Enables states to reimburse part or all of the cost of test fees for eligible low-income individuals. Improves the teaching and learning of all students through professional development activities in the core academic subjects to help ensure that teachers, administrators and other staff have access to sustained and intensive high-quality professional development that is aligned to challenging state content standards and challenging state student performance standards. Provides grants to support collaborative activities with other federal agencies or institutions involved in arts education such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum Services, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, and Very Special Arts, Inc. or institutions. D.C. Grants may also be provided to Very Special Arts to support model projects that integrate arts education into the regular elementary and secondary school curriculum. Provides technical assistance, training, and advisory services to school districts in the preparation, adoption, and implementation of desegregation plans and effective methods of coping with the special education problems caused by the desegregation of school districts based on race, sex, and national origin.
Assistance is provided by regional desegregation assistance centers.
Provides financial assistance for the design and initial implementation of charter schools and the evaluation of the effects of charter schools on students, student achievement, staff and parents. Local education agencies may apply to the state education agencies for sub-grants. Promotes educational equity for women and girls including those women and girls who suffer multiple discrimination based on gender and race, ethnic origin, disability or age, and promotes assistance to local education agencies to meet the requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Grants provide funds to implement equity programs and policies in schools and to develop and disseminate model equity programs. Public agencies, private nonprofit agencies, organizations, institutions, student groups, community groups and individuals.