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year 2013 is authorized to collect and disseminate informa-
tion on effective educational practices and the latest re-
search regarding the planning, design, financing, construc-
tion, improvement, operation, and maintenance of safe, 
healthy, high-performance public facilities for early learn-
ing programs, kindergarten through grade 12, and higher 
education: Provided further, That $288,771,000 of the funds 
for subpart 1 of part D of title V of the ESEA shall be 
for competitive grants to local educational agencies, includ-
ing charter schools that are local educational agencies, or 
States, or partnerships of: (1) a local educational agency, 
a State, or both; and (2) at least one nonprofit organization 
to develop and implement performance-based compensation 
systems for teachers, principals, and other personnel in 
high-need schools: Provided further, That such performance- 
based compensation systems must consider gains in student 
academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations con-
ducted multiple times during each school year among other 
factors and provide educators with incentives to take on ad-
ditional responsibilities and leadership roles: Provided fur-
ther, That recipients of such grants shall demonstrate that 
such performance-based compensation systems are developed 
with the input of teachers and school leaders in the schools 
and local educational agencies to be served by the grant: 
Provided further, That recipients of such grants may use
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such funds to develop or improve systems and tools (which 
may be developed and used for the entire local educational 
agency or only for schools served under the grant) that 
would enhance the quality and success of the compensation 
system, such as high-quality teacher evaluations and tools 
to measure growth in student achievement: Provided fur-
ther, That applications for such grants shall include a plan 
to sustain financially the activities conducted and systems 
developed under the grant once the grant period has expired: 
Provided further, That up to 5 percent of such funds for 
competitive grants shall be available for technical assist-
ance, training, peer review of applications, program out-
reach, and evaluation activities: Provided further, That of 
the funds available for part B of title V of the ESEA, the 
Secretary shall use not less than $11,000,000 to carry out 
activities under section 5205(b) and shall use not less than 
$12,000,000 for subpart 2: Provided further, That of the 
funds available for subpart 1 of part B of title V of the 
ESEA, and notwithstanding section 5205(a), the Secretary 
shall reserve not less than $45,000,000 to make multiple 
awards to non-profit charter management organizations 
and other entities that are not for-profit entities for the rep-
lication and expansion of successful charter school models 
and shall reserve up to $11,000,000 to carry out the activi-
ties described in section 5205(a), including improving qual-
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ity and oversight of charter schools and providing technical 
assistance and grants to authorized public chartering agen-
cies in order to increase the number of high-performing 
charter schools: Provided further, That funds available for 
part B of title V of the ESEA may be used for grants that 
support preschool education in charter schools: Provided 
further, That each application submitted pursuant to sec-
tion 5203(a) shall describe a plan to monitor and hold ac-
countable authorized public chartering agencies through 
such activities as providing technical assistance or estab-
lishing a professional development program, which may in-
clude evaluation, planning, training, and systems develop-
ment for staff of authorized public chartering agencies to 
improve the capacity of such agencies in the State to au-
thorize, monitor, and hold accountable charter schools: Pro-
vided further, That each application submitted pursuant to 
section 5203(a) shall contain assurances that State law, 
regulations, or other policies require that: (1) each author-
ized charter school in the State operate under a legally 
binding charter or performance contract between itself and 
the school’s authorized public chartering agency that de-
scribes the rights and responsibilities of the school and the 
public chartering agency; conduct annual, timely, and 
independent audits of the school’s financial statements that 
are filed with the school’s authorized public chartering
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agency; and demonstrate improved student academic 
achievement; and (2) authorized public chartering agencies 
use increases in student academic achievement for all 
groups of students described in section 1111(b)(2)(C)(v) of 
the ESEA as the most important factor when determining 
to renew or revoke a school’s charter. 
SAFE SCHOOLS AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION 
For carrying out activities authorized by part A of 
title IV and subparts 1, 2, and 10 of part D of title V of 
the ESEA, $270,892,000: Provided, That $90,000,000 shall 
be available for subpart 2 of part A of title IV, of which 
up to $8,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
be for the Project School Emergency Response to Violence 
(‘‘Project SERV’’) program to provide education-related 
services to local educational agencies and institutions of 
higher education in which the learning environment has 
been disrupted due to a violent or traumatic crisis: Pro-
vided further, That $56,754,000 shall be available for Prom-
ise Neighborhoods and shall be available through December 
31, 2014. 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 
For carrying out part A of title III of the ESEA, 
$723,400,000, which shall become available on July 1, 2014, 
and shall remain available through September 30, 2015, ex-
cept that 6.5 percent of such amount shall be available on
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October 1, 2013, and shall remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2015, to carry out activities under section 
3111(c)(1)(C): Provided, That the Secretary shall use esti-
mates of the American Community Survey child counts for 
the most recent 3-year period available to calculate alloca-
tions under such part. 
SPECIAL EDUCATION 
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities 
Education Act (IDEA) and the Special Olympics Sport 
and Empowerment Act of 2004, $12,497,300,000, of which 
$2,981,201,000 shall become available on July 1, 2014, and 
shall remain available through September 30, 2015, and of 
which $9,283,383,000 shall become available on October 1, 
2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 
2015, for academic year 2014–2015: Provided, That the 
amount for section 611(b)(2) of the IDEA shall be equal 
to the lesser of the amount available for that activity during 
fiscal year 2013, increased by the amount of inflation as 
specified in section 619(d)(2)(B) of the IDEA, or the per-
cent change in the funds appropriated under section 611(i) 
of the IDEA, but not less than the amount for that activity 
during fiscal year 2013: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall, without regard to section 611(d) of the IDEA, 
distribute to all other States (as that term is defined in 
section 611(g)(2)), subject to the third proviso, any amount
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by which a State’s allocation under section 611(d), from 
funds appropriated under this heading, is reduced under 
section 612(a)(18)(B), according to the following: 85 per-
cent on the basis of the States’ relative populations of chil-
dren aged 3 through 21 who are of the same age as children 
with disabilities for whom the State ensures the availability 
of a free appropriate public education under this part, and 
15 percent to States on the basis of the States’ relative popu-
lations of those children who are living in poverty: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may not distribute any funds 
under the previous proviso to any State whose reduction 
in allocation from funds appropriated under this heading 
made funds available for such a distribution: Provided fur-
ther, That the States shall allocate such funds distributed 
under the second proviso to local educational agencies in 
accordance with section 611(f): Provided further, That the 
amount by which a State’s allocation under section 611(d) 
of the IDEA is reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B) and 
the amounts distributed to States under the previous pro-
visos in fiscal year 2012 or any subsequent year shall not 
be considered in calculating the awards under section 
611(d) for fiscal year 2013 or for any subsequent fiscal 
years: Provided further, That the funds reserved under 
611(c) of the IDEA may be used to provide technical assist-
ance to States to improve the capacity of the States to meet