1392 Eisenhower postsecondary grant application guidelines for professional development programs for improving mathematics and science training and learning

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Eisenhower Postsecondary Grant Application Guidelines for Professional Development Programs for Improving Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning

[30 Pa.B. 4268]

   Applications from Pennsylvania nonprofit organizations, which have previously conducted successful mathematics and/or science professional development activities, Pennsylvania institutions of higher education and intermediate units will be accepted for professional development programs specially-designed to improve mathematics and science teaching and learning in the 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 (P. L. 103-382). Awards are contingent upon receipt of the Federal appropriation for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program. Pennsylvania has approximately $566,227 available for competition.

   Copies of the Eisenhower Postsecondary Grant Application (EPGA) guidelines are available on the Department's web page at http://www.pde.psu.edu/posteisen.html. The Issuing Office, which is the sole point of contact for these guidelines, is the 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 Tuesday, August 29, 2000, at 10 a.m. in the Honors Suite, 1st Floor, 333 Market Street, Harrisburg. If special accommodations are required to participate in the preproposal conference, contact the Division of Program Services. Written questions are to be submitted by August 24, 2000, on PDE-4658 which is available on the Department's web page at http://www.pde.psu.edu/posteisen. html.

   Applications submitted in response to the EPGA guidelines are due in the Division of Program Services no later than 5 p.m., Friday, September 22, 2000.

EUGENE W. HICKOK,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 00-1392. Filed for public inspection August 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.]