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other teachers in the same schools and positions. The Sec-
retary shall provide for such a study not less than once 
every 3 years, and each such study shall include multiple 
local education agencies. Each such study shall meet the 
peer-review standards of the education research commu-
nity. 
‘‘SEC. 257. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this part $12,000,000 for fiscal year 2007 and such sums 
as may be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year.’’. 
SEC. 206. TRANSITION. 
The Secretary of Education shall take such actions 
as the Secretary determines to be appropriate to provide 
for the orderly implementation of this title. 
TITLE III—INSTITUTIONAL AID 
SEC. 301. TITLE III GRANTS FOR AMERICAN INDIAN TRIB-
ALLY CONTROLLED COLLEGES AND UNIVER-
SITIES. 
(a) ELIGIBLE INSTITUTIONS.—Subsection (b) of sec-
tion 316 (20 U.S.C. 1059c(b)) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE
INSTITUTIONS.—For purposes 
of this section, Tribal Colleges and Universities are 
the following:
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‘‘(A) any of the following institutions that 
qualify for funding under the Tribally Con-
trolled College or University Assistance Act of 
1978 or is listed in the Equity in Educational 
Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 301 
note): Bay Mills Community College; Blackfeet 
Community College; Cankdeska Cikana Com-
munity College; Chief Dull Knife College; Col-
lege of Menominee Nation; Crownpoint Insti-
tute of Technology; Dine´ College; D–Q Univer-
sity; Fond du Lac Tribal and Community Col-
lege; Fort Belknap College; Fort Berthold Com-
munity College; Fort Peck Community College; 
Haskell Indian Nations University; Institute of 
American Indian and Alaska Native Culture 
and Arts Development; Lac Courte Oreilles 
Ojibwa Community College; Leech Lake Tribal 
College; Little Big Horn College; Little Priest 
Tribal College; Nebraska Indian Community 
College; Northwest Indian College; Oglala 
Lakota College; Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Col-
lege; Salish Kootenai College; Si Tanka Univer-
sity—Eagle Butte Campus; Sinte Gleska Uni-
versity; Sisseton Wahpeton Community College; 
Sitting Bull College; Southwestern Indian Poly-
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technic Institute; Stone Child College; Tohono 
O’odham Community College; Turtle Mountain 
Community College; United Tribes Technical 
College; and White Earth Tribal and Commu-
nity College; and 
‘‘(B) any other institution of higher edu-
cation that meets the definition of tribally con-
trolled college or university in section 2 of the 
Tribally Controlled College or University Assist-
ance Act of 1978, and meets all other require-
ments of this section. 
‘‘(2) INDIAN.—The term ‘Indian’ has the mean-
ing given the term in section 2 of the Tribally Con-
trolled College or University Assistance Act of 
1978.’’. 
(b) DISTANCE LEARNING.—Subsection (c)(2) of such 
section is amended—
(1) by amending subparagraph (B) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(B) construction, maintenance, renova-
tion, and improvement in classrooms, libraries, 
laboratories, and other instructional facilities, 
including purchase or rental of telecommuni-
cations technology equipment or services, and 
the acquisition of real property adjacent to the
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campus of the institution on which to construct 
such facilities;’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting before the 
semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, or advanced 
degrees in tribal governance or tribal public policy’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (D), by inserting before 
the semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, in tribal 
governance, or in tribal public policy’’; 
(4) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (K); 
(5) by redesignating subparagraph (L) as sub-
paragraph (M); and 
(6) by inserting after subparagraph (K) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(L) developing or improving facilities for 
Internet use or other distance learning aca-
demic instruction capabilities; and’’. 
(c) APPLICATION AND ALLOTMENT.—Subsection (d) 
of such section is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) APPLICATION AND ALLOTMENT.—
‘‘(1) INSTITUTIONAL ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligi-
ble to receive assistance under this section, a Tribal 
College or University shall be an eligible institution 
under section 312(b).