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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 129 / Friday, July 9, 2021 / Notices
unfunded applications from this competition, the following application requirements from ESEA section 2212c apply.
Each eligible applicant desiring a grant under this program must submit an application that contains i A description of the PBCS or HCMS that the eligible entity proposes to develop, implement, improve, or expand through the grant;
ii A description of the most significant gaps or insufficiencies in student access to effective educators in High-Need Schools, including gaps or inequities in how effective educators are distributed across the LEA, as identified using factors such as data on school resources, staffing patterns, school environment, educator support systems, and other school-level factors;
iii A description and evidence of the support and commitment from educators, which may include charter School Leaders, in the school including organizations representing educators, the community, and the LEA to the activities proposed under the grant;
iv A description of how the eligible entity will develop and implement a fair, rigorous, valid, reliable, and objective process to evaluate educator performance under the system that is based in part on measures of student academic achievement, including the baseline performance against which evaluations of improved performance will be made;
v A description of the LEAs or schools to be served under the grant, including student academic achievement, demographic, and socioeconomic information;
vi A description of the effectiveness of educators in the LEA and the schools to be served under the grant and the extent to which the system will increase the effectiveness of educators in such schools;
vii A description of how the eligible entity will use grant funds under this subpart in each year of the grant, including a timeline for implementation of such activities;
viii A description of how the eligible entity will continue the activities assisted under the grant after the grant period ends;
ix A description of the State, local, or other public or private funds that will be used to supplement the grant, including funds under Title II, part A of the ESEA, and sustain the activities assisted under the grant after the end of the grant period;
x A description of the rationale for the project; how the proposed activities are Evidence-Based; and, if applicable, the prior experience of the eligible
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entity in developing and implementing such activities; and xi A description of how grant activities will be evaluated, monitored, and publicly reported.
Definitions: The definitions of Human Capital Management System and Performance-Based Compensation System are from section 2211 of the ESEA. The definitions of EvidenceBased and School Leader are from section 8101 of the ESEA 20 U.S.C.
7801. The definitions of Baseline, Demonstrates a Rationale, Experimental Study, Logic Model, Moderate Evidence, Project Component, Promising Evidence, Quasi-Experimental Design study, Relevant Outcome, Strong Evidence, and What Works Clearinghouse Handbooks WWC
Handbooks are from 34 CFR 77.1. The definition of High-Need School is from the TSL NFP. These definitions apply to the FY 2021 grant competition and any subsequent year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition.
Baseline means the starting point from which performance is measured and targets are set.
Demonstrates a Rationale means a key Project Component included in the projects Logic Model is informed by research or evaluation findings that suggest the Project Component is likely to improve Relevant Outcomes.
Evidence-Based, when used with respect to a State, LEA, or school activity, means an activity, strategy, or intervention that 1 Demonstrates a statistically significant effect on improving student outcomes or other Relevant Outcomes based on i Strong Evidence from at least one well-designed and well-implemented Experimental Study;
ii Moderate Evidence from at least one well-designed and wellimplemented Quasi-Experimental Design Study; or iii Promising Evidence from at least one well-designed and wellimplemented correlational study with statistical controls for selection bias; or iiA Demonstrates a Rationale based on high-quality research findings or positive evaluation that such activity, strategy, or intervention is likely to improve student outcomes or other Relevant Outcomes; and 2 Includes ongoing efforts to examine the effects of such activity, strategy, or intervention.
Experimental Study means a study that is designed to compare outcomes between two groups of individuals such as students that are otherwise
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equivalent except for their assignment to either a treatment group receiving a Project Component or a control group that does not. Randomized controlled trials, regression discontinuity design studies, and single-case design studies are the specific types of experimental studies that, depending on their design and implementation e.g., sample attrition in randomized controlled trials and regression discontinuity design studies, can meet What Works Clearinghouse WWC standards without reservations as described in the WWC Handbooks:
1 A randomized controlled trial employs random assignment of, for example, students, teachers, classrooms, or schools to receive the Project Component being evaluated the treatment group or not to receive the Project Component the control group.
2 A regression discontinuity design study assigns the Project Component being evaluated using a measured variable e.g., assigning students reading below a cutoff score to tutoring or developmental education classes and controls for that variable in the analysis of outcomes.
3 A single-case design study uses observations of a single case e.g., a student eligible for a behavioral intervention over time in the absence and presence of a controlled treatment manipulation to determine whether the outcome is systematically related to the treatment.
High-Need School means a school with 50 percent or more of its enrollment from low-income families as calculated using 1 The number of children eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch under the National School Lunch Program NSLP
or, if an LEA does not participate in the NSLP, comparable data from another source such as a survey;
2 If an LEA has one or more schools that participate in the Community Eligibility Provision CEP of the NSLP, for any of its schools i.e., CEP and nonCEP schools, the method in paragraph 1 of this definition or an alternative method approved by the Department;
and 3 For middle and high schools, data from feeder schools that can establish that the middle or high school is a HighNeed School under paragraph 1 or 2
of this definition.
Human Capital Management System HCMS means a system 1 By which an LEA makes and implements human capital decisions, such as decisions on preparation, recruitment, hiring, placement, retention, dismissal, compensation,
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