‘‘(ix) work with State educational 
agencies, local educational agencies, and 
schools to determine parental needs and 
the best means for delivery of services. 
‘‘(d) USES OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Grant funds received under 
this section shall be used to provide training, tech-
nical assistance, and capacity building to State edu-
cational agencies, local educational agencies and or-
ganizations that support family-school partnerships 
to enable them— 
‘‘(A) to assist parents in participating ef-
fectively in their children’s education and to 
help their children meet State and local stand-
ards, such as assisting parents— 
‘‘(i) engage in activities that will im-
prove student academic achievement, in-
cluding understanding how they can sup-
port learning in the classroom with activi-
ties at home, in afterschool and extra-
curricular programs; 
‘‘(ii) to communicate effectively with 
teachers, principals, counselors, adminis-
trators, and other school personnel; 
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‘‘(iii) to become active participants in 
the development, implementation, and re-
view of school-parent compacts, family en-
gagement policies, and school planning and 
improvement; 
‘‘(iv) to participate in the design and 
provision of assistance to students who are 
not making adequate academic progress; 
‘‘(v) to participate in State and local 
decisionmaking; 
‘‘(vi) to train other parents; 
‘‘(vii) to help the parents learn and 
use technology applied in their children’s 
education; 
‘‘(B) to develop and implement, in partner-
ship with the State Education Agency, a state-
wide family engagement policy and systemic ini-
tiatives that will provide for a continuum of 
services to remove barriers for family engage-
ment in education and support school reform 
efforts; and 
‘‘(C) to develop, implement, and assess 
family engagement in education policies and 
plans under section 1112 and 1118. 
‘‘(e) ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.— 
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‘‘(1) MATCHING
FUNDS
FOR
GRANT
RE-
NEWAL.—For each fiscal year after the first fiscal 
year in which an organization or consortium receives 
assistance under this section, the organization or 
consortium shall demonstrate in the application sub-
mitted for such fiscal year, that a portion of the 
services provided by the organization or consortium 
is supported through non-Federal contributions, 
which contributions may be in cash or in-kind. 
‘‘(2) SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each organization or 
consortium receiving assistance under this sec-
tion shall submit to the Secretary, on an annual 
basis, information concerning family centers as-
sisted under this section, including the following 
information: 
‘‘(i) The number of State and local 
educational agency personnel, local edu-
cation agencies, schools, and community- 
based organizations, that receive training. 
‘‘(ii) The types and modes of training, 
technical assistance, and capacity building 
provided under this section. 
‘‘(iii) Summative information on the 
activities taken by the organization or con-
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sortium to improve statewide capacity 
building for effective family engagement in 
the areas of— 
‘‘(I) management capacity and 
governance; 
‘‘(II) statewide leadership; 
‘‘(III) systemic services for fam-
ily engagement in education; 
‘‘(IV) capacity-building for State 
educational agencies, local educational 
agencies, and schools; 
‘‘(V) alignment with title I of this 
Act; 
‘‘(VI) learning and improvement. 
‘‘(B) 
DISSEMINATION.—The 
Secretary 
shall disseminate annually to the Congress and 
to the public the information that each organi-
zation or consortium submits under subpara-
graph (A). 
‘‘(3) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary 
shall provide technical assistance, by grant or con-
tract, for the establishment, development, and co-
ordination of Statewide Family Engagement Cen-
ters, including their establishment of statewide infra-
structures for family engagement in education. 
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‘‘(4) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
this section shall be construed to prohibit a parental 
information and resource center from— 
‘‘(A) having its employees or agents meet 
with a parent at a site that is not on school 
grounds; or 
‘‘(B) working with another agency that 
serves children. 
‘‘(5) PARENTAL RIGHTS.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of this section— 
‘‘(A) no person (including a parent who 
educates a child at home, a public school par-
ent, or a private school parent) shall be re-
quired to participate in any program of parent 
education or developmental screening under this 
section; and 
‘‘(B) no program or center assisted under 
this section shall take any action that infringes 
in any manner on the right of a parent to direct 
the education of their children. 
‘‘Subpart 2—Local Family Engagement Centers 
‘‘SEC. 5721. DEMONSTRATION. 
‘‘(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to 
demonstrate Local Family Engagement Centers and to 
evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of innovative ap-
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proaches demonstrated by these centers in engaging fami-
lies in their children’s education by providing training, 
services, supports, and opportunities that meet families 
needs and remove barriers to their engagement in their 
children’s education to improve student achievement. 
‘‘(b) GRANT.—Of the amount made available to carry 
out this section for a fiscal year, the Secretary is author-
ized to award 90 percent of such amount as grants to, 
and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with, 
local nonprofit parent organizations to develop concepts 
for Local Family Engagement Centers, Create such a cen-
ter and demonstrate the center for such period of time 
as the Secretary shall prescribe. 
‘‘(c) LOCAL NONPROFIT PARENT ORGANIZATION DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘local nonprofit parent 
organization’ means a private nonprofit organization 
(other than an institution of higher education) that— 
‘‘(1) has a demonstrated record of working with 
low-income parents and families; 
‘‘(2)(A) has a board of directors, the majority 
of whom are parents of students in elementary 
schools and secondary schools assisted under part A 
of title I and located in the geographic area to be 
served by a Local Family Engagement Center; or 
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‘‘(B) has a special governing committee to di-
rect and implement a Local Family Engagement 
Center, a majority of the members of whom are par-
ents of students in schools assisted under part A of 
title I; and 
‘‘(3) is located in a community with elementary 
schools and secondary schools that receive funds 
under part A of title I, and is accessible to the fami-
lies of students in those schools. 
‘‘(d) APPLICATION FOR GRANTS.—Not later than 12 
months after the date of the enactment of this section, 
the Secretary shall publish an application for demonstra-
tion grants under this section. Such application shall in-
clude— 
‘‘(1) a description of the organization’s ap-
proach on family engagement in education, including 
its use of strength-based strategies; 
‘‘(2) information that the applicant meets the 
definition of a local nonprofit parent organization; 
‘‘(3) information that the applicant has the ca-
pacity to structure a center capable of conducting 
the training, information and support activities to 
fulfill the purposes of a Local Family Engagement 
Center; 
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‘‘(4) information that the applicant will struc-
ture and operate a center of sufficient scope and 
quality adequate to serve the needs of the local area 
in which it is located; 
‘‘(5) a description of the organization’s experi-
ence in providing training, services, and supports to 
low-income parents and families and family members 
of minority and limited English proficient children; 
‘‘(6) a description of what steps the organiza-
tion has taken to meet with local educational agency 
or school personnel in the geographic area to be 
served by the center in order to inform the personnel 
of the plan and application for assistance; 
‘‘(7) a description of how the organization will 
coordinate its efforts with the Statewide Family En-
gagement Centers in the State; 
‘‘(8) information that the applicant is capable 
of meeting such milestones or the timeline in the 
demonstration as the Secretary may prescribe; and 
‘‘(9) such other information as the Secretary 
deems necessary. 
‘‘(e) FUNDS FOR EVALUATION.—The Secretary shall 
reserve 10 percent of the amount made available to carry 
out this section to fund the demonstrations conducted 
under this section for the purpose of evaluating such dem-
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onstrations and issuing a report describing the approaches 
and aspects of the demonstration that the Secretary deter-
mines to be most effective and appropriate for fulfilling 
the purposes of family engagement centers, taking into ac-
count the demographics of the various localities to be 
served. 
‘‘Subpart 3—Funding 
‘‘SEC. 5731. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS; RES-
ERVATIONS. 
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $195,000,000 for fiscal 
year 2011 and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
years 2012 through 2015 to carry out this part and sec-
tion 1005. 
‘‘(b) USE
OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS.—From the 
amounts made available for each fiscal year under sub-
section (a), the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(1) reserve the greater of $40,000,000 or 44 
percent for Statewide Family Engagement Centers, 
of which not more than 5 percent may be used for 
technical assistance to, and evaluation of, such cen-
ters; and 
‘‘(2) from the remainder— 
‘‘(A) reserve 2.9 percent, to be divided 
equally among the States and territories, to 
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fund operations of State Family Engagement 
Coordinating Councils; 
‘‘(B) reserve 38 percent for State support 
of family engagement activities conducted pur-
suant to title I of this Act; 
‘‘(C) reserve 8 percent for demonstration 
of Local Family Engagement Centers; 
‘‘(D) reserve 5.1 percent for a Director 
and dedicated staff for family and community 
engagement within the Office of Elementary 
and Secondary Education and related oper-
ations; and 
‘‘(E) reserve 2 percent for Local Family 
Engagement Centers at schools administered by 
the Bureau of Indian Education in the Depart-
ment of the Interior and at Tribally Controlled 
Schools, except that the Secretary of Interior 
shall use an amount not to exceed 5 percent of 
such reserved funds for creation of a national 
Indian Family Engagement Coordinating Coun-
cil modeled on State Family Coordinating 
Councils as described in this part. 
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‘‘Subpart 4—Research-Based Metrics for Effective 
Family Engagement in Education 
‘‘SEC. 5741. RULES OF THE SECRETARY. 
‘‘(a) DEVELOPMENT OF METRICS FOR FAMILY EN-
GAGEMENT.—Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this section, the Secretary, after consultation 
with the Advisory Committee, shall issue rules that specify 
metrics on family engagement in education for State edu-
cational agencies, local educational agencies, schools, and 
nonprofit organizations that receive funds under subpart 
3 or section 1005. 
‘‘(b) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—The Secretary shall 
appoint a committee including researchers and representa-
tives from national nonprofit organizations with expertise 
in family engagement in education to make data-driven 
recommendations regarding metrics required under sub-
section (a). 
‘‘(c) IMPLEMENTATION OF METRICS.—The Secretary 
shall require States and local educational agencies to in-
clude the metrics specified in subsection (a) in their an-
nual State report beginning for submissions in the year 
that the Secretary deems to be practicable.’’. 
SEC. 13. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 9101 (20 U.S.C. 7801) is amended— 
(1) by amending paragraph (32) to read as fol-
lows: 
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