[Federal Register: April 4, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 65)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No. 84.360]
School Dropout Prevention Program
AGENCY: Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year
(FY) 2002.
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Purpose of Program: To support effective, sustainable, and
coordinated school dropout prevention and reentry programs in high
schools with annual school dropout rates greater than the State average
annual school dropout rate and in the middle schools that feed students
into these high schools.
Eligible Applicants: State educational agencies (SEAs) and local
educational agencies (LEAs).
Applications Available: April 4, 2002.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: May 20, 2002.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: July 18, 2002.
Notification of Intent To Apply for Funding: We will be able to
develop a more efficient process for reviewing grant applications if we
have a better understanding of the number of entities that intend to
apply for funding. Therefore, we strongly encourage each potential
applicant to send, by May 6, 2002, a notification of its intent to
apply for funding to the following address: dropoutprevention@ed.gov.
The notification of intent to apply for funding is optional and
should not include information regarding the proposed application.
Eligible applicants that fail to provide the notification may still
submit an application by the application deadline.
Estimated Available Funds: $9,000,000.
Estimated Annual Range of Awards: $200,000-$500,000.
Funding of continuation awards after the initial year of funding
depends on future Congressional appropriations for the program. The
Administration has not requested funding for this program in its fiscal
year 2003 budget proposal.
Estimated Number of Awards: 15-20.
These estimates are projections for the guidance of potential
applicants. The Department is not bound by any estimates in this
notice.
Project Period: Up to 36 months.
Applicable Regulations: The Education Department General
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Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 75, 77, 79, 80, 81,
82, 85, 97, 98, and 99.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description of the Program
The School Dropout Prevention program, authorized under part H of
title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended,
supports effective, sustainable, and coordinated school dropout
prevention and reentry programs in high schools with annual school
dropout rates greater than the State average annual school dropout rate
and in the middle schools that feed students into these high schools.
Each grant recipient must implement dropout prevention and reentry
strategies that are scientifically based, are sustainable, and have
been widely replicated. These strategies may include--
(1) Specific strategies for targeted purposes, such as--
(a) Effective early intervention programs designed to identify at-
risk students;
(b) Effective programs serving at-risk students, including racial
and ethnic minorities and pregnant and parenting teenagers, designed to
prevent these students from dropping out of school; and
(c) Effective programs to identify youth who have already dropped
out of school and encourage them to reenter school and complete their
secondary education; and
(2) Approaches such as breaking larger schools into smaller
learning communities and other comprehensive reform approaches,
creating alternative school programs, and developing clear linkages
from schools to career skills and employment.
Applications
We strongly encourage you to submit your application to us
electronically. Submission of an electronic application involves the
use of the Electronic Grant Application System (e-APPLICATION, formerly
e-GAPS) portion of the Grant Administration and Payment System (GAPS).
However, you may submit your application in paper format if you prefer.
You can access the electronic application for the School Dropout
Prevention program at: http://e-grants.ed.gov.
You may also obtain a copy of the application package from the
contact person identified under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking
Some of the procedures in these instructions for transmitting
applications differ from those EDGAR (34 CFR 75.102). Under the
Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553) the Department generally
offers interested parties the opportunity to comment on proposed
regulations. However, these amendments make procedural changes only and
do not establish new substantive policy. Therefore, under 5 U.S.C.
553(b)(A), the Secretary has determined that proposed rulemaking is not
required.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine Jackson, Office of
Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, 400
Maryland Avenue, SW., Room 2W104, FOB-6, Washington, DC 20202-6254.
Telephone: (202) 260-2516 or via Internet: christine.jackson@ed.gov.
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-888-877-8339.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain this notice in an
alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) on request to the contact person listed in the preceding
paragraph. Please note, however, that the Department is not able to
reproduce in an alternative format the standard forms included in the
notice.
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:
www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister.
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The official version of this document is the document published in
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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6551 et seq.
Dated: March 29, 2002.
Susan B. Neuman,
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
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