2232 Eisenhower postsecondary grant application guidelines for professional development programs for reading

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Eisenhower Postsecondary Grant Application Guidelines for Professional Development Programs for Reading

[31 Pa.B. 6829]

   Applications from Commonwealth nonprofit organizations, which have previously conducted successful reading professional development activities, and Commonwealth institutions of higher education will be accepted for professional development programs specially-designed to improve reading in this Commonwealth. Grant awards will be funded with higher education money authorized by Subchapter II--Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program--The Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (Pub. L. No. 103-382). Awards are contingent upon receipt of the Federal appropriation for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program. The Commonwealth has approximately $300,000 available for competition.

   Copies of the Eisenhower Postsecondary Grant Application (EPGA) guidelines are available on the Department of Education's (Department) website at http://www.pde.psu.edu or from the Issuing Office, which is the sole point of contact for the guidelines: Division of Program Services, Bureau of Postsecondary Services, Department of Education, 333 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17126-0333; [phone]; TDD [phone].

   A preproposal conference is scheduled for Friday, January 4, 2002, at 10 a.m. in the Honors Suite, 1st Floor, 333 Market Street, Harrisburg. Attendance by a representative or regional site is a prerequisite to submitting an application. If special accommodations are required to participate in the preproposal conference, contact the Division of Program Services. Written questions are to be submitted by January 2, 2002, on PDE-4658 available on the Department's website at http://www.pde.psu.edu.

   Applications submitted in response to the EPGA guidelines are due in the Division of Program Services no later than 5 p.m., Thursday, January 31, 2002.

CHARLES B. ZOGBY,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 01-2232. Filed for public inspection December 14, 2001, 9:00 a.m.]