[Federal Register: April 23, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 78)]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No. 84.215F]
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; Carol M. White
Physical Education Program; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards
for Fiscal Year (FY) 2002
Purpose of Program
This program provides grants to initiate, expand, and improve
physical education programs, including after-school programs, for
students in kindergarten through 12th grade in order to make progress
toward meeting State standards for physical education.
For FY 2002 the competition for new awards focuses on projects
designed to meet the absolute priority we describe in the PRIORITIES
section of this application notice.
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program will administer this grant
competition.
Eligible Applicants: Local educational agencies (LEAs) and
community-based organizations (CBOs)
Applications Available: April 23, 2002.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: June 7, 2002.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: August 6, 2002.
Estimated Available Funds: $49,500,000.
Estimated Range of Awards: $100,000--$500,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $300,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 165.
Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 12 months.
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80,
81, 82, 85, 97, 98, and 99.
Priorities
This competition focuses exclusively on projects designed to meet a
priority in the program statute (see 34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(v)) and
sections 5501-5507, part D, subpart 10 of title V of the ESEA (20
U.S.C. 7261.
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Absolute Priority
Projects must initiate, expand, and improve physical education
programs for students in one or more grades from kindergarten through
grade 12 in order to make progress toward meeting State standards for
physical education.
For FY 2002 this priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 CFR
75.105(c)(3) we consider only applications that meet the priority.
Competitive Preference Priority
Within the absolute priority for this competition for FY 2002, we
will award five additional points to novice applicants. These points
are in addition to any points the application earns under the
evaluation criteria for the program.
Note: The total number of points an application may earn is 105.
Other Requirements
The following requirements also apply to this competition.
Administrative Costs
Not more than 5 percent of the grant funds made available to an LEA
or CBO in any fiscal year may be used for administrative costs.
Federal Share
The Federal share for grants under this program may not exceed 90
percent of the total cost of a project. Applicants should calculate the
maximum Federal share by determining the total cost of the proposed
project and multiplying that amount by 0.90.
Prohibition Against Supplanting
Grant funds made available under this program shall be used to
supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, or local funds
available for physical education activities.
Participation of Home-Schooled or Private School Students
An application for funds under this program may provide for the
participation of students enrolled in private, nonprofit elementary or
secondary schools and their parents and teachers, or home-schooled
students and their parents and teachers.
Equitable Distribution
We will ensure, to the extent practicable, an equitable
distribution of awards among applicants serving urban and rural areas.
Additional Awards
Contingent upon the availability of funds, we may make additional
awards in FY 2003 from the rank-ordered list of nonfunded applications
from this competition.
Participation of Faith-based Organizations
Faith-based organizations are eligible to apply for grants under
this competition provided they meet all statutory and regulatory
requirements.
Application Requirements
To be considered for funding, an applicant is required to:
(1) Have conducted a needs assessment of the students being served
or to be served by its program in terms of their progress toward
meeting State standards for physical education;
(2) Based on the results of the needs assessment in (1), describe
how the proposed activities will help students make progress toward
meeting State standards for physical education; and
(3) Set measurable goals and objectives for the proposed project in
terms of the student's progress toward meeting State standards for
physical education, and provide a description of how progress toward
achieving the goals and objectives will be measured annually.
Prohibited Uses of Funds
Grant funds made available under this program shall not be used for
the following: (1) To hire teachers or other staff to provide direct
instructional or other services to students; (2) to support
extracurricular activities such as team sports and Reserve Officers'
Training Corps (ROTC) program activities; or (3) to fund the
construction of new buildings or other facilities such as athletic
tracks or tennis courts.
Definitions
For the purpose of this competition, terms used in this notice have
the following meanings:
Local Educational Agency
(A) General
In general, the term local educational agency means a public board
of education or other public authority legally constituted within a
State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform
a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools
in a city, county, township, school district, or other political
subdivision of a State, or of or for a combination of school districts
or counties that is recognized in a State as an administrative agency
for its public elementary or secondary schools.
(B) Administrative Control and Direction
The term includes any other public institution or agency having
administrative control and direction of a public elementary school or
secondary school.
(C) BIA Schools
The term includes an elementary school or secondary school funded
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but only to the extent that including
the school makes the school eligible for programs for which specific
eligibility is not provided to the school in another provision of law
and the school does not have a student population that is smaller than
the student population of the local educational agency receiving
assistance under the ESEA with the smallest student population, except
that the school shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of any State
educational agency other than the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(D) Educational Service Agencies
The term includes educational service agencies and consortia of
those agencies.
(E) State Educational Agency
The term includes the State educational agency in a State in which
the State educational agency is the sole educational agency for all
public schools.
Community-based organization means a public or private nonprofit
organization of demonstrated effectiveness that: (a) is representative
of a community or significant segments of a community; and (b) provides
educational or related services to individuals in the community.
Nonprofit as applied to an agency, organization, or institution,
means that it is owned and operated by one or more corporations or
associations whose net earnings do not benefit, and cannot lawfully
benefit, any private shareholder or entity.
Novice Applicant means--
(1) Any applicant for a grant from ED that--
(i) Has never received a grant or subgrant under the Carol M. White
Physical Education program;
(ii) Has never been a member of a group application, submitted in
accordance with Sec. 75.127-75.129 of EDGAR, that received a grant
under the Carol M. White Physical Education program; and
(iii) Has not had an active discretionary grant from the Federal
Government in the five years before the
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deadline date for applications under this competition.
(2) In the case of a group application submitted in accordance with
Sec. 75.127-129, a group that includes only parties that meet the
requirements of paragraph (1) above.
Note: A grant is active until the end of the grant's project or
funding period, including any extensions of those periods that
extend the grantee's authority to obligate funds.
Selection Criteria
The Assistant Secretary uses the following selection criteria to
evaluate applications for new grants under this competition. The
maximum score for all of these criteria is 100 points. The maximum
score for each criterion or factor under that criterion is indicated in
parentheses.
(1) Need for project (20 points)
In determining the need for the proposed project, the following
factors are considered:
(a) The magnitude of the need for the services to be provided or
the activities to be carried out by the proposed project; and
(b) The extent to which specific gaps or weaknesses in services,
infrastructure, or opportunities have been identified and will be
addressed by the proposed project, including the nature and magnitude
of those gaps or weaknesses.
(2) Significance (20 points)
In determining the significance of the proposed project, the
following factors are considered:
(a) The likelihood that the proposed project will result in system
change or improvement;
(b) The extent to which the proposed project involves the
development or demonstration of promising new strategies that build on,
or are alternatives to, existing strategies; and
(c) The importance or magnitude of the results or outcomes likely
to be attained by the proposed project, especially improvements in
teaching and student achievement.
(3) Quality of the Project Design (45 Points)
In determining the quality of the design of the proposed project,
the following factors are considered:
(a) The extent to which the proposed activities constitute a
coherent, sustained program of training in the field;
(b) The extent to which the design of the proposed project reflects
up-to-date knowledge from research and effective practice;
(c) The extent to which the goals, objectives, and outcomes to be
achieved by the proposed project are clearly specified and measurable;
and
(d) The extent to which the design of the proposed project is
appropriate to, and will successfully address, the needs of the target
population or other identified needs.
(4) Quality of the Project Evaluation (15 Points)
In determining the quality of the evaluation, the following factors
are considered:
(a) The extent to which the methods of evaluation are thorough,
feasible, and appropriate to the goals, objectives, and outcomes of the
proposed project;
(b) The extent to which the methods of evaluation include the use
of objective performance measures that are clearly related to the
intended outcomes of the project and will produce quantitative and
qualitative data to the extent possible; and
(c) The extent to which the methods of evaluation will provide
performance feedback and permit periodic assessment of progress toward
achieving intended outcomes.
Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking
Under the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553), the
Secretary generally offers interested parties the opportunity to
comment on proposed rules. Section 437(d)(1) of the General Education
Provisions Act, however, exempts from this requirement rules that apply
to the first competition under a new or substantially revised program.
This is the first competition under the Carol M. White Physical
Education Program, which was substantially revised by the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001.
Applications and Information
For information about this competition contact Ethel Jackson, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW--Room 3E308,
Washington, DC 20202-6123. Telephone: (202) 260-2812, e-mail address:
Ethel.Jackson@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-888-877-8339.
For printed applications contact: Education Publications Center
(EDPubs), P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398. Telephone (toll free):
1-877-433-7827. Fax: (301) 470-1244. If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf, you may call 1-877-576-7734. Web site: http://
www.ed.gov/about/ordering.jsp>http://www.ed.gov/about/ordering.jsp. E-
mail mailto:edpubs@inet.ed.gov'' edpubs@inet.ed.gov.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document, or an
application package, in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large
print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on request to the contact
person listed at the beginning of this section. However, the Department
is not able to reproduce in an alternative format the standard forms
included in the application package.
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:
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or in the Washington, DC area at (202) 512-1530.
Note: The official version of this document is the document
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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.
Pilot Project for Electronic Submission of Applications
In continuing to expand its pilot project of electronic submission
of applications to include additional formula grant programs, as well
as discretionary grant competitions. The Carol M. White Physical
Education Program is one of the programs included in the pilot project.
If you are an applicant under this grant competition, you may submit
your application to us in either electronic or paper format.
The pilot project involves the use of the Electronic Grant
Application System (e-APPLICATION, formerly e-GAPS) portion of the
Grant Administration and Payment System (GAPS). We invite your
participation in this pilot project. We will continue to evaluate its
success and solicit suggestions for improvement.
If you participate in this e-APPLICATION pilot, please note the
following:
Your participation is voluntary.
You will not receive any additional point value or penalty
because you submit a grant application in electronic of paper format.
You can submit all documents electronically, including the
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Application for Federal Assistance (ED Form 424), Budget Information--
Non-Construction Programs, (ED Form 524), and all necessary assurances
and certifications.
Within three working days of submitting your electronic
application, fax a signed copy of the Application for Federal
Assistance (ED Form 424) to the Application Control Center following
these steps:
1. Print ED Form 424 from the e-APPLICATION system.
2. Make sure that the applicant's Authorizing Representative signs
this form.
3. Before faxing this form, submit your electronic application via
the e-APPLICATION system. You will receive an automatic
acknowledgement, which will include a PR/Award number an identifying
number unique to your application).
4. Place the PR/Award number in the upper right corner ED Form 424.
5. Fax ED Form 424 to the Application Control Center within three
business days of submitting your electronic application at (202) 260-
1349.
We may request that you give us original signatures on all
other forms at a later date.
You may access the electronic grant application for the Carol M.
White Physical Education Program at: http://e-grants.ed.gov.
We have included additional information on the e-APPLICATION pilot
project (see Parity Guidelines between Paper and Electronic
Applications) in the application package.
If you want to apply for a grant and be considered for funding, you
must meet the deadline requirements included in this notice.
Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7261.
Dated: April 17, 2002.
Susan B. Neuman,
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
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