Rule2023-06303
Pell Grants for Prison Education Programs; Determining the Amount of Federal Education Assistance Funds Received by Institutions of Higher Education (90/10); Change in Ownership and Change in Control; Correction
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Published
March 28, 2023
Effective
July 1, 2023
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Education Department
Abstract
On October 28, 2022, the Department of Education (Department) published in the Federal Register final regulations for the Pell Grants for Prison Education Programs (PEPs). This document corrects those regulations by clarifying the requirements associated with an accrediting agency's review of a new PEP.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 28, 2023)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 18255-18256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06303]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
34 CFR Parts 600, 668, and 690
[Docket ID ED-2022-OPE-0062]
RIN 1840-AD54, 1840-AD55, 1840-AD66, 1840-AD69
Pell Grants for Prison Education Programs; Determining the Amount
of Federal Education Assistance Funds Received by Institutions of
Higher Education (90/10); Change in Ownership and Change in Control;
Correction
AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.
ACTION: Final regulations; correction.
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SUMMARY: On October 28, 2022, the Department of Education (Department)
published in the Federal Register final regulations for the Pell Grants
for Prison Education Programs (PEPs). This document corrects those
regulations by clarifying the requirements associated with an
accrediting agency's review of a new PEP.
DATES: This correction is effective July 1, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron Washington. Telephone: (202)
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 28, 2022, the Department
published in the Federal Register final regulations that, among other
things, establish requirements for postsecondary educational
institutions to offer PEPs (87 FR 65426), effective July 1, 2023. The
approval process for new PEPs under Sec. 668.237(b) requires review by
the postsecondary educational institution's accrediting agency.
Specifically, under Sec. 668.237(b)(4), the accrediting agency must
have reviewed and approved the methodology for how the institution, in
collaboration with the oversight entity, made the determination that
the prison education program meets the same standards as substantially
similar programs that are not prison education programs at the
institution. Under Sec. 668.236(a)(3), however, the oversight entity
is not required to make this determination until two years after the
initial PEP is approved to operate by the Department.
We are correcting Sec. 668.237(b)(4) by adding the words ``If the
requirements of Sec. 668.236(a)(3) are satisfied,'' to make clear
that, as part of its review of new PEPs, the accrediting agency reviews
the referenced methodology only after the two-year period set forth in
Sec. 668.236(a)(3).
Correction
In FR Doc. 2022-23078, published in the Federal Register on October
28, 2022 (87 FR 65426), on page 65496, in the third column, in Sec.
668.237, paragraph (b)(4) is corrected to read as follows:
Sec. 668.237 [Corrected]
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(b) * * *
(4) If the requirements under Sec. 668.236(a)(3) are satisfied,
reviewed and approved the methodology for how the institution, in
collaboration with the oversight entity, made the determination that
the prison education program meets the same standards as substantially
similar programs that are not prison education programs at the
institution.
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Miguel A. Cardona,
Secretary of Education.
[FR Doc. 2023-06303 Filed 3-27-23; 8:45 am]
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