Competitive Grant Priorities: The Department of Education has started the process for setting competitive priorities that they can use across all of the Department’s discretionary grant programs. Right now there are no official details on what the content will be. What the notice process does is allow the Department to adopt a slate of priorities that will be essentially “pre-approved” for use in future grant competitions. This will make it easier and faster for the Secretary to modify priorities in future grant competitions, as she will be able to select from a menu of priority options that have gone through the public notice process when issuing a RFP...