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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 130 / Monday, July 12, 2021 / Notices
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and Linguistically Responsive and Inclusive, Supportive, and Identity-Safe.
Projects coordinated with school libraries and designed to be responsive to racial, ethnic, cultural, disability, and linguistic differences in a manner that creates inclusive, supportive, and identity-safe learning environments.
In its application, the applicant must a Describe the types of racially, ethnically, culturally, disability status, and linguistically responsive program design elements that the applicant proposes to include in its project;
b Explain how its program design will create inclusive, supportive, and identity-safe environments; and c Describe how its project will be carried out in coordination with school libraries.
Competitive Preference Priorities: For FY 2021 and any subsequent year in which we make awards from the list of unfunded applications from this competition, these priorities are competitive preference priorities. Under 34 CFR 75.105c2i, we award up to an additional 13 points to an application, depending on how well the application meets one or more of these priorities. For Competitive Preference Priority 1, we award an additional five points to an application that meets the priority. For Competitive Preference Priority 2, we award an additional five points to an application that meets the priority. For Competitive Preference Priority 3, we award up to an additional three points, depending on which priority subpart a, b, or c the applicant meets.
These priorities are:
Competitive Preference Priority 1
Rural Applicants. 0 or 5 points Under this priority, an applicant must demonstrate the applicant proposes to serve a community that is served by one or more LEAs with a locale code of 32, 33, 41, 42, or 43.
Note: To determine whether a particular LEA is eligible for the Small, Rural School Achievement program SRSA or Rural and Low-Income School program RLIS, refer to the Departments website at https
oese.ed.gov/offices/office-of-formula-grants/
rural-insular-native-achievement-programs/
rural-education-achievement-program/.
Applicants are encouraged to retrieve locale codes from the National Center for Education Statistics NCES School District search tool https nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/, where LEAs can be looked up individually to retrieve locale codes and Public School search tool https nces.ed.gov/ccd/
schoolsearch/, where individual schools can be looked up to retrieve locale codes.
Applicants are encouraged to retrieve campus settings from the NCES College Navigator search tool https nces.ed.gov/

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collegenavigator/ where IHEs can be looked up individually to determine the campus setting.

Competitive Preference Priority 2
Supporting Students in Urban Areas. 0
or 5 points Projects that are designed to serve one or more urban LEAs. In its application, an applicant must demonstrate one of the following:
a The applicant is an eligible LEA or consortium of eligible LEAs with a locale code of 11, 12, or 13.
b The applicant is a national nonprofit that proposes to serve schools within eligible LEAs all of which have a locale code of 11, 12, or 13.
Note: Applicants are encouraged to retrieve locale codes from the NCES School District search tool https nces.ed.gov/ccd/
districtsearch/, searching by LEA.

Competitive Preference Priority 3
Supporting Students From Low-Income Families. up to 3 points Projects that serve LEAs serving students from low-income families. In its application, an applicant must demonstrate, based on Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates SAIPE
data from the U.S. Census Bureau or, for an LEA for which SAIPE data are not available, the same State-derived equivalent of SAIPE data that the State uses to make allocations under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended ESEA, one of the following:
a At least 30 percent of the students enrolled in each of the LEAs to be served by the proposed project are from families with an income below the poverty line. 1 point b At least 40 percent of the students enrolled in each of the LEAs to be served by the proposed project are from families with an income below the poverty line. 2 points c At least 50 percent of the students enrolled in each of the LEAs to be served by the proposed project are from families with an income below the poverty line. 3 points Definitions: The definitions of demonstrates a rationale, logic model, project component, and relevant outcome are from 34 CFR
77.1. The definition of eligible national nonprofit organization is from section 2226b2 of the ESEA 20 U.S.C.
6646b2. The definition of local educational agency is from section 810130 20 U.S.C. 780130 of the ESEA.
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.

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Eligible national nonprofit organization NNP means an organization of national scope that a Is supported by staff, which may include volunteers, or affiliates at the State and local levels; and b Demonstrates effectiveness or high-quality plans for addressing childhood literacy activities for the population targeted by the grant.
Note: A local affiliate of an NNP
organization does not meet the definition of NNP organization. Only a national agency, organization, or institution is eligible to apply as an NNP organization.

Local educational agency means:
a In generalThe term local educational agency means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or of or for a combination of school districts or counties that is recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.
b Administrative Control and DirectionThe term includes any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public elementary school or secondary school.
c Bureau of Indian Education SchoolsThe term includes an elementary school or secondary school funded by the Bureau of Indian Education but only to the extent that including the school makes the school eligible for programs for which specific eligibility is not provided to the school in another provision of law and the school does not have a student population that is smaller than the student population of the local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act with the smallest student population, except that the school shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of any State educational agency other than the Bureau of Indian Education.
d Educational Service Agencies The term includes educational service agencies and consortia of those agencies.
e State Educational AgencyThe term includes the State educational agency in a State in which the State educational agency is the sole educational agency for all public schools.
Logic model also referred to as a theory of action means a framework that identifies key project components
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