; (ii) managing high-quality subgrant processes; and (iii) providing technical assistance and support to subgrantees to ensure quality and improve outcomes; and (B) that utilizes an evidence-based decisionmaking strategy when selecting high-performing entities, on a competitive basis, to receive subgrants in order to validate and grow effective interventions. (c) Program authorized (1) In general From amounts made available to carry out this section, the Secretary shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities to enable the eligible entities to create, develop, implement, replicate, or scale evidence-based and field-initiated innovations, including through pay for success initiatives (as defined in section 124(a)), in order to improve postsecondary access and completion or career success for high-need students. (2) Grants The grants awarded under this section shall implement and evaluate programs, interventions, and strategies that address the purposes described under subsection (a) and, to the extent practicable based on the strength of the applications, include— (A) early-phase grants to fund the development, implementation, and feasibility testing of a practice, program, or intervention that prior research suggests has promise, for the purpose of determining whether the practice, program, or innovation can successfully improve, for high-need students— (i) access to, retention in, and completion of a postsecondary program of study; or (ii) career success; (B) mid-phase grants to fund implementation and a rigorous evaluation of a practice, program, or intervention that has been successfully implemented under an early phase grant described in subparagraph (A) or another effort meeting similar criteria, for the purpose of measuring (using existing administrative data where possible) the impact and cost-effectiveness of the practice, program, or intervention