Instructions For Grant Performance Report (ED 524B) (Part 3) {ED 524B}

INSTRUCTIONS FOR GRANT PERFORMANCE REPORT (ED 524B) PURPOSE Recipients of multi-year discretionary grants must submit an annual performance report for each year funding has been approved in order to receive a continuation award. The annual performance report should demonstrate whether substantial progress has been made toward meeting the project objectives and the program performance measures. The information described in these instructions will provide the U.S. Department of Education (ED) with the information needed to determine whether recipients have demonstrated substantial progress. ED program offices may also require recipients of "forward funded" grants that are awarded funds for their entire multi-year project upfront in a single grant award to submit the Grant Performance Report (ED 524B) on an annual basis. In addition, ED program offices may also require recipients to use the ED 524B to submit their final performance reports. Performance reporting requirements are found in 34 CFR 74.51, 75.118, 75.253, 75.590 and 80.40 of the Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR). GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS · · · · Please read the attached "Dear Colleague Letter" from your program office carefully. It contains specific instructions for completing the ED 524B for your program. You must submit the ED 524B Cover Sheet, Executive Summary, and Project Status Chart. You may reference sections and page numbers of your approved application rather than repeating information. Please follow the appropriate instructions depending on whether you are submitting an annual performance report or a final performance report. If you are submitting a paper copy of the ED 524B, please submit one original and one copy. ED program offices will notify grant recipients of the due date for submission of annual performance reports; however, general guidelines are provided below in the instructions for ED 524B Cover Sheet, item 7. Reporting Period. Final performance reports are due 90 days after the expiration of the grant's project period (performance period). Note: For the purposes of this report, the term "project period" is used interchangeably with the term "performance period," which is found on the Grant Award Notification (GAN). · Many programs provide grantees with the option of completing and submitting the ED 524B online through e-Reports. Please follow instructions from your program office regarding the use of e-Reports for submitting your ED 524B. For those programs that operate under statutes or regulations that require additional or different reporting for performance or monitoring purposes, ED program offices will inform you when this additional or different reporting should be made. · INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ED 524B COVER SHEET Complete the ED 524B Cover Sheet with the appropriate information. Instructions for items 1, 3, 4 and 6 are included on the ED 524B Cover Sheet. Instructions for items 2 and 5 and items 7 through 12 are included in this instruction sheet. 2. Grantee NCES ID Number -- Annual and Final Performance Reports: 1 American LegalNet, Inc. www.FormsWorkflow.com Please enter the current National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) ID number of the grantee. Grantees that are State Educational Agencies (SEA) should enter their state's FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) code in item 2. Item 2 only applies to grantees that are Institutions of Higher Education (IHE), SEAs, Local Educational Agencies (LEA), public libraries, and public, charter, and private elementary or secondary schools. Leave blank, if this item is not applicable. Please go to the applicable website listed below to obtain the grantee's NCES ID number or FIPS code. Depending on your organization type, this number will range from 2 to 12 numeric digits. · · · IHEs (IPEDS ID); Public Libraries (Library ID); and Public, Charter and Private Schools (NCES School ID): http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator LEAs (NCES District ID): http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/ SEAs (FIPS code): To obtain your state's FIPS code, please search on any public school district in your state at: http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/. The FIPS code is the first two digits of the NCES District ID number for any public school district in a state. Note: Newly established organizations that do not have an NCES ID number yet should leave item 2 blank. However, once the organization's NCES ID number has been established, it must be entered on all future submissions of the ED 524B. 5. Grantee Address Instructions for Submitting Address Changes -- Annual and Final Performance Reports: If the address that is listed in Block 1 of your GAN has changed and you are submitting a paper copy of the ED 524B, either submit the new address in Section C (Additional Information) of the Project Status Chart or submit the change through e-Administration (annual performance reports only), the administrative action function of e-Grants. If you are submitting the ED 524B electronically through e-Reports, you may update your address in e-Reports. 7. Reporting Period -- Annual Performance Reports: Due Date: Annual performance reports are typically due seven to ten months after the start of the grant's current budget period. Please follow instructions from your program office regarding the specific due date of the annual performance report for your grant. The reporting period for the annual performance report is from the start of the current budget period through 30 days before the due date of the report. The start date for your current budget period may be found in Block 6 of the GAN. Please note, however, that complete data on performance measures for the current budget period must be submitted to ED, either with this report or as soon as they are available, but no later than the final due date specified by your ED program office. Please see instructions for items 11a. and 11b. of the ED 524B Cover Sheet and Section A (Project Objectives Information and Related Performance Measures Data) of the Project Status Chart for specific reporting requirements for performance measures data. -- Final Performance Reports: Due Date: Final performance reports are due 90 days after the expiration of the grant's project period. If you receive a no-cost time extension from ED for this grant, the final performance report is due 90 days after the revised project period end date. Program offices may also request an annual performance report that covers the o