Dear Colleagues —

Today your State should have received its October 1, 2015, Perkins supplemental grant award for Program Year 2015-16, which began on July 1, 2015.  If you have any questions about this supplemental award, please contact Edward Smith, Chief of our Program Administration Branch, at Edward.Smith@ed.gov or 202-245-7602.

We also want to remind you about the upcoming October 15 deadline for States to submit nominations for the 2016 (inaugural) class of U. S. Presidential Scholars in Career and Technical Education.  Information and resources for the nomination process are available at http://cte.ed.gov/initiatives/cte-scholars.  Also, please contact me directly if you need further assistance at Sharon.Miller@ed.gov or 202-245-7846.

Finally, we hope you have registered and are getting geared up for a productive and exciting Data Quality Institute (DQI) on November 4-5, in Linthicum, MD (just outside of Baltimore).  For further information, please visit our registration page at http://cte.ed.gov/cal/data-quality-institute.  We look forward to seeing you next month!

Best —
Sharon Lee Miller
Director, Division of Academic and Technical Education