[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 12, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47354-47355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-22550]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Coordinated Services Projects
AGENCY: Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of application availability and waiver of reporting
requirement for coordinated services projects.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Secretary of Education (Secretary) announces the
availability of applications to use Elementary and Secondary Education
Act (ESEA) funds for coordinated services projects under section
14206(b) and Title XI of the ESEA. In addition, the Secretary announces
the waiver of an annual reporting requirement that otherwise would
apply to these projects.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title XI of the ESEA offers local
educational agencies (LEAs), schools, and groups of schools, the
opportunity to use up to five percent of their ESEA funds in any fiscal
year for a coordinated services project. Coordinated services projects
link public and private agencies with schools to improve the access of
elementary and secondary students and their families to health and
social services through a coordination site at or near a school.
Coordinated services projects provide a mechanism for helping
children and their families address factors outside the classroom such
as inadequate or substandard nutrition, health care, and living
conditions that can adversely affect the ability of a child to learn.
Funds may be used to develop, implement, or expand a coordinated
services project. Funds may not be used for the direct provision of any
health or health-related service.
DEFINITION: The term ``coordinated services project'' is defined by the
statute as ``a comprehensive approach to meeting the educational,
health, social service, and other needs of children and their families,
including foster children and their foster families, through a
community-wide partnership that links public and private agencies
providing such services or access to such services through a
coordination site at or near a school.
ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Applications for a coordinated services project
may be submitted to the Secretary by an LEA, or if there is no
governing LEA, by an individual school or group of schools.
WAIVER OF REPORTING REQUIREMENT: Under the Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR), an applicant generally must submit
an annual performance report to the Department. (See 34 CFR
Secs. 74.51, 75.720, and 80.40.) However, in the interest of reducing
burden at the local level, the Secretary has determined that a
performance report is unnecessary for the first year and third year of
the implementation or expansion of a coordinated services project, and
therefore waives that requirement for the first and third years. This
waiver is in accordance with the Secretary's authority under these
regulations.
FOR APPLICATIONS OR INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeanne Jehl, Office of
Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, 600
Independence Avenue, SW (Portals Building-Room 604), Washington, D.C.
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20202-6123. Telephone: (202) 260-1854. 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
the use of ESEA funds for coordinated services projects, can be viewed
on the Department's electronic bulletin board (ED Board), telephone
(202) 260-9950; or on the Internet Gopher Server at GOPHER.ED.GOV
(under Announcement, Bulletin and Press Releases). However, the
official notice of application availability is the notice published in
the Federal Register.
(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 8401-8407 and 8826(b))
Dated: August 21, 1995.
Thomas W. Payzant,
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
[FR Doc. 95-22550 Filed 9-11-95; 8:45 am]
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