Criteria (c) Operational plan. (1) Utilization of prior activities of applicant and others: The application clearly describes the prior career education activities which the applicant has carried out, if any, and presents evidence describing the effectiveness of these activities. The application describes relevant career education processes, techniques, and materials developed in previous projects supported by the Office of Career Education, the National Institute of Education and other agencies and sources, and explains how this prior work will be utilized in implementing the proposed project....... (2) Proposed activities: A specific description is provided of the activities proposed for each major step in the project. The time required for each activity, and the period of the project it covers, is clearly charted in the operational plan....... (d) Interaction and involvement. Specific measures are described for achieving a high level of interaction between the world of education and the world of work in implementing the proposed project .... (e) Evaluation plan. Provision is made for adequate evaluation of the effectiveness of the project and for determining the extent to which the objectives are accomplished......... (f) Exemplary nature of project. The plan clearly calls for a comprehensive career education model that, if successfully attained, holds high promise of serving as one that others could profit by emulating. The activities hold promise of being useful in other career education projects or programs for similar educational purposes...... (g) Personnel. The personnel with committed major responsibilities for the proposed activities have the necessary qualifications and experience to assure successful completion of the activities. Evidence presented shows the commitment necessary from individuals and groups whose assistance is needed to accomplish the proposed objectives.... (h) Budget. The size, scope, and duration of the project are reasonable and the estimated cost is reasonable in relation to anticipated results..... (20 U.S.C. 1865) § 160d.8 Allowable costs. Maximum score 8 17 10 20 15 10 5 (a) Allowable costs under grants and assistance contracts awarded under this subpart shall be determined in accordance with cost principles set forth in Appendix B, C, or D (as applicable) to Subchapter A of Title 45 Code of Federal Regulations (the Office of Education's General Provisions Regulations). (b) It is expected that grants and assistance contracts under this subpart will generally not exceed $200,000, although each application will be judged on the basis of the proposed activities. (20 U.S.C. 1865) § 160d.9 Project duration. (a) Projects will normally be one year in duration. However, applicants should make a realistic estimate of the amount of time needed to implement the proposed project activities. Where this estimate indicates that more or less than one year is necessary, the operational plan and budget should reflect this. (b) With respect to applications requesting more than one year of funding, it is anticipated that generally an initial grant or assistance contract will be awarded for the first year of the project. In order to be considered for funding for any remaining time period, the grantee or assistance contractor will be required to submit a new application upon announcement of subsequent competition for funding. This new application will be judged on the basis of the published evaluation criteria in competition with other applications received in such subsequent competition. (20 U.S.C. 1865) § 160d.10 State review and comment. States may submit advice and comment on any application originating within their States. In order to allow for this, an applicant must provide a copy of its application to the State educational agency of the State within which the applicant is located. This copy must be submitted to the State Coordinator of Career Education, as designated by the Chief State School Officer, concurrently with the submission of the application to the Commissioner. (20 U.S.C. 1865) Projects funded under this subpart must be designed to develop a comprehensive State plan for implementing career education in the elementary and secondary schools of the State. This plan (which must be submitted upon completion of activities funded pursuant to this subpart) must set forth at least the following: (a) The State educational agency's definition of career education and the conceptual base upon which career education within the State rests; (b) The need for career education within the State; (c) Career education efforts and accomplishments to date to meet identified needs within the State, including an assessment of existing programs, practices, and materials; (d) The objectives for the short range (one year) and long range (five years) implementation of career education within the State (the one year objectives and plan must cover school year 1977-1978 and the five year objectives and plan must cover school year 1977-1978 through school year 19811982 inclusive); (e) The strategies, activities, and resources to be utilized in implementing the short- and long-range plan in the following areas: (1) Curriculum changes, including experiential learning outside of the school building and changes in vocational education; (2) Career counseling, career guidance, career placement and follow-up; (3) Meeting the career education needs of special groups, including the handicapped and other educationally disadvantaged students, and eliminating the stereotyping of career opportunities by race or by sex; (4) Involving the business-labor-industry-professional-government munity in career education; com (5) Involving the home and family structure in career education; and (6) Training and retraining, both pre- and in-service, for personnel to enable them to implement career education; (f) Plans for evaluating the effectiveness of career education inputs processes, and outcomes in local educational agencies and personnel training programs; (g) Plans for disseminating information about career education, career education practices and products, and the results of career education efforts to interested persons within the State; (h) The funding that will be needed to implement the various components of the one year and five year plans and the sources of the necessary funding, where these sources are available; (i) The relationship of the State plan for career education to career education activities being carried out and contemplated in postsecondary and adult education settings; and (j) The manner in which the plan is to be implemented and administered by the State educational agency, including allocation of resources, management of activities, provision of assistance to others within the State, staffing for career education within the State educational agency, and the relationship of the career education plan to other planning efforts at the State level (e.g. Vocational Education State Plan, Title III State Plan, etc.). (20 U.S.C. 1865) § 160d.14 Required application data. Each application for assistance under this subpart must set forth a detailed proposal which includes at least the items listed below. In the event that the applicant has already initiated or completed any of the following activities, the application will describe fully the procedures used and the results obtained. The remainder of the application will then deal with the activities proposed as necessary to complete or update work already underway on a State plan. The application shall include: (a) Provisions for the establishment and use of a career education advisory group to provide advice and assistance during the development of the State plan. This group shall contain members representing at least the following groups: (1) Major units of the State educational agency and, where these are separate organizations, the State Board of Vocational Education and the State system of higher education; (2) Other State governmental units whose assistance is considered necessary in implementing career education; (3) Business and industry; (4) Labor; (5) Institutions of higher education with educational personnel preparation programs; (6) School administrators; (7) Counselors; (8) Teachers; (9) Vocational education personnel; (10) Parents; and (11) Students. (b) Provisions for assessing the career education needs of all students in the elementary, middle/junior high, and senior high schools of the State, including the special needs of handicapped and other educationally disadvantaged students; (c) Provisions for assessing the need for the training and retraining of educational personnel to serve in career education programs; (d) Provisions for identifying existing and potential resources from across the United States that could be used to develop and implement career education within the State, including at least the following types of re sources: (1) Career education instructional materials; (2) Educational facilities; (4) Career education programs and practices with potential for use within the State, including programs and practices designed to eliminate sexrole stereotyping in career choices; (5) Business, labor, industry, professional, government, and other community resources; and (6) Funding sources and funds. (e) Provisions for developing both a short-range (one year-school year 1977-1978) and long-range (five years-school years 1977-1978 through 1981-1982 inclusive) plan for the development and implementation of career education, including procedures to be used in: (1) Setting goals; (2) Specifying performance objectives; (3) Determining strategies, activities, and resources to be used; and (4) Determining the process to be used to administer, monitor, and update the implementation of the plan; (f) A statement of the manner in which the applicant will manage the preparation of the plan, including the names and qualifications of proposed staff, their reporting relationships within the State educational agency, any proposed subcontracts, a management plan, including tasks and timelines, for completing the plan in the time period specified in the application; and (g) A statement by the Chief State School Officer of the State educational agency endorsing the submission of the application for funding under this subpart. (20 U.S.C. 1865(f)(2)) § 160d.15 Application review criteria. Criteria will be utilized by reviewers in reviewing formally transmitted applications. Segments or a segment of the application must address each criterion area. Each criterion is weighted and includes the maximum score that can be given to a segment of an appli cation in relation to the criterion. Criteria weights total 100 points. The criteria and maximum weights for each criterion are as follows: Criteria (a) Evidence of need. The application demonstrates an understanding of career education and justifies the State's need for a comprehensive State plan for the development and implementation of career education. Any prior State plan efforts and their results are fully described and it is clear that the proposed activities will build upon these prior efforts. Evidence is presented which demonstrates the State's commitment to implement the plan that is developed, including endorsement of the application by the Chief State School Officer.......... (b) Advisory group. The application fully describes the present or planned advisory group to be used in the development of the plan. The types of constituents to be represented and the names and titles of members are presented. The group is broadly representative of the constituencies to be involved in the implementation of career education and procedures are described for effective use of the group (c) Needs assessment. The application fully describes the procedures to be used and the areas to be covered in conducting the needs assessment. Survey techniques planned are described in detail. The procedures will assure identification of the career education needs of all children within the State. If a career education needs assessment has already been initiated, the data are sufficient, of high quality, and support the conclusions drawn.. (d) Resource identification. The application fully describes the procedures to be used to survey existing and potential resources for use in the development and implementation of career education within the State. The process assures the surveying of resources from across the nation. If resource identification has already been initiated, the results are sufficient, of high quality, and support the conclusions drawn........ (e) Development of plan. The application clearly describes the process to be used to develop both the 1year and the 5-year plans.. (f) Personnel and management. The application clearly identifies the staff to be used in developing the Maximum score 10 10 25 15 20 § 160d.17 Project duration. (a) Projects will normally be one year in duration. However, applicants should make a realistic estimate of the amount of time needed to implement the proposed project activities. The exact funding period requested should be based on the extent of planning which remains to be accomplished to develop the plan required by this subpart. It is expected that States which have already engaged in career education planning efforts will not be funded for more than one year unless this is strongly justified. (b) With respect to applications requesting more than one year of funding, it is anticipated that generally an initial grant or assistance contract will be awarded for the first year of the project. In order to be considered for funding for any remaining time period, the grantee or assistance contractor will be required to submit a new application upon announcement (b) Purpose. The purpose of this part is to award grants and contracts for activities designed to support: (1) The development, demonstration, evaluation, and dissemination of new and improved curricula in consumers' education; (2) The initiation and expansion of consumers' education programs at the elementary, secondary, community, adult, and higher education levels; (3) The training of teachers, other educational and public service personnel, community and labor leaders and employees, and government employees at the Federal, State and local levels in consumers' education; and (4) Activities designed to provide consumers' education to the general public. |