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challenging State academic content and student aca-
demic achievement standards. 
‘‘(7) Collaborating with other States on distance 
learning, including making advanced courses avail-
able to students who would otherwise not have access 
to such courses. 
‘‘(b) LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—Of the 
5 percent of the State’s allotment under section 5211 which 
may be used to carry out activities under this section, not 
more than 40 percent may be used by the State for adminis-
trative costs. 
‘‘SEC. 5216. LOCAL ACTIVITIES. 
‘‘(a) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.—A recipient of 
funds made available under section 5212(a)(2)(A) shall use 
not less than 20 percent of such funds to provide sustained 
and intensive, high-quality professional development, con-
sistent with section 2033 (as applicable), based on scientif-
ically based research in the integration of advanced tech-
nologies (including emerging technologies) into curriculum 
and in using those technologies to create new learning envi-
ronments, including professional development in the use of 
technology to— 
‘‘(1) access data and resources to develop cur-
ricula and instructional materials; 
‘‘(2) enable teachers— 
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‘‘(i) to use the Internet to communicate 
with parents, other teachers, principals, and ad-
ministrators; and 
‘‘(ii) to retrieve Internet-based learning re-
sources; and 
‘‘(3) lead to improvements in classroom instruc-
tion in the core academic subject areas, which effec-
tively prepare students to meet challenging State aca-
demic content and student academic achievement 
standards. 
‘‘(b) WAIVER.—Subsection (a) does not apply to a re-
cipient of funds under section 5212(a)(2)(A) that dem-
onstrates, to the satisfaction of the State, that such recipient 
already provides sustained and intensive, high-quality pro-
fessional development based on scientifically based research 
in the integration of technology (including emerging tech-
nologies) into the curriculum. 
‘‘(c) OTHER ACTIVITIES.—In addition to the activities 
described in subsection (a), a recipient of funds distributed 
by a State under section 5212(a)(2)(A) shall use such funds 
to carry out other activities consistent with this subpart, 
which may include the following: 
‘‘(1) Adapting or expanding existing and new 
applications of technology to enable teachers to in-
crease student academic achievement through the use 
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of teaching practices and advanced technologies that 
are based on scientifically based research and are de-
signed to prepare students to meet challenging State 
academic content and student academic achievement 
standards, and for developing and utilizing innova-
tive strategies to deliver rigorous academic programs. 
‘‘(2) Expanding, acquiring, implementing, ap-
plying, and maintaining education technology as a 
means to improve the academic achievement of all 
students. 
‘‘(3) The establishment or expansion of initia-
tives, particularly those involving public-private part-
nerships, designed to increase access to technology for 
students and teachers, with special emphasis on the 
access of high-need local educational agencies to tech-
nology. 
‘‘(4) Using technology to promote parent and 
family involvement, and support communications be-
tween students, parents, and teachers. 
‘‘(5) Acquiring proven and effective curricula 
that include integrated technology and are designed to 
help students achieve challenging State academic con-
tent and student academic achievement standards. 
‘‘(6) Using technology to collect, manage, and 
analyze data to inform school improvement efforts. 
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‘‘(7) Implementing enhanced performance meas-
urement systems to determine the effectiveness of edu-
cation technology programs funded under this sub-
part, particularly in determining the extent to which 
education technology funded under this subpart has 
been successfully integrated into teaching strategies 
and school curriculum, has increased the ability of 
teachers to teach, and has enabled students to meet 
challenging State academic content and student aca-
demic achievement standards. 
‘‘(8) Preparing one or more teachers in elemen-
tary and secondary schools as technology leaders who 
are provided with the means to serve as experts and 
train other teachers in the effective use of technology. 
‘‘(9) Establishing or expanding access to tech-
nology in areas served by high-need local educational 
agencies, with special emphasis for access provided 
through technology centers in partnership with librar-
ies and with the support of the private sector. 
‘‘Subpart 2—National Technology Activities 
‘‘SEC. 5221. NATIONAL ACTIVITIES. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Using funds made available under 
section 5203(b)(2), the Secretary— 
‘‘(1) shall— 
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‘‘(A) conduct an independent, long-term 
study, utilizing scientifically based research 
methods and control groups, on the effect of edu-
cational technology on improving student aca-
demic achievement; 
‘‘(B) include in the study an identification 
of uses of educational technology (including how 
teachers can integrate technology into the cur-
ricula) that have a measurable positive impact 
on student achievement; 
‘‘(C) establish an independent review panel 
to advise the Secretary on methodological and 
other issues that arise in conducting this long- 
term study; and 
‘‘(D) submit to the Congress interim re-
ports, when appropriate, and a final report, to 
be submitted not later than 6 months before the 
end of fiscal year 2006, on the findings of the 
study; 
‘‘(2) may fund national technology initiatives 
that are supported by scientifically based research 
and utilize technology in education, through the com-
petitive award of grants or contracts, pursuant to a 
peer review process, to States, local educational agen-
cies, eligible local entities, institutions of higher edu-
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cation, public agencies, and private nonprofit or for- 
profit agencies; and 
‘‘(3) may provide technical assistance (directly 
or through the competitive award of grants or con-
tracts) to States, local educational agencies, and other 
recipients of funds under this part in order to assist 
such States, local educational agencies, and other re-
cipients to achieve the purposes of this part. 
‘‘(b) NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES.— 
‘‘(1) USE OF FUNDS.—In funding national tech-
nology initiatives under subsection (a)(2), the Sec-
retary— 
‘‘(A) shall place a priority on projects 
that— 
‘‘(i) develop innovative models using 
electronic networks or other forms of dis-
tance 
learning 
to 
provide 
challenging 
courses that are otherwise not readily avail-
able to students in a particular school dis-
trict, particularly in rural areas; or 
‘‘(ii) increase access to technology to 
students served by high-need local edu-
cational agencies; and 
‘‘(B) shall, in order to identify effective uses 
of educational technology that have a measurable 
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positive impact on student achievement and as 
specified in paragraph (3)— 
‘‘(i) develop tools and provide resources 
and support, including technical assistance, 
for recipients of funds under subsection 
(a)(2) to effectively evaluate their activities; 
and 
‘‘(ii) disseminate the evaluations made 
under paragraph (2)(A)(ii). 
‘‘(2) 
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
RECIPIENTS
OF 
FUNDS.— 
‘‘(A) APPLICATION.—In order to receive a 
grant or contract under subsection (a)(2), an en-
tity shall submit an application to the Secretary 
(at such time and in such form as the Secretary 
may require), and shall include in the applica-
tion— 
‘‘(i) a description of the project pro-
posed to be carried out with the grant or 
contract and how it would carry out the 
purposes of subsection (a)(2); and 
‘‘(ii) a detailed plan for an inde-
pendent evaluation, supported by scientif-
ically based research principles, of the 
project to determine the impact on the aca-
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demic achievement of students served under 
such project, as measured by challenging 
State academic content and student aca-
demic achievement standards. 
‘‘(B) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Subject to clauses 
(ii) and (iii), the Secretary may require 
any recipient of a grant or contract under 
subsection (a)(2) to share in the cost of the 
activities assisted under such grant or con-
tract, which may be in the form of cash or 
in-kind contributions, fairly valued. 
‘‘(ii) INCREASE.—The Secretary may 
increase the non-Federal share required of a 
recipient of a grant or contract under sub-
section (a)(2) after the first year such re-
cipient receives funds under such grant or 
contract. 
‘‘(iii) 
MAXIMUM.—The 
non-Federal 
share required under this subsection may 
not exceed 50 percent of the cost of the ac-
tivities assisted under a grant or contract 
under this subpart. 
‘‘(iv) NOTICE.—The Secretary shall 
publish, in the Federal Register, the non- 
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Federal share required under this subpara-
graph. 
‘‘(3) EVALUATION
AND
DISSEMINATION.—The 
Secretary shall make information on each project 
funded with a grant or contract under subsection 
(a)(2) widely available to schools and the general 
public, including through dissemination on the Inter-
net, in a timely and user-friendly manner. This in-
formation shall, at a minimum, include— 
‘‘(A) upon the awarding of such a grant or 
contract under subsection (a)(2), the identifica-
tion of the grant or contract recipient, the 
amount of the grant or contract, the stated goals 
of the grant or contract, the methods by which 
the grant or contract will be evaluated in meet-
ing such stated goals, and the timeline for meet-
ing such goals; 
‘‘(B) not later than 3 months after the com-
pletion of the first year of the project period, in-
formation on the progress of the grant or con-
tract recipient in carrying out the grant or con-
tract, including a detailed description of the use 
of the funds provided, the extent to which the 
stated goals have been reached, and the results 
(or progress of) the evaluation of the project; and 
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‘‘(C) not later than 3 months after the com-
pletion of the second year of the project period 
(and updated thereafter as appropriate), a fol-
lowup to the information described in subpara-
graph (B). 
‘‘Subpart 3—Ready to Learn, Ready to Teach 
‘‘SEC. 5231. READY TO LEARN TELEVISION. 
‘‘(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall award 
grants to or enter into contracts or cooperative agree-
ments with eligible entities described in paragraph 
(3) to— 
‘‘(A) develop, produce, and distribute edu-
cational and instructional video programming 
for preschool and elementary school children and 
their parents in order to facilitate student aca-
demic achievement; 
‘‘(B) facilitate the development (directly or 
through contracts with producers of children and 
family educational television programming) of 
educational programming for preschool and ele-
mentary school children and accompanying sup-
port materials and services that directly promote 
the effective use of such programming; 
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‘‘(C) facilitate the development of program-
ming and digital content especially designed for 
nationwide distribution over digital broadcasting 
channels and the Internet, containing Ready to 
Learn-based children’s programming and re-
sources for parents and caregivers; 
‘‘(D) enable such entities to contract with 
other entities (such as public telecommunications 
entities) so that programs under this section are 
disseminated and distributed by the most appro-
priate distribution technologies to the widest pos-
sible audience appropriate to be served by the 
programming; and 
‘‘(E) develop and disseminate training and 
support materials, including interactive pro-
grams and programs adaptable to distance 
learning technologies which are designed to— 
‘‘(i) promote school readiness; and 
‘‘(ii) promote the effective use of program-
ming developed under subparagraphs (B) and 
(C) among parents, Head Start providers, Even 
Start and providers of family literacy services, 
child care providers, early childhood development 
personnel, and elementary school teachers, public 
libraries, and after school program personnel 
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caring for preschool and elementary school chil-
dren. 
‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY.—In making grants, con-
tracts, or cooperative agreements under this sub-
section, the Secretary shall ensure that recipients in-
crease the effective use of the programming under this 
section by making it widely available with support 
materials, as appropriate, to young children, their 
parents, child care workers, Head Start providers, 
Even Start and providers of family literacy services. 
‘‘(3) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES DESCRIBED.—In this 
section, an ‘eligible entity’ means a nonprofit entity 
(including a public telecommunications entity) which 
is able— 
‘‘(A) to demonstrate a capacity for the de-
velopment and national distribution of edu-
cational and instructional television program-
ming of high quality which is accessible by a 
large majority of disadvantaged preschool and el-
ementary school children; and 
‘‘(B) to demonstrate— 
‘‘(i) a capacity to contract with the 
producers of children’s television program-
ming for the purpose of developing edu-
cational television programming of high 
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quality which is accessible by a large major-
ity of disadvantaged preschool and elemen-
tary school children, and 
‘‘(ii) consistent with the entity’s mis-
sion and nonprofit nature, a capacity to ne-
gotiate such contracts in a manner which 
returns to the entity an appropriate share 
of any ancillary income from sales of any 
program-related products. 
‘‘(4) CAP ON ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—An entity 
receiving a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement 
from the Secretary under this subsection may not use 
more than 5 percent of the amounts received under 
the grant, contract, or cooperative agreement for the 
expenses of administering the grant, contract, or coop-
erative agreement. 
‘‘(5) COORDINATION OF ACTIVITIES.—An entity 
receiving a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement 
from the Secretary under this subsection shall work 
with the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services to— 
‘‘(A) maximize the utilization by preschool 
and elementary school children of the program-
ming under this section and to make such pro-
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gramming widely available to federally funded 
programs serving such populations; and 
‘‘(B) coordinate with Federal programs that 
have major training components for early child-
hood development (including Head Start, Even 
Start, family literacy services, and State train-
ing activities funded under the Child Care Devel-
opment Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
9858 et seq.)) regarding the availability and uti-
lization of materials developed with funds pro-
vided under this section to enhance parent and 
child care provider skills in early childhood de-
velopment and education. 
‘‘(b) APPLICATIONS.—Any entity desiring a grant, 
contract, or cooperative agreement under subsection (a) 
shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, 
in such manner, and accompanied by such information as 
the Secretary may reasonably require. 
‘‘(c) REPORT AND EVALUATION..— 
‘‘(1) ANNUAL REPORT BY GRANT RECIPIENTS TO 
SECRETARY.—Each entity receiving funds under this 
section shall prepare and submit to the Secretary an 
annual report which contains such information as the 
Secretary may require. At a minimum, the report 
shall describe the program activities undertaken with 
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funds received under this section, including informa-
tion regarding— 
‘‘(A) the programming that has been devel-
oped directly or indirectly by the entity and the 
target population of the programs developed; 
‘‘(B) the support and training materials 
that have been developed to accompany the pro-
gramming and the method by which such mate-
rials are distributed to consumers and users of 
the programming; 
‘‘(C) the means by which the programming 
has been distributed, including the distance 
learning technologies that have been utilized to 
make programming available and the geographic 
distribution achieved through such technologies; 
and 
‘‘(D) the initiatives undertaken by the enti-
ty to develop public-private partnerships to se-
cure non-Federal support for the development 
and distribution and broadcast of educational 
and instructional programming. 
‘‘(2) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—The Secretary 
shall prepare and submit to the relevant committees 
of Congress a biannual report on the activities funded 
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and carried out under this section, and shall include 
in the report— 
‘‘(A) a summary of the programming devel-
oped using funds provided under this section; 
and 
‘‘(B) a description of the training materials 
developed using funds provided under this sec-
tion, the manner in which outreach has been 
conducted to inform parents and child care pro-
viders of the availability of such materials, and 
the manner in which such materials have been 
distributed. 
‘‘(d) FUNDING RULE.—Not less than 60 percent of the 
amounts authorized to be appropriated under section 5233 
for any fiscal year shall be used to carry out subparagraphs 
(B) and (C) of subsection (a)(1). 
‘‘SEC. 5232. TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may carry out any 
of the following activities: 
‘‘(1) Awarding grants to a nonprofit tele-
communications entity (or a partnership of such enti-
ties) for the purpose of carrying out a national tele-
communications-based program to improve the teach-
ing of core academic subjects and to assist elementary 
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