[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40913-40914]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-17359]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No. 84.310A]


Office of Innovation and Improvement; Parental Information and 
Resource Centers Program

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year 
(FY) 2003; Correction.

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    On June 3, 2003, we published in the Federal Register (68 FR 33332) 
a notice inviting applications for new awards under the Parental 
Information and Resource Centers (PIRC) program. In that notice, we 
announced that each ``novice applicant'' would receive a competitive 
preference of 10 points. Upon further reflection, in order to encourage 
the submission of applications from novice applicants and to ensure 
that only the highest quality applications are funded, the Secretary is 
amending this competitive preference. The Secretary will award 10 
additional points only to those novice applicants that rank among the 
ten highest scoring of all novice applicants on the basis of the 
selection criteria and the other competitive preference for this 
competition. In other words, only the ten highest ranked novice 
applicants, rather than all novice applicants, will be awarded priority 
points under the novice applicant preference.
    The Secretary also reminds all applicants that section 5563(b) of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended, requires 
each PIRC grantee to meet several specific conditions. The Secretary 
strongly encourages all applicants to review each of these conditions 
carefully to ensure that their applications appropriately address these 
specific requirements. For example, each applicant must (a) use at 
least 30 percent of the funds received under the program each year to 
establish, expand, or operate Parents as Teachers programs, Home 
Instruction for Preschool Youngsters programs, or other early childhood 
parent education programs; (b) use at least 50 percent of the funds 
received under the program each year to serve areas with high 
concentrations of low-income families, in order to serve parents who 
are severely educationally or economically disadvantaged; and (c) 
establish a special advisory committee as described in section 
5563(b)(2) of the ESEA.
    Consistent with section 5562(b) of the ESEA, in awarding funds 
under this competition, the Secretary will ensure, to the extent 
practicable, that grants are distributed in all geographic regions of 
the United States.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Kilby-Robb, U.S. Department 
of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 3E209, FOB-6, Washington, 
DC 20202-6254. Telephone: (202) 205-4253 or via Internet: 
[email protected].
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may 
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
    Individuals with disabilities may obtain this document in an 
alternative

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format (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, or computer diskette) on 
request to the program contact person listed under FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT.
    Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application 
package in an alternative format by contacting that person. However, 
the Department is not able to reproduce in an alternative format the 
standard forms included in the notice.

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    Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7273 et seq.

    Dated: July 3, 2003.
Nina S. Rees,
Deputy Under Secretary for Innovation and Improvement.
[FR Doc. 03-17359 Filed 7-8-03; 8:45 am]
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