20 ILCS 701/45: 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.