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and related expenses for the move of Department staff to 
the Mary E. Switzer building in Washington, D.C. 
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil 
Rights, as authorized by section 203 of the Department 
of Education Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3413), 
$93,771,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector 
General, as authorized by section 212 of the Department 
of Education Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3422), 
$53,239,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be 
used for the transportation of students or teachers (or for 
the purchase of equipment for such transportation) in 
order to overcome racial imbalance in any school or school 
system, or for the transportation of students or teachers 
(or for the purchase of equipment for such transportation) 
in order to carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any 
school or school system. 
SEC. 302. None of the funds contained in this Act 
shall be used to require, directly or indirectly, the trans-
portation of any student to a school other than the school 
which is nearest the student’s home, except for a student 
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requiring special education, to the school offering such 
special education, in order to comply with title VI of the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.). For 
the purpose of this section an indirect requirement of 
transportation of students includes the transportation of 
students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization 
of the grade structure of schools; the pairing of schools; 
or the clustering of schools; or any combination of grade 
restructuring, pairing, or clustering. The prohibition de-
scribed in this section does not include the establishment 
of magnet schools. 
SEC. 303. No funds appropriated in this Act may be 
used to prevent the implementation of programs of vol-
untary prayer and meditation in the public schools. 
SEC. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre-
tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et 
seq.)) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year 
for the Department of Education in this Act may be trans-
ferred between appropriations, but no such appropriation 
shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such 
transfer: Provided, That an appropriation may be in-
creased by up to an additional 2 percent subject to ap-
proval by the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate: Provided further, That 
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the transfer authority granted by this section shall be 
available only to meet unanticipated needs and shall not 
be used to create any new program or to fund any project 
or activity for which no funds are provided in this Act: 
Provided further, That the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate are noti-
fied at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 305. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to promulgate, implement, or enforce any 
revision to the regulations in effect under section 496 of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 on June 1, 2007, until 
legislation specifically requiring such revision is enacted. 
SEC. 306. (a) MAINTENANCE OF INTEGRITY AND 
ETHICAL
VALUES
WITHIN
DEPARTMENT
OF
EDU-
CATION.—Within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Education shall implement procedures— 
(1) to assess whether a covered individual or 
entity has a potential financial interest in, or bias 
towards, a product or service purchased with, or 
guaranteed or insured by, funds administered by the 
Department of Education or a contracted entity of 
the Department; and 
(2) to disclose the existence of any such poten-
tial financial interest or bias. 
(b) REVIEW BY INSPECTOR GENERAL.— 
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(1) Within 30 days after the implementation of 
the procedures described in subsection (a), the In-
spector General of the Department of Education 
shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate on the 
adequacy of such procedures. 
(2) Within 1 year, the Inspector General shall 
conduct at least 1 audit to ensure that such proce-
dures are properly implemented and are adequate to 
uncover and disclose the existence of potential finan-
cial interests or bias described in subsection (a). 
(3) The Inspector General shall report to such 
Committees any recommendations for modifications 
to such procedures that the Inspector General deter-
mines are necessary to uncover and disclose the ex-
istence of such potential financial interests or bias. 
(c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘‘covered individual or entity’’ means— 
(1) an officer or professional employee of the 
Department of Education; 
(2) a contractor or subcontractor of the Depart-
ment, or an individual hired by the contracted enti-
ty; 
(3) a member of a peer review panel of the De-
partment; or 
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(4) a consultant or advisor to the Department. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Edu-
cation Appropriations Act, 2008’’. 
TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE 
BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary of the Committee for Pur-
chase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 
established by Public Law 92–28, $4,994,000. 
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service to carry out the Domestic 
Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (‘‘1973 Act’’) (42 U.S.C. 
4950 et seq.) and the National and Community Service 
Act of 1990 (‘‘1990 Act’’) (42 U.S.C. 12501 et seq.), 
$768,905,000, of which $313,054,000 is to carry out the 
1973 Act and $455,851,000 is to carry out the 1990 Act: 
Provided, That up to 1 percent of program grant funds 
may be used to defray the costs of conducting grant appli-
cation reviews, including the use of outside peer reviewers 
and electronic management of the grants cycle: Provided 
further, That none of the funds made available under this 
heading for activities authorized by section 122 and part 
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E (42 U.S.C. 5028 et seq.) of title II of the 1973 Act 
shall be used to provide stipends or other monetary incen-
tives to volunteers or volunteer leaders whose incomes ex-
ceed 125 percent of the national poverty level: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding subtitle H of title I of the 
1990 Act (42 U.S.C. 12653 et seq.), none of the funds 
provided for quality and innovation activities shall be used 
to support salaries and related expenses (including travel) 
attributable to Corporation for National and Community 
Service employees: Provided further, That of the amounts 
provided under this heading: (1) $122,521,000, to remain 
available until expended, to be transferred to the National 
Service Trust for educational awards authorized under 
subtitle D of title I of the 1990 Act: Provided further, That 
in addition to these funds, the Corporation may transfer 
funds from the amount provided for AmeriCorps grants 
under the National Service Trust Program, to the Na-
tional Service Trust authorized under subtitle D of title 
I of the 1990 Act (42 U.S.C. 12601 et seq.), upon deter-
mination that such transfer is necessary to support the 
activities of national service participants and after notice 
is transmitted to the Congress; (2) not more than 
$55,000,000 of funding provided for grants under the Na-
tional Service Trust program authorized under subtitle C 
of title I of the 1990 Act may be used to administer, reim-
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burse, or support any national service program authorized 
under section 121(d)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
12571(d)(2)); (3) $37,125,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2009, shall be for service-learning pro-
grams authorized under subtitle B of title I of the 1990 
Act (42 U.S.C. 12521 et seq.); and (4) $12,000,000 shall 
be to provide assistance to State commissions on national 
and community service, under 126(a) of the 1990 Act (42 
U.S.C. 12576(a)) and notwithstanding 501(a)(4) of the 
1990 Act (42 U.S.C. 12681(a)(4)). 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of administration as provided 
under section 501(a)(4) of the National and Community 
Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12681 (a)(4)) and under 
section 504(a) of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 
1973 (42 U.S.C. 5084(a)), including payment of salaries, 
authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the 
rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 
the employment of experts and consultants authorized 
under section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, and 
not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, $68,964,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978 
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(5 U.S.C. App.), $5,512,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2008. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the term ‘‘qualified student loan’’ with respect to na-
tional service education awards shall mean any loan deter-
mined by an institution of higher education to be nec-
essary to cover a student’s cost of attendance at such in-
stitution and made, insured, or guaranteed directly to a 
student by a State agency, in addition to other meanings 
under section 148(b)(7) of the National and Community 
Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12604 (b)(7)). 
SEC. 402. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds made available under section 129(d)(5)(B) of 
the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 12581(d)(5)(B)) to assist entities in placing appli-
cants who are individuals with disabilities may be provided 
to any entity that receives a grant under section 121 of 
the Act (42 U.S.C. 12571). 
SEC. 403. The Inspector General of the Corporation 
for National and Community Service shall conduct ran-
dom audits of the grantees that administer activities under 
the AmeriCorps programs and shall levy sanctions in ac-
cordance with standard Inspector General audit resolution 
procedures which include, but are not limited to, debar-
ment of any grantee (or successor in interest or any entity 
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with substantially the same person or persons in control) 
that has been determined to have committed any substan-
tial violation of the requirements of the AmeriCorps pro-
grams, including any grantee that has been determined 
to have violated the prohibition of using Federal funds to 
lobby the Congress: Provided, That the Inspector General 
shall obtain reimbursements in the amount of any misused 
funds from any grantee that has been determined to have 
committed any substantial violation of the requirements 
of the AmeriCorps programs. 
SEC. 404. The Corporation for National and Commu-
nity Service shall make any significant changes to pro-
gram requirements or policy only through public notice 
and comment rulemaking. For fiscal year 2008, during 
any grant selection process, an officer or employee of the 
Corporation shall not knowingly disclose any covered grant 
selection information regarding such selection, directly or 
indirectly, to any person other than an officer or employee 
of the Corporation that is authorized by the Corporation 
to receive such information. 
SEC. 405. Professional Corps programs described in 
section 122(a)(8) of the National and Community Service 
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12572(a)(8)) may apply to the 
Corporation for a waiver of application of section 
140(c)(2) (42 U.S.C. 12594(c)(2)). 
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SEC. 406. Notwithstanding section 1342 of title 31, 
United States Code, the Corporation may solicit and ac-
cept the services of organizations and individuals (other 
than participants) to assist the Corporation in carrying 
out the duties of the Corporation under the national serv-
ice laws: Provided, That an individual who provides serv-
ices under this section shall be subject to the same protec-
tions and limitations as volunteers under section 196(a) 
of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 12651g(a)). 
SEC. 407. Organizations operating projects under the 
AmeriCorps Education Awards Program shall do so with-
out regard to the requirements of sections 121(d) and (e) 
(42 U.S.C. 12571(d) and (e)), 131(e) (42 U.S.C. 
12583(e)), 132 (42 U.S.C. 12584), and 140(a), (d), and 
(e) (42 U.S.C. 12594(a), (d), and (e)) of the National and 
Community Service Act of 1990. 
SEC. 408. AmeriCorps programs receiving grants 
under the National Service Trust program shall meet an 
overall minimum share requirement of 24 percent for the 
first three years that they receive AmeriCorps funding, 
and thereafter shall meet the overall minimum share re-
quirement as provided in section 2521.60 of title 45, Code 
of Federal Regulations, without regard to the operating 
costs match requirement in section 121(e) (42 U.S.C. 
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12571(e)) or the member support Federal share limita-
tions in section 140 (42 U.S.C. 12594) of the National 
and Community Service Act of 1990, and subject to par-
tial waiver consistent with section 2521.70 of title 45, 
Code of Federal Regulations. 
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 
For payment to the Corporation for Public Broad-
casting, as authorized by the Communications Act of 
1934, an amount which shall be available within limita-
tions specified by that Act, for the fiscal year 2010, 
$420,000,000: Provided, That no funds made available to 
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by this Act shall 
be used to pay for receptions, parties, or similar forms 
of entertainment for Government officials or employees: 
Provided further, That none of the funds contained in this 
paragraph shall be available or used to aid or support any 
program or activity from which any person is excluded, 
or is denied benefits, or is discriminated against, on the 
basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex: Pro-
vided further, That no funds made available to the Cor-
poration for Public Broadcasting by this Act shall be used 
to apply any political test or qualification in selecting, ap-
pointing, promoting, or taking any other personnel action 
with respect to officers, agents, and employees of the Cor-
poration: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2008, in 
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