‘‘(iii) offers assistance to overcome the 
finding of noncompliance. 
‘‘(H) FAILURE TO RESPOND.—If the entity 
or entities described in subparagraph (B) do 
not respond to the notification of the Secretary 
of the Interior described in subparagraph (E) 
within a 30-day period after receipt of such no-
tification, the application shall be deemed to be 
disapproved.’’; 
(5) by inserting after section 1116 the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘SEC. 1116A. INDIAN SCHOOL TURN AROUND PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to sig-
nificantly improve outcomes for Indian students in persist-
ently low-performing schools by— 
‘‘(1) enabling Indian tribes or tribal education 
agencies to turn around low-performing schools op-
erated by a local educational agency on Indian lands; 
‘‘(2) building the capacity of tribes and tribal 
education agencies to improve student academic 
achievement in low-performing and persistently low- 
performing schools; and 
‘‘(3) supporting tribes and tribal education 
agencies in implementing school intervention models. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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‘‘(1) INDIAN LANDS.—The term ‘Indian lands’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 8013. 
‘‘(2) 
INDIAN
SCHOOL.—The 
term 
‘Indian 
school’ means any school located on Indian lands. 
‘‘(3) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian tribe’ 
means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other orga-
nized group or community (including any Native vil-
lage, Regional Corporation, or Village Corporation 
as defined in, or established pursuant to, the Alaska 
Native Claims Settlement Act), that is recognized as 
eligible for the special programs and services pro-
vided by the United States to Indians because of 
their status as Indians. 
‘‘(4) TRIBAL EDUCATION AGENCY.—The term 
‘tribal education agency’ means the authorized gov-
ernmental agency of a federally recognized American 
Indian or Alaska Native tribe (as defined in section 
4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b)) that is primarily 
responsible for regulating, administering, or super-
vising the formal education of tribal members. A 
tribal education agency includes tribal education de-
partments, tribal divisions of education, tribally 
sanctioned education authorities, tribal education 
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administrative planning and development agencies, 
and tribal administrative education entities. 
‘‘(c) IDENTIFICATION OF LOW-PERFORMING INDIAN 
SCHOOLS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each State that receives 
funds under this part shall annually identify any In-
dian school operated by a local educational agency 
that— 
‘‘(A) is a school identified under section 
1116(b); and 
‘‘(B)(i) in the case of an Indian school that 
is an elementary school, is in the lowest 5 per-
cent of the State’s public elementary schools; 
‘‘(ii) in the case of an Indian school that 
is a secondary school that does not award a 
high school diploma, is in the lowest 5 percent 
of the State’s public secondary schools that do 
not award a high school diploma; or 
‘‘(iii) in the case of an Indian school that 
is a secondary school that does award a high 
school diploma— 
‘‘(I) is in the bottom 5 percent of the 
State’s public secondary schools that 
award a high school diploma; or 
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