99-31950. English Literacy and Civics Education Demonstration Grants Program; Notice of Technical Assistance Workshops for Grant Applications for Fiscal Year 1999 Funds

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 236 (Thursday, December 9, 1999)]
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Department of Education





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English Literacy and Civics Education Demonstration Grants Program; 
Technical Assistance Workshops for Grant Applications, Fiscal Year 1999 
Funds; English Literacy and Civics Education Demonstration Grants 
Program, Field Readers; Notices

Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 236 / Thurday, December 9, 1999 / 
Notices

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.191]


English Literacy and Civics Education Demonstration Grants 
Program; Notice of Technical Assistance Workshops for Grant 
Applications for Fiscal Year 1999 Funds

SUMMARY: The Secretary announces technical assistance workshops, 
including satellite telecast and a webcast, to assist applicants in 
preparing grant applications for FY 1999 funds under the English 
Literacy and civics Education (EL/Civics education) Demonstration 
Grants Program. for further information on the competition of the EL/
Civics education program, please refer to the U.S. Department of 
Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, El/Civics 
Education website at: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/ELCIVICS.

DATES, TIMES, AND LOCATIONS: The dates, times, and locations of the 
technical assistance workshops are as follows:
    1. December 6, 1999, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Illinois State Board 
of Education, James R. Thompson Center, 100 West Randolph, Room 2-025, 
Chicago, Illinois.
    2. December 7, 1999, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., St. Philip's College, 
1801 Martin Luther King Drive, Watson Fine Arts Theater, San Antonio, 
Texas.
    3. December 10, 1999, 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and 1:30 p.m. to 
3:00 p.m., San Diego County Office of Education, 6401 Linda Vista Road, 
Room 306 (8:30 a.m. session) and Annex C (1:30 p.m. session), San 
Diego, California.
    4. December 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Barnard Auditorium, Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FOR THE ONSITE WORKSHOPS, 
CONTACT: Rose Tilghman, EL/Civics Education Demonstration Grants 
Program, Division of Adult Education and Literacy, Office of Vocational 
and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC 
20202-7240. Inquiries and registrations also may be sent by e-mail to 
[e-mail] or by Fax to [phone]. Individuals who use 
a telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
    5. December 15, 1999, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Washington, DC time), 
Satellite Telecast and Webcast. Coordinates for the telecast are C-
Band: GE-1, Transponder C-1, Downlink Frequency 3720 MHz, Horizontal, 
Orbit 103 degrees West. Ku Band: SBS-5, Transponder K-10, Downlink 
Frequency 12166 MHz, Horizontal, Orbit 123 degrees West. You may access 
the webcast at: http://www.iti-corp.com/doed/live.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FOR A SATELLITE DOWNLINK FOR 
THE TELECAST WORKSHOP, CONTACT: 1-800-USA-LEARN or http://
stm.xpandcorp.com (to register on-line).
    Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an 
alternate format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer 
diskette) on request to the contact person listed above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The workshops are free to the public. 
However, you must pay your own travel and hotel accommodations.

Assistance to Individuals With Disabilities at the Technical 
Assistance Workshops

    The technical assistance workshop sites are accessible to 
individuals with disabilities. If you will need an auxiliary aid or 
service to participate in the workshop (e.g., interpreting service, 
assistive listening device, or materials in an alternative format), 
notify the contact person listed in this notice as soon as possible 
before the scheduled workshop date. Although we will attempt to meet a 
request, we may not be able to make available the requested auxiliary 
aid or service because of insufficient time to arrange it.

Electronic Access to This Document

    You may view this document, as well as all other Department of 
Education documents published in the Federal Register, in text or Adobe 
Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Internet at either of the sites:

http://ocfo.ed.gov/fedreg.html
http://www.ed.gov/news/htm

To use the PDF you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader Program with 
Search, which is available free at either of the previous sites. If you 
have questions about using the PDF, call the U.S. Government Printing 
Office at [phone] or, toll free, at 1-888-293-6498.

    Note: The official version of this document is the document 
published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the 
official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal 
Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://
www.access.gpo.gov/nara/index/html.

    Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 9253.

    Dated: December 6, 1999.
Patricia W. McNeil,
Assistant Secretary, Vocational and Adult Education.
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