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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION S. 1040

To support systemic improvement of education and the development of a

technologically literate citizenry and internationally competitive work

force by establishing a comprehensive system through which appropriate

technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and administrative support

resources and services, that support the National Education Goals and

any national education standards that may be developed, are provided

to schools throughout the United States.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MAY 27 (legislative day, APRIL 19), 1993

Mr. BINGAMAN (for himself, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. COCHRAN, and Mr. HARKIN)

introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the

Committee on Labor and Human Resources

A BILL

To support systemic improvement of education and the development of a technologically literate citizenry and internationally competitive work force by establishing a comprehensive system through which appropriate technologyenhanced curriculum, instruction, and administrative

support resources and services, that support the National

Education Goals and any national education standards

that may be developed, are provided to schools throughout the United States.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

2 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the

3 ‘‘Technology for Education Act of 1993’’.

4 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of

5 this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Sec. 2. Findings.

Sec. 3. Statement of purpose.

Sec. 4. Definitions.

TITLE I—LEADERSHIP FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Sec. 101. Office of Educational Technology.

Sec. 102. National Commission on Technology in Education.

TITLE II—SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT

Sec. 201. Statement of purposes.

Sec. 202. State technology planning grants.

Sec. 203. Elementary and secondary school library and media services.

Sec. 204. School technology resource grants and loans.

Sec. 205. Information dissemination.

TITLE III—INFORMATION DISSEMINATION, TECHNOLOGY

TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

Sec. 301. Statement of purpose.

Sec. 302. Electronic dissemination network.

Sec. 303. Regional implementation and assistance.

Sec. 304. Authorization of appropriations.

TITLE IV—EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT

DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION

Sec. 401. Statement of purpose.

Sec. 402. Priority in federally supported education programs.

Sec. 403. Classrooms for the future.

Sec. 404. Instructional broadcasting and video instructional programming.

Sec. 405. Star Schools Program.

TITLE V—EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH,

DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT

Sec. 501. Purposes.

Sec. 502. Application of advanced technologies to education.

Sec. 503. High performance educational computing and telecommunications

networks.

Sec. 504. Assessment of technology in education.

TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS

Sec. 601. Study of systemic funding alternatives.
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Sec. 602. Participation of private school children.

1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

2 The Congress finds that with respect to the use of

3 technology to improve education in America—

4 (1) the use of technology as a tool in the learn5 ing process is essential to the development and

6 maintenance of a technologically literate citizenry

7 and internationally competitive work force;

8 (2) technology-enhanced curriculum, instruc9 tion, and administrative support resources and serv10 ices that support the National Education Goals and

11 any national education standards that may be devel12 oped are needed and can be used for the systemic

13 improvement of all aspects of education;

14 (3) the acquisition and use of technology in

15 education throughout the United States has been in16 hibited by the absence of Federal leadership, the in17 ability of many State and local educational agencies

18 to invest in and support the needed technologies,

19 and the limited availability of appropriate tech20 nology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, teacher

21 training, and administrative support resources and

22 services in the educational marketplace;

23 (4) national educational technology standards

24 and national educational technology application
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1 standards should be developed for both hardware

2 and software;

3 (5) the acquisition and use of technology-en4 hanced curriculum, instruction, and administrative

5 support resources and services by elementary and

6 secondary schools in the United States must be sup7 ported by a comprehensive system which includes—

8 (A) national leadership with respect to the

9 need for, and the provision of, appropriate tech10 nology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and

11 administrative programs and services for edu12 cational institutions in the United States and

13 the schools of the defense dependents’ education

14 system;

15 (B) funding mechanisms which will sup16 port development interconnection, implementa17 tion, improvement and maintenance of an effec18 tive educational technology infrastructure for all

19 learners in the United States;

20 (C) information dissemination networks to

21 facilitate access to information on effective

22 learning programs, assessment and evaluation

23 of such programs, research findings, and sup24 porting resources (including instructionally

25 based, technology-enhanced programs, research,
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1 and resources) by educators throughout the

2 United States;

3 (D) information regarding curriculum con4 tent standards, teacher performance standards,

5 opportunity to learn standards, and assess6 ments and standards for integrating technology

7 into curriculum and instruction;

8 (E) an extensive variety of opportunities

9 for teacher education, inservice training, and

10 administrator training and technical assistance

11 with respect to effective uses of technologies in

12 education;

13 (F) consortia for the development, produc14 tion, distribution, and reuse of technology-en15 hanced curriculum, instruction and administra16 tive support resources and services with Federal

17 assistance;

18 (G) building upon, and not duplicating, ex19 isting telecommunications infrastructure dedi20 cated to educational purposes;

21 (H) development and evaluation of new

22 and emerging educational technologies and tele23 communications networks; and

24 (I) assessment data regarding state-of-the25 art uses of technologies in United States edu-
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1 cation upon which businesses, noncommercial

2 telecommunications entities, and governments

3 can rely for decisionmaking about the need for,

4 and provision of, appropriate technologies for

5 education in the United States;

6 (6) educational equalization concerns and school

7 restructuring needs can be addressed through edu8 cational telecommunications and technology by offer9 ing universal access to high-quality teaching and

10 programs, particularly in urban and rural areas;

11 (7) in an increasingly technological world where

12 technology and telecommunications have become an

13 integral part of many households, the disparity be14 tween rich and poor students will become even great15 er, and educational policies must address such dis16 parity;

17 (8) the increasing use of new technologies and

18 telecommunications systems in business has

19 furthered the gap between schooling and work force

20 preparation; and

21 (9) improved professional development for

22 teachers requires constant access to updated re23 search in teaching and learning, and telecommuni24 cations can be the conduit for ongoing teacher

25 training.
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1 SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.

2 It is the purpose of this Act—

3 (1) to develop and maintain a technologically

4 literate citizenry and internationally competitive

5 work force by encouraging systemic integration of

6 technology and telecommunications in all aspects of

7 education in the United States;

8 (2) to promote greater equality of educational

9 opportunity and instruction among school districts

10 through the use of technology to improve the aca11 demic achievements of all students, in general, and

12 disadvantaged, disabled, and limited-English pro13 ficient students, in particular;

14 (3) to improve educational quality and oppor15 tunity by expanding and improving technology in the

16 school, classroom, library, and home;

17 (4) to develop educational and instructional

18 programming in critical subject areas which address

19 the National Education Goals;

20 (5) to expand teacher training opportunities for

21 the use of such technology;

22 (6) to avoid duplication and the development of

23 incompatible systems by strengthening and building

24 upon existing telecommunications infrastructure

25 dedicated to educational purposes;
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1 (7) to establish a National Commission on

2 Technology in Education to periodically assess na3 tional requirements, make recommendations with re4 spect to the use of technology and telecommuni5 cations in public and private elementary and second6 ary education throughout the United States, and ad7 vise the Congress with respect to funding priorities

8 and needed policies; and

9 (8) to establish within the Department of Edu10 cation, a high level office with primary responsibility

11 for—

12 (A) providing national leadership for uni13 versal access to effective uses of telecommuni14 cations and educational technologies for teach15 ing and learning;

16 (B) facilitating access to a broad range of

17 information resources for teachers, learners,

18 and others engaged in education;

19 (C) establishing technical standards and

20 guidelines for advanced technologies, including

21 software as well as hardware, and instructional

22 software as well as software for operating sys23 tems and communications;

24 (D) establishing funding mechanisms

25 which will support the development and mainte-
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1 nance of an effective educational technology in2 frastructure for all learners in the United

3 States;

4 (E) providing for sustained teacher, ad5 ministrator and other school personnel edu6 cation and support for using technologies;

7 (F) supporting development, production,

8 distribution, and reuse of information resources

9 and strategies;

10 (G) promoting development and evaluation

11 of new and emerging educational technologies;

12 (H) stimulating private and public partner13 ships;

14 (I) stimulating partnerships between—

15 (i) noncommercial telecommunications

16 entities; and

17 (ii) public schools, local educational

18 agencies or State educational agencies;

19 (J) stimulating private sector investment

20 in the development, production, and distribution

21 of technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction,

22 and administrative support resources and serv23 ices; and

24 (K) developing and administering a com25 prehensive system of information dissemination,
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1 technical assistance, training, research, and as2 sessment activities which will enable all schools

3 to effectively utilize appropriate technology-en4 hanced curriculum, instruction, and administra5 tive support resources and services.

6 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—The terms used in this Act, unless

8 otherwise specified, shall have the same meaning given to

9 such terms by section 1471 of the Elementary and Sec10 ondary Education Act of 1965.

11 (b) ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS.—For the purpose of

12 this Act—

13 (1) the term ‘‘Assistant Secretary’’ means the

14 Assistant Secretary for Educational Technology;

15 (2) the term ‘‘Office’’ means the Office of Edu16 cational Technology;

17 (3) the term ‘‘noncommercial telecommuni18 cations entity’’ has the same meaning given to such

19 term by section 397(7) of the Communications Act

20 of 1934; and

21 (4) the term ‘‘technology’’ includes closed cir22 cuit television systems, educational television and

23 radio broadcasting, cable television, satellite, copper

24 and fiber optic transmission, computer, video and
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1 audio laser and CD ROM discs, video and audio

2 tapes or other technologies.

3 TITLE I—LEADERSHIP FOR

4 TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

5 SEC. 101. OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

6 (a) AMENDMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDU7 CATION ORGANIZATION ACT.—

8 (1) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—(A) Section 202

9 of the Department Organization Act (20 U.S.C.

10 3412(b)(1)) is amended—

11 (i) in subparagraph (F), by striking ‘‘and’’

12 after the semicolon;

13 (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (G) as

14 subparagraph (H); and

15 (iii) by adding after subparagraph (F) the

16 following new subparagraph:

17 ‘‘(G) an Assistant Secretary for Edu18 cational Technology; and’’.

19 (B) Section 5314 of title 5, United States Code,

20 is amended by adding at the end the following new

21 item:

22 ‘‘Assistant Secretary for Educational Technology’’.

23 (2) OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.—

24 Title II of the Department of Education Organiza-
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1 tion Act (20 U.S.C. 3411 et seq.) is amended by

2 adding at the end the following new section:

3 ‘‘OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

4 ‘‘SEC. 216. (a) There shall be in the Department of

5 Education an Office of Educational Technology, to be ad6 ministered by the Assistant Secretary for Educational

7 Technology. Such Office shall be established in accordance

8 with section 405A of the General Education Provisions

9 Act.

10 ‘‘(b) The Assistant Secretary for Educational Tech11 nology shall have demonstrated expertise and experience

12 in the application of a broad range of technologies for in13 struction and educational management, and in planning

14 and formulating policy pertaining to technology use, devel15 opment and application at several levels in the education

16 system but with specific emphasis on experience in the

17 kindergarten through 12th grade.

18 ‘‘(c) There shall be in the Office of Educational Tech19 nology a Division of Elementary and Secondary School Li20 brary Media Services, to be administered by the Director

21 of the Division. Such Division shall be established in ac22 cordance with section 405B of the General Education Pro23 visions Act.’’.

24 (b) AMENDMENT TO THE GENERAL EDUCATION

25 PROVISIONS ACT.—Part A of the General Education Pro-
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1 visions Act (20 U.S.C. 1221e et seq.) is amended by in2 serting after section 405 the following new section:

3 ‘‘SEC. 405A. OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

4 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—

5 ‘‘(1) OFFICE ESTABLISHED.—The Secretary

6 shall establish an Office of Educational Technology

7 (hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘Office’)

8 within 90 days after the date of enactment of the

9 Technology for Education Act of 1993. The Office

10 shall be the principal technology unit in the Depart11 ment of Education and shall be responsible for as12 sisting schools in obtaining and utilizing technology.

13 ‘‘(2) PERSONNEL.—

14 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Sec15 retary for Educational Technology (hereafter in

16 this section referred to as the ‘‘Assistant Sec17 retary’’) may appoint personnel in accordance

18 with title 5 of the United States Code, and may

19 compensate such personnel in accordance with

20 the General Schedule described in section 5332

21 of title 5, United States Code.

22 ‘‘(B) EXPERTS AND CONSULTANTS.—The

23 Assistant Secretary may procure temporary and

24 intermittent services under section 3019(b) of

25 title 5, United States Code, if the individual
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1 performing such services, by virtue of such indi2 vidual’s education or training and experience, is

3 eminently qualified to assist the Office in per4 forming the functions of the Office.

5 ‘‘(3) ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT.—To the

6 greatest extent possible, the Assistant Secretary

7 shall utilize existing administrative support services

8 of the Department of Education in accomplishing

9 the functions of the Office. However, the Assistant

10 Secretary is authorized to obtain any or all requisite

11 administrative support services required by the Of12 fice through competitive contracting with a private

13 sector enterprise or through noncompetitive, reim14 bursable service agreements with any other Federal

15 department, agency or governmental entity. The As16 sistant Secretary shall have sole responsibility for

17 determining whether any or all of the administrative

18 support requirements of the Office may be more effi19 ciently provided by existing administrative support

20 services within the Department of Education, by a

21 private sector enterprise, or by a governmental en22 tity outside the Department of Education.

23 ‘‘(4) REPORTING REORGANIZATIONS.—Any

24 change in the functions or reorganization of the Of25 fice as established by this Act shall be reported to
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1 the Congress prior to implementation of the change

2 or reorganization.

3 ‘‘(b) FUNCTIONS OF THE OFFICE.—The Assistant

4 Secretary, through the Office, shall—

5 ‘‘(1) provide national leadership for policy de6 velopment and coordinate technology-related edu7 cation activities within the Department of Edu8 cation;

9 ‘‘(2) be an advisor within the Department of

10 Education for the design, coordination, and evalua11 tion of any technology-enhanced network or system

12 used for the transfer and dissemination of informa13 tion through activities and programs such as the

14 education resources information clearinghouses, the

15 National Diffusion Network, the regional mathe16 matics and science education consortia assisted

17 under subpart 2 of part A of title II of the Elemen18 tary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and the

19 National Clearinghouse for Science, Mathematics

20 and Technology Education;

21 ‘‘(3) administer a comprehensive school tech22 nology support system of grants, loans, and alter23 native systemic funding sources to encourage—

24 ‘‘(A) State and local educational agency

25 planning for the use of technology in education;
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1 ‘‘(B) the acquisition and use of technology

2 advanced information management resources by

3 public or private elementary and secondary

4 school library media centers, which resources

5 shall build upon existing infrastructure; and

6 ‘‘(C) the acquisition, development and

7 maintenance of technology-enhanced curricu8 lum, instruction, and administrative support re9 sources and services for school classrooms and

10 administrative offices, which resources and

11 services shall build upon existing infrastructure

12 in order to avoid duplication;

13 ‘‘(4) consult, cooperate and coordinate edu14 cational technology programs with analogous pro15 grams of other Federal departments, agencies and

16 other entities, including the National Science Foun17 dation, the Federal Coordinating Council for Science

18 Engineering and Technology, the Corporation for

19 Public Broadcasting, and Public Telecommuni20 cations Facilities Program and, whenever possible,

21 initiate agreements for joint funding of such edu22 cational technology and analogous programs;

23 ‘‘(5) support the research, design, development,

24 production, distribution, reuse and evaluation by

25 public or private agencies, nonprofit organizations,
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1 colleges and universities, or individuals, or by com2 binations thereof, of new technology-enhanced cur3 riculum, instruction, and administrative support re4 sources and services which hold promise for improv5 ing the effectiveness of education in the United

6 States;

7 ‘‘(6) make recommendations to all Federal de8 partments and agencies for wider application of the

9 use of technology in federally supported education

10 programs within such departments and agencies;

11 ‘‘(7) support and encourage cooperative efforts

12 to resolve issues which have served as impediments

13 to the use of educational technologies, such as State

14 requirements for teacher certification, incompati15 bility of various technological systems, and lack of

16 access to telecommunications linkages in the class17 room;

18 ‘‘(8) establish and administer alternative mech19 anisms for financing the planning, implementation,

20 and maintenance of a telecommunications and edu21 cational technology infrastructure to serve education

22 at all levels;

23 ‘‘(9) regularly convene meetings of educators,

24 policy makers, business leaders and telecommuni25 cations and educational technology vendors, and rep-
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1 resentatives of noncommercial telecommunications

2 entities and service providers in order to—

3 ‘‘(A) support appropriate public and pri4 vate partnerships for more effective cooperation

5 leading to improvements in the design and de6 velopment of new technologies for application in

7 education; and

8 ‘‘(B) benefit the effective integration of

9 technologies to enhance and support teaching

10 and learning;

11 ‘‘(10) support research on advanced learning

12 technologies in cooperation with other Federal de13 partments, agencies, and programs, including the

14 Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the

15 Department of Defense, the Advanced Technology

16 Program of the Department of Commerce, the Cor17 poration for Public Broadcasting, the Department of

18 Labor, the National Science Foundation, the De19 partment of Energy, the National Aeronautics and

20 Space Administration, and the Department of De21 fense;

22 ‘‘(11) identify and analyze Federal and State

23 policies’ impact on present and future uses of tech24 nologies in education;
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1 ‘‘(12) support and encourage cooperative efforts

2 to develop standards and guidelines for the use of

3 technology in Federal, State and local education pro4 grams;

5 ‘‘(13) promote collaboration among government,

6 business, educational organizations, and other non7 profit organizations and noncommercial tele8 communications entities, to expand and improve the

9 use of technology in education;

10 ‘‘(14) support a variety of opportunities for

11 teacher, librarian, administrator and other school

12 personnel education and inservice training regarding

13 the effective uses of educational technologies through

14 institutions of higher education, regional educational

15 laboratories and centers, State and local educational

16 agencies, museums, science centers, noncommercial

17 telecommunications entities or other institutions con18 ducting training;

19 ‘‘(15) annually evaluate the level of implemen20 tation of, and the impact on teaching and learning

21 resulting from, programs, projects and activities for

22 which the Office is responsible;

23 ‘‘(16) support inclusion of technology applica24 tions, as appropriate, in the development of National
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1 Education Goals, reform initiatives, and assessment

2 systems;

3 ‘‘(17) develop criteria that identify programs,

4 projects, and practices that effectively use tech5 nologies for national dissemination;

6 ‘‘(18) develop, and update periodically, in co7 operation with other Federal, State and regional

8 agencies, and noncommercial telecommunications en9 tities, as appropriate, a long-range strategic plan for

10 implementing telecommunications and educational

11 technologies in all schools;

12 ‘‘(19) assess and determine school technology

13 needs such as development, training and equipment

14 linkages;

15 ‘‘(20) review factors such as cost, dissemina16 tion, audience, accessibility, and usage in determin17 ing the maximum value of various technologies;

18 ‘‘(21) develop and administer special programs

19 for students who are academically disadvantaged,

20 impaired or limited in their use of the English lan21 guage, in order to make available affordable infra22 structure or appropriate methods of instruction that

23 will improve such students’ ability to attain a high

24 level of academic achievement;
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1 ‘‘(22) coordinate Federal, State, and local tele2 communications franchising authorities for purposes

3 of favorable rate regulations governing educational

4 uses of telecommunications;

5 ‘‘(23) provide leadership for the development of

6 universal connections for educational and informa7 tion providers to national high performance edu8 cational computing and communications networks,

9 including the National Research Education Network

10 and Telstar 401, that will allow educational profes11 sionals, students, parents, and the general public to

12 access resources available through such networks;

13 ‘‘(24) support and coordinate the activities of

14 the regional educational technology assistance con15 sortia described in section 304 of the Technology for

16 Education Act of 1993 to enable schools to utilize

17 technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and ad18 ministrative support resources and services; and

19 ‘‘(25) provide an annual report to the Secretary

20 and the Congress, documenting progress toward im21 plementing the provisions of the Technology for

22 Education Act of 1993.

23 ‘‘(c) ADDITIONAL OFFICE ACTIVITIES.—The Assist24 ant Secretary shall provide technical support related to the

25 application of educational technologies and the use of tele-
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1 communication resources to assist in the dissemination of

2 resources identified for dissemination by the Office of

3 Training Technology Transfer, the education resources in4 formation clearinghouses, the National Diffusion Net5 work, and the Assistant Secretary on behalf of the Star

6 Schools Program Assistance Act.

7 ‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

8 are authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 for fiscal

9 year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary for each

10 of the fiscal years 1995 through 1998.’’.

11 SEC. 102. NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TECHNOLOGY IN

12 EDUCATION.

13 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a com14 mission to be known as the National Commission on Tech15 nology in Education (hereafter in this section referred to

16 as the ‘‘Commission’’) which shall advise the President

17 and the Congress with respect to the need for, and the

18 provision of, appropriate national educational technology

19 standards, technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction,

20 and administrative resources and services for educational

21 institutions in the United States.

22 (b) MEMBERSHIP.—

23 (1) APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS.—The Presi24 dent shall appoint 15 members to the Commission,

25 of which—
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1 (A) three shall be appointed because of

2 their expertise in State and local government;

3 (B) three shall be appointed because of

4 their expertise in the governance or supervision

5 of school district operations, in administering

6 State- or district-wide educational technology

7 programs, in administering elementary or sec8 ondary schools, or in the development of tech9 nology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, or ad10 ministrative support programs or services;

11 (C) four shall be appointed because of

12 their expertise in providing instructional serv13 ices in university, community college, secondary

14 school, elementary school, preschool, and adult

15 and continuing education environments;

16 (D) two shall be—

17 (i) a parent of a school age child; or

18 (ii) a State or local school board mem19 ber; and

20 (E) three shall be appointed because of

21 their expertise in the telecommunications indus22 try (including noncommercial communications),

23 the computer hardware or software industry, or

24 the educational technology resources and serv25 ices industry.
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1 (2) TERMS.—

2 (A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in

3 subparagraph (B), members of the Commission

4 shall be appointed for terms of 4 years. Mem5 bers of the Commission may be reappointed.

6 (B) STAGGERED TERMS.—As designated

7 by the President at the time of initial appoint8 ments under paragraph (1), the terms of 5

9 members shall expire at the end of 3 years, the

10 terms of 5 members shall expire at the end of

11 4 years, and the terms of 5 members shall ex12 pire at the end of 5 years.

13 (3) DATE.—The appointments of members of

14 the Commission shall be made not later than 90

15 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

16 (4) DIVERSITY.—The President shall make ap17 pointments to the Commission by providing due con18 sideration to gender and ethnicity in order to obtain

19 members who are broadly representative of the eth20 nic diversity of the United States.

21 (5) LIMITATION ON DUAL APPOINTMENTS.—A

22 member of the Commission may not serve on any

23 other governing or advisory board within—

24 (A) the Department of Education; or
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1 (B) any other department or agency of the

2 Federal Government.

3 (6) CONFIRMATION.—Appointments to the

4 Commission shall be effective upon confirmation by

5 the United States Senate.

6 (7) SELECTION OF CHAIRPERSON.—The mem7 bers of the Commission shall elect a Chairperson

8 from among their membership by majority vote of

9 the members of the Commission. The Chairperson

10 shall serve a term of not more than 4 years.

11 (8) COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS.—Each mem12 ber of the Commission shall be compensated at a

13 rate equal to the daily equivalent of the annual rate

14 of pay for level IV of the Executive Schedule under

15 section 5316 of title 5, United States Code, for each

16 day (including traveltime) during which such mem17 ber is engaged in the performance of duties of the

18 Commission, as authorized by the Chairperson of the

19 Commission.

20 (c) PERSONNEL.—

21 (1) ADMINISTRATIVE AND CLERICAL SUP22 PORT.—The Commission shall receive administrative

23 support services from the Office.

24 (2) EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.—The Assistant

25 Secretary shall serve as the Executive Secretary of
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1 the Commission in order to facilitate accomplish2 ment of the Commission’s functions.

3 (d) MEETINGS OF THE COMMISSION.—

4 (1) APPLICABILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT IN

5 THE SUNSHINE ACT.—The provisions of the Govern6 ment in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b) shall

7 apply to meetings of the Commission.

8 (2) MINIMUM NUMBER OF MEETINGS; FIRST

9 MEETING.—The Commission shall meet at least

10 twice a year, with the first meeting being held within

11 120 days of the date of enactment of this Act.

12 (3) FREQUENCY OF MEETINGS.—With the ap13 proval of the Chairperson of the Commission and

14 subject to the availability of funds appropriated pur15 suant to the authority of subsection (f), members of

16 the Commission may meet as often as the Commis17 sion determines necessary in order to accomplish the

18 functions of the Commission in a timely manner.

19 (4) QUORUM.—A majority of the Commission

20 shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of con21 ducting the business of the Commission.

22 (e) FUNCTIONS.—The functions of the Commission

23 are as follows:

24 (1) IDENTIFY NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL TECH25 NOLOGY REQUIREMENTS.—
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1 (A) TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES.—The

2 Commission shall review Federal, State, and

3 local educational technology initiatives, assess

4 their effectiveness and potential for the im5 provement of education, and make rec6 ommendations to the Secretary and the Con7 gress with respect to what technologies are

8 needed and should be made available to learners

9 in the United States.

10 (B) NEEDS.—The Commission shall review

11 the needs of schools and educational institu12 tions for technology, and make Federal policy

13 recommendations for meeting such needs. Such

14 review shall include factors such as equity, ac15 cessibility, how many children are reached, cost,

16 quality and demonstrated effectiveness.

17 (2) PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RE18 SPECT TO DEPARTMENTAL TECHNOLOGY IN EDU19 CATION PROGRAMS.—The Commission shall review

20 and make recommendations to the Secretary and the

21 Assistant Secretary with respect to the need for, op22 eration of, effectiveness of, and support and re23 sources available for, educational technology pro24 grams and policies throughout the Department of

25 Education and within the Office.
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1 (3) INDUSTRY, TECHNOLOGY AND EDU2 CATIONAL CONSORTIA.—The Commission shall en3 courage the development of consortia consisting of a

4 representative of the telecommunications and tech5 nology industries, and the education community, in

6 order to promote the collaborative development and

7 implementation of educational technologies, projects,

8 and practices that allow for the sharing of public

9 and private resources to enhance school achievement.

10 (4) MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RESPECT

11 TO THE COORDINATION OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS.—

12 The Commission shall review support and resources

13 available for educational technologies used in Fed14 eral programs operating on the date of enactment of

15 this Act and make recommendations to the Sec16 retary and the Congress with respect to the coordi17 nation and resource level required to achieve the

18 most effective Federal support for educational tech19 nology needs.

20 (5) DEVELOP POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS.—

21 The Commission shall consult with persons having

22 an interest in the uses of technology to support

23 teaching and learning in order to ensure that the in24 terests and concerns of all citizens are represented

25 in national policies for the development, implementa-
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1 tion and evaluation of the educational technology in2 frastructure of the United States.

3 (6) COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS.—The Commis4 sion shall appoint a committee of experts represent5 ing the telecommunication, computer hardware and

6 software industries, educational software developers,

7 noncommercial telecommunications entities, and the

8 elementary and secondary education community to

9 explore the feasibility and desirability of national

10 education guidelines or standards for educational

11 hardware and software. Such committee shall

12 produce a report which, at a minimum, examines—

13 (A) standards to ensure that software can

14 be used on the variety of hardware likely to be

15 available in schools;

16 (B) multimedia standards to allow for the

17 integration of video and audio recordings with

18 text and computer graphics;

19 (C) user interface standards so that teach20 ers and students will not have to learn totally

21 new techniques for using new software pack22 ages;

23 (D) database interface standards so that

24 students can integrate information from na25 tional databases into their work;
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1 (E) communication standards such as

2 those for information exchange and video com3 pression;

4 (F) interface standards so that educational

5 software and other technology may be inte6 grated together in a way that is easy to use and

7 maintain; and

8 (G) standards for collecting data about

9 student performance and achievement to guide

10 individual instructional paths and the refine11 ment of curriculum.

12 (6) REPORT.—

13 (A) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall

14 prepare and submit to the President, the Sec15 retary and the Congress a report every 2 years

16 on the need for the development and implemen17 tation of instructionally based technologies in

18 educational curriculum throughout the United

19 States. At a minimum, the Commission’s report

20 shall include recommendations with respect to

21 the status of the implementation of the provi22 sions of this Act.

23 (B) SUBMISSION.—The report described in

24 subparagraph (A) shall be submitted in accord25 ance with such subparagraph within 2 years of
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1 the date of enactment of this Act and every 2

2 years thereafter.

3 (f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

4 (1) SALARIES AND EXPENSES.—There are au5 thorized to be appropriated $1,500,000 for each of

6 the fiscal years 1994 through 1998 for the salaries

7 and expenses of the Commission.

8 (2) FUNCTIONS.—There are authorized to be

9 appropriated $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and

10 such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal

11 years 1995 through 1998, to carry out this section.

12 TITLE II—SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY

13 SUPPORT

14 SEC. 201. STATEMENT OF PURPOSES.

15 It is the purpose of this title to provide Federal as16 sistance in the form of loans, grants, and systemic funding

17 alternatives to support the acquisition, training, use and

18 maintenance in elementary and secondary schools of tech19 nology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and school ad20 ministration.

21 SEC. 202. STATE TECHNOLOGY PLANNING GRANTS.

22 (a) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to

23 ensure that all States have effective plans for the provision

24 of technology in all schools throughout the State.

25 (b) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—
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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary

2 shall award grants to State educational agencies,

3 who in consultation with the Governor and other ap4 propriate State agencies, shall develop a systemic

5 statewide plan to infuse modern technologies into an

6 educational program to enhance student learning

7 and staff development in support of the National

8 Education Goals and State academic standards.

9 (2) REQUIREMENTS.—Such plan shall—

10 (A) develop and implement a high speed,

11 statewide, interoperable, wide area communica12 tion educational technology infrastructure for

13 all elementary and secondary education institu14 tions within the State; and

15 (B) emphasize the participation of schools

16 with a high percentage of disadvantaged stu17 dents.

18 (c) CONTENT OF PLANS.—At a minimum, each sys19 temic statewide plan described in subsection (b) that is

20 developed in whole or in part, with grant funds under this

21 section, shall—

22 (1) be developed in collaboration with the Gov23 ernor, representative of the State legislature, State

24 school boards, other appropriate State agencies, and

25 noncommercial telecommunication entities through a
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1 representational process involving input from com2 munities throughout the State;

3 (2) identify requirements for infusing modern

4 technologies into the classroom to enhance edu5 cational curricula;

6 (3) describe how the application of tele7 communications, computer networks, and related ad8 vanced technologies in the schools will enhance the

9 curriculum, provide greater access and equity for

10 more students, and help achieve the National Edu11 cation Goals;

12 (4) provide for the ongoing training of edu13 cational personnel to integrate educational tech14 nologies in the classroom and other applications of

15 technology in education;

16 (5) establish a mechanism for statewide dis17 semination of exemplary programs and practices;

18 (6) include an estimate of the funding and re19 sources needed to develop and maintain the requisite

20 educational technology infrastructure identified in

21 the plan, including the appropriate use of other Fed22 eral education funds available to the State or local

23 educational agency;
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1 (7) establish a schedule for the development

2 and implementation of the planned educational tech3 nology infrastructure;

4 (8) develop a plan for the coordination and dis5 tribution of grants under this section, section 204,

6 and section 405B(b)(1)(B) of the General Education

7 Provisions Act;

8 (9) describe how the State educational agency

9 will utilize the services and resources of the regional

10 educational technology assistance consortia;

11 (10) distribute guidelines to all elementary and

12 secondary schools and educational agencies in the

13 State related to the various programs and initiatives

14 assisted under this Act;

15 (11) describe how the State will assess the level

16 of—

17 (A) the statewide implementation of such

18 plan;

19 (B) the increased access by the elementary

20 and secondary schools to technology-enhanced

21 resources assisted under this section; and

22 (C) the impact of such plan on school

23 achievement;

24 (12) describe how State and local educational

25 agencies will coordinate and cooperate with business
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1 and industry, as well as noncommercial tele2 communications entities to implement standards to

3 meet work force training needs;

4 (13) describe how the State educational agency

5 will promote the purchase of equipment by local

6 school districts and schools that, when placed in op7 eration, will meet the highest level of interoperability

8 and open system design among—

9 (A) technology hardware and software, ei10 ther when used on a stand-alone basis or when

11 connected together within a local area network

12 or a wide area network; and

13 (B) schools within the State;

14 (14) will utilize existing telecommunications in15 frastructure and technology resources; and

16 (15) create a planning process through which

17 such plan is reviewed and updated periodically.

18 (d) AMOUNT OF GRANTS.—

19 (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para20 graph (2), the Assistant Secretary shall award

21 grants under this section to each State, in each fis22 cal year, in an amount which bears the same rela23 tionship to the amount appropriated pursuant to the

24 authority of subsection (e) as the amount such State

25 received under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary
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1 and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in such year

2 bears to the amount received under such chapter by

3 all States in such year.

4 (2) MINIMUM.—No State shall receive a grant

5 under subsection (b) in an amount which is less than

6 $100,000.

7 (3) STATE MATCHING.—

8 (A) STATE.—Each State receiving a grant

9 under this section shall provide matching funds

10 in an amount equal to 20 percent of such grant

11 funds.

12 (B) WAIVER.—The Secretary may waive

13 the State matching requirement described in

14 subparagraph (A) for good cause, as deter15 mined by the Secretary.

16 (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

17 are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for the fis18 cal year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary for

19 each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years, to carry out this

20 section.

21 SEC. 203. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL LIBRARY

22 AND MEDIA SERVICES.

23 Title IV of the General Education Provisions Act (20

24 U.S.C. 1221 et seq.) is further amended by adding after
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1 section 405A (as added by section 101(b)) the following

2 new section:

3 ‘‘SEC. 405B. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL LI4 BRARY AND MEDIA SERVICES.

5 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Assistant Secretary

6 shall establish a Division of Elementary and Secondary

7 School Library Media Services (hereafter in this section

8 referred to as the ‘Division’) within the Office of Edu9 cational Technology within 90 days of enactment of the

10 Technology for Education Act of 1993. Such division shall

11 consist of a Director, who shall have primary responsibility

12 for the daily operation of the Division, and of such staff

13 as may be needed to carry out the functions described in

14 subsection (b).

15 ‘‘(b) FUNCTIONS.—

16 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Division shall—

17 ‘‘(A) provide information and leadership to

18 elementary and secondary school library media

19 specialists, teachers, and school administrators

20 with respect to—

21 ‘‘(i) the effective operation of library

22 media resources;

23 ‘‘(ii) methods of improving edu24 cational programs;
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1 ‘‘(iii) training of library media person2 nel; and

3 ‘‘(iv) the development of library media

4 resources, including resources that will en5 courage students to acquire skills in other

6 languages; and

7 ‘‘(B) develop, implement and administer

8 grant programs, on a competitive basis, for—

9 ‘‘(i) elementary and secondary school

10 library media center resource development,

11 including projects that—

12 ‘‘(I) enable school library media

13 centers to acquire technologically ad14 vanced information management re15 sources;

16 ‘‘(II) provide increased student

17 access to library media center re18 sources through the use of modern in19 formation resource technologies; and

20 ‘‘(III) assist in the implementa21 tion of distance learning via satellite,

22 microwave, fiber, picture telephones

23 and other visual media;

24 ‘‘(ii) elementary and secondary school

25 library media specialist and teacher part-
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1 nership for innovative education projects

2 that—

3 ‘‘(I) encourage collaboration be4 tween elementary and secondary

5 school library media specialists and

6 teachers in order to develop units of

7 instruction that enable students to use

8 a variety of technologically advanced

9 information resources; and

10 ‘‘(II) expand students’ informa11 tion-gathering abilities and cognitive

12 skills of selection, analysis, evaluation,

13 and application; and

14 ‘‘(iii) technology in the classroom

15 projects that are linked to a library media

16 center in order to—

17 ‘‘(I) expand the use of computers

18 and computer networks in the curricu19 lum;

20 ‘‘(II) enable elementary and sec21 ondary school library media centers to

22 access information from computerized

23 databases and other technologically

24 advanced methods of access to infor25 mation; and
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1 ‘‘(III) assist in the implementa2 tion of distance learning via satellite,

3 microwave, fiber, picture telephones

4 and other visual media.

5 ‘‘(2) SPECIAL RULE.—In awarding grants

6 under paragraph (1)(B) the Assistant Secretary

7 shall—

8 ‘‘(A) award grants to schools with the

9 greatest need for library materials and services;

10 and

11 ‘‘(B) ensure that such grants are awarded

12 on an equitable geographic basis.

13 ‘‘(c) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Director of

14 the Division is authorized to enter into such cooperative

15 agreements with the Department of Education, the Na16 tional Science Foundation, other Federal departments or

17 agencies, noncommercial telecommunications entities, or

18 nonprofit organizations, as the Director determines is nec19 essary to carry out the provisions of this section.

20 ‘‘(d) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall

21 be construed to interfere with State and local initiative

22 and responsibility in the conduct and support of school

23 library media services, the administration of school library

24 media centers, or the selection of personnel or library

25 books and resources.
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1 ‘‘(e) SUPPLEMENTATION.—Funds provided under

2 this section shall be used so as to supplement and not to

3 supplant other Federal, State, or local funds available to

4 carry out the activities and services assisted under this

5 section, including funds made available to elementary and

6 secondary school library media centers under the Tech7 nology for Education Act of 1993.

8 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

9 are authorized to be appropriated $45,000,000 for fiscal

10 year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary in each

11 succeeding fiscal year, to carry out this section, of which—

12 ‘‘(1) $15,000,000 shall be available in each

13 such fiscal year to carry out subsection (b)(2)(A);

14 ‘‘(2) $15,000,000 shall be available in each

15 such fiscal year to carry out subsection (b)(2)(B);

16 and

17 ‘‘(3) $15,000,000 shall be available in each

18 such fiscal year to carry out subsection (b)(2)(C).’’.

19 SEC. 204. SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE GRANTS AND

20 LOANS.

21 (a) IN GENERAL.—

22 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary

23 shall award grants to State educational agencies

24 having a plan approved under section 202 in order

25 to enable such agencies to provide assistance to local
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1 educational agencies and schools having highest per2 centages of children in poverty and showing the

3 greatest need for technology to enable such local

4 educational agencies and schools to purchase quality

5 technology related equipment, technology-enhanced

6 curriculum, instruction, and administrative support

7 resources and services that improve the instructional

8 programs in schools.

9 (2) AMOUNT.—(A) Except as provided in sub10 paragraph (B), the Secretary shall award grants

11 under this section to each State educational agency

12 in an amount which bears the same relationship to

13 the amount appropriated pursuant to the authority

14 of subsection (b) as the amount such State received

15 under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and

16 Secondary Education Act of 1965 bears to the

17 amount received under such chapter by all States.

18 (B) No State educational agency shall receive a

19 grant pursuant to subparagraph (A) in an amount

20 which is less than $100,000.

21 (3) LIMITATION ON STATE COSTS.—Not more

22 than 5 percent of grant funds awarded to a State

23 educational agency under this section may be used

24 by the State or State educational agency for admin25 istrative costs or technical assistance.
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1 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

2 are authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for fiscal

3 year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary in each

4 succeeding fiscal year, to carry out this section.

5 (c) LOCAL USES OF GRANT FUNDS.—Each local edu6 cational agency or school receiving assistance under this

7 section may use such assistance—

8 (1) to acquire technology-enhanced education

9 resources and services, such as computer hardware,

10 software, and telecommunications services, for use

11 by teachers and students in the classroom in order

12 to support the instructional program offered by

13 schools to assure that students in such schools will

14 have meaningful access on a regular basis to such

15 resources and services;

16 (2) for staff development in the integration of

17 quality instructional educational technologies into

18 school curriculum and long-term planning for imple19 menting educational technologies;

20 (3) to acquire connectivity with wide area net21 works, such as the INTERNET, for purposes of

22 accessing information and educational programming

23 sources outside the local educational agency or

24 school;
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1 (4) for necessary site preparation for the instal2 lation of technology-enhanced curriculum, instruc3 tion, and administrative support resources and serv4 ices, except that such acquisitions may not exceed 25

5 percent of the amount of the assistance provided

6 under this section;

7 (5) for ongoing technology training and staff

8 development services, resources, or programs that

9 instruct teachers and administrators in the effective

10 integration of technology in the classroom through

11 ongoing, onsite consultation; and

12 (6) to establish partnerships consisting of a rep13 resentative of a local educational agency, a college or

14 university, and any other agency the Assistant Sec15 retary deems appropriate, for development and im16 plementation of preservice education programs to

17 train teachers in the application of instructional18 based technologies in the curriculum.

19 (d) SCHOOL PLANS.—Each local educational agency

20 or school desiring assistance under this section shall sub21 mit a plan to the State educational agency at such time

22 and in such manner as such agency may prescribe. Such

23 plan shall—

24 (1) include a strategic, long-range (3- to 5-

25 year), outcome-based plan that includes—
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1 (A) a process for the ongoing evaluation of

2 how technologies acquired under this section—

3 (i) are being implemented into the

4 school curriculum; and

5 (ii) are impacting student achieve6 ment; and

7 (B) a description of how the local edu8 cational agency or school has involved parents,

9 business leaders and community leaders in the

10 development of such plan;

11 (2) describe how the assistance will be used to

12 further access for both teachers and students to best

13 teaching practices and best curriculum resources

14 that are aligned with any national educational stand15 ards that may be developed;

16 (3) describe the type of technologies to be ac17 quired, including specific provisions for interoper18 ability among components of such technologies;

19 (4) include the projected cost of technologies to

20 be acquired and related expenses needed to imple21 ment the plan;

22 (5) include the projected timetable for imple23 menting the technologies in schools;

24 (6) include an explanation of how the acquired

25 technologies will be integrated into the curriculum to
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1 help the local educational agency or school enhance

2 teaching, training, and student achievement;

3 (7) describe how the acquired instructionally

4 based technologies will help the local educational

5 agency or school achieve equity in curricular offer6 ings;

7 (8) describe the supporting resources such as

8 services, software and print resources, which will be

9 acquired to ensure successful and effective use of

10 technologies acquired under this section;

11 (9) describe how the instructionally based tech12 nologies and resources will support any State and

13 national content and teaching educational standards

14 that may be developed;

15 (10) describe how the local educational agency

16 or school will ensure ongoing, sustained staff devel17 opment for teachers and administrators in the local

18 educational agency or school regarding the use of

19 technology in the classroom, and contain a list of the

20 source or sources of ongoing training available to

21 such teachers and administrators, such as State

22 technology offices, intermediate educational support

23 units, regional educational laboratories, or institu24 tions of higher education;
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1 (11) describe identifiable, measurable outcome2 based levels of achievement in the implementation of

3 the plan that can be used to determine progress and

4 to support decisions to provide additional funds; and

5 (12) describe how the local educational agency

6 or school will promote the sharing, distribution, and

7 reuse of applications of educational technology that

8 are determined by such agency to be effective in in9 dividual schools.

10 (e) TECHNOLOGY LOANS.—Subsection (a) of section

11 751 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.

12 1132f(a)) is amended—

13 (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘and’’ after

14 the semicolon;

15 (2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para16 graph (4);

17 (3) by adding after paragraph (2) the following

18 new paragraph:

19 ‘‘(3) guarantee, insure or reinsure low-interest,

20 long-term loans to State educational agencies and

21 local educational agencies in order to enable such

22 agencies to obtain resources for distance learning,

23 computer networks and other technology-enhanced

24 curriculum, instruction, and administrative support
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1 resources and services that are used in the education

2 process; and’’; and

3 (4) in paragraph (4) (as redesignated by para4 graph (2)), by striking ‘‘and (2)’’ and inserting ‘‘,

5 (2) and (3)’’.

6 SEC. 205. INFORMATION DISSEMINATION.

7 The Assistant Secretary and National Commission on

8 Technology in Education shall compile and disseminate in9 formation on various successful models of integrating

10 technology into education to assist State or local edu11 cational agencies, and schools in the development of sys12 temic reform initiatives.

13 TITLE III—INFORMATION DIS14 SEMINATION, TECHNOLOGY

15 TRAINING AND TECHNICAL

16 ASSISTANCE

17 SEC. 301. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.

18 It is the purpose of this title to ensure that schools

19 have access to all the resources necessary for effectively

20 utilizing technology in the classroom by—

21 (1) supporting identification and dissemination

22 of information on effective educational programs, re23 sources and services throughout the United States,

24 and, more specifically, to promote information dis25 semination through electronic means; and
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1 (2) developing a coordinated network of edu2 cational technology assistance and training provid3 ers, such as universities, regional technology centers,

4 museums, science centers, laboratories supported by

5 the Department of Energy, noncommercial tele6 communications entities, other nonprofit organiza7 tions, and State and local educational agencies to

8 ensure effective utilization of technology-enhanced

9 curriculum, instruction and educational administra10 tive support resources and services to improve the

11 instructional programs in schools consistent with ef12 forts to achieve the National Education Goals and

13 State academic standards.

14 SEC. 302. ELECTRONIC DISSEMINATION NETWORK.

15 The Assistant Secretary, in cooperation with the Fed16 eral Communications Commission, the National Science

17 Foundation, the Department of Defense, or any other de18 partment or agency of Federal, State and local govern19 ments that the Assistant Secretary deems appropriate,

20 shall establish an electronic network for the dissemination

21 of educational information throughout the United States,

22 including information about effective technology-enhanced

23 programs, resources, and services to the extent reasonably

24 possible, the electronic dissemination network should make
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1 use of existing networks and networks to be built for other

2 purposes. The electronic dissemination network shall—

3 (1) provide sufficient staffing and other re4 sources as may be necessary to ensure the effective

5 operation of the Electronic Dissemination Network;

6 and

7 (2) consult with educators, State and local edu8 cational agencies, telecommunications providers, and

9 other stakeholders in the education process through10 out the United States to determine information re11 quirements and policies for the effective operation of

12 the Electronic Dissemination Network.

13 SEC. 303. REGIONAL IMPLEMENTATION AND ASSISTANCE.

14 (a) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to

15 establish regional educational technology assistance con16 sortia to facilitate information dissemination, planning, re17 source development, implementation, and evaluation of

18 educational technology applications by States, regional

19 educational organizations, local educational agencies and

20 schools.

21 (b) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—

22 (1) AUTHORITY.—The Assistant Secretary shall

23 make grants, on a competitive basis, to regional edu24 cational technology assistance consortia in accord25 ance with the provisions of this section.
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1 (2) REQUIREMENTS.—Each consortium receiv2 ing a grant under this section shall—

3 (A) serve 1 of the 10 regions of the United

4 States served by a regional educational labora5 tory supported pursuant to section

6 405(d)(4)(A)(i) of the General Education Provi7 sions Act;

8 (B) consist of a consortium of State edu9 cational agencies, nonprofit organizations, or a

10 combination thereof; and

11 (C) in cooperation with State and local

12 education programs, develop a regional plan

13 that addresses staff development, technical as14 sistance, information resource dissemination,

15 and program evaluation and reporting needs of

16 the region regarding educational technology.

17 (3) SPECIAL RULE.—Each consortium receiving

18 a grant under this section shall use not less than 80

19 percent of the grant funds to carry out paragraph

20 (3) of subsection (c).

21 (c) FUNCTIONS.—

22 (1) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—Each consortium

23 receiving a grant under this section shall—

24 (A) collaborate with State and local edu25 cation programs in the development of State
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1 technology plans and in particular in the devel2 opment of strategies for reaching those schools

3 with highest percentages of disadvantaged stu4 dents with little or no access to technology in

5 the classroom;

6 (B) provide information to States, local

7 educational agencies, and schools on the types

8 and features of various educational technology

9 equipment and software available, evaluate and

10 make recommendations on equipment and soft11 ware that is suited for a program’s particular

12 needs, and compile and share information on

13 creative applications of technology in the class14 room;

15 (C) collaborate with State educational

16 agencies, local educational agencies, or schools

17 in the tailoring of software programs and other

18 supporting materials to meet State curriculum

19 standards and individual needs of schools and

20 students; and

21 (D) provide technical assistance to facili22 tate use of the electronic dissemination network

23 by State and local educational agencies and

24 schools throughout the region;
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1 (2) INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.—

2 Each consortium receiving a grant under this section

3 shall—

4 (A) assist the Office in the collection and

5 access of information resources produced by the

6 National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and

7 Science Education, the regional mathematics

8 and science consortia, the National Diffusion

9 Network, and other educational organizations

10 that the Assistant Secretary deems appropriate;

11 (B) assist in the review and documentation

12 of effective educational programs, resources,

13 and services created or utilized within the

14 region;

15 (C) facilitate coordination and implementa16 tion of an electronic dissemination network and

17 the distance learning described in section

18 907(a)(4)(B)(ii) of the Star Schools Program

19 Assistance Act;

20 (D) assist the Office in designing and im21 plementing an interactive telecommunications

22 network to link educational agencies within and

23 among consortia for the purpose of transferring

24 educational information resources, including re25 sources that utilize voice, video, data, and re-
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1 sources that are transmitted over satellite,

2 microwave, cable, fiber, and other means; and

3 (E) establish a coordinated system of dis4 tance education involving microwave technology

5 combined with other technology, as appropriate,

6 that can serve to disseminate information and

7 provide interactive staff development related to

8 new research findings, national educational ini9 tiatives, funding and program resources, and

10 educational technology developments and re11 sources appropriate to teaching and learning.

12 (3) STAFF DEVELOPMENT.—Each consortium

13 receiving a grant under this section shall—

14 (A) develop and implement, in collabora15 tion with State educational agencies, training

16 and technology assistance training that can be

17 offered through site-based intensive summer

18 and school year workshops that utilize the

19 teachers-training-teachers model or accessed

20 through existing and emerging distance edu21 cational resources, including—

22 (i) interactive satellite training

23 telecourses using researchers, educators,

24 and telecommunications personnel who

25 have experience in developing, implement-
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1 ing, or operating educational and instruc2 tional technology as a learning tool;

3 (ii) onsite courses teaching teachers to

4 use educational and instructional tech5 nology and to develop their own instruc6 tional materials for effectively incorporat7 ing technology and programming in their

8 own classrooms;

9 (iii) methods for successful integration

10 of instructional technology into the cur11 riculum; and

12 (iv) video conferences and seminars

13 which offer professional development

14 through peer interaction with experts as

15 well as other teachers using technologies in

16 their classrooms;

17 (B) develop training resources that are—

18 (i) relevant to the needs of the region

19 and schools within the region; and

20 (ii) aligned with the needs of edu21 cators and administrators in the region, in22 cluding educators and administrators from

23 public and private schools;

24 (C) establish a repository of staff develop25 ment and technical assistance resources;
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1 (D) work with existing agencies in the re2 gion to identify and link technical assistance

3 providers to educational agencies, as needed;

4 (E) provide followup to ensure that train5 ing, staff development, and technical assistance

6 meets the needs of educators served by the re7 gion; and

8 (F) assist colleges and universities within

9 the region to develop and apply for funding to

10 implement preservice training programs for stu11 dents enrolled in teacher education programs.

12 (3) RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT.—Each consor13 tium receiving a grant under this section shall—

14 (A) assist educational agencies in the iden15 tification and procurement of financial, techno16 logical and human resources needed to imple17 ment technology plans;

18 (B) work with the local educational agen19 cies to assist in the development and validation

20 of instructionally based technology education re21 sources;

22 (C) identify and provide or broker, as ap23 propriate, human and technical resources to as24 sist schools in the application of the resources

25 assisted under this section; and
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1 (D) coordinate activities and establish

2 partnerships with national and State nonprofit

3 professional educational organizations that rep4 resent the interests of the region as such inter5 ests pertain to the application of technology in

6 teaching, learning, instructional management,

7 dissemination, collection and distribution of

8 educational statistics, and the transfer of stu9 dent information.

10 SEC. 304. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

11 There are authorized to be appropriated $41,000,000

12 for the fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may be nec13 essary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years, to carry

14 out this title, of which—

15 (1) $5,000,000 shall be available for the elec16 tronic dissemination network described in section

17 302; and

18 (2) $50,000,000 shall be available to support

19 the regional educational technology assistance con20 sortia described in section 303.
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1 TITLE IV—EDUCATIONAL TECH2 NOLOGY PRODUCT DEVELOP3 MENT, PRODUCTION, AND

4 DISTRIBUTION

5 SEC. 401. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.

6 It is the purpose of this title to support development,

7 production, and distribution of technology-enhanced cur8 riculum, and instruction and administrative support re9 sources and services, by—

10 (1) establishing as a priority for federally sup11 ported education technology programs the develop12 ment (as opposed to research) of such programs;

13 (2) authorizing the Assistant Secretary to sup14 port the development, production and distribution of

15 technology-enhanced instructional resources and

16 services under this title;

17 (3) providing Federal funding for the joint de18 velopment, production, and distribution of resources

19 and services by consortia of businesses and edu20 cational institutions; and

21 (4) providing direction for the development of

22 the Ready To Learn Act and the Star Schools Pro23 gram Assistance Act.
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1 SEC. 402. PRIORITY IN FEDERALLY SUPPORTED EDU2 CATION PROGRAMS.

3 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in

4 awarding funds pursuant to any competitively awarded

5 Federal education program administered by the Secretary,

6 the Secretary shall ensure that a high priority is placed

7 on funding projects that utilize technology-enhanced cur8 riculum, instruction and administrative support resources

9 and services.

10 SEC. 403. CLASSROOMS FOR THE FUTURE.

11 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the

12 ‘‘Technology for the Classroom Act of 1993’’.

13 (b) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to

14 establish a program to develop and expand the use of high

15 quality computer curriculum-based learning resources

16 using state-of-the-art technologies and techniques which

17 are or can be designed to increase the achievement levels

18 of students in subject areas including mathematics,

19 science, geography, history and language arts.

20 (c) ACHIEVEMENT GRANTS.—

21 (1) COMPETITIVE GRANTS.—

22 (A) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Sec23 retary shall award grants, on a competitive

24 basis, to eligible consortia to enable such eligi25 ble consortia to develop computer-based instruc26 tional programs or technology-enhanced systems
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1 for complete courses or units of study for a spe2 cific subject and grade level, if such programs

3 or systems are commercially unavailable in the

4 local area served by such eligible consortia.

5 (B) ELIGIBLE CONSORTIUM.—For the pur6 pose of this subsection the term ‘‘eligible con7 sortium’’ means a consortium—

8 (i) that shall include—

9 (I) a State or local educational

10 agency; and

11 (II) a business or industry; and

12 (ii) that may include—

13 (I) a public or private nonprofit

14 organization; or

15 (II) a postsecondary institution.

16 (2) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this

17 subsection, the Assistant Secretary shall give prior18 ity to applications describing programs or systems

19 that are developed—

20 (A) so that the program or system may be

21 adapted and applied nationally at a reasonable

22 cost;

23 (B) to raise the achievement levels of stu24 dents, particularly disadvantaged students who

25 are not realizing their potential; and
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1 (C) in consultation with classroom teach2 ers.

3 (3) DURATION AND AMOUNT.—Each grant

4 made under this subsection shall be awarded for a

5 period not to exceed 3 years and in an amount not

6 to exceed $3,000,000.

7 (4) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—The Assistant

8 Secretary shall not make a grant to an eligible con9 sortium under paragraph (1) unless the eligible con10 sortium agrees that, with respect to the costs to be

11 incurred by the eligible consortium in carrying out

12 the program or system for which the grant was

13 awarded, the eligible consortium will make available

14 non-Federal contributions in an amount equal to not

15 less than 25 percent of the Federal funds provided

16 under the grant.

17 (5) APPLICATION.—

18 (A) IN GENERAL.—Each eligible consor19 tium desiring a grant under this subsection

20 shall submit an application to the Assistant

21 Secretary at such time, in such manner, and ac22 companied by such information as the Assistant

23 Secretary may prescribe.

24 (B) CONTENTS.—Each application submit25 ted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall include—
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1 (i) a description of how the program

2 or system shall improve the achievement

3 levels of students;

4 (ii) a description of how teachers asso5 ciated with the program or system will be

6 trained to integrate technology into the

7 classroom;

8 (iii) an assurance that the program or

9 system shall effectively serve a large num10 ber or percentage of economically dis11 advantaged students; and

12 (iv) plans for dissemination to a wide

13 audience of learners.

14 (6) CRITERIA FOR AWARDING GRANTS.—In

15 awarding a grant under this subsection to develop a

16 program or system, the Assistant Secretary shall

17 consider the appropriateness and quality of the fol18 lowing elements of the program or system:

19 (A) Identification of specific learning ob20 jectives and strategies of the proposed course or

21 unit of study, that take into consideration any

22 national education standards that may be devel23 oped for various disciplines.

24 (B) Incorporation in creative ways of a va25 riety of technology-enhanced learning resources,
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1 such as computer software, databases, films,

2 transparencies, video and audio discs, tele3 communications (including educational radio

4 and television), with print resources.

5 (C) Design that allows tailoring of the pro6 gram or system to meet individual needs of stu7 dents, particularly students at greatest risk of

8 not reaching their educational potential.

9 (D) Flexibility of use by teachers or local

10 schools.

11 (E) Methods for updating or revising infor12 mation and resources.

13 (F) Programs or resources to train and

14 guide teachers.

15 (G) Coordination with teacher training

16 programs.

17 (H) Explanatory resources for students

18 and parents.

19 (I) Field testing and evaluation in terms of

20 stated learning objectives.

21 (J) Plans for pricing technology-enhanced

22 resources that are affordable for schools and

23 agencies.

24 (K) Plans for distribution that ensure ac25 cess for the poorest schools and school districts.
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1 (L) Demonstration of cost-effectiveness in

2 relation to existing programs and to achieving

3 stated learning objectives.

4 (d) FEDERAL INTERAGENCY COORDINATION.—The

5 Assistant Secretary shall coordinate and share informa6 tion regarding curriculum-based educational technology

7 programs assisted under this section with other Federal

8 agencies which administer programs that support the de9 velopment of such programs, including the National

10 Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Of11 fice of Technology Assessment, the Corporation for Public

12 Broadcasting, the Department of Energy, and the Depart13 ment of Agriculture.

14 (e) CONSUMER REPORT.—The Assistant Secretary

15 shall collect information about products developed pursu16 ant to provisions of this section and the evaluation of such

17 products, and shall disseminate such information in regu18 lar reports to State and local educational agencies, and

19 other organizations or individuals that the Assistant Sec20 retary determines to be appropriate.

21 (f) ROYALTIES.—Notwithstanding any other provi22 sion of law, any royalties paid to any State or local edu23 cational agency as a result of assistance provided under

24 this section shall be used by such agency for further devel-
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1 opment of curriculum-based learning resources authorized

2 by this section.

3 (g) CLOSED CAPTIONING.—Each eligible consortium

4 receiving a grant under this section shall provide closed

5 captioning, where appropriate.

6 (h) AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDS.—For the purpose of

7 carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appro8 priated $45,000,000 for the fiscal year 1994 and such

9 sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding

10 fiscal years.

11 SEC. 404. INSTRUCTIONAL BROADCASTING AND VIDEO IN12 STRUCTIONAL PROGRAMMING.

13 (a) STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of

14 this section to support the development of long-term com15 prehensive instructional programming and associated sup16 port resources for elementary and secondary grade core

17 curricula outlined in the National Education Goals so that

18 such resources are distributed electronically to the broad19 est possible segments of education in the United States

20 and are stored in archival formats that assure maximum

21 access by all educational institutions.

22 (b) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—

23 (1) IN GENERAL.—(A) The Assistant Secretary

24 is authorized to award grants to or enter into con25 tracts or cooperative agreements with eligible edu-
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1 cational telecommunications partnerships to pay the

2 Federal share of the cost of the research, produc3 tion, and distribution of instructional programming

4 for students, and staff development programming

5 for teachers.

6 (B) For the purpose of this section the term

7 ‘‘programming’’ means the full range of audio and

8 video text and graphics used for education and in9 struction which can be distributed through inter10 active, command and control or passive methods.

11 (2) DURATION.—The Assistant Secretary shall

12 award grants and enter into contracts or cooperative

13 agreements pursuant to paragraph (1) for a period

14 of not more than 5 years.

15 (3) LIMITATION.—An eligible educational tele16 communications partnership may not receive assist17 ance under this section unless such entity has cer18 tified that all educational programming prepared

19 and distributed by such partnership, where appro20 priate, contains closed captioning of the verbal con21 tent of such program to be broadcast by way of line

22 21 of the vertical blanking interval, or by way of

23 comparable successor technologies, unless the provi24 sion of closed captioned broadcasting would cause

25 undue administrative or financial burden.
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1 (4) RENEWALS.—Grants awarded and contracts

2 or cooperative agreements entered into pursuant to

3 paragraph (1) may be renewed to update and ex4 pand such resources.

5 (5) COLLABORATION.—Each eligible edu6 cational telecommunications partnership receiving

7 assistance under this section shall collaborate and

8 consult with appropriate education entities in design9 ing the instructional components of programming to

10 ensure that such components are relevant to na11 tional and State curriculum frameworks.

12 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be

14 appropriated $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and

15 such sums as may be necessary for each succeeding

16 fiscal year, to carry out this section.

17 (2) AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated pursu18 ant to the authority of paragraph (1) shall remain

19 available until expended.

20 (d) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of a grant,

21 contract or cooperative agreement under this section in

22 any fiscal year shall not exceed 75 percent.

23 (e) COORDINATION.—The Department of Education,

24 the National Science Foundation, the Department of En25 ergy, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of
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1 Commerce, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the

2 public broadcasting services, and any other Federal agen3 cy funding educational programming for children may co4 ordinate with and jointly fund activities assisted under

5 this section.

6 (f) ELIGIBLE EDUCATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS

7 PARTNERSHIPS.—For the purpose of this section, the

8 term ‘‘eligible educational telecommunications partner9 ship’’ means a partnership consisting of the following enti10 ties:

11 (1) A noncommercial telecommunications entity

12 with a demonstrated record of the production of

13 high quality educational video programming.

14 (2) A recognized organization knowledgeable

15 about the requirements of implementing within or

16 across a content area a curriculum compatible with

17 proposed or established voluntary national content

18 standards, such as an institution of higher edu19 cation, national professional organizations, or a sci20 entific laboratory.

21 (3) An instructional design institution that can

22 integrate student and teacher print resources, relat23 ed computer resources, interactive multimedia and

24 programming series into a coordinated whole.
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1 (4) A marketing entity capable of distributing

2 all aspects of the products developed under this sec3 tion.

4 (g) APPLICATIONS.—

5 (1) APPLICATION REQUIRED.—Each eligible

6 educational telecommunications partnership which

7 desires to receive a grant or enter into a contract or

8 cooperative agreement under this section shall sub9 mit an application to the Assistant Secretary, at

10 such time, in such manner, and containing or ac11 companied by such information as the Assistant Sec12 retary may reasonably require.

13 (2) CONTENTS OF THE APPLICATION.—Each

14 application submitted under paragraph (1) shall—

15 (A) describe the programming and such

16 programming’s relevance to the core curricula

17 outlined in the National Education Goals;

18 (B) describe the professional capabilities

19 for which assistance is sought, including—

20 (i) the research, design, piloting, pro21 duction, field testing, and distribution of

22 the products developed under this section;

23 and

24 (ii) the technical facilities available for

25 developing the programming; and
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1 (C) describe the piloting, teacher training

2 and testing of the programming, print, com3 puter, television, radio and interactive media

4 products.

5 (h) PROGRAMS RELATED OPERATING FUNDS FOR

6 INSTRUCTIONAL TEACHER TRAINING (PROFIT).—The As7 sistant Secretary shall allow the eligible educational tele8 communications partnership to receive a financial benefit

9 from the distribution of programming assisted under this

10 section. Such benefit shall be used by the eligible edu11 cational telecommunications partnership to support more

12 development of curriculum specific programming and to

13 provide greater access to a wider audience of educational

14 programming.

15 SEC. 405. STAR SCHOOLS PROGRAM.

16 The Star Schools Program Assistance Act (20 U.S.C.

17 4081 et seq.) is amended to read as follows:

18 ‘‘SEC. 901. PURPOSE.

19 ‘‘It is the purpose of this title to encourage improved

20 instruction in mathematics, science, and foreign languages

21 as well as other subjects, such as literacy skills and voca22 tional education, and to serve underserved populations, in23 cluding the disadvantaged, illiterate, limited-English pro24 ficient, and disabled, through a star schools program
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1 under which grants are made to eligible telecommuni2 cation partnerships to enable such partnerships to—

3 ‘‘(1) develop, construct, acquire, maintain and

4 operate telecommunications audio and visual facili5 ties and equipment;

6 ‘‘(2) develop and acquire educational and in7 structional programming; and

8 ‘‘(3) obtain technical assistance for the use of

9 such facilities and instructional programming.

10 ‘‘SEC. 902. GRANTS AUTHORIZED.

11 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary is au12 thorized, in accordance with the provisions of this title,

13 to make grants to eligible telecommunications partner14 ships to pay the Federal share of the cost of—

15 ‘‘(1) the development, construction, acquisition,

16 maintenance and operation of telecommunications

17 facilities and equipment;

18 ‘‘(2) the development and acquisition of live,

19 interactive instructional programming;

20 ‘‘(3) the development and acquisition of

21 preservice and inservice teacher training programs

22 based on established research regarding teacher-to23 teacher mentoring, effective skill transfer, and ongo24 ing, in-class instruction;
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1 ‘‘(4) the establishment of teleconferencing facili2 ties and resources for broadcasting interactive train3 ing to teachers;

4 ‘‘(5) obtaining technical assistance; and

5 ‘‘(6) the coordination of the design and

6 connectivity of telecommunications networks to

7 reach greater numbers of schools.

8 ‘‘(b) DURATION.—

9 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary

10 shall award grants pursuant to subsection (a) for a

11 period of 5 years.

12 ‘‘(2) RENEWAL.—Grants awarded pursuant to

13 subsection (a) may be renewed for 1 additional 5-

14 year period.

15 ‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

16 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be

17 appropriated $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and

18 such sums as may be necessary for each succeeding

19 fiscal year, to carry out this title.

20 ‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated pur21 suant to the authority of subsection (a) shall remain

22 available until expended.

23 ‘‘(d) LIMITATIONS.—
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1 ‘‘(1) AMOUNT.—A grant made to an eligible

2 telecommunications partnership under this title shall

3 not exceed $4,000,000 in any 1 fiscal year.

4 ‘‘(2) RESERVATIONS.—

5 ‘‘(A) FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT.—Not

6 less than 25 percent of the funds available to

7 the Assistant Secretary in any fiscal year under

8 this title shall be used for telecommunications

9 facilities and equipment.

10 ‘‘(B) CERTAIN LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN11 CIES.—Not less that 25 percent of the funds

12 available to the Assistant Secretary in any fis13 cal year under this title shall be used for the

14 cost of facilities, equipment, teacher training or

15 retaining, technical assistance, or programming,

16 for local educational agencies which are eligible

17 to receive assistance under chapter 1 of title I

18 of the Elementary and Secondary Education

19 Act of 1965.

20 ‘‘(e) FEDERAL SHARE.—

21 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share for any

22 fiscal year shall be not more than 75 percent.

23 ‘‘(2) WAIVER.—The Assistant Secretary may

24 reduce or waive the requirements of the non-Federal
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1 share required under subparagraph (A) for good

2 cause, as determined by the Assistant Secretary.

3 ‘‘(f) COORDINATION.—The Department of Edu4 cation, the National Science Foundation, the Department

5 of Agriculture, and any other Federal department or agen6 cy operating a telecommunications network for edu7 cational purposes, shall coordinate the activities assisted

8 under this title with the activities of such department or

9 agency relating to a telecommunications network for edu10 cational purposes.

11 ‘‘(g) CLOSED CAPTIONING.—Each entity receiving

12 funds under this title are encouraged to provide closed

13 captioning of the verbal content of such program, where

14 appropriate, to be broadcast by way of line 21 of the verti15 cal blanking interval, or by way of comparable successor

16 technologies.

17 ‘‘SEC. 903. ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS PARTNER18 SHIPS.

19 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to be eligible for a grant

20 under this title, an eligible telecommunications partner21 ship shall consist of—

22 ‘‘(1) a public agency or corporation established

23 for the purposes of developing and operating tele24 communications networks to enhance educational op25 portunities provided by educational institutions,
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1 teacher training centers, and other entities, except

2 that any such agency or corporation shall represent

3 the interest of elementary and secondary schools

4 which are eligible for assistance under chapter 1 of

5 title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education

6 Act of 1965; or

7 ‘‘(2) a partnership that will provide a tele8 communications network and which includes 3 or

9 more of the following entities, at least 1 of which

10 shall be an agency described in subparagraph (A) or

11 (B):

12 ‘‘(A) a local educational agency serving a

13 significant number of elementary and secondary

14 schools that are eligible for assistance under

15 chapter 1 of title 1 of the Elementary and Sec16 ondary Education Act of 1965 or elementary

17 and secondary schools operated for Indian chil18 dren by the Department of Interior under sec19 tion 1005(d) of such Act;

20 ‘‘(B) a State educational agency;

21 ‘‘(C) an institution of higher education or

22 a State higher education agency;

23 ‘‘(D) a teacher training center or academy

24 which—
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1 ‘‘(i) provides teacher preservice and

2 inservice training; and

3 ‘‘(ii) receives Federal financial assist4 ance or has been approved by a State

5 agency; or

6 ‘‘(E)(i) a public or private entity with ex7 perience and expertise in the planning and op8 eration of a telecommunications network, in9 cluding entities involved in telecommunications

10 through satellite, cable, telephone or computers;

11 or

12 ‘‘(ii) a public broadcasting entity with such

13 experience.

14 ‘‘(b) SPECIAL RULE.—An eligible telecommuni15 cations partnership shall be organized on a statewide or

16 multistate basis.

17 ‘‘SEC. 904. APPLICATIONS.

18 ‘‘(a) APPLICATIONS REQUIRED.—

19 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each eligible telecommuni20 cations partnership which desires to receive a grant

21 under section 902 shall submit an application to the

22 Assistant Secretary, at such time, in such manner,

23 and containing or accompanied by such information

24 as the Assistant Secretary may reasonably require.
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1 ‘‘(2) SPECIAL RULE.—The Assistant Secretary

2 shall permit applicants for assistance under this Act

3 and applicants for assistance under any other Fed4 eral program providing educational technology in the

5 classroom to submit a single application for assist6 ance.

7 ‘‘(b) CONTENTS OF THE APPLICATION.—Each appli8 cation submitted pursuant to subsection (a) shall—

9 ‘‘(1) describe the telecommunications facilities

10 and equipment and technical assistance for which

11 assistance is sought, which may include—

12 ‘‘(A) the design, development, construction,

13 acquisition, maintenance and operation of State

14 or multistate educational telecommunications

15 networks and technology resource centers;

16 ‘‘(B) microwave, fiber optics, cable, and

17 satellite transmission equipment or any com18 bination thereof;

19 ‘‘(C) reception facilities;

20 ‘‘(D) satellite time;

21 ‘‘(E) production facilities;

22 ‘‘(F) other telecommunications equipment

23 capable of serving a wide geographic area;

24 ‘‘(G) the provision of training services to

25 instructors who will be using the facilities and
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1 equipment for which assistance is sought, in2 cluding training in using such facilities and

3 equipment and training in integrating programs

4 into the classroom curriculum; and

5 ‘‘(H) the development of educational pro6 gramming for use on a telecommunications net7 work;

8 ‘‘(2) in the case of an application for assistance

9 for instructional programming, describe the types of

10 programming which will be developed to enhance in11 struction and training and provide assurances that

12 such programming will be designed in consultation

13 with professionals who are experts in the applicable

14 subject matter and grade level;

15 ‘‘(3) demonstrate that the eligible telecommuni16 cations partnership has engaged in sufficient survey

17 and analysis of the area to be served to ensure that

18 the services offered by the eligible telecommuni19 cations partnership will increase the availability of

20 courses of instruction in mathematics, science, and

21 foreign languages, as well as other subjects to be of22 fered;

23 ‘‘(4) describe the training policies for teachers

24 and other school personnel to be implemented to en-
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1 sure the effective use of telecommunications facilities

2 and equipment for which assistance is sought;

3 ‘‘(5) provide assurances that the financial inter4 est of the United States in the telecommunications

5 facilities and equipment will be protected for the

6 useful life of such facilities and equipment;

7 ‘‘(6) provide assurances that a significant por8 tion of any facilities and equipment, technical assist9 ance, and programming for which assistance is

10 sought for elementary and secondary schools will be

11 made available to schools of local educational agen12 cies which have a high percentage of children eligible

13 to be counted under chapter 1 of title I of the Ele14 mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965;

15 ‘‘(7) describe the manner in which traditionally

16 underserved students, such as students who are dis17 advantaged, limited-English proficient, disabled, or

18 illiterate will participate in the benefits of the tele19 communications facilities, equipment, technical as20 sistance, and programming assisted under this title;

21 ‘‘(8) provide assurances that the applicant will

22 use the funds provided under this title to supple23 ment and not supplant funds otherwise available for

24 the purposes of this title;
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1 ‘‘(9) if the applicant is submitting an applica2 tion for assistance under title II of the Technology

3 for Education Act of 1993, describe how funds re4 ceived under this title will be coordinated with funds

5 received for educational technology in the classroom

6 under title II of such Act;

7 ‘‘(10) describe the activities or services for

8 which assistance is sought, including activities and

9 services such as—

10 ‘‘(A) providing facilities, equipment, train11 ing, services, and technical assistance described

12 in paragraphs (1), (2), (4) and (7);

13 ‘‘(B) making programs accessible to indi14 viduals with disabilities through mechanisms

15 such as closed captioning and descriptive video

16 services;

17 ‘‘(C) linking networks together, for exam18 ple, around an issue of national importance,

19 such as national elections;

20 ‘‘(D) sharing curriculum resources between

21 networks and development of program guides

22 which demonstrate cooperative, cross-network

23 listing of programs for specific curriculum

24 areas;
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1 ‘‘(E) providing teacher and student sup2 port services including classroom and training

3 support materials which permit student and

4 teacher involvement in the live interactive dis5 tance learning telecasts;

6 ‘‘(F) incorporating community resources,

7 such as libraries and museums, into instruc8 tional programs;

9 ‘‘(G) providing teacher training to early

10 childhood development and Head Start teachers

11 and staff;

12 ‘‘(H) providing teacher training to voca13 tional education teachers and staff;

14 ‘‘(I) providing teacher training on proposed

15 or established voluntary national content stand16 ards in mathematics and science and other dis17 ciplines as such standards are developed;

18 ‘‘(J) providing programs for adults at

19 times other than the regular school day in order

20 to maximize the use of telecommunications fa21 cilities and equipment; and

22 ‘‘(K) providing parent education programs

23 during and after the regular school day which

24 reinforce the student’s course of study and ac-
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1 tively involve parents in the learning process;

2 and

3 ‘‘(11) include such additional assurances as the

4 Secretary may reasonably require.

5 ‘‘(c) APPROVAL OF APPLICATION; PRIORITY.—The

6 Assistant Secretary, in approving applications under this

7 title, shall give priority to applications which demonstrate

8 that—

9 ‘‘(1) a concentration and quality of mathe10 matics, science, and foreign languages resources

11 which, by their distribution through the eligible tele12 communications partnership, will offer significant

13 new educational opportunities to network partici14 pants, particularly to traditionally underserved popu15 lations and areas with scarce resources and limited

16 access to courses in mathematics, science, and for17 eign languages;

18 ‘‘(2) the eligible telecommunications partnership

19 has secured the direct cooperation and involvement

20 of public and private educational institutions, State

21 and local government, and industry in planning the

22 network;

23 ‘‘(3) the eligible telecommunications partnership

24 will serve the broadest range of institutions, includ25 ing in the case of elementary and secondary schools,
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1 those elementary and secondary schools having a

2 significant number of students eligible to be counted

3 under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and

4 Secondary Education Act of 1965, programs provid5 ing instruction outside of the school setting, institu6 tions of higher education, teacher training centers,

7 research institutes, and private industry;

8 ‘‘(4) a significant number of educational insti9 tutions have agreed to participate or will participate

10 in the use of the telecommunications system for

11 which assistance is sought;

12 ‘‘(5) the eligible telecommunications partnership

13 will have substantial academic and teaching capabili14 ties, including the capability of training, retraining,

15 and service upgrading of teaching skills and the ca16 pability to provide professional development leading

17 to comprehensive effective instructional strategies,

18 outcomes-based curriculum and parenting practices;

19 ‘‘(6) the eligible telecommunications partnership

20 will—

21 ‘‘(A) provide a comprehensive range of

22 courses for educators with different skill levels

23 to teach instructional strategies for students

24 with different skill levels;
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1 ‘‘(B) provide training to participating edu2 cators in ways to integrate telecommunications

3 courses into existing school curriculum; and

4 ‘‘(C) include instruction for students,

5 teachers, and parents;

6 ‘‘(7) the eligible telecommunications partnership

7 will serve a multistate area;

8 ‘‘(8) a telecommunications entity (such as a

9 satellite, cable, telephone, computer, or public or pri10 vate television stations) will participate in the part11 nership and will donate equipment or in kind serv12 ices for telecommunications linkages; and

13 ‘‘(9) the eligible telecommunications partnership

14 will, in providing services with assistance under this

15 title, meet the needs of groups of individuals tradi16 tionally excluded from careers in mathematics and

17 science because of discrimination, inaccessibility, or

18 economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

19 ‘‘(d) GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION.—In approving ap20 plications under this title, the Assistant Secretary shall

21 assure an equitable geographic distribution of grants

22 under this title.
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1 ‘‘SEC. 905. DISSEMINATION OF COURSES AND RESOURCES

2 UNDER THE STAR SCHOOLS PROGRAM.

3 ‘‘(a) REPORT.—Each eligible telecommunications

4 partnership awarded a grant under this title shall report

5 to the Assistant Secretary a listing and description of

6 available courses of instruction and resources to be offered

7 by educational institutions and teacher training centers

8 which will be transmitted over satellite, specifying the sat9 ellite on which such transmission will occur and the time

10 of such transmission.

11 ‘‘(b) DISSEMINATION OF COURSES OF INSTRUC12 TION.—The Assistant Secretary shall compile and prepare

13 for dissemination a listing and description of available

14 courses of instruction and resources to be offered by edu15 cational institutions and teacher training centers equipped

16 with satellite transmission capabilities as reported to the

17 Assistant Secretary under subsection (a).

18 ‘‘(c) DISSEMINATION TO STATE EDUCATIONAL

19 AGENCIES.—The Assistant Secretary shall distribute the

20 list required by subsection (b) to all State educational

21 agencies.

22 ‘‘SEC. 906. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

23 ‘‘(a) CONTINUING ELIGIBILITY.—

24 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In order to be eligible to

25 receive a grant under this title in any fiscal year

26 after the first fiscal year in which an eligible tele-
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1 communications partnership receives a grant under

2 this title, such partnership shall demonstrate in the

3 application submitted pursuant to section 904 that

4 such partnership will—

5 ‘‘(A) continue to provide services in the

6 subject areas and geographic areas assisted

7 with funds received under this title in the pre8 vious fiscal year; and

9 ‘‘(B) use all such grant funds to provide

10 expanded services by—

11 ‘‘(i) increasing the number of stu12 dents, schools or school districts served by

13 the courses of instruction assisted under

14 this title in the previous fiscal year;

15 ‘‘(ii) providing new courses of instruc16 tion; and

17 ‘‘(iii) serving new populations of un18 derserved individuals, such as children or

19 adults who are disadvantaged, have lim20 ited-English proficiency, are disabled, are

21 illiterate, or lack high school diplomas or

22 their equivalent.

23 ‘‘(2) SPECIAL RULES.—Grant funds received

24 pursuant to the application of paragraph (1) shall be

25 used to supplement and not supplant services pro-
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1 vided by the recipient under this title in the previous

2 fiscal year.

3 ‘‘(b) EVALUATION.—

4 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—From amounts appro5 priated pursuant to the authority of subsection (b),

6 the Secretary shall reserve not more than $500,000

7 or 5 percent of such appropriations, whichever is

8 less, to conduct an independent evaluation by grant,

9 contract, or cooperative agreement, of the program

10 assisted under this title.

11 ‘‘(2) SUBMISSION.—The evaluation required

12 under paragraph (1) shall be submitted to the Con13 gress and the Assistant Secretary not later than

14 June 1, 1995.

15 ‘‘(3) CONTENTS.—The evaluation described in

16 paragraph (1) shall include—

17 ‘‘(A) a review of the effectiveness of eligi18 ble telecommunications partnerships and pro19 grams assisted under this title after Federal

20 funding under this title ceases;

21 ‘‘(B) an analysis of the effectiveness of

22 non-Federal funds provided under this title, in23 cluding funds leveraged under this title and the

24 permanency of such funding;
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1 ‘‘(C) an analysis of how grant recipients

2 under this title spend funds appropriated to

3 carry out this title;

4 ‘‘(D) a review of the subject matter and

5 success of distance learning through programs

6 assisted under this title;

7 ‘‘(E) a comprehensive review of inservice

8 teacher training programs assisted under this

9 title, including the number of teachers trained,

10 time spent in training programs, and a com11 parison of the effectiveness of such training and

12 conventional teacher training programs;

13 ‘‘(F) an analysis of programs assisted

14 under this title that focus on teacher certifi15 cation and other requirements and the resulting

16 effect on the delivery of instructional program17 ming;

18 ‘‘(G) the effects of distance learning on

19 curriculum and staffing patterns at participat20 ing schools;

21 ‘‘(H) an analysis of the socioeconomic

22 characteristics of students participating in pro23 grams assisted under this title, including a re24 view of the differences and effectiveness of pro-
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1 gramming and services provided to economically

2 disadvantaged and minority students;

3 ‘‘(I) an analysis of the socioeconomic and

4 geographic characteristics of schools participat5 ing in programs assisted under this title, in6 cluding a review of the variety of programming

7 provided to different schools; and

8 ‘‘(J) the impact of dissemination grants

9 under section 907(a) on the use of technology10 enhanced programs in local educational agen11 cies.

12 ‘‘(c) FEDERAL ACTIVITIES.—The Assistant Secretary

13 may assist grant recipients under this title in acquiring

14 satellite time, where appropriate, as economically as

15 possible.

16 ‘‘SEC. 907. OTHER ASSISTANCE.

17 ‘‘(a) DISSEMINATION GRANTS.—

18 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary

19 shall make grants under this subsection to eligible

20 telecommunications partnerships assisted under this

21 title and to eligible entities that enter into an agree22 ment with the Assistant Secretary to provide dis23 semination and technical assistance to State and

24 local educational agencies not served under this title.
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1 ‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—For the purposes of this

2 subsection, the term ‘eligible entity’ means an orga3 nization or institution of higher education that has

4 demonstrated expertise in educational applications of

5 technology and provides comprehensive technical as6 sistance to educators and policymakers at the local

7 level.

8 ‘‘(3) RESERVATION.—The Assistant Secretary

9 shall reserve not less than 5 percent and not more

10 than 10 percent of the amount appropriated pursu11 ant to the authority of subsection (c) in each fiscal

12 year to award grants under this subsection.

13 ‘‘(4) APPLICATIONS.—

14 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each eligible tele15 communications partnership and eligible entity

16 that desires to receive a grant under this sub17 section shall submit an application to the Sec18 retary, at such time, in such manner, and con19 taining or accompanied by such information, as

20 the Assistant Secretary may reasonably require.

21 ‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—Each applicant de22 scribed in paragraph (2) shall contain assur23 ances that the eligible telecommunications part24 nership or eligible entity shall provide technical

25 assistance to State and local educational agen-
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1 cies in order to enable such agencies to plan

2 and implement technology-enhanced systems,

3 including—

4 ‘‘(i) information regarding successful

5 distance learning resources for States, local

6 educational agencies, and schools;

7 ‘‘(ii) assistance in connecting users of

8 distance learning, regional educational

9 services centers, colleges and universities,

10 the private sector, and other relevant enti11 ties;

12 ‘‘(iii) assistance and advice in the de13 sign and implementation of systems, in14 cluding needs assessment and technology

15 design; and

16 ‘‘(iv) support for the identification of

17 possible connections, and cost-sharing ar18 rangements for users of such systems.

19 ‘‘(b) SPECIAL STATEWIDE NETWORK.—

20 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary

21 may provide assistance to a statewide telecommuni22 cations network under this subsection if such net23 work—

24 ‘‘(A) provides 2-way interactive video and

25 audio communications;
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1 ‘‘(B) links together public colleges and uni2 versities and secondary schools throughout the

3 State; and

4 ‘‘(C) meets any other requirements deter5 mined appropriate by the Secretary.

6 ‘‘(2) STATE CONTRIBUTION.—A statewide tele7 communications network assisted under paragraph

8 (1) shall contribute, either directly or through pri9 vate contributions, non-Federal funds equal to not

10 less than 50 percent of the cost of such network.

11 ‘‘(c) SPECIAL LOCAL NETWORK.—

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary

13 may provide assistance to a local educational agency

14 or consortium thereof to enable such agency or con15 sortium to establish a high technology demonstration

16 program.

17 ‘‘(2) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—A high tech18 nology demonstration program assisted under para19 graph (1) shall—

20 ‘‘(A) include 2-way full motion interactive

21 video, audio and text communications;

22 ‘‘(B) link together elementary and second23 ary schools, colleges, and universities;

24 ‘‘(C) provide parent participation and fam25 ily programs;
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1 ‘‘(D) include a staff development program;

2 and

3 ‘‘(E) have a significant contribution and

4 participation from business and industry.

5 ‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULE.—Each high technology

6 demonstration program assisted under paragraph

7 (1) shall be of sufficient size and scope to have an

8 effect on meeting the National Education Goals.

9 ‘‘(4) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.—A local edu10 cational agency or consortium receiving a grant

11 under paragraph (1) shall provide, either directly or

12 through private contributions, non-Federal matching

13 funds equal to not less than 50 percent of the

14 amount of the grant.

15 ‘‘SEC. 908. DEFINITIONS.

16 ‘‘As used in this title—

17 ‘‘(1) the term ‘educational institution’ means an

18 institution of higher education, a local educational

19 agency, or a State educational agency;

20 ‘‘(2) the term ‘institution of higher education’

21 has the same meaning given that term by section

22 1201(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965;

23 ‘‘(3) the term ‘local educational agency’ has the

24 same meaning given that term by section 1471(12)
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1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of

2 1965;

3 ‘‘(4) the term ‘instructional programming’

4 means courses of instruction, training courses, and

5 resources used in such instruction and training,

6 which have been prepared in audio and visual form

7 on tape, disc, film, live, and presented by means of

8 telecommunications devices;

9 ‘‘(5) the term ‘public broadcasting entity’ has

10 the same meaning given that term by section 397 of

11 the Communications Act of 1934;

12 ‘‘(6) the term ‘Assistant Secretary’ means the

13 Assistant Secretary for Educational Technology;

14 ‘‘(7) the term ‘State educational agency’ has

15 the same meaning given that term under section

16 1471(23) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu17 cation Act of 1965; and

18 ‘‘(8) the term ‘State’ means each of the several

19 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth

20 of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin

21 Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the

22 Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of

23 Palau, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar24 iana Islands.’’.
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1 TITLE V—EDUCATIONAL TECH2 NOLOGY RESEARCH, DEVEL3 OPMENT AND ASSESSMENT

4 SEC. 501. PURPOSES.

5 It is the purpose of this title—

6 (1) to provide direction and support for the

7 conduct of developmental research on advanced edu8 cational technologies;

9 (2) to support the design and development of

10 educational access to high performance communica11 tions and computing services;

12 (3) to assess the effectiveness of technology in

13 education programs; and

14 (4) to make an annual status report available

15 to the public regarding the state-of-the-art uses of

16 technology in United States education which private

17 businesses and governments can rely upon for deci18 sionmaking about the need for, and provision of, ap19 propriate technologies for education in the United

20 States.

21 SEC. 502. APPLICATION OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES TO

22 EDUCATION.

23 (a) STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of

24 this section to provide support for the design and develop25 ment of long-term comprehensive educational applications
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1 of advanced high performance computer and communica2 tion technologies and video technologies in support of the

3 core subjects of the National Education Goals. Such ad4 vanced technologies include systems identified as inter5 active multimedia, super computing, virtual reality, ad6 vanced digital television, telecomputing, and the networks

7 associated with such systems, including video dial tone

8 access.

9 (b) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Assistant Sec10 retary, in cooperation with other Federal departments and

11 agencies (including the Advanced Research Projects Agen12 cy (ARPA) of the Department of Defense, the Advanced

13 Technology Program of the Department of Commerce, the

14 National Science Foundation, all laboratories supported

15 by the Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics

16 and Space Administration, and the Department of De17 fense) is authorized to support research on advanced

18 learning technologies.

19 (c) PRIORITIES.—In awarding assistance under this

20 section, the Assistant Secretary shall give the highest pri21 ority to research projects which are intended to develop

22 educational applications using advanced technologies

23 which have been used effectively by the Federal Govern24 ment, or business and industry.
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1 (d) ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS.—Any single developer or

2 partnership that can demonstrate both the technological

3 expertise and educational content and instructional design

4 expertise is eligible to apply for assistance under sub5 section (b).

6 (e) APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS.—Each eligible ap7 plicant desiring assistance under this section shall submit

8 an application to the Assistant Secretary at such time, in

9 such manner, and accompanied by such information, as

10 the Assistant Secretary may reasonably require. Each

11 such application shall—

12 (1) define clearly the scope and content of the

13 subject matter of the research and the relevance of

14 the advanced technology to such content;

15 (2) describe the potential market for both the

16 hardware and software developed under this section;

17 (3) assess and test the applications of the ad18 vanced technology in a way that will validate the

19 technology and content usage by the proposed stu20 dents;

21 (4) develop products that are usable by all stu22 dents, including disabled, limited-English speaking,

23 gifted and talented, and disadvantaged students; and

24 (5) develop a marketing plan for the transfer of

25 prototype development into mass distribution or
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1 marketing that may be used in homes, schools, or

2 workplaces.

3 (f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

4 are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for fiscal

5 year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary for each

6 succeeding fiscal year, to carry out this section.

7 SEC. 503. HIGH PERFORMANCE EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING

8 AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS.

9 (a) FINDINGS; STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.—

10 (1) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—

11 (A) throughout the United States various

12 public and private sector groups are developing

13 high performance computing and telecommuni14 cations networks;

15 (B) by the year 2000, such efforts should

16 result in public access to a variety of informa17 tion resources;

18 (C) there needs to be more direct coordina19 tion among such efforts and a more explicit

20 consideration of the needs of education in the

21 designs of such efforts; and

22 (D) support and resources are required to

23 permit schools and libraries to take advantage

24 of the explosive growth in communication capa-
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1 bilities and information access that technology

2 provides.

3 (2) STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.—It is the pur4 pose of this section to ensure that such high per5 formance computing and telecommunications net6 works (often identified as ‘‘information highways’’)

7 are developed with due consideration to the needs of

8 elementary and secondary education and that such

9 networks have explicit provisions which facilitate

10 educational uses in order to ensure that the class11 rooms and libraries in the Nation’s elementary and

12 secondary schools have adequate access to the

13 emerging ‘‘information highways’’.

14 (b) AUTHORITY.—The Assistant Secretary is author15 ized to—

16 (1) identify educational high performance com17 puting and telecommunications network require18 ments;

19 (2) develop specifications for the implementa20 tion of such requirements within any national tele21 communications network;

22 (3) establish prototype operations on existing

23 networks to validate and further develop the edu24 cational specifications which will facilitate the use of

25 such networks by kindergarten through twelfth
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1 grade students, teachers, administrators, and par2 ents;

3 (4) represent the needs and interests of elemen4 tary and secondary schools in the Federal planning

5 and development of a national information infra6 structure; and

7 (5) identify policy issues, such as communica8 tion rate structures and intellectual property rights,

9 that impact upon the ability of the public schools to

10 make effective use of the emerging information high11 ways and make recommendations to the Secretary

12 and the Congress.

13 (c) TYPES OF GRANTS.—The Assistant Secretary

14 shall award the following types of grants:

15 (1) REQUIREMENTS GRANTS.—The Assistant

16 Secretary shall solicit proposals for and award

17 grants to 1 or more entities for the identification of

18 educational high performance computing and tele19 communications network requirements. The solicita20 tion shall request proposals which—

21 (A) identify and describe existing and

22 planned educational high performance comput23 ing and telecommunications network efforts;
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1 (B) identify and describe current uses of

2 such networks in kindergarten through twelfth

3 grade education throughout the United States;

4 (C) identify potential uses of such net5 works in kindergarten through twelfth grade

6 education by schools throughout the United

7 States;

8 (D) assess impediments to the development

9 of such networks in kindergarten through

10 twelfth grade education (such as technological

11 impediments, availability of technology-en12 hanced curriculum, instruction, and administra13 tive support resources and services in local

14 schools; and parent, student, teacher and ad15 ministrator attitudes toward technology-en16 hanced education);

17 (E) assess the anticipated costs and bene18 fits to be derived from such network access in

19 kindergarten through twelfth grade education;

20 and

21 (F) recommend priorities for development

22 of educational access to such networks based on

23 the anticipated cost benefit analysis.

24 (2) SPECIFICATIONS GRANTS.—The Assistant

25 Secretary shall solicit proposals for and award
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1 grants to 1 or more entities for the design and de2 velopment of educational specifications which may be

3 used to ensure educational access to any national

4 educational high performance computing and tele5 communications network. The solicitation shall re6 quest proposals which—

7 (A) incorporate—

8 (i) the findings of the grant recipients

9 under paragraph (1); and

10 (ii) the priorities recommended for

11 such networks by the Assistant Secretary

12 with the advice of the National Commis13 sion on Technology in Education;

14 (B) provide for the development of several

15 distinct design alternatives, each with internal

16 design options based on uses of alternative

17 technologies and costs;

18 (C) provide for the development of speci19 fications for selected design alternatives or of

20 specifications for a composite design;

21 (D) address technological issues, includ22 ing—

23 (i) linkage of schools and communities

24 with each other, with central resource cen25 ters, and with Federal and State agencies
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1 over existing or planned telecommuni2 cations networks, such as INTERNET,

3 the National Research Education Network,

4 and Telstar 401;

5 (ii) uses of alternative connectivity

6 modes, such as fiber optics, satellites, and

7 land-based broadcasting;

8 (iii) integrated uses of two-way inter9 active voice, video, and data communica10 tions;

11 (iv) uses of interactive multimedia;

12 (v) system capacity, such as maximum

13 telecommunications traffic in a variety of

14 use modes;

15 (vi) availability of needed technologies;

16 (vii) availability of support services;

17 and

18 (viii) assessment of the impact of pro19 posed educational access specifications on

20 existing or planned telecommunications

21 network; and

22 (E) provide comprehensive specifications

23 which will ensure educational access to any na24 tional educational high performance computing

25 and telecommunications network as the primary
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1 deliverable product of the specifications grants

2 described in paragraph (1).

3 (3) PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.—The

4 Assistant Secretary shall solicit proposals for and

5 award grants to 1 or more entities for prototype op6 erations on existing networks in order to validate

7 and further develop the educational specifications

8 which will facilitate use of existing or planned edu9 cational high performance communicating and tele10 communications networks by kindergarten through

11 twelfth grade students, teachers, administrators, and

12 parents. The solicitation shall request proposals

13 which—

14 (A) incorporate the design limits of the

15 comprehensive educational high performance

16 computing and telecommunications network

17 specifications developed by grant recipients

18 under paragraph (2);

19 (B) support prototype operations for at

20 least 1 year in a minimum of 5 test sites which

21 are selected to represent a variety of economic,

22 social, urban and rural settings;

23 (C) provide for inservice training and tech24 nical assistance during the period of prototype

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1 (D) provide provisions for the identifica2 tion and correction of operational problems dur3 ing the period of prototype operations (includ4 ing design flaws);

5 (E) include a comprehensive evaluation of

6 all aspects of the prototype, including—

7 (i) design flaws;

8 (ii) training requirements, including

9 resources and strategies for initial and on10 going training;

11 (iii) technical support requirements;

12 (iv) financing constraints;

13 (v) availability and utility of informa14 tion resources and services accessed during

15 the prototype operations period;

16 (vi) factors which enhanced or im17 peded prototype operations; and

18 (vii) an overall assessment of the im19 pact of such technology on the educational

20 process; and

21 (F) provide recommended revisions of the

22 Assistant Secretary’s educational high perform23 ance computing and telecommunications net24 work specifications based on findings of the
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1 comprehensive evaluation of prototype oper2 ations.

3 (d) TIMELINE.—The Assistant Secretary shall award

4 grants under this section in accordance with the following:

5 (1) REQUIREMENT GRANTS.—The Assistant

6 Secretary shall award requirement grants under sub7 section (c)(1) by January 1, 1995.

8 (2) DEVELOPMENT OF DESIGN SPECIFICA9 TIONS.—The Assistant Secretary shall award grants

10 under subsection (c)(2) by January 1, 1996.

11 (3) PROTOTYPE OPERATIONS.—The Assistant

12 Secretary shall award grants under subsection (c)(3)

13 by July 1, 1997.

14 (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

15 are authorized to be appropriated $2,500,000 for fiscal

16 year 1994, $2,500,000 for fiscal year 1995, and

17 $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1996, to carry out this section.

18 SEC. 504. ASSESSMENT OF TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION.

19 (a) PURPOSES.—It is the purpose of this section—

20 (1) to make an annual status report available

21 to the Congress and the public regarding the state22 of-the-art uses of technology in State and local edu23 cational programs throughout the United States;

24 and

25 (2) to support research regarding—
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1 (A) the effectiveness of technology-en2 hanced curriculum instruction;

3 (B) administrative support resources and

4 services in improving education in the United

5 States; and

6 (C) school library media center techno7 logical support.

8 (b) AUTHORITY.—The Assistant Secretary, through

9 the Office, shall—

10 (1) conduct an annual assessment of the uses

11 of technology in State and local educational pro12 grams; and

13 (2) award grants to support research on the ef14 fectiveness of technology-enhanced education pro15 grams.

16 (c) ANNUAL ASSESSMENT.—The Assistant Secretary

17 shall conduct the annual assessment described in sub18 section (b)(1) by obtaining input from a variety of sources,

19 including State and local educational agencies, regional

20 technology centers, university preservice and inservice

21 technology training providers, national survey bureaus,

22 and other departments and agencies of the Federal

23 Government.

24 (1) TIMING OF THE ASSESSMENTS.—Each as25 sessment shall be conducted during the normal
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1 school year at such a time that the data collection

2 will coincide with other data collections and facilitate

3 data interpretation in reference to other routinely

4 collected educational performance data, such as stu5 dent enrollment and teacher preparation statistics.

6 (2) INTERAGENCY COOPERATION.—The head of

7 each Federal department or agency that supports an

8 education program shall cooperate with the Assist9 ant Secretary’s efforts to assess and report on the

10 utilization of technology-enhanced curriculum, in11 struction, and administrative support resources and

12 services in federally supported education programs.

13 (3) USE OF GOVERNMENT RESOURCES; CON14 TRACTED SERVICES.—The Assistant Secretary shall

15 conduct the assessments using the resources of the

16 Office or the resources of any other Federal depart17 ment or agency made available to the Assistant Sec18 retary, and by contracting for services from the pub19 lic, private, or nonprofit sectors.

20 (4) SUBMISSION.—The Assistant Secretary’s

21 annual assessment shall be submitted to the Con22 gress in the fall of each year.

23 (d) EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH.—The Assistant

24 Secretary is authorized to provide grants to public or pri25 vate, nonprofit organizations or institutions for the con-
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1 duct and dissemination of research on the effectiveness of

2 new technologies for the improvement of education in the

3 United States. In awarding such grants, the Assistant

4 Secretary shall give priority to research projects which

5 focus on—

6 (1) teaching and learning in the kindergarten

7 through twelfth grade environment;

8 (2) technology-enhanced curriculum, instruc9 tion, and administrative support resources and serv10 ices developed in whole or in part with Federal fund11 ing; or

12 (3) operational needs of elementary or second13 ary schools involved in implementing technology-en14 hanced curriculum, instruction, and administrative

15 support resources and services to achieve the Na16 tional Education Goals.

17 (e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There

18 are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal

19 year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary in each

20 succeeding fiscal year, to carry out this section.

21 TITLE VI—MISCELLANEOUS

22 SEC. 601. STUDY OF SYSTEMIC FUNDING ALTERNATIVES.

23 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary shall con24 duct a study to evaluate, and report to the Congress on,

25 the feasibility of several alternative models for providing
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1 systematic funding for schools throughout the United

2 States so that such schools are able to acquire and main3 tain technology-enhanced curriculum, instruction, and ad4 ministrative support resources and services.

5 (b) REPORT.—The report described in subsection (a)

6 shall be presented to the Congress not later than August

7 1, 1995.

8 SEC. 602. PARTICIPATION OF PRIVATE SCHOOL CHILDREN.

9 (a) PARTICIPATION OF PRIVATE SCHOOL CHIL10 DREN.—To the extent consistent with the number of chil11 dren who are enrolled in private nonprofit elementary or

12 secondary schools served by an entity receiving assistance

13 under this Act, such entity shall, after consultation with

14 appropriate private school representatives, make provision

15 for including services and arrangements for the benefit of

16 such children as will assure the equitable participation of

17 such children in the purposes and benefits of this Act.

18 (b) WAIVER.—If by reason of any provision of State

19 law an entity receiving assistance under this Act is prohib20 ited from providing for the participation of children from

21 private nonprofit schools as required by subsection (a), or

22 if the Secretary determines that such entity has substan23 tially failed or is unwilling to provide for such participa24 tion on an equitable basis, the Secretary shall waive such
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