(20 ILCS 701/45)
Sec. 45. Grant selection. Applications for funding must be reviewed using the criteria in this Section. The Director must make final funding decisions. Review criteria include:
(1) the appropriateness of the targeted industries and occupations;
(2) the appropriateness of the targeted student population;
(3) the efforts to recruit female and minority students into the project;
(4) the strength of the local partnership and private sector involvement;
(5) the related experience and qualifications of the project staff;
(6) the quality of the project work plan;
(7) the proposed project costs in relationship to planned outcomes;
(8) the relationship of the project to the Department's economic development plans and initiatives;
(9) the geographic distribution of grant awards throughout the State; and
(10) the quality of presentations made to the Department, if the Department requests presentations. (Source: P.A. 92-250, eff. 8-3-01.)