[Federal Register: June 6, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 109)]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[CFDA No.: 84.362A]
Native Hawaiian Education Program; Notice Inviting Applications
for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2002
Purpose of the Program: The purpose of the Native Hawaiian
Education program is to support innovative projects that provide
supplemental services that address the educational needs of Native
Hawaiian children and adults. The reauthorized program consolidates,
under a single authority, the previously authorized Native Hawaiian
programs and supports an expanded range of program activities.
Eligible Applicants: Native Hawaiian educational organizations;
Native Hawaiian community-based organizations; public and private
nonprofit organizations, agencies, and institutions with experience in
developing or operating Native Hawaiian programs or programs of
instructions in the Native Hawaiian language; and consortia thereof.
Applications Available: June 6, 2002.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: July 8, 2002.
Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: September 4, 2002.
Estimated Available Funds: $10.1 million. Of this amount, we will
award approximately $5.6 million under absolute priority 1 (family-
based education centers); approximately $2.7 million under absolute
priority 2 (curriculum development); approximately $1 million under
absolute priority 3 (college preparation and scholarship support);
approximately $650,000 under absolute priority 4 (gifted and talented);
and approximately $200,000 under absolute priority 5 (community-based
learning centers).
Estimated Number of Awards: 7 under absolute priority 1; 5 under
absolute priority 2; 3 under absolute priority 3; 1 under absolute
priority 4; and 1 under absolute priority 5.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $200,000-$1,000,000.
Note: 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
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80,
81, 82, 86, 97, 98, and 99.
Absolute Priorities: In the conference report accompanying the FY
2002 appropriations legislation, Congress urged the Department to
support Native Hawaiian education activities in certain specifically
identified areas. In response to this request, the Secretary
establishes the following separate absolute priorities under 34 CFR
75.105(c)(3) and will fund under this competition only applicants that
meet one of these priorities:
Absolute Priority 1--Family-Based Education Centers--The applicant
will use the funds received under this competition to support the
operation of a family-based education center that provides such
services as--
(a) Programs for Native Hawaiian parents and their infants from the
prenatal period of the infants through age three;
(b) Preschool programs for Native Hawaiians; and
(c) Research on, and development and assessment of, family-based,
early childhood, and preschool programs for Native Hawaiians.
Absolute Priority 2--Curriculum Development--The applicant will use
the funds received under this competition to develop academic and
vocational curricula to address the needs of Native Hawaiian children
and adults, including curriculum materials in the Hawaiian language and
mathematics and science curricula that incorporate Native Hawaiian
tradition and culture.
Absolute Priority 3--College Preparation and Scholarship Support--
The applicant will use funds received under this competition to support
activities, including co-location, that enable Native Hawaiians to
enter and complete programs of postsecondary education, such as--
(a) Provision of full or partial scholarships for undergraduate or
graduate study that are awarded to students based on their academic
promise and financial need, with a priority, at the graduate level,
given to students entering professions in which Native Hawaiians are
underrepresented;
(b) Family literacy services;
(c) Counseling and support services for students receiving
scholarship assistance;
(d) Counseling and guidance for Native Hawaiian secondary students
who have the potential to receive scholarships;
(e) Faculty development activities designed to promote the
matriculation of Native Hawaiian students; and
(f) Co-location projects that provide Native Hawaiian secondary
students and adults a one-stop delivery system under which they can
access in a single location a comprehensive range of services that will
assist them in entering and completing programs of postsecondary
education.
Absolute Priority 4--Gifted and Talented--The applicant will use
the funds received under this competition to support activities that
address the special needs of Native Hawaiian students who are gifted
and talented, such as--
(a) Educational, psychological, and developmental activities
designed to
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assist in the educational progress of those students; and
(b) Activities that involve the parents of those students in a
manner designed to assist in the students' educational progress.
Absolute Priority 5--Community-Based Learning Centers--The
applicant will use the funds received under this competition to support
the operation of one or more community-based learning centers that
address the needs of Native Hawaiian families and communities through
the coordination of public and private programs and services,
including--
(a) Preschool programs;
(b) After-school programs;
(c) Vocational and adult education programs; and
(d) Programs that recognize and support the unique cultural and
educational needs of Native Hawaiian children and incorporate
appropriately qualified Native Hawaiian elders and seniors.
Competitive Preference: The legislation at 20 U.S.C. 7515(a)(2)
establishes specific statutory priorities. In implementing these
statutory priorities, the Secretary establishes a competitive
preference under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2) for this competition and will
award an applicant, in addition to any points that an applicant earns
under the selection criteria, five points if it proposes a project that
is designed to address one or more of the following:
(a) Beginning reading and literacy among students in kindergarten
through third grade;
(b) The needs of at-risk children and youth;
(c) Needs in fields or disciplines in which Native Hawaiians are
underemployed; and
(d) The use of the Hawaiian language in instruction.
An applicant that addresses one or more of these competitive
priorities will receive a total of five additional points in the
competition. If an applicant addresses more than one competitive
priority, it will only receive a total of five additional competitive
preference points, rather than five competitive preference points for
each of the priorities addressed.
For Applications and Information Contact: Mrs. Lynn Thomas, (202)
260-1541, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., FOB6,
Room 3C124, Mail Stop 6140, Washington, DC 20202. The e-mail address
for Mrs. Thomas is: lynn.thomas@ed.gov.
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD)
may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-
8339.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an
alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer
diskette) on request to the contact person listed.
Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application
package in an alternative format, also, by contacting that person.
However, the Department is not able to reproduce in an alternative
format the standard forms included in the application package.
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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7515-7517.
Dated: May 31, 2002.
Susan B. Neuman,
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
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