Sec. 905. Application review and award basis
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The Secretary shall use a peer review process to review applications for grants under this title. The Secretary shall appoint individuals to the peer review process who have relevant expertise in digital learning, research and evaluation, standards quality and alignment, and rural education. In awarding grants under this title, the Secretary shall ensure, to the extent practicable, diversity in the type of activities funded under the grants. In evaluating an eligible partnership’s application for a grant under this title, the Secretary shall consider— the need for the proposed technology-based learning practice, tool, strategy, or course; the quality of the design of the proposed practice, tool, strategy, or course; the strength of the existing research evidence with respect to such practice, tool, strategy, or course; the experience of the eligible partnership; and the quality of the evaluation proposed by the eligible partnership.
Not less than 50 percent of the grant funds awarded under this title shall be awarded to eligible partnerships that provides assurances that the school partners in the eligible partnership will ensure that each school to be served by the grant is designated with a school locale code of Fringe Rural, Distant Rural, or Remote Rural, as determined by the Secretary.