Difference between revisions of "US: Department of Education - Supplemental Priorities for Discretionary Grant Programs (2010)"

Date: 2010-12-15
Policy Status: Current
Language: English
Jurisdiction: National
Country: United States
Institution: U.S. Department of Education
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Tags: grant priority, OER, U.S. Department of Education

Policy Title: Supplemental Priorities for Discretionary Grant Programs for U.S. Department of Education, 75 FR 78486 - Go to the policy
Author(s): U.S. Department of Education
Description: The Secretary of Education announces priorities and definitions to be used for any appropriate discretionary grant program in fiscal year (FY) 2011 and future years. We take this action to focus Federal financial assistance on expanding the number of Department programs and projects that support activities in areas of greatest educational need. We are establishing these priorities on a Department-wide basis. This action permits the Department to use, as appropriate for particular discretionary grant programs, one or more of these priorities in any discretionary grant competition. We also announce definitions of key terms used in these priorities.

Projects that are designed to significantly increase efficiency in the use of time, staff, money, or other resources in order to improve results and increase productivity. Such projects may include innovative and sustainable uses of technology, modification of school schedules and teacher compensation systems, and use of open educational resources (as defined in this notice), or other strategies.

Open educational resources (OER) means teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others.

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