[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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