[Federal Register: September 28, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 188)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Reading First Advisory Committee
AGENCY: Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary
Education.
ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice describes an open meeting of the Reading First
Advisory Committee. Notice of the meeting is required by section
10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act and is intended to
notify the public of their opportunity to attend.
Dates and Times: October 15, 2007, 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., Eastern
Standard Time; and October 16, 2007, 9 a.m. until noon, Eastern
Standard Time.
ADDRESSES: Hilton Crystal City at 2399 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, Virginia 22202.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Spitz, Reading First Team
Leader, Reading First Advisory Committee; 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20202; telephone: (202) 260-3793; fax: (202) 260-8969;
e-mail: Deborah.Spitz@ed.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Reading First Advisory Committee is
authorized by Sections 1203(c)(2)(a) and 1202(e)(2) of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, as amended. The Committee
is established within the Department of Education to evaluate Reading
First applications submitted by States, to review the progress reports
that States submit after the third year of the grant period, to advise
on the awarding of Targeted Assistance Grants, and to advise the
Secretary on other issues that the Secretary deems appropriate.
At the open meeting on August 20, the Committee considered the
performance data collected from all states and discussed how that data
should be reviewed. The Committee created a subcommittee to begin
looking at the data and determined that the full Committee would
discuss analysis of the data at a public meeting on October 15 and 16.
During this meeting, staff from the Department's offices of Policy
and Program Studies Service and Institute of Education Sciences will
brief the Committee on their current evaluations of the Reading First
program. The meeting will be attended by one or more statisticians who
will work with the Committee to answer questions about the data. The
Committee expects to establish topics that can be researched further
using the data that is currently available, as well as a timeline for
completing the review of the third-year progress reports. The Committee
may also discuss longer-term research topics and ways to improve data
collected in the future.
Individuals who will need accommodations for a disability in order
to attend the meeting (e.g., interpreting services, assistance
listening devices, or materials in alternative format) should notify
Deborah Spitz at (202) 260-3793, no later than ten (10) days before the
scheduled date of the meeting. We will attempt to meet requests for
accommodations after this date but cannot guarantee their availability.
The meeting site is accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Request for Written Comments: Written comments should be submitted
via e-mail at least five (5) days prior to the scheduled date of the
meeting to Deborah Spitz at Deborah.Spitz@ed.gov. These comments will
be shared with the members of the Committee.
Records are kept of all Committee proceedings and are available for
public inspection at 400 Maryland Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20202, from
the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern Standard Time Monday through
Friday.
Electronic Access to This Document: You may view this document, as
well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the
Internet at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister/index.html
.
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Amanda Farris,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, The Office of Elementary and Secondary
Education.
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