2010-8301. Investing in Innovation Fund

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Numbers: 84.396A (Scale-up grants), 84.396B (Validation grants), and 84.396C (Development grants).

AGENCY:

Office of Innovation and Improvement, Department of Education.

ACTION:

Final priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria; correction.

SUMMARY:

On March 12, 2010, the Department of Education published in the Federal Register (75 FR 12004) a document announcing final priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria (Final Rule) for the Investing in Innovation Fund. This document makes a correction to the March 12 Final Rule.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Margo Anderson. Telephone: [phone]; or by e-mail: [e-mail]; or by mail: (Attention: Investing in Innovation), U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 4W302, Washington, DC 20202.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Correction

On page 12060, we included a footnote providing the Department's interpretation of the core academic subject of science as including STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) which encompasses a wide range of disciplines. As an example of those disciplines, we intended to include computer science rather than science. To correct this error, the Department makes the following correction to the March 12 Final Rule:

On page 12060, in the third column, under the heading Absolute Priority 3—Innovations That Complement the Implementation of High Standards and High-Quality Assessments, in footnote number eight, in line six, “including science” is replaced with “including computer science.”

Program Authority: Section 14007 of division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law No. 111-5, as amended by section 307 of division D of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010, Public Law 111-117.

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Note:

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Dated: April 7, 2010.

James H. Shelton III,

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement.