[Federal Register: January 19, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 12)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA 84.060A]
Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational Agencies--
Notice Inviting Applications for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007
AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of
Education.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose of Program: The Indian Education Formula Grant to Local
Educational Agencies program provides grants to support local
educational agencies (LEAs) and other eligible entities described in
this notice in their efforts to reform and improve elementary and
secondary school programs that serve Indian students. The Department
funds programs designed to assist Indian students to meet the same
challenging State academic content and student academic achievement
standards used for all students. In addition, under section 7116 of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA), the
Secretary will, upon receipt of an acceptable plan for the integration
of education and related services, authorize the entity receiving the
funds under this program to consolidate, in accordance with the
entity's plan, the funds for any Federal program exclusively serving
Indian children, or the funds reserved under any Federal program to
exclusively serve Indian children, that are awarded under a statutory
or administrative formula to the entity, for the purposes of providing
education and related services to Indian students. Instructions for
submitting an integration of education and related services plan are
included in the web-based EASIE application system described elsewhere
in this notice under Application Process and Submission Information.
Eligible Applicants: LEAs, certain schools funded by the Bureau of
Indian
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Affairs, and Indian tribes under certain conditions, as prescribed by
section 7112(c) of the ESEA.
Application Process and Submission Information: The application
process for the Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational
Agencies program has changed to the Formula Grant Electronic
Application System for Indian Education (EASIE), an easy-to-use, web-
based application system. Formula Grant EASIE provides special features
that will progressively enhance data availability and performance
reporting for applicants, including the use of data from State
submissions to EDFacts, the Department's data collection system
containing performance information from State educational agencies
about schools and Federal education programs. To the extent that your
State has provided the necessary EDFacts data files, Formula Grant
EASIE will be able to interface with EDFacts and pull that LEA-specific
data into the application. Additionally, this new system allows the
Department to review applications and interact online with applicants
during the application review and approval process.
Although you may download and print sample forms from the system,
the application must be submitted electronically through the Formula
Grant EASIE unless you do not have Internet access and have made prior
arrangements with the Department. For approval to submit a paper
application, you must contact the EDFacts Partner Support Center (see
the contact information listed elsewhere in this notice under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) prior to the deadline for transmittal of
Part I or Part II applications. If you are approved to submit a paper
application, you must meet the submission deadlines included in this
notice.
Registration for Formula Grant EASIE is required. For information
on how to register, contact the EDFacts Partner Support Center listed
elsewhere in this notice under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
The Formula Grant EASIE application is divided into two parts--Part
I and Part II.
Part I, Student Count, provides the appropriate data entry screens
to submit your Indian student count totals.
Part II, Program and Budget Information, provides your award amount
based on the Indian student count total submitted under Part I. Part II
also enables you to enter student performance data, identify your
project's services and activities, and build a realistic program budget
based on a known grant amount. Based on student assessment data, you
will select your program objectives and services from a variety of menu
options that were designed with grantee input.
Note: The information to be collected under Part II of the
application is currently under review by the Office of Management
and Budget. The Department will not request applicants to submit
information under Part II of the application until the collection of
that information is approved. The deadline for transmittal of Part
II data or applications, along with further information concerning
Part II, will be announced in a separate notice in the Federal
Register.
DATES: Part I of Formula Grant EASIE Available: December 12, 2006.
Deadline for Transmittal of PART I Applications: February 20, 2007.
Applications not meeting the deadline for Part I will not be
considered for funding in the initial allocation of awards.
Applications or data submissions under Part II will be accepted only
from those eligible applicants that meet the Part I deadline.
If funds become available after the initial allocation of funds,
applications not meeting the deadline may be considered for funding if
the Secretary determines, under section 7118(d) of the ESEA, that
reallocation of those funds to applicants filing after the deadline
would best assist in advancing the purposes of the program. However,
the amount and length of an individual award, if any, may be less than
the applicant would have received had the application been submitted on
time.
Estimated Available Funds: The Administration has requested
$95,331,000 for this program for FY 2007. The actual level of funding,
if any, depends on final Congressional action. However, we are inviting
applications to allow enough time to complete the grant process if
Congress appropriates funds for this program.
Estimated Range of Awards: $3,000-$2,000,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $80,422.
Estimated Number of Awards: 1,185.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice and funding levels may change based on final appropriations
for the program.
Project Period: 12 months.
Applicable Regulations: The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR Parts 75, 77, 79, 80, 81,
82, 84, 85, 86, 97, 98, and 99.
Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 79 apply to all applicants
except federally recognized Indian tribes.
Performance Measures: The Secretary has established the following
key performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of the Indian
Education Formula Grants to Local Educational Agency program: (1) The
percentage of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4
and 8 who are at or above the basic level in reading on the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); and (2) the percentage of
American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8 who are at
or above the basic level in mathematics on NAEP.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact the EDFacts Partner Support
Center, Telephone: 877-457-3336 (877-HLP-EDEN) or by e-mail at:
eden_OIE@ed.gov.
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD)
may call the EDFacts Partner Support Center 1-888-403-3336 (888-403-
EDEN).
Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application
package or a copy of this document in an alternative format (e.g.,
Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on request by
contacting the EDFacts Partner Support Center.
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 the following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister.
To use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available
free at this site. If you have questions about using PDF, call the U.S.
Government Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1-888-293-6498; or in
the Washington, DC, area at (202) 512-1530.
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.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html
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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7421 et seq.
Dated: January 16, 2007.
Ray Simon,
Deputy Secretary.
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