81 FR 90808 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Grant Application Form for Project Objectives and Performance Measures Information

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 241 (December 15, 2016)

Page Range		90808-90809
FR Document		2016-30106

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a new information collection.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 241 (Thursday, December 15, 2016)

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 241 (Thursday, December 15, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 90808-90809]
From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-30106]

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No. ED-2016-ICCC-0141]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; Grant
Application Form for Project Objectives and Performance Measures
Information

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of Education (ED).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is proposing a new information
collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
February 13, 2017.

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the
information collection listed in this notice, please use http://www.regulations.gov by searching the Docket ID number ED-2016-ICCC-
0141. Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted
electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov by selecting the Docket ID number or via postal
mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. Please note that comments
submitted by fax or email and those submitted after the comment period
will not be accepted. Written requests for information or comments
submitted by postal mail or delivery should be addressed to the
Director of the Information Collection Clearance Division, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room 2E-343,
Washington, DC 20202-4537.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Alfreida Pettiford, 202-245-6110.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education (ED), in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general public and Federal agencies with
an opportunity to comment on proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps the Department assess the impact
of its information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. It also helps the public understand the Department's
information collection requirements and provide the requested data in
the desired format. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed
information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The
Department of Education is especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection necessary to
the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this information be
processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate of burden
accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (5) how might the
Department minimize the burden of this collection on the respondents,
including through the use of information technology. Please note that
written comments received in response to this notice will be considered
public records.
Title of Collection: Grant Application Form for Project Objectives
and Performance Measures Information.
OMB Control Number: 1894-NEW.
Type of Review: A new information collection.
Respondents/Affected Public: Private Sector.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 6,349.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 31,745.
Abstract: The U.S. Department of Education Grant Application Form
for Project Objectives and Performance Measures Information serves as a
precursor to the U.S. Department of Education Grant Performance Report
Form (ED 524 B) in which project objectives, measures, and targets will
be entered by applicants at the time that grant applications are
entered in Grants.gov.
The Grant Application Form for Project Objectives and Performance
Measures Information form and instructions are used by many ED
discretionary grant programs to enable grantees to meet ED deadline
dates for submission of performance reports to the Department.

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Dated: December 12, 2016.
Stephanie Valentine,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Office of
the Chief Privacy Officer, Office of Management.
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Dated: December 12, 2016. innovative projects that are supported This notice invites applications for
Stephanie Valentine, by limited evidence can receive Early-phase grants only. The notices
Acting Director, Information Collection relatively small grants to support the inviting applications for Mid-phase and
Clearance Division, Office of the Chief Privacy development, iteration, and initial Expansion grants are published
Officer, Office of Management. evaluation of the practices (as defined in elsewhere in this issue of the Federal
[FR Doc. 2016–30106 Filed 12–14–16; 8:45 am] this notice); applicants proposing Register.
BILLING CODE 4000–01–P projects supported by evidence from Background: EIR builds on seven
rigorous evaluations, such as large years of investments—over $1.4 billion,
randomized controlled trials (as defined matched by over $200 million in private
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION in this notice), can receive larger grant sector resources—from the Department’s
awards to support expansion across the Investing in Innovation (i3) program. i3
Applications for New Awards; country. This structure provides has generated new information
Education Innovation and Research incentives for applicants to: (1) Explore regarding effective educational practices
Program—Early-Phase Grants new ways of addressing persistent and increased evaluators’ capacity to
challenges that other educators can conduct rigorous evaluations of student
AGENCY: Office of Innovation and
build on and learn from; (2) build learning outcomes that provide
Improvement, Department of Education.
evidence of effectiveness of their actionable information for educators.
ACTION: Notice. EIR is designed to build upon the
practices; and (3) replicate and scale
successful practices in new schools, successes of i3 to offer new
Overview Information districts, and states while addressing the opportunities for States, districts,
Education Innovation and Research barriers to scale, such as cost structures schools, and educators to develop
Program—Early-phase Grants. and implementation fidelity. innovations and scale effective practices
Notice inviting applications for new All EIR projects are expected to that address their most pressing
awards for fiscal year (FY) 2017. generate information regarding their challenges.
Catalog of Federal Domestic effectiveness in order to inform EIR Early-phase EIR grantees are expected
grantees’ efforts to learn about and to continuously make improvements in
Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.411C
improve upon their efforts, and to help project design and implementation
(Early-phase Grants).
similar, non-EIR efforts across the before conducting a full-scale evaluation
DATES:
country benefit from EIR grantees’ of effectiveness. Grantees should
Applications Available: December 19, consider questions such as:
knowledge. By requiring that all
2016. • How easy would it be for others to
grantees conduct independent
Deadline for Notice of Intent To implement this practice, and how can
evaluations (as defined in this notice) of
Apply: February 13, 2017. its implementation be improved?
Deadline for Transmittal of their EIR projects, EIR ensures that its
funded projects make a significant • How can I use data from early
Applications: April 13, 2017. indicators to gauge impact, and what
Deadline for Intergovernmental contribution to improving the quality
and quantity of information available to changes in implementation and student
Review: June 13, 2017. achievement do these early indicators
practitioners and policymakers about
Full Text of Announcement which practices improve student suggest? By focusing on continuous
achievement, for which types of improvement and iterative
I. Funding Opportunity Description development, Early-stage grantees can
students, and in what contexts.
Purpose of Program: The Education The Department of Education make adaptations that are necessary to
Innovation and Research (EIR) Program, (Department) awards three types of increase their practice’s potential to be
established under section 4611 of the grants under this program: ‘‘Early- effective and ensure that its EIR-funded
Elementary and Secondary Education phase’’ grants, ‘‘Mid-phase’’ grants, and evaluation assesses the impact of a
Act (ESEA), as amended by Every ‘‘Expansion’’ grants. These grants differ thoroughly conceived practice.
Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), provides in terms of the level of prior evidence In order to leverage existing
funding to create, develop, implement, of effectiveness required for information that can inform which
replicate, or take to scale consideration for funding, the kinds of practices could have a
entrepreneurial, evidence-based, field- expectations regarding the kind of meaningful impact on underserved
initiated innovations to improve student evidence and information funded students, Early-phase applicants must
achievement (as defined in this notice) projects should produce, the level of demonstrate a rationale (as defined in
and attainment for high-need students scale funded projects should reach, and, this notice) for their project. In addition,
(as defined in this notice); and consequently, the amount of funding like all EIR grantees, Early-stage
rigorously evaluate such innovations. available to support each type of project. grantees are expected to conduct an
The EIR program is designed to generate EIR Early-phase grants provide independent evaluation. Given EIR’s
and validate solutions to persistent funding to support the development, goal of helping develop a collective
educational challenges and to support iteration, implementation, and body of evidence that can inform the
the expansion of effective solutions to feasibility testing of practices that are future expansion and refinement of
serve substantially larger numbers of expected to be novel and significant practices that effectively serve high-
students. relative to others that are underway need students, Early-stage grantees’
The central design element of the EIR nationally. These Early-phase grants are evaluation designs are expected to have
program is its multi-tier structure that not intended simply to implement the potential meet the moderate
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links the amount of funding that an established practices in additional evidence (as defined in this notice)
applicant may receive to the quality of locations or address needs that are threshold. Not only will such evaluation
the evidence supporting the efficacy of unique to one particular context. The data build the knowledge base about
the proposed project, with the goal is to determine whether and in effective practices for underserved
expectation that projects that build this what ways relatively newer practices students, but it will also encourage
evidence will advance through EIR’s can improve student achievement for prospective Mid-phase applicants to
grant tiers. Applicants proposing high-need students. leverage the findings from Early-phase

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Section		Notices
Action		Notice.
Dates		Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before February 13, 2017.
Contact		For specific questions related to collection activities, please contact Alfreida Pettiford, 202-245-6110.
FR Citation		81 FR 90808