as the Secretary may specify, an application containing 
the contents described in subsection (b) and such other 
information as the Secretary may reasonably require. 
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each State application submitted 
under subsection (a) shall include each of the following: 
‘‘(1) A description of how the State will support 
local grant recipients in meeting, and help improve 
their capacity to meet, the purposes, goals, and re-
quirements of this part, including through technical 
assistance. 
‘‘(2) A description of the State’s long-term 
goals and strategies for improving student academic 
achievement, including core curricular areas and 
technology literacy, through the effective use of tech-
nology in classrooms and schools throughout the 
State. 
‘‘(3) A description of the priority areas on 
which the State will focus its guidance, technical as-
sistance, and other local support under this part, as 
identified by the State from among the core content 
areas, grade levels, and student subgroup popu-
lations that may be causing the most number of 
local educational agencies in the State to not make 
adequate yearly progress (as described in section 
1111). 
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‘‘(4) A description of how the State will support 
local grant recipients in implementing, and help im-
prove their capacity to implement, professional de-
velopment 
programs 
pursuant 
to 
section 
2416(b)(1)(A). 
‘‘(5) A description of how the State will ensure 
that teachers, paraprofessionals, library and media 
personnel, and administrators in the State are tech-
nologically literate. 
‘‘(6) A description of the process, activities, and 
performance measures that the State educational 
agency will use to evaluate the impact and effective-
ness of activities funded under this part as required 
under section 2414(b). 
‘‘(7) Identification of the State challenging aca-
demic content standards and challenging student 
academic achievement standards that the State will 
use to ensure that each student is technology literate 
by the end of the 8th grade (consistent with the def-
inition of student technology literacy in section 
2402), and a description of how the State will assess 
student performance in gaining technology literacy, 
except that— 
‘‘(A) such assessment shall be used only to 
track student technology literacy and not for 
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purposes 
of 
determining 
adequate 
yearly 
progress under section 1111; and 
‘‘(B) nothing in this part shall be con-
strued as requiring a State to develop a sepa-
rate test to measure student technology literacy, 
as assessment may be embedded in other State 
tests or performance-based assessments port-
folios, or made through other valid and reliable 
means. 
‘‘(8) An assurance that financial assistance pro-
vided under this subpart will supplement, and not 
supplant, State and local funds. 
‘‘(9) A description of how the State educational 
agency will, in providing technical and other assist-
ance to local educational agencies, give priority to 
those identified by the State in the highest need of 
assistance, including those with the highest percent-
age or number of students from families with in-
comes below the poverty line, students not achieving 
at the State proficiency level with student popu-
lations identified under section 2412(b)(1)(C), or 
schools identified as in need of improvement under 
section 1116. 
‘‘(10) A description of how the State edu-
cational agency will ensure that each subgrant 
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