[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 27 (Thursday, February 9, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6767-6771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1805]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

Overview Information

    Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children 
with Disabilities--Principal Leadership Professional Development Center 
to Support School Improvement to Ensure Access to, and Participation 
and Progress in the General Education Curriculum in the Least 
Restrictive Environment.
    Notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 
2006.
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.325P.
    Dates:
    Applications Available: February 9, 2006.
    Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: March 24, 2006.
    Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: May 23, 2006.
    Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education (IHEs).
    Estimated Available Funds: $285,000.
    Maximum Award: We will reject any application that proposes a 
budget exceeding $285,000 for a single budget period of 12 months. The 
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services 
may change the maximum amount through a notice published in the Federal 
Register.
    Number of Awards: 1.


    Note:  The Department is not bound by any estimates in this 
notice.


    Project Period: Up to 60 months.

Full Text of Announcement

I. Funding Opportunity Description

    Purpose of Program: The purposes of this program are to (1) help 
address State-identified needs for highly qualified personnel--in 
special education, related services, early intervention, and regular 
education--to work with infants or toddlers with disabilities, or 
children with disabilities; and (2) ensure that those personnel have 
the skills and knowledge--derived from practices that have been 
determined through research and experience to be successful--that are 
needed to serve those children.
    Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(v), this priority 
is from allowable activities specified in the statute (see sections 
662(d) and 681(d) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 
(IDEA)).
    Absolute Priority: For FY 2006 this priority is an absolute 
priority. Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3), we consider only applications that 
meet this priority.
    This priority is:
    Principal Leadership Professional Development Center to Support 
School Improvement to Ensure Access to, and Participation and Progress 
in the General Education Curriculum in the Least Restrictive 
Environment

Background

    Principal leadership is an essential element of school improvement 
that entails simultaneous attention to effective and efficient service 
delivery, use of resources, and academic performance. Successful 
principals use a variety of strategies and tools to leverage 
improvement on a school-wide basis, for all students including students 
with disabilities. For example, effective principals often build 
partnerships with families, business leaders, and community 
organizations, and establish and mobilize leadership teams to assess 
community resources, align initiatives, and design and implement 
coherent strategic plans to support student success. Principal 
leadership guides students, families, school personnel, and community 
partners through the development, design, implementation, and 
evaluation of coherent and evidence-based systemic school improvement 
strategies. Effective principals also mentor and coach teachers to 
build school capacity to ensure that all students have access to a 
content-rich general education curriculum and instructional supports to 
achieve academic success.
    Unfortunately, there is a gap between evidence-based best practice 
and current practice in principal leadership and implementation of 
school improvement activities. This gap is particularly evident in 
providing access to the general education curriculum in the least 
restrictive environment for students with disabilities.
    Many principals have difficulty with the logistics of establishing 
inclusive classrooms due to the small number of highly qualified 
special education teachers who have full schedules and caseloads, 
causing many schools to group special education students together 
rather than assign them general education classrooms with supplementary 
supports. According to the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal 
Study (2004), 45 percent of elementary and middle school students with 
disabilities receive their primary language arts instruction in special 
education settings--resource rooms, self-contained special education 
classes, or one-to-one instruction rather than in the general education 
classroom. According to the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2 
(2003), even when

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physically present in the general education classroom, students with 
disabilities consistently participate less actively than their 
classmates in their general education academic classes. In 2005, of the 
students with disabilities included in the sample for the National 
Assessment of Educational Progress, 35 percent were excluded from the 
fourth-grade reading assessment and 19 percent were excluded from 
fourth-grade math assessment because of their disability. Furthermore, 
according to the 22nd Annual Report to Congress, 31 percent of special 
education students ages 14 to 21 drop out of school. These statistics 
demonstrate that there is a compelling need for principals to implement 
school improvement activities that ensure that students with 
disabilities have access to, and participate and progress in the 
general education curriculum in the least restrictive environment.

Priority

    The Assistant Secretary establishes an absolute priority for the 
establishment of a Principal Leadership Professional Development Center 
to Support School Improvement to Ensure Access to, and Participation 
and Progress in the General Education Curriculum in the Least 
Restrictive Environment (PD Center). The purpose of the PD Center is to 
support principals in their efforts to implement unified school 
improvement initiatives that are designed to ensure students with 
disabilities have access to, and participate and progress in the 
general education curriculum in the least restrictive environment.
    The PD Center must:
     Assist a cadre of principals in the development, 
implementation, and continuous improvement of school improvement 
efforts using evidence-based practices to ensure that students with 
disabilities have access to, and participate and progress in the 
general education curriculum in the least restrictive environment;
     Support networks of principals engaged in school 
improvement efforts that include students with disabilities;
     Create partnerships among principal professional 
associations, school and university personnel, and business leaders to 
promote and support principal leadership for school improvement and 
inclusion of students with disabilities across the Nation; and
     Use existing principal professional organization networks 
to inform the PD Center's activities and serve as dissemination 
vehicles.
    To meet this priority, the PD Center must:
    (a) Build the capacity of principals to use evidence-based school 
improvement practices to ensure access to, and participation and 
progress in the general education curriculum in the least restrictive 
environment for students with disabilities at the kindergarten through 
grade 12 levels;
    (b) Provide training and onsite professional development to 
principals in partnership with at least 30 schools to lead school 
improvement initiatives that focus on enhancing access to, and 
participation and progress in the general education curriculum in the 
least restrictive environment for students with disabilities;
    (c) Identify and widely disseminate the most successful evidence-
based school systemic improvement practices available to principals 
throughout the United States for school improvement activities that 
ensure access to, and participation and progress in the general 
education curriculum in the least restrictive environment for students 
with disabilities. To the extent possible, the Center should use 
criteria from the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) and other rigorous 
sources in determining what is ``evidenced-based'';
    (d) Complete a synthesis of available research literature within 
the first six months of the project start date. To the extent possible, 
the PD Center will consult with sources such as the WWC, the Access 
Center: Improving Outcomes for All Students K-9 that is funded by the 
Department's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), and the 
review board of OSEP's Dissemination Center. The synthesis must 
include: (1) A summary of the research literature describing promising 
evidence-based school improvement instruction and progress-monitoring 
practices in elementary, middle, and secondary schools that ensure 
access to, and participation and progress in the general education 
curriculum in the least restrictive environment for students with 
disabilities to ensure schools meet adequate yearly progress 
indicators; (2) a conceptual framework using evidence-based research 
practices within a coherent decision-making model to support the 
adoption, implementation, evaluation, sustainability, and scaling up of 
school improvement strategies that ensure access to, and participation 
and progress in the general education curriculum in the least 
restrictive environment for students with disabilities; (3) a 
description of evidence-based practices that may be used to foster and 
maintain partnerships between schools and families to support school 
improvement activities; (4) a description of effective approaches to 
professional development and capacity-building within schools that 
ensure access to, and participation and progress in the general 
education curriculum in the least restrictive environment for students 
with disabilities; and (5) a description of how effective principal 
leaders integrate assessment, curriculum and instruction with learning 
standards, teaching design and practicum, and family participation in 
teaching and learning, in a comprehensive aligned professional 
development model to guide systemic implementation at classroom and 
school levels;
    (e) In years 1 through 3 of the project period, identify, 
implement, and evaluate strategies that support effective principals in 
partnership with at least 30 schools to provide examples of effective 
school improvement implementation of evidence-based and promising 
practices that ensure access to, and participation and progress in the 
general education curriculum in the least restrictive environment for 
students with disabilities. At a minimum, the PD Center must work with 
these 30 partner schools to: (1) Identify and define the scope and 
sequence of ongoing professional development training content as well 
as strategies to measure the acquisition, fidelity, and fluency of 
implementation at the classroom and school levels; (2) establish 
classroom and school structures to increase school improvement capacity 
for ongoing professional development and training; and (3) describe how 
principals work with school and district leaders to incorporate these 
strategies into ongoing district policy and practice;
    (f) Based on lessons learned with principal leaders and school 
improvement efforts in years 1 through 3 of the project period, 
replicate and scale up the PD Center's implementation with an 
additional 200 schools in year 4 of the project period;
    (g) Establish, maintain, and meet at least annually with a national 
advisory group of principal leaders from urban, suburban, and rural 
schools to provide feedback on the plans, activities, and 
accomplishments of the PD Center in collaboration with the OSEP Project 
Officer;
    (h) Use external and internal evaluators to measure and report to 
OSEP on the progress of the PD Center activities included in paragraphs 
(a) through (f) in this priority;
    (i) Meet with the OSEP Project Officer and appropriate OSEP staff 
within the first month of the project start date;
    (j) Budget for the PD Center's project director to attend a three-
day Project Director's Meeting in Washington, DC

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and an additional two-day trip annually to Washington, DC to attend an 
additional Project Director's meeting and to meet and collaborate with 
the OSEP Project Officer and other funded projects for purposes of 
cross-project collaboration and information exchange; and
    (k) If a Web site is maintained, ensure that the information and 
documents available on the Web site are in a format that meets a 
government or industry-recognized standard for accessibility.

Fourth and Fifth Years of the Project

    In deciding whether to continue funding the PD Center for the 
fourth and fifth years, the Secretary, will consider the requirements 
of 34 CFR 75.253(a), and in addition:
    (a) The recommendation of a review team consisting of experts 
selected by the Secretary, which review will be conducted during the 
last half of the project's second year in Washington, DC. Projects must 
budget for the travel associated with this review;
    (b) The timeliness and effectiveness with which all requirements of 
the negotiated cooperative agreement have been or are being met by the 
project; and
    (c) The degree to which the project's design and methodology 
demonstrate the potential for advancing significant new knowledge.
    Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking: Under the Administrative Procedure 
Act (APA) (5 U.S.C. 553) the Department generally offers interested 
parties the opportunity to comment on a proposed priority. However, 
section 681(d) of IDEA makes the public comment requirements of the APA 
inapplicable to the priority in this notice.
    Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1462 and 1481(d).
    Applicable Regulations: The Education Department General 
Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 
81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 97, 98, and 99.

II. Award Information

    Type of Award: Cooperative agreement.
    Estimated Available Funds: $285,000.
    Maximum Award: We will reject any application that proposes a 
budget exceeding $285,000 for a single budget period of 12 months. The 
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services 
may change the maximum amount through a notice published in the Federal 
Register.
    Number of Awards: 1.


    Note: The Department is not bound by any estimates in this 
notice.


    Project Period: Up to 60 months.

III. Eligibility Information

    1. Eligible Applicants: IHEs.
    2. Cost Sharing or Matching: This competition does not involve cost 
sharing or matching.
    3. Other: General Requirements-- (a) The projects funded under this 
competition must make positive efforts to employ and advance in 
employment qualified individuals with disabilities (see section 606 of 
IDEA).
    (b) Applicants and grant recipients funded under this competition 
must involve individuals with disabilities or parents of individuals 
with disabilities ages birth through 26 in planning, implementing, and 
evaluating the projects (see section 682(a)(1)(A) of IDEA).

IV. Application and Submission Information

    1. Address to Request Application Package: Education Publications 
Center (ED Pubs), 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 (TDD), you may call (toll free): 
1-877-576-7734.
    You may also contact ED Pubs at its Web site: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html or you may contact ED Pubs at its e-mail address: 
[email protected].
    If you request an application from ED Pubs, be sure to identify 
this competition as follows: CFDA number 84.325P.
    Individuals with disabilities may obtain a copy of the application 
package in an alternative format (e.g., Braille, large print, 
audiotape, or computer diskette) by contacting the Grants and Contracts 
Services Team listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT in section 
VII of this notice.
    2. Content and Form of Application Submission: Requirements 
concerning the content of an application, together with the forms you 
must submit, are in the application package for this competition. Page 
Limit: The application narrative (Part III of the application) is where 
you, the applicant, address the selection criteria that reviewers use 
to evaluate your application. You must limit Part III to the equivalent 
of no more than 70 pages, using the following standards:
     A ``page'' is 8.5'' x 11'', on one side only, with 
1 margins at the top, bottom, and both sides.
     Double space (no more than three lines per vertical inch) 
all text in the application narrative, including titles, headings, 
footnotes, quotations, references, and captions, as well as all text in 
charts, tables, figures, and graphs.
     Use a font that is either 12 point or larger or no smaller 
than 10 pitch (characters per inch).
    The page limit does not apply to Part I, the cover sheet; Part II, 
the budget section, including the narrative budget justification; Part 
IV, the assurances and certifications; or the one-page abstract, the 
resumes, the bibliography, the references, or the letters of support. 
However, you must include all of the application narrative in Part III.
    We will reject your application if:
     You apply these standards and exceed the page limit; or
     You apply other standards and exceed the equivalent of the 
page limit.
    3. Submission Dates and Times:
    Applications Available: February 9, 2006.
    Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: March 24, 2006.
    Applications for grants under this competition may be submitted 
electronically using the Grants.gov Apply site (Grants.gov), or in 
paper format by mail or hand delivery. For information (including dates 
and times) about how to submit your application electronically, or by 
mail or hand delivery, please refer to section IV.6. Other Submission 
Requirements in this notice.
    We do not consider an application that does not comply with the 
deadline requirements.
    Deadline for Intergovernmental Review: May 23, 2006.
    4. Intergovernmental Review: This program is subject to Executive 
Order 12372 and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79. Information about 
Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs under Executive Order 
12372 is in the application package for this competition.
    5. Funding Restrictions: We reference regulations outlining funding 
restrictions in the Applicable Regulations section of this notice.
    6. Other Submission Requirements: Applications for grants under 
this competition may be submitted electronically or in paper format by 
mail or hand delivery.
    a. Electronic Submission of Applications.
    We have been accepting applications electronically through the 
Department's e-Application system since FY 2000. In order to expand on 
those efforts and comply with the President's Management Agenda, we are 
continuing to participate as a partner in the new government wide 
Grants.gov Apply site in FY 2006. Principal Leadership Professional 
Development Center to

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Support School Improvement to Ensure Access to, and Participation and 
Progress in the General Education Curriculum in the Least Restrictive 
Environment--CFDA Number 84.325P is one of the competitions included in 
this project. We request your participation in Grants.gov.
    If you choose to submit your application electronically, you must 
use the Grants.gov Apply site at http://www.Grants.gov. Through this 
site, you will be able to download a copy of the application package, 
complete it offline, and then upload and submit your application. You 
may not e-mail an electronic copy of a grant application to us.
    You may access the electronic grant application for the Principal 
Leadership Professional Development Center to Support School 
Improvement to Ensure Access to, and Participation and Progress in the 
General Education Curriculum in the Least Restrictive Environment--CFDA 
Number 84.325P competition at: http://www.grants.gov. You must search 
for the downloadable application package for this program by the CFDA 
number. Do not include the CFDA number's alpha suffix in your search.
    Please note the following:
     Your participation in Grants.gov is voluntary.
     When you enter the Grants.gov site, you will find 
information about submitting an application electronically through the 
site, as well as the hours of operation.
     Applications received by Grants.gov are time and date 
stamped. Your application must be fully uploaded and submitted, and 
must be date/time stamped by the Grants.gov system no later than 4:30 
p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. Except as 
otherwise noted in this section, we will not consider your application 
if it is date/time stamped by the Grants.gov system later than 4:30 
p.m., Washington, DC time, on the application deadline date. When we 
retrieve your application from Grants.gov, we will notify you if we are 
rejecting your application because it was date/time stamped by the 
Grants.gov system after 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 
application deadline date.
     The amount of time it can take to upload an application 
will vary depending on a variety of factors including the size of the 
application and the speed of your Internet connection. Therefore, we 
strongly recommend that you do not wait until the application deadline 
date to begin the application process through Grants.gov.
     You should review and follow the Education Submission 
Procedures for submitting an application through Grants.gov that are 
included in the application package for this competition to ensure that 
you submit your application in a timely manner to the Grants.gov 
system. You can also find the Education Submission Procedures 
pertaining to Grants.gov at http://e-Grants.ed.gov/help/GrantsgovSubmissionProcedures.pdf.
     To submit your application via Grants.gov, you must 
complete all of the steps in the Grants.gov registration process (see 
http://www.Grants.gov/GetStarted). These steps include (1) registering 
your organization, (2) registering yourself as an Authorized 
Organization Representative (AOR), and (3) getting authorized as an AOR 
by your organization. Details on these steps are outlined in the 
Grants.gov 3-Step Registration Guide (see http://www.grants.gov/assets/GrantsgovCoBrandBrochure8X11.pdf). You also must provide on your 
application the same D-U-N-S Number used with this registration. Please 
note that the registration process may take five or more business days 
to complete, and you must have completed all registration steps to 
allow you to successfully submit an application via Grants.gov.
     You will not receive additional point value because you 
submit your application in electronic format, nor will we penalize you 
if you submit your application in paper format.
     You may submit all documents electronically, including all 
information typically included on the Application for Federal Education 
Assistance (ED 424), Budget Information--Non-Construction Programs (ED 
524), and all necessary assurances and certifications. If you choose to 
submit your application electronically, you must attach any narrative 
sections of your application as files in a .DOC (document), .RTF (rich 
text) or .PDF (Portable Document) format. If you upload a file type 
other than the three file types specified above or submit a password 
protected file, we will not review that material.
     Your electronic application must comply with any page 
limit requirements described in this notice.
     After you electronically submit your application, you will 
receive an automatic acknowledgment from Grants.gov that contains a 
Grants.gov tracking number. The Department will retrieve your 
application from Grants.gov and send you a second confirmation by e-
mail that will include a PR/Award number (an ED-specified identifying 
number unique to your application).
     We may request that you provide us original signatures on 
forms at a later date.

Application Deadline Date Extension in Case of System Unavailability

    If you are prevented from electronically submitting your 
application on the application deadline date because of technical 
problems with the Grants.gov system, we will grant you an extension 
until 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, the following business day to 
enable you to transmit your application electronically, or by hand 
delivery. You also may mail your application by following the mailing 
instructions as described elsewhere in this notice. If you submit an 
application after 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the deadline date, 
please contact the person listed elsewhere in this notice under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, and provide an explanation of the 
technical problem you experienced with Grants.gov, along with the 
Grants.gov Support Desk Case Number (if available). We will accept your 
application if we can confirm that a technical problem occurred with 
the Grants.gov system and that that problem affected your ability to 
submit your application by 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, on the 
application deadline date. The Department will contact you after a 
determination is made on whether your application will be accepted.


    Note: Extensions referred to in this section apply only to the 
unavailability of or technical problems with the Grants.gov system. 
We will not grant you an extension if you failed to fully register 
to submit your application to Grants.gov before the deadline date 
and time or if the technical problem you experienced is unrelated to 
the Grants.gov system.


    b. Submission of Paper Applications by Mail.
    If you submit your application in paper format by mail (through the 
U.S. Postal Service or a commercial carrier), you must mail the 
original and two copies of your application, on or before the 
application deadline date, to the Department at the applicable 
following address:
    By mail through the U.S. Postal Service: U.S. Department of 
Education, Application Control Center, Attention: (CFDA Number 
84.325P), 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202-4260; or
    By mail through a commercial carrier: U.S. Department of Education, 
Application Control Center--Stop 4260,

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Attention: (CFDA Number 84.325P), 7100 Old Landover Road, Landover, MD 
20785-1506.
    Regardless of which address you use, you must show proof of mailing 
consisting of one of the following:
    (1) A legibly dated U.S. Postal Service postmark.
    (2) A legible mail receipt with the date of mailing stamped by the 
U.S. Postal Service.
    (3) A dated shipping label, invoice, or receipt from a commercial 
carrier, or
    (4) Any other proof of mailing acceptable to the Secretary of the 
U.S. Department of Education.
    If you mail your application through the U.S. Postal Service, we do 
not accept either of the following as proof of mailing:
    (1) A private metered postmark, or
    (2) A mail receipt that is not dated by the U.S. Postal Service.
    If your application is postmarked after the application deadline 
date, we will not consider your application.


    Note: The U.S. Postal Service does not uniformly provide a dated 
postmark. Before relying on this method, you should check with your 
local post office.


    c. Submission of Paper Applications by Hand Delivery.
    If you submit your application in paper format by hand delivery, 
you (or a courier service) must deliver the original and two copies of 
your application by hand, on or before the application deadline date, 
to the Department at the following address: U.S. Department of 
Education, Application Control Center, Attention: (CFDA Number 
84.325P), 550 12th Street, SW., Room 7041, Potomac Center Plaza, 
Washington, DC 20202-4260.
    The Application Control Center accepts hand deliveries daily 
between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Washington, DC time, except Saturdays, 
Sundays and Federal holidays.
    Note for Mail or Hand Delivery of Paper Applications: If you mail 
or hand deliver your application to the Department:
    (1) You must indicate on the envelope and--if not provided by the 
Department--in Item 4 of ED 424 the CFDA number--and suffix letter, if 
any--of the competition under which you are submitting your 
application.
    (2) The Application Control Center will mail a grant application 
receipt acknowledgment to you. If you do not receive the grant 
application receipt acknowledgment within 15 business days from the 
application deadline date, you should call the U.S. Department of 
Education Application Control Center at (202) 245-6288.

V. Application Review Information

    Selection Criteria: The selection criteria for this competition are 
from 34 CFR 75.210 and are listed in the application package.

VI. Award Administration Information

    1. Award Notices: If your application is successful, we notify your 
U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators and send you a Grant Award 
Notification (GAN). We may also notify you informally.
    If your application is not evaluated or not selected for funding, 
we notify you.
    2. Administrative and National Policy Requirements: We identify 
administrative and national policy requirements in the application 
package and reference these and other requirements in the Applicable 
Regulations section of this notice.
    We reference the regulations outlining the terms and conditions of 
an award in the Applicable Regulations section of this notice and 
include these and other specific conditions in the GAN. The GAN also 
incorporates your approved application as part of your binding 
commitments under the grant.
    3. Reporting: At the end of your project period, you must submit a 
final performance report, including financial information, as directed 
by the Secretary. If you receive a multi-year award, you must submit an 
annual performance report that provides the most current performance 
and financial expenditure information as specified by the Secretary in 
34 CFR 75.118.
    4. Performance Measures: Under the Government Performance and 
Results Act (GPRA), the Department has developed measures that will 
yield information on various aspects of the technical assistance and 
dissemination activities currently being supported under IDEA Part D. 
These measures will be used for the Principal Leadership Professional 
Development Center to Support School Improvement to Ensure Access to, 
and Participation and Progress in the General Education Curriculum in 
the Least Restrictive Environment competition, and they focus on: The 
extent to which projects provide high quality products and services, 
the relevance of project products and services to educational and early 
intervention policy and practice, and the use of products and services 
to improve educational and early intervention policy and practice.
    We will notify grantees if they will be required to provide any 
information related to these measures.
    Grantees will also be required to report information on their 
projects' performance in annual reports to the Department (34 CFR 
75.590).

VII. Agency Contact

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anne Smith, U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 4086, Potomac Center Plaza, 
Washington, DC 20202-2600. Telephone: (202) 245-7529.
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), you may 
call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) 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 by contacting the following office: The Grants and 
Contracts Services Team, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland 
Avenue, SW., Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202-2550. 
Telephone: (202) 245-7363.

VIII. Other Information

    Electronic Access to This Document: You may view this document, as 
well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal 
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the 
Internet at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister.
    To use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available 
free at this site. If you have questions about using PDF, call the U.S. 
Government Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1-888-293-6498; or in 
the Washington, DC, area at (202) 512-1530.


    Note: The official version of this document is the document 
published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the 
official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal 
Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html.


    Dated: February 6, 2006.
John H. Hager,
Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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