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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1151

To provide for elementary and secondary school library media resources,

technology enhancement, training and improvement.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FEBRUARY 25, 1993

Mr. REED (for himself, Mrs. MINK, and Mr. PETRI) introduced the following

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

JANUARY 5, 1994

Additional sponsors: Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. BYRNE,

Mr. TOWNS, Mr. SCOTT, Mr. GUNDERSON, Mr. PAYNE of New Jersey,

Mrs. UNSOELD, Mr. ROMERO-BARCELO ́, Mr. OWENS, Mr. KOPETSKI, Mr.

EVANS, Mr. NADLER, Mrs. MORELLA, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr.

CLAY, Mr. HILLIARD, Mr. FISH, Mr. MAZZOLI, Mr. VENTO, Mr. ENGLISH of Oklahoma, Mr. GEJDENSON, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr.

TRAFICANT, Mr. TORRICELLI, Mr. WILSON, Mr. CHAPMAN, Mr. WALSH,

Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. STUPAK, Mr. ANDREWS of Maine, Ms. NORTON, Mr. DARDEN, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. BAESLER, Mr. SARPALIUS, Mr. ANDREWS of New

Jersey, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. BARLOW, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota,

Mr. SCHUMER, Mr. BILBRAY, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. OLVER, Mr. ROSE, Ms.

SHEPHERD, Mr. SAWYER, Mr. BACHUS of Alabama, Mr. BECERRA, and

Mr. Waxman

Deleted sponsor: Mr. MFUME (added April 21, 1993; deleted November 22,

1993)

A BILL

To provide for elementary and secondary school library media

resources, technology enhancement, training and improvement.
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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Elementary and Sec5 ondary School Library Media Act’’.

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

7 (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—

8 (1) in order to prepare our Nation’s children

9 for the challenges of the future, as well as keeping

10 our Nation competitive in a global economy, every

11 elementary and secondary school in the United

12 States should be equipped with the best and most

13 up-to-date library resources, certified library media

14 specialists, access to advanced technology, and in15 struction on the use of library and information re16 sources;

17 (2) our Nation’s elementary and secondary

18 school libraries are primarily dependent on a core of

19 deteriorating and out-of-date library materials pur20 chased with original funding from the Elementary

21 and Secondary Education Act of 1965;

22 (3) school library media center expenditures,

23 when adjusted for inflation, have declined 16 percent

24 in public schools since 1979; and
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1 (4) small and rural school libraries are further

2 disadvantaged because of small budgets based on

3 low student enrollments, and limited access to re4 sources, services, and personnel.

5 (b) STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of

6 this Act to—

7 (1) establish within the Department of Edu8 cation Office of Educational Research and Improve9 ment a Division of Elementary and Secondary

10 School Library Media Services to provide informa11 tion and leadership to school library media programs

12 and personnel nationwide;

13 (2) provide continued funding for elementary

14 and secondary school library media program im15 provement, equity, innovation, and technological ad16 vancement;

17 (3) establish a partnership program for elemen18 tary and secondary school teachers and school li19 brary media specialists to jointly design resource and

20 curriculum-based instructional activities that provide

21 opportunities for students to access a broad diversity

22 of resources and information, and other languages

23 and cultures, including materials that will encourage

24 understanding; and
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1 (4) establish a partnership program for encour2 aging uses of technology and the sharing of informa3 tion and access to resources by elementary and sec4 ondary school students, school library media special5 ists, and teachers.

6 SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTIONS OF THE DIVISION

7 OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL

8 LIBRARY MEDIA SERVICES.

9 (a) DIVISION ESTABLISHED.—Section 209 of the De10 partment of Education Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3419)

11 is amended—

12 (1) by inserting ‘‘(a) OFFICE.—’’ before

13 ‘‘There’’; and

14 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub15 section:

16 ‘‘(b) DIVISION.—There is established within the Of17 fice of Educational Research and Improvement a Division

18 of Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Serv19 ices, to be administered by a Director of such Division.’’.

20 (b) FUNCTIONS OF THE DIVISION.—Part A of title

21 IV of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C.

22 1221c) is amended by inserting after section 405 the fol23 lowing new section:
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1 ‘‘SEC. 405A. DIVISION OF LIBRARY MEDIA SERVICES.

2 ‘‘(a) FUNCTIONS.—The Division of Elementary and

3 Secondary School Library Media Services established in

4 section 209(b) of the Department of Education Organiza5 tion Act shall—

6 ‘‘(1) provide information and leadership to ele7 mentary and secondary school library media special8 ists, teachers, and school administrators in order to

9 encourage improvement of educational programs,

10 train library personnel, use advanced technology,

11 and develop library resources, including resources

12 that will encourage students to acquire skills in

13 other languages; and

14 ‘‘(2) monitor and administer—

15 ‘‘(A) the grant programs for elementary

16 and secondary school library media center re17 source development;

18 ‘‘(B) elementary and secondary school li19 brary media specialist and teacher partnership

20 grants for innovative education; and

21 ‘‘(C) grants for uses of technology in the

22 classroom that are linked to the library media

23 center.

24 ‘‘(b) ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL LI25 BRARY MEDIA PROGRAM.—
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1 ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ELEMENTARY

2 AND SECONDARY SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA RE3 SOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.—The Director

4 shall award grants from allocations under paragraph

5 (2) to States for the acquisition of school library

6 media resources for the use of students, library

7 media specialists, and teachers in public elementary

8 and secondary schools.

9 ‘‘(2) ALLOCATION TO STATES.—From the

10 amount appropriated pursuant to the authority of

11 paragraph (5) in each fiscal year, the Director shall

12 allocate to each State having an approved plan

13 under paragraph (3) an amount which bears the

14 same relationship to such funds as the amount such

15 State received under chapter 2 of title I of the Ele16 mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in

17 such year bears to the amount all States received

18 under such chapter in such year.

19 ‘‘(3) STATE PLANS.—In order for a State to re20 ceive an allocation of funds under paragraph (2) for

21 any fiscal year such State shall have in effect for

22 such fiscal year a State plan. Such plan shall—

23 ‘‘(A) designate the State educational agen24 cy as the State agency responsible for the ad-
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1 ministration and supervision of the program de2 scribed in this section;

3 ‘‘(B) set forth a program under which

4 funds paid to the State from its allocation

5 under paragraph (2) will be expended solely

6 for—

7 ‘‘(i) acquisition of school library media

8 resources, including foreign language re9 sources, for the use of students, school li10 brary media specialists, and teachers in el11 ementary and secondary schools in the

12 United States; and

13 ‘‘(ii) administration of the State plan,

14 including development and revision of

15 standards relating to school library media

16 resources, except that the amount used for

17 administration of the State plan in any fis18 cal year shall not exceed 5 percent of the

19 amount allocated to such State under

20 paragraph (2) for such fiscal year; and

21 ‘‘(C) set forth the criteria to be used in al22 lotting funds for school library media resources

23 among the local educational agencies of the

24 State, which allotment shall take into consider-
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1 ation the relative need of the students, school

2 media specialists, and teachers to be served.

3 ‘‘(4) DISTRIBUTION OF ALLOCATION TO LOCAL

4 EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES.—

5 ‘‘(A) DISTRIBUTION RULE.—From the

6 funds allocated to a State under paragraph (2)

7 in each fiscal year, such State shall distribute

8 not less than 95 percent of such funds in such

9 year to local educational agencies within such

10 State according to the relative enrollment of

11 students in public elementary and secondary

12 schools within the school districts of such State,

13 adjusted to provide higher per-pupil allotments

14 to local educational agencies that have the

15 greatest number or percentages of students

16 whose education imposes a higher than average

17 cost per child, such as those students—

18 ‘‘(i) living in areas with high con19 centrations of low-income families;

20 ‘‘(ii) from low-income families; and

21 ‘‘(iii) living in sparsely populated

22 areas.

23 ‘‘(B) CALCULATION OF ENROLLMENT.—

24 The calculation of relative enrollments under

25 subparagraph (A) shall be made on the basis of
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1 the total number of students enrolled in public

2 schools in the State.

3 ‘‘(5) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

4 There are authorized to be appropriated

5 $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and such sums as

6 may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal

7 years to carry out this subsection.

8 ‘‘(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY

9 MEDIA SPECIALIST AND TEACHER PARTNERSHIPS FOR

10 INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION PROGRAM.—

11 ‘‘(1) PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—The Director

12 shall award grants for projects that—

13 ‘‘(A) encourage collaboration between pub14 lic elementary and secondary school library

15 media specialists and teachers in order to de16 velop units of instruction that enable elemen17 tary and secondary school students to use a va18 riety of information resources; and

19 ‘‘(B) expand students’ information-gather20 ing abilities and cognitive skills of selection,

21 analysis, evaluation, and application.

22 ‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

23 There are authorized to be appropriated

24 $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and such sums as
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1 may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal

2 years to carry out this subsection.

3 ‘‘(d) ESTABLISHMENT OF THE USES OF TECH4 NOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM PROGRAM.—

5 ‘‘(1) PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—

6 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall

7 award grants to encourage collaborative elemen8 tary and secondary school library media special9 ist and teacher programs designed to—

10 ‘‘(i) expand the use of computers and

11 computer networks in the curriculum; and

12 ‘‘(ii) enable elementary and secondary

13 school library media centers to access in14 formation from computerized databases.

15 ‘‘(B) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The

16 Director may enter into cooperative agreements

17 with the National Science Foundation and other

18 appropriate nonprofit agencies and organiza19 tions in carrying out this section.

20 ‘‘(2) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

21 There are authorized to be appropriated

22 $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1994 and such sums as

23 may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal

24 years to carry out this subsection.
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1 ‘‘(e) CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall

2 be construed to interfere with State and local initiative

3 and responsibility in the conduct and support of school

4 library media services, the administration of school library

5 media centers, or the selection of personnel or library

6 books and materials.

7 ‘‘(f) SUPPLEMENTATION.—Funds provided under

8 this section shall be used so as to supplement and not sup9 plant other Federal, State, or local funds available to carry

10 out the activities and services assisted under this section.

11 ‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—For the purpose of this sec12 tion—

13 ‘‘(1) the term ‘Director’ means the Director of

14 the Division of Elementary and Secondary School

15 Library Media Services established pursuant to sec16 tion 209(b) of the Department of Education Organi17 zation Act;

18 ‘‘(2) the term ‘elementary school’ has the same

19 meaning given to such term by section 1471(8) of

20 the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of

21 1965;

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

23 same meaning given to such term by section

24 1471(12) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu25 cation Act of 1965;
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1 ‘‘(4) the term ‘secondary school’ has the same

2 meaning given to such term by section 1471(21) of

3 the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of

4 1965;

5 ‘‘(5) the term ‘State’ means each of the several

6 States of the United States, the District of Colum7 bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin

8 Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Common9 wealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, the Re10 public of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States

11 of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau; and

12 ‘‘(6) the term ‘State educational agency’ has

13 the same meaning given to such term by section

14 1471(23) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu15 cation Act of 1965.’’.

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