(h) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Grant funds 
provided under this section shall be used to supplement, 
not supplant, other Federal and non-Federal funds avail-
able to carry out the activities described in this section. 
(i) DATA COLLECTION, ANALYSIS, DISSEMINATION, 
AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may reserve 
not more than 3 percent of the total amount appro-
priated for this section for any fiscal year to— 
(A) annually collect and analyze data on 
the programs under this section; and 
(B) 
disseminate 
nationally, 
including 
through a Web-based clearinghouse— 
(i) aggregated data collected under 
subparagraph (A); 
(ii) promising kindergarten through 
grade 12 foreign language learning and 
teaching practices and successful program 
models developed under this section; 
(iii) provide grant application tech-
nical assistance to prospective grantees 
through the website established under this 
subsection, including foreign language edu-
cation resource information and contacts 
available at State and local educational 
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agencies, institutions of higher education, 
and nonprofit educational organizations. 
(2) COLLABORATION.—The activities described 
in paragraph (1) may be carried out by the Sec-
retary directly or through grants and contracts to 
institutions of higher education and public and pri-
vate nonprofit agencies and organizations. 
(j) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $200,000,000 to carry out 
this section for fiscal year 2011 and such sums as may 
be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year. 
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) EARLY
FOREIGN
LANGUAGE
PROGRAM.— 
The term early foreign language program means a 
foreign language program offered as part of a pre-
kindergarten program. 
(2) ELIGIBLE PARTNERSHIP.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘eligible 
partnership’’ means a partnership that— 
(i) shall include— 
(I) one or more local educational 
agencies or State educational agen-
cies, or both; and 
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(II) subject to subparagraph (B), 
1 or more institutions of higher edu-
cation, where the institution has and 
may include in the partnership— 
(aa) a school, department, 
or program within the institution 
or institutions of higher edu-
cation that provides a teacher 
preparation program; 
(bb) a school, department, 
program, or center within the in-
stitution or institutions of higher 
education that provides a pro-
gram of study or research in for-
eign languages; and 
(cc) a school, department, 
program, or center within the in-
stitution or institutions of higher 
education that provides programs 
of study about the historic, geo-
graphic, cultural, economic, and 
other contextual factors of the 
world area or country with popu-
lations who speak the foreign lan-
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guage to which the model pro-
gram relates; and 
(ii) may also include 1 or more busi-
nesses, or nonprofit organizations with ex-
pertise in kindergarten through grade 12 
language learning. 
(B) WAIVER.—The Secretary may waive 
the requirement in subparagraph (A)(i)(II), if 
the prospective grantee demonstrates the inabil-
ity to secure an institution of higher education 
as a partner for the purposes of receiving a 
grant under section 5, including as a remote, 
digitally connected partner, after making a good 
faith effort to secure such institution. 
(3) ADVANCED LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY.—The 
term ‘‘advanced level of proficiency’’ means the ad-
vanced level as measured by the American Council 
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, or level 2 as 
measured by the Federal Interagency Language 
Roundtable or by other nationally recognized meas-
ures of advanced standards of proficiency. 
(4) ARTICULATED.—The term ‘‘articulated’’ 
means that each grade level of the foreign language 
program is designed to sequentially expand on the 
student achievement of the previous level with a goal 
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toward achieving an established level of language 
proficiency. 
(5) HERITAGE
SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘heritage 
school’’ means a school that— 
(A) offers foreign language instruction or 
tutoring, and cultural education related to a 
foreign country; and 
(B) serves students who are enrolled, on a 
full-time basis, in a public or private elementary 
school or secondary school that is not a heritage 
school. 
(6) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—The 
term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 
meaning given in section 101 of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965. 
(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Education. 
Æ 
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