95-9717. Bilingual Education: Comprehensive School Grants; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 1995

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 76 (Thursday, April 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19816-19817]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9717]



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Bilingual Education: Comprehensive School Grants; Notice Inviting 
Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 1995

    Purpose of Program: The purpose of this program is to provide 
grants to implement schoolwide bilingual education programs or special 
alternative instruction programs for reforming, restructuring, and 
upgrading all relevant programs and operations, within an individual 
school, that serve all or virtually all limited English proficient 
(LEP) children and youth in one or more schools with significant 
concentrations of these children and youth.
    Eligible Applicants: One or more local educational agencies (LEAs), 
or one or more LEAs in collaboration with an institution of higher 
education, community-based organizations, other LEAs, or a State 
educational agency.
    Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 30, 1995.
    Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: July 31, 1995.
    Applications Available: April 21, 1995.
    Available Funds: $49,772,000.
    Estimated Range of Awards: $150,000-$400,000.
    Estimated Average Size of Awards: $310,000.
    Estimated Number of Awards: 160.

    Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this 
notice.

    Project Period: 60 months.
    Applicable Regulations: The Education Department General 
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 
81, 82, 85, and 86.

Priorities

Absolute Priority

    The following absolute priority, as published in the Federal 
Register on March 2, 1995 (60 FR 11868) in a notice of final priority 
for this program, applies to this competition:
    Projects that serve only schools in which the number of LEP 
students, in each school served, equals at least 25 percent of the 
total student enrollment.

Competitive Priority

    The competitive priority in the notice of final priorities for this 
program, as published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, 
applies to this competition. The notice announces a competitive 
preference to be given to projects providing program services in a 
designated Empowerment Zone or Enterprise Community. [[Page 19817]] 

Selection Criteria

    In evaluating applications for grants under this program, the 
Secretary uses the selection criteria in 34 CFR 75.210.
    The regulations in 34 CFR 75.210 provide that the Secretary may 
award up to 100 points for the selection criteria, including a reserved 
15 points. For this competition, the Secretary distributes the 15 
points as follows:
    Plan of operation (34 CFR 75.210(b)(3)). Eight points are added to 
this criterion for a possible total of 23 points.
    Evaluation plan (34 CFR 75.210(b)(6)). Seven points are added to 
this criterion for a possible total of 12 points.
    For Applications or Information Contact: Rebecca Richey or Alex 
Stein, U.S. Department of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, SW., room 
5090, Switzer Building, Washington, D.C. 20202-6510. Telephone: Rebecca 
Richey [phone] or Alex Stein [phone]. Individuals who use 
a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 
p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday.
    Information about the Department's funding opportunities, including 
copies of application notices for discretionary grant competitions, can 
be viewed on the Department's electronic bulletin board (ED Board), 
telephone [phone]; or on the Internet Gopher Server at 
GOPHER.ED.GOV (under Announcements, Bulletins, and Press Releases). 
However, the official application notice for a discretionary grant 
competition is the notice published in the Federal Register.

    Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7424.

    Dated: April 11, 1995.
 Eugene E. Garcia,
Director, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs.
[FR Doc. 95-9717 Filed 4-19-95; 8:45 am]
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