Notice2024-08341
Peer Review Opportunities With the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE); Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA); Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE); and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
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April 19, 2024
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The U.S. Department of Education (Department) announces opportunities for individuals to participate in its peer review process for competitive grant funding under the programs administered by OESE, OELA, OPE, and OSERS.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 77 (Friday, April 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28757-28759]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-08341]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Peer Review Opportunities With the U.S. Department of Education's
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE); Office of English
Language Acquisition (OELA); Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE);
and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of English
Language Acquisition, Office of Postsecondary Education, and Office of
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Education (Department) announces
opportunities for individuals to participate in its peer review process
for competitive grant funding under the programs administered by OESE,
OELA, OPE, and OSERS.
DATES: Requests to serve as a peer reviewer for fiscal year 2024 will
be accepted on an ongoing basis, aligned with this year's grant
competition schedule. Requests to serve as a peer reviewer should be
submitted at least four weeks prior to the program's application
deadline noted on the Department's website under ``Forecast of Funding
Opportunities'' at <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html">www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html</a>.
This notice highlights the specific needs of OESE, OELA, OPE, and
OSERS.
ADDRESSES: An individual interested in serving as a peer reviewer must
register and upload his or her resume in the Department's grants
management system known as ``G6'' at <a href="http://www.g6.gov">www.g6.gov</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
OESE: Andrew Brake, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW, Room 4B168, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453-6136.
Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ceafa0aabcabb9e0acbcafa5ab8eabaae0a9a1b8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1879767c6a7d6f367a6a79737d587d7c367f776e">[email protected]</span></a>.
OELA: Francisco Javier L[oacute]pez, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20202-5076. Telephone: (202)
558-4880. Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#602e3024525052542005044e070f16"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f0bea0b4c2c0c2c4b09594de979f86">[email protected]</span></a>.
OPE: Tonya Hardin, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: (202) 453-7694.
Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#12667d7c6b733c7a7360767b7c5277763c757d64"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="55213a3b2c347b3d3427313c3b1530317b323a23">[email protected]</span></a>.
OSERS: Kate Friday, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW, Room 4A-111, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 20202-
5076. Telephone: (202) 987-1439. Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aec5cfdacb80c8dcc7cacfd7eecbca80c9c1d8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a9c2c8ddcc87cfdbc0cdc8d0e9cccd87cec6df">[email protected]</span></a>.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of the Department is to promote
student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by
fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. The
Department pursues its mission by funding grant programs that will
improve access to high-quality educational opportunities and programs
that pursue innovations in teaching and learning with a focus on
underserved students. The Department also funds programs in other areas
as authorized by statute. Grant funds are awarded to State educational
agencies; local educational agencies (i.e., school districts); State,
local, or Tribal governments; nonprofit organizations; institutions of
higher education; and other entities through a competitive process
referred to as a grant competition.
Each year the Department convenes panels of external education
professionals and practitioners to serve as peer reviewers.\1\ Peer
reviewers evaluate and score submitted applications against
competition-specific criteria and announced priorities. Application
scores are then used to inform the Secretary's funding decisions.
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\1\ Please note that the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
uses different peer review processes and procedures than those
described in this notice. More information on the IES peer review
process can be found at: <a href="https://ies.ed.gov/director/sro/application_review.asp">https://ies.ed.gov/director/sro/application_review.asp</a>. IES also administers its research grant
competitions on a different timeline from other offices in the
Department.
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Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, directs Federal
agencies to ``assess whether
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underserved communities and their members face systemic barriers in
accessing benefits and opportunities available pursuant to those
policies and programs.'' The Department is committed to increasing the
racial and ethnic diversity of peer reviewers--an important element of
the Department's efforts to implement this Executive order. Moreover,
the Department is particularly interested in peer reviewers who
represent diverse experiences and perspectives, including experiences
working with diverse and underserved communities, and whose expertise
pertains to the Department's grant competitions. This emphasis on
increasing peer reviewer diversity is included in the Department's
Agency Equity Plan, available at <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/documents/equity/2022-equity-plan.pdf">www2.ed.gov/documents/equity/2022-equity-plan.pdf</a>.
This year, OESE is managing over 20 grant competitions to fund a
range of projects that support increasing the number of mental health
providers in schools; education innovation and research; educator
preparation, growth, and diversity; migratory or seasonal farmworkers;
magnet schools; charter schools; literacy; Indian education; and
technical assistance, among others.
OELA is managing one grant competition: National Professional
Development. Grants awarded under this program may be used for
effective pre-service professional development programs that will
increase the number and diversity of fully licensed or certified
bilingual or multilingual teachers supporting ELs.
OPE is managing approximately 15 grant competitions to fund a wide
range of projects, including projects to support improvements in
educational quality, management, and financial stability at colleges
and universities that enroll high numbers of underserved students;
projects designed to increase college enrollment among students in
high-poverty schools; projects to strengthen multilingual education and
foreign language instruction, international studies, teaching and
research, professional preparation and development for educators, and
curriculum development at the K-12, graduate, and postsecondary levels;
projects to fund fellowships to students studying in a field designated
as an area of national need; projects designed to support high-quality
teacher preparation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities,
Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities, and Minority Serving
Institutions; and projects to build research and development
infrastructure at under resourced institutions.
OSERS is managing nearly 20 grant competitions. The competitions in
OSERS' Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) include those under
the following programs: State Personnel Development Grants; Personnel
Development; Technical Assistance and Dissemination; Educational
Technology, Media, and Materials; and Technical Assistance on State
Data Collection. The remaining competitions in OSERS' Rehabilitation
Services Administration (RSA) are under the following programs: Braille
Training Program, American Indian Vocational Rehabilitation Services,
and the Disability Innovation Fund.
The Department seeks to expand its pool of peer reviewers to ensure
that applications are evaluated by individuals with up-to-date and
relevant knowledge of educational interventions and practices across
the learning continuum, from early education to college and career, in
a variety of learning settings. Department peer reviewers are education
professionals and practitioners who have gained subject matter
expertise through their education and work as teachers, professors,
principals, administrators, school counselors, researchers, evaluators,
content developers, or vocational rehabilitation professionals or
interpreters. Peer reviewers can be active education professionals in
any educational level or sector, or those who are retired but stay
informed of current educational content and issues. No prior experience
as a peer reviewer is required.
Peer reviewers for each competition will be selected based on
several factors, including each reviewer's program-specific expertise,
the number of applications to be reviewed, and the diversity and
availability of prospective reviewers. Individuals selected to serve as
peer reviewers are expected to participate in training; independently
read, score, and provide written evaluative comments on assigned
applications; and participate in facilitated panel discussions with
other peer reviewers. Panel discussions are held via conference calls
or in-person, as identified for the specific competition. The time
commitment for peer reviewers is usually several hours a day over a
period of two to four weeks. Peer reviewers receive an honorarium
payment as monetary compensation for successfully reviewing
applications.
If you are interested in serving as a peer reviewer for the
Department, you should first review the program web pages of the grant
programs that match your area of expertise. You can access information
on each grant program from the link provided on the Department's grants
forecast page at <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html">www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/find/edlite-forecast.html</a>. If
you have documented experience that you believe qualifies you to serve
as a peer reviewer for one or more specific grant programs, please
register in G6, at <a href="http://www.g6.gov">www.g6.gov</a>, which allows the Department to manage
and assign potential peer reviewers to competitions that may draw upon
their professional backgrounds and expertise. A toolkit that includes
helpful information on how to be considered as a peer reviewer for
programs administered by the Department can be found at <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/documents/peer-review/peer-reviewer-toolkit.pptx">www2.ed.gov/documents/peer-review/peer-reviewer-toolkit.pptx</a>. Additional
information on becoming a peer reviewer is available at <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/about/discretionary/peer-review-flyer-2024.pdf">www2.ed.gov/fund/grant/about/discretionary/peer-review-flyer-2024.pdf</a>. Neither the
submission of a resume nor registration in G6 guarantees you will be
selected to be a peer reviewer.
In addition to registering in G6, some OPE and OSERS/RSA peer
reviews may require being registered in the System for Award
Management. Since registration for this process can take longer than a
week, interested individuals are encouraged to register in advance of
being contacted by the Department. In addition to registering in G6,
some OSERS/OSEP peer reviews require being approved to serve on the
Office of Special Education's Standing Panel. Individuals should
express their interest to serve as a peer reviewer for OSEP
competitions directly to the competition manager listed in the notice
inviting applications for that competition at least four weeks prior to
the application closing date.
If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for OESE
competitions (Chart 2 of the Forecast of Funding Opportunities), you
must also send your resume to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1f505a4c5a4f7a7a6d4d7a69767a684d7a7c6d6a766b727a716b5f7a7b31787069"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2768627462774242557542514e425075424455524e534a42495367424309404851">[email protected]</span></a>.
If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for the
OELA competition (Chart 6 of the Forecast of Funding Opportunities),
you must also send your resume to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#125c4256202220265277763c757d64"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="044a5440363436304461602a636b72">[email protected]</span></a>. The subject line of
the email should read ``Prospective 2024 Peer Reviewer.''
If you have interest in serving as a reviewer specifically for RSA
competitions (Chart 4B of the Forecast of Funding Opportunities), you
must also send your resume to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0d5f5e4c5d68687f5f687b64687a4d6869236a627b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="22707163724747507047544b47556247460c454d54">[email protected]</span></a> and <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d3bca0b6a1a0a3a1a093b6b7fdb4bca5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8be4f8eef9f8fbf9f8cbeeefa5ece4fd">[email protected]</span></a>.
The subject line of the email should read ``Prospective 2024 Peer
Reviewer.'' In the body of the email, list all programs for which you
would like to be considered to serve as a peer reviewer.
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Requests to serve as a peer reviewer should be submitted at least
four weeks prior to the program's application deadline, noted on the
forecast page, to provide program offices with sufficient time to
review resumes and determine an individual's suitability to serve as a
peer reviewer for a specific competition. If you are selected to serve
as a peer reviewer, the program office will contact you.
Accessible Format: On request to the person(s) listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with disabilities can obtain
this document and a copy of the application package in an accessible
format. The Department will provide the requestor with an accessible
format that may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), a
thumb drive, an MP3 file, braille, large print, audiotape, or compact
disc, or other accessible format.
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Program Authority: Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,
as amended (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.); Higher Education Act of 1965, as
amended (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.); Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.); and the Rehabilitation Act of
1973, as amended by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29
U.S.C. 701 et seq.).
Roberto J. Rodriguez,
Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2024-08341 Filed 4-18-24; 8:45 am]
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