No. An applicant may establish eligibility based on any of the following types of desegregation plans: (1) a desegregation plan required by a court order; (2) a plan required by a State agency or an official of a competent jurisdiction; (3) a plan required by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), United States Department of Education (ED), under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI plan); or (4) a voluntary plan adopted by the applicant.

Under the MSAP program regulations, applicants are required to provide all of the information required at §280.20(a)-(g) in order to satisfy the civil rights eligibility requirements found in §280.2(a)(2) and (b) of the regulations.

In addition to enrollment data and other items that are unique to either a required plan or a voluntary plan (described elsewhere in these FAQs), an application must include:

• Signed civil rights assurances (included in the application package);
• A copy of the applicant's plan; and
• An assurance that the plan is being implemented or will be implemented if the application is funded.

The enrollment data that must be submitted falls into three categories: (a) enrollment data for the entire school district at each grade level for which magnet schools are proposed in the application; (b) enrollment data for the proposed magnet schools; and (c) enrollment data for the feeder schools (see MSAP definition of "feeder school") to the proposed magnet schools. In all instances, the enrollment data must show the numbers of minority group students and the numbers of Non-Minority students.

For each category of data, the data must be provided for the current school year (the 2006-07 school year) and projected data for each year of the project, based on the assumption that the magnet schools project is successfully implemented.

It is important that the projected data for each magnet and feeder school show that the magnet schools and all feeders will maintain eligibility for the entire three-year period of the grant.

Table #1, Table #3 and Table #4 in the application package provide a format that may be used for organizing and submitting the data.

• Table #1 PDF (79K) | Word (69K)
  Table 1 is a table in the MSAP approved application package (OMB No. 1855-0011) that is used to provide actual and projected enrollment data for the entire school district. Projected enrollments for future years should be based on successful implementation of the magnet schools project.
  
  
• Table #3 PDF (81K) | Word (67K)
  Table 3 is a table in the MSAP approved application package (OMB No. 1855-0011) that is used to provide actual and projected enrollment data for each of the magnet schools included in the application. A separate copy of the form is needed for each magnet school. Projected enrollments for future years should be based on successful implementation of the magnet schools project.
  
  
• Table #4 PDF (84K) | Word (68K)
  Table 4 is a table in the MSAP approved application package (OMB No. 1855-0011) that is used to provide actual and projected enrollment data for the feeder schools--that is, the schools that students would attend if they were not enrolled in the magnet school--for each magnet school included in the proposed project. Projected enrollments for future years should be based on successful implementation of the magnet schools project.
  
  

The term "minority group isolation", in reference to a school, means a condition in which minority group children constitute more than 50 percent of the enrollment of the school. See 34 CFR 280.4(b).

The term "Feeder school" means a school from which students are drawn to attend a magnet school. For example, for a high school magnet, the feeder schools would be the other high schools that students would have attended if they did not attend the magnet high school. See 34 CFR 280.4(b).

The preceding examples are not intended to be an exhaustive set of examples. Applicants with questions about their desegregation plans and the information required in support of those desegregation plans (including applicants that find that these examples do not fit their circumstances and applicants that find that the enrollment data requested are unavailable or do not reflect accurately the effectiveness of their proposed magnet program) are encouraged to contact ED for technical assistance. Technical assistance contacts are listed in Section B of the application package and at the end of these FAQs.