NOTICES
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Eligible Partnerships Postsecondary Grant Application Guidelines for Conducting Mathematics Professional Development for Educators in this Commonwealth
[33 Pa.B. 4692] The Department of Education has established Eligible Partnerships Postsecondary Grant Application (application) guidelines to provide direction to eligible partnerships for submitting applications targeting the quality of teachers, principals and paraprofessionals. An eligible partnership that receives a grant under these guidelines shall use the grant for designing and implementing mathematics professional development for this Commonwealth which provides assistance to high need local educational agencies, their teachers, principals and paraprofessionals to ensure that they are able to use the Commonwealth's mathematics content standards and Pennsylvania System of School Assessment data to strengthen and enhance instructional practices for improving student academic achievement. The guidelines define a partnership that is eligible to apply; each partnership must designate either an institution of higher education or an intermediate unit as the lead organization to execute a contract or memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth. Approximately $1.6 million is available on a competitive basis under these guidelines. Eight to ten contracts or memoranda of understanding will be awarded in amounts ranging from $10,000 to $200,000.
Copies of the application guidelines are available on the Department's website at http://www.pde.state.pa.us or from the Issuing Office, Division of Program Services, Bureau of Postsecondary Services, Department of Education, 333 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17126-0333, (717) 772-3623, TDD (717) 783-8445.
A preproposal conference is scheduled for Thursday, October 2, 2003, 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 September 30, 2003, on PDE-4658 available on the Department's website.
Applications submitted in response to the application guidelines are due in the Division of Program Services by 5 p.m. on Monday, October 20, 2003.
VICKI L. PHILLIPS, Ed.D.,
Secretary
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 03-1846. Filed for public inspection September 19, 2003, 9:00 a.m.]
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