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R -- SYSTEMIC INITIATIVES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SOL CPO 95-023 POC Tanek Lennon, (703)306-1242. Since 1990, the NSF Directorate of Education and Human Resources released the first of a series of solicitations for proposals to achieve the goal of systemic reform in the Nation's K-12 science, mathematics and technology education (SMTE) enterprise. Systemic reform is fundamental, comprehensive, and coordinated change in SMTE through attendant changes in policy, resource allocation, governance, management, content, instruction and conduct. These major efforts center on large-scale, systemic reform efforts: programs that are multi-component, affecting curriculum, professional development, student services, educational policy and resource utilization and programs in which the unit of change ranges from all of the teachers in a particular grade level in a school district to the entire K-12 systems in a state. This procurement will provide technical assistance which will support structural reform of the education system and improvement in student achievement. Technical assistance includes, but is not limited to, the provision of information, expertise and effective strategies in areas including, but not limited to, strategic planning, curriculum implementation, professional development, building partnerships and resource utilization to enable NSF systemic initiative awardees to implement the various needs of their program to meet its stated goals. Communications support includes, but is not limited to, building networks and expediting exchange of information among and between the systemic awardees. The systemic initiative programs for technical assistance under this procurement are: Statewide Systemic Initiatives, Urban Systemic Initiatives, Rural Systemic Initiatives, in the Office of Systemic Reform, the Local Systemic Initiatives in the Division of Elementary, Secondary and Informal Science Education, and the Comprehensive Partnerships for Minority Student Achievement in the Division of Human Resource Development. NSF intends to award a five (5) year cost-reimbursement contract for this requirement. The solicitation will be available on or about May 25, 1995. Written requests for the solicitation may be sent to the address above. Telephone requests will not be honored. (0116)

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