SECTION 210:40-77-4. Procedures for evaluation of Alternative Education Academy Grants

(a)   The grant administrator will recommend six educational professionals with expertise relating to alternative education programs to the State Superintendent as candidates for the evaluation committee. The State Superintendent will choose four committee members and two alternate committee members.

(b)   Evaluation committee members will not serve for more than two consecutive years.

(c)   Evaluation committee members will not evaluate an application from his or her own district.

(d)   The evaluation committee will come together at the State Department of Education administration building in Oklahoma City to read, evaluate, and score the application forms within two weeks after the application submission deadline.

(e)   The grant administrator will ensure that during the evaluation process, a committee member is not asked to read, evaluate, or score an application from his or her own district.

(f)   Each application will be read and scored four times-once by each of the four members of the committee.

(g)   Each application will consist of sixteen parts which will be evaluated and scored by the committee.

(h)   The sixteen parts that will be scored are found at 70 O.S. 1710.563.

(i)   Each of the 16 application parts to be scored (Subsection h) will be worth a maximum of 10 points. The top score possible for an application would be 160 points.

(j)   The evaluation committee will read, evaluate and score each application based on the appropriateness of the expected goals.

(k)   The scores of the applications will be based on analysis of data by the evaluation committee as they consider each application in terms of the above stated criteria. (Subsection h).

(l)   The grant administrator will add the score of each evaluator and average the four totals to arrive at a single score for each grant application.

(m)   The grant administrator will prepare a final list of programs recommended for funding for submission to the State Board of Education when the evaluation process and funding recommendation process are complete.

[Source: Added at 12 Ok Reg 33, eff 9-29-94 (emergency); Added at 12 Ok Reg 1367, eff 5-25-95; Amended at 14 Ok Reg 3379, eff 5-5-97 (emergency); Amended at 15 Ok Reg 2337, eff 6-11-98]