DC For purposes of this program, a large Absolute Priority 1: Helping All
20006–8510. Telephone: (202) 502–7600 high school is defined as a school that Students To Succeed in Rigorous
or by email: [email protected]. includes grades 11 and 12 and has an Academic Courses (Planning Grants)
If you use a telecommunications enrollment of 1,000 or more students in
grades 9 and above. Additional This priority will support projects
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call that will develop a plan to create or
the Federal Information Relay Service information regarding applicant
eligibility requirements is provided expand a smaller learning community
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339. program that will implement a coherent
Individuals with disabilities may elsewhere in this notice in Section III.
Eligibility Information, 1. Eligible set of strategies and interventions that
obtain this document in an alternative are designed to ensure that all students
format (e.g., Braille, large print, Applicants.
Estimated Available Funds: who enter high school with reading/
audiotape, or computer diskette) on language arts and mathematics skills
request to the program contact persons $73,000,000.
Estimated Range of Awards: See chart that are significantly below grade level
listed in this section. ‘‘catch up’’ quickly so that, by no later
under Section II. Award Information.
VIII. Other Information than the end of the 10th grade, they
Estimated Number of Awards: 10
acquire the reading/language arts and
Electronic Access to This Document: Planning Grants and 35 Implementation
mathematics skills they need to
You may view this document, as well as Grants.
participate successfully in rigorous
all other documents of this Department Note: The Department is not bound by any academic courses that will equip them
published in the Federal Register, in estimates in this notice. with the knowledge and skills necessary
text or Adobe Portable Document to transition successfully to
Project Period: Up to 12 months for
Format (PDF) on the Internet at the postsecondary education, an
Planning Grants and up to 36 months
following site: www.ed.gov/news/ apprenticeship, or advanced training.
for Implementation Grants.
fedregister. These accelerated learning strategies
To use PDF you must have Adobe Full Text of Announcement and interventions must:
Acrobat Reader, which is available free I. Funding Opportunity Description (1) Be grounded in the findings of
at this site. If you have questions about scientifically based and other rigorous
using PDF, call the U.S. Government Description of Program: This research;
Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1– competition is the second competition (2) Include the use of age-appropriate
888–293–6498; or in the Washington, run by the Department of Education for instructional materials and teaching and
DC area at (202) 512–1530. FY 2003 Smaller Learning Communities learning strategies;
Program funds. The Department made (3) Provide additional instruction and
Note: The official version of this document
is the document published in the Federal
awards from the first competition in academic support during the regular
Register. Free Internet access to the official early July 2004. At that time, applicants school day, which may be
edition of the Federal Register and the Code that were not awarded funding were supplemented by instruction that is
of Federal Regulations is available on GPO also notified. We encourage applicants provided before of after school, on
Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ that applied in the first competition and weekends, and at other times when
index.htm. did not receive funding to revise their school is not in session; and
applications and to reapply in this (4) Provide sustained professional
Dated: July 2, 2004. competition. All other eligible development and ongoing support for
Sally L. Stroup, applicants are also encouraged to apply. teachers and other personnel who are
Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary LEAs that were successful in the first responsible for delivering instruction.
Education. 2003 competition or in previous
[FR Doc. 04–15471 Filed 7–7–04; 8:45 am] competitions may apply, but must abide Absolute Priority 2: Helping All
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P by the requirements of section III of this Students To Succeed in Rigorous
notice in determining what high schools Academic Courses (Implementation
they may serve under this competition. Grants)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Purpose of Program: The purpose of This priority will support projects
the Smaller Learning Communities that will implement a coherent set of
Office of Vocational and Adult
Program is to promote academic strategies and interventions that are
Education; Overview Information;
achievement through the planning, designed to ensure that all students who
Smaller Learning Communities (SLC)
implementation or expansion of small, enter high school with reading/language
Program; Notice Inviting Applications
safe, and successful learning arts or mathematics skills that are
for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY)
environments in large public high significantly below grade level ‘‘catch
2003—Second Competition
schools to help ensure that all students up’’ quickly so that, by no later than the
graduate with the knowledge and skills end of the 10th grade, they acquire the
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.215L.
necessary to make successful transitions reading/language arts and mathematics
to college and careers. skills they need to participate
Dates: Priorities: These priorities are from successfully in rigorous academic
Applications Available: July 8, 2004. the notice of final requirements, courses that will equip them with the
Deadline for Transmittal of priorities and selection criteria for this knowledge and skills necessary to
Applications: August 9, 2004. program, published in the Federal transition successfully to postsecondary

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education, an apprenticeship, or Number of schools Award ranges Estimated Number of Awards: 10

advanced training. Planning Grants and 35 Implementation
These accelerated learning strategies One School ................. $25,000–$50,000 Grants.
and interventions must: Two Schools ............... $50,000–$100,000
Three Schools ............ $75,000–$150,000 Note: The Department is not bound by any
(1) Be grounded in the findings of estimates in this notice.
Four Schools .............. $100,000–$200,000
scientifically based and other rigorous Five Schools ............... $125,000–$250,000 Project Period: Up to 12 months for
research; Six Schools ................. $150,000–$250,000 Planning Grants and up to 36 months
(2) Include the use of age-appropriate Seven Schools ............ $175,000–$250,000 for Implementation Grants.
instructional materials and teaching and Eight Schools .............. $200,000–$250,000
learning strategies; Nine Schools .............. $225,000–$250,000 III. Eligibility Information
(3) Provide additional instruction and Ten Schools ................ $250,000
1. Eligible Applicants: LEAs,
academic support during the regular including BIA schools, applying on
school day, which may be B. Implementation Grants. The
amount of an award for an behalf of large public high schools are
supplemented by instruction that is eligible. For purposes of this program, a
provided before or after school, on implementation grant is based on the
enrollment of the schools the applicant large high school is defined as a school
weekends, and at other times when that includes grades 11 and 12 and has
school is not in session; and is proposing to serve. For a three-year
implementation grant, LEAs may an enrollment of 1,000 or more students
(4) Provide sustained professional in grades 9 and above.
development and ongoing support for receive, on behalf of a single school,
$250,000 to $550,000, depending upon We do not permit an LEA to apply on
teachers and other personnel who are behalf of a high school for which it does
responsible for delivering instruction. the size of the school. LEAs applying on
behalf of a group of eligible schools may not have governing authority, such as a
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7249. request up to $5,500,000 per high school in a neighboring school
Applicable Regulations: (a) The implementation grant. As with planning district. An LEA, however, may form a
Education Department General grants, LEAs must stay within the consortium with another LEA and
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in maximum school allocations when submit a joint application for funds.
34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, determining their group award request, They must follow the procedures for
85, 86, 97, 98, and 99; and (b) the or they will be declared ineligible and group applications described in 34 CFR
requirements, priorities and selection their applications will not be read. In 75.127–75.129 in EDGAR.
order to ensure sufficient funds are In this competition, an LEA may
criteria contained in the notice of final
available to support implementation submit only one planning grant
requirements, priorities, and selection
activities, LEAs may not request funds application and one implementation
criteria published in the Federal
for more than 10 schools under a single grant application and must specify in
Register on March 15, 2004 (69 FR
application for an implementation grant. each application the high schools it
12254).
The chart below provides the ranges intends to serve. An LEA may apply for
Note: The regulations in part 79 apply to only one planning grant and one
all applicants except federally recognized of awards for implementation grants:
implementation grant whether the LEA
Indian tribes.
Award ranges per applies independently or as part of a
Student enrollment school consortium application. Additionally,
II. Award Information
an LEA may not apply for both a
Type of Award: Discretionary 1,000–1,500 ................ $250,000–$300,000 planning and implementation grant on
Planning Grants and Implementation 1,501–2,000 ................ $250,000–$400,000
behalf of the same high school. A single
2,001–2,500 ................ $250,000–$450,000
Grants. high school may only be included in
2,501–3,000 ................ $250,000–$500,000
Estimated Available Funds: More than 3,000 ......... $250,000–$550,000 either the LEA’s planning grant
$73,000,000. application or its implementation grant
Estimated Range of Awards: The Understanding the unique application, but not both.
Secretary will award both planning and complexities of implementing a program Applicants pursuing planning grant
implementation grants under this that affects a school’s organization, funds must not yet have developed a
competition. physical design, curriculum, viable plan for creating smaller learning
A. Planning Grants. The amount of an instruction, and preparation of teachers, communities in the school(s) that will
award for a planning grant is based on the Secretary anticipates awarding the be served by the grant. To apply for
the number of schools the applicant entire amount for an implementation implementation grant funds, applicants
proposes to serve. For a one-year grant at the time of the initial award. must be prepared to implement a new
planning grant, LEAs may receive, on The award ranges provided are for the smaller learning communities program
behalf of a single school, $25,000 to three-year grant period, not for each within each targeted high school, or to
$50,000 per project. LEAs applying on year of the grant. expand an existing smaller learning
behalf of a group of eligible schools may communities program. The first year of
Note: The Department will fund only those
receive up to $250,000 per planning applications that correctly request funds implementation grant funds is not to be
grant depending on the number of within the maximum award ranges specified used for planning purposes.
schools included in the application. in this notice for both planning and Schools that received funding through
LEAs must stay within the maximum implementation grants. Applicants planning grants in previous
school allocations when determining requesting funding in amounts higher than competitions are not eligible to receive
their group award request. Therefore, in the award ranges dictated by the number of support through additional planning
order to ensure sufficient planning schools or the enrollment of the schools to grants under this competition or future
be served will be declared ineligible and
funds at the local level, LEAs may not their applications will not be read. However,
competitions. Schools that received
request funds for more than 10 schools an applicant may request an amount lower funding through implementation awards
under a single application. than the suggested minimum for an in previous competitions are not eligible
The chart below provides the ranges individual school or for the overall grant to receive additional support under this
of awards for planning grants: based on the pertinent number of schools. competition or future competitions.

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2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This 4. Intergovernmental Review: This award, you must submit an annual
competition does not involve cost competition is subject to Executive performance report that provides the
sharing or matching. Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 most current performance and financial
CFR part 79. Information about expenditure information as specified by
IV. Application and Submission
Intergovernmental Review of Federal the Secretary in 34 CFR 75.118.
Information 4. Performance Measures: The
Programs under Executive Order 12372
1. Address to Request Application is in the application package for this Secretary requires applicants for
Package: Deborah Williams, U.S. competition. implementation grants to identify in
Department of Education, OVAE, 400 5. Funding Restrictions: We reference their application specific performance
Maryland Avenue, SW., PCP room regulations outlining funding indicators and annual performance
11033, Washington, DC 20202–7241. restrictions in the Applicable objectives for each of these indicators.
Telephone: (202) 245–7770. Fax: (202) Regulations section of this notice. Specifically, applicants are required to
245–7170. 6. Other Submission Requirements: use the following performance
If you use a telecommunications Instructions and requirements for the indicators to measure the progress of
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call transmittal of applications by mail or by each school:
the Federal Information Relay Service hand (including a courier service or 1. The percentage of students who
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339. commercial carrier) are in the scored at the proficient and advanced
You may also obtain an application application package for this levels on the reading/language arts and
package via Internet from the following competition. mathematics assessments used by the
address: www.ed.gov/programs/slcp/ State to measure adequate yearly
V. Application Review Information
applicant.html. progress under part A of title I of ESEA,
Individuals with disabilities may Selection Criteria: The selection disaggregated by subject matter and the
obtain a copy of the application package criteria for this competition are in the following subgroups:
in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, notice of final requirements, priorities, a. All students;
large print, audiotape, or computer and selection criteria published in the b. Major racial and ethnic groups;
diskette) by contacting the program Federal Register on March 15, 2004 (69 c. Students with disabilities;
contact person listed in this section. FR 12254) and in the application d. Students with limited English
2. Content and Form of Application package. proficiency; and
Submission: To be considered for e. Economically disadvantaged
VI. Award Administration Information students.
funding, LEAs must identify in their
1. Award Notices: If your application 2. The school’s graduation rate, as
applications the name(s) of the eligible
is successful, we notify your U.S. defined in the State’s approved
schools(s) and the number of students
Representative and U.S. Senators and accountability plan for part A of title I
enrolled in each school. Enrollment
send you a Grant Award Notification of ESEA;
figures must be based upon data from
(GAN). We may also notify you 3. The percentage of graduates who
the current school year or data from the
informally. enroll in postsecondary education,
most recently completed school year.
If your application is not evaluated or apprenticeships, or advanced training
We will not accept applications from
not selected for funding, we notify you. for the semester following graduation;
LEAs applying on behalf of schools that
2. Administrative and National Policy and
are being constructed and do not have 4. The percentage of graduates who
Requirements: We identify
an active student enrollment at the time are employed by the end of the first
administrative and national policy
of application. Applicants must clearly quarter after they graduate (e.g., for
requirements in the application package
identify the proposed grant-funded students who graduate in May or June,
and reference these and other
smaller learning communities in their this would be September 30).
requirements in the Applicable
application. Additional requirements In addition to the four required
Regulations section of this notice.
concerning the content of an application We reference the regulations outlining indicators listed above, applicants may
are in the notice of final requirements, the terms and conditions of an award in choose to set performance levels for
priorities and selection criteria for this the Applicable Regulations section of other appropriate indicators; such as:
program, published in the Federal this notice and include these and other 1. Rates of average daily attendance
Register March 15, 2004 (69 FR 12554). specific conditions in the GAN. The and year-to-year retention;
These requirements, together with the GAN also incorporates your approved 2. Achievement and gains in English
forms you must submit, also are in the application as part of your binding proficiency of limited English proficient
application package for this commitments under the grant. students;
competition. 3. The incidence of school violence,
3. Submission Dates and Times: Note: The requirements listed in this notice
are material requirements. A failure to
drug and alcohol use, and disciplinary
Applications Available: July 8, 2004. actions;
comply with any applicable program
Deadline for Transmittal of requirement (for example, failure to show 4. The percentage of students
Applications: August 9, 2004. The dates improvement on the required performance completing advanced placement
and times for the transmittal of indicators by the end of the first year of courses, and the rate of passing
applications by mail or by hand implementation) may subject a grantee to advanced placement tests (such as
(including a courier service or administrative action, including but not Advanced Placement, International
commercial carrier) are in the limited to designation as a ‘‘high-risk’’ Baccalaureate, and courses for college
application package for this grantee, the imposition of special conditions credit); and
competition. or termination of the grant.
5. The level of teacher, student, and
We do not consider an application 3. Reporting: At the end of your parent satisfaction with the Smaller
that does not comply with the deadline project period, you must submit a final Learning Communities structures and
requirements. performance report, including financial strategies being implemented.
Deadline for Intergovernmental information, as directed by the Applicants for implementation grants
Review: September 7, 2004. Secretary. If you receive a multi-year are required to include in their

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applications their most recent School Dated: July 1, 2004. procedures for grant competitions
Report Card. Upon being awarded, Susan Sclafani, prepared by the Fund.
recipients of implementation grants will Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult On Monday, July 14, 2004, from 9
be required to provide baseline data Education. a.m. to 3 p.m., the Board will meet in
responding to each of these indicators [FR Doc. 04–15542 Filed 7–7–04; 8:45 am] open session. The proposed agenda for
for the three years preceding the BILLING CODE 4000–01–P the meeting will include discussions of
baseline year. Specific instructions will the Fund’s programs and special
be sent from us to grant recipients. initiatives. A special presentation will
Recipients of implementation grants DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION be made on a US-Brazil Consortia
will be required to report annually on Program project. A special topic of
National Board of the Fund for the discussion will be Congressionally
the extent to which each school Improvement of Postsecondary directed grants.
achieved its performance objectives for Education, Department of Education Records are kept of all Board
each indicator during the preceding
proceedings and are available for public
school year. Additionally, ACTION: Notice of meeting.
inspection at the office of the Fund for
implementation grantees will have to the Improvement of Postsecondary
SUMMARY: This notice provides the
submit a final Annual Performance schedule and a summary of the agenda Education, 6th Floor, 1990 K Street
Report at the end of the fourth year of for an upcoming meeting of the National NW., Washington, DC 20006–8544 from
implementation. We require grantees to Board of the Fund for the Improvement the hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
include in these reports comparable of Postsecondary Education (Board).
data, if available, for the preceding three Wilbert Bryant,
The notice also describes the functions
school years so that trends in Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher
of the Board. Notice of this meeting is
performance will be more apparent. Education Programs Office of Postsecondary
required by section 10(a)(2) of the Education.
Federal Advisory Committee Act. This
VII. Agency Contact [FR Doc. 04–15537 Filed 7–7–04; 8:45 am]
notice is published less than 15 days
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
For Further Information Contact: prior to the date of the meeting due to
Deborah Williams, U.S. Department of unexpected delays in finalizing
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., arrangements for the meeting.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
PCP room 11033, Washington, DC DATE AND TIME: July 14, 2004, 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. [CFDA Nos. 84.007, 84.032, 84.033, 84.038,
20202–7241. Telephone: (202) 245–7770 84.063, 84.069, and 84.268]
or by e-mail: [email protected]. ADDRESSES: St. Gregory Hotel, 2033 M
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20036. Student Assistance General
If you use a telecommunications
Telephone: (202) 530–3600. Provisions, Federal Supplemental
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Educational Opportunity Grant,
the Federal Information Relay Service
Donald Fischer, U.S. Department of Federal Family Education Loan,
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.
Education, 1990 K Street NW., Federal Work-Study, Federal Perkins
Individuals with disabilities may Washington, DC 20006–8544; telephone Loan, Federal Pell Grant, Leveraging
obtain this document in an alternative (202) 502–7500; e-mail Educational Assistance Partnership,
format (e.g., Braille, large print, [email protected]. and William D. Ford Federal Direct
audiotape, or computer diskette) on The meeting site is accessible to Loan Programs
request to the program contact person individuals with disabilities. An
listed in this section. individual with a disability who will ACTION: Correction; notice of deadline
need an auxiliary aid or service to dates for receipt of applications, reports,
VIII. Other Information participate in the meeting (e.g., and other records for the 2003–2004
interpreting service, assistive listening award year.
Electronic Access to This Document:
device or materials in an alternate
You may view this document, as well as format) should notify the contact person SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March
all other documents of this Department listed in the preceding paragraph as 10, 2004, we published a notice in the
published in the Federal Register, in soon as possible. Federal Register (69 FR 11403)
text or Adobe Portable Document SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The announcing the deadline dates for the
Format (PDF) on the Internet at the National Board of the Fund for the receipt of documents and other
following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/ Improvement of Postsecondary information from institutions and
fedregister. Education is established under section applicants for the Federal student aid
To use PDF you must have Adobe 742 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 programs authorized under Title IV of
Acrobat Reader, which is available free (20 U.S.C. 1138a). The Board is the Higher Education Act of 1965, as
at this site. If you have questions about authorized to advise the Director of the amended, for the 2003–2004 award year.
using PDF, call the U.S. Government Fund and the Assistant Secretary for The Federal student aid programs
Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1– Postsecondary Education on (1) include the Federal Perkins Loan,
888–293–6498; or in the Washington, priorities for the improvement of Federal Work-Study, Federal
DC, area at (202) 512–1530. postsecondary education, including Supplemental Educational Opportunity
recommendations for the improvement Grant, Federal Family Education Loan,
Note: The official version of this document of postsecondary education and for the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan,
is the document published in the Federal evaluation, dissemination, and Federal Pell Grant, and Leveraging
Register. Free Internet access to the official
adaptation of demonstrated Educational Assistance Partnership
edition of the Federal Register and the Code
improvements in postsecondary programs.
of Federal Regulations is available on GPO
educational practice; and (2) the Under ‘‘Table A. Deadline Dates for
Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/
operation of the Fund, including advice Application Processing and Receipt of
index.html.
on planning documents, guidelines, and Student Aid Reports (SARs) or

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