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(A) PRIORITY.—A State educational agency
awarding subgrants under this subsection shall
give priority to eligible local educational agen-
cies that—
(i) are among the local educational
agencies in the State with the lowest grad-
uation rates, as described in section
1111(b)(2)(C)(vi) of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 6311(b)(2)(C)(vi)); and
(ii) have the highest number or per-
centage of students who are counted under
section 1124(c) of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
6333(c)).
(B) AMOUNT OF GRANTS.—Subgrants under
this subsection shall be of sufficient size and
scope to enable eligible local educational agencies
to fully implement activities assisted under this
subsection.
(3) LOCAL USE OF FUNDS.—Each eligible local
educational agency receiving a subgrant under this
subsection shall use the subgrant funds to carry out,
at the secondary school level, the following services
and activities:
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(A) Hiring mathematics coaches and pro-
viding professional development for mathematics
coaches—
(i) at a level to provide effective coach-
ing to classroom teachers;
(ii) to work with classroom teachers to
better assess student academic achievement
in mathematics;
(iii) to work with classroom teachers to
identify students with mathematics prob-
lems and, where appropriate, refer students
to available programs for remediation and
additional services;
(iv) to work with classroom teachers to
diagnose and remediate mathematics dif-
ficulties of the lowest-performing students,
so that those teachers can provide intensive,
research-based instruction, including during
after-school and summer sessions, geared to-
ward ensuring that those students can ac-
cess and be successful in rigorous academic
coursework; and
(v) to assess and organize student data
on mathematics and communicate that data
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to school administrators to inform school re-
form efforts.
(B) Reviewing, analyzing, developing, and,
where possible, adapting curricula to make sure
mathematics skills are taught within other core
academic subjects.
(C) Providing mathematics professional de-
velopment for all relevant teachers in secondary
school, as necessary, that addresses both remedial
and higher level mathematics skills for students
in the applicable curriculum.
(D) Providing professional development for
teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals
serving secondary schools to help the teachers,
administrators, and paraprofessionals improve
student academic achievement in mathematics.
(E) Procuring and implementing programs
and instructional materials based on mathe-
matics research, including software and other
education technology related to mathematics in-
struction with demonstrated effectiveness in im-
proving mathematics instruction and student
academic achievement.
(F) Building on and promoting coordina-
tion among mathematics programs in the eligible
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local educational agency to increase overall effec-
tiveness in—
(i) improving mathematics instruction;
and
(ii) 
increasing 
student 
academic
achievement, including for students with
disabilities 
and 
students 
with 
limited
English proficiency.
(G) Evaluating the effectiveness of the in-
structional strategies, teacher professional devel-
opment programs, and other interventions that
are implemented under the subgrant; and
(H) Measuring improvement in student
academic 
achievement, 
including 
through
progress monitoring or other assessments.
(4) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Each eligible
local educational agency receiving a subgrant under
this subsection shall use the subgrant funds to supple-
ment, not supplant, the eligible local educational
agency’s funding for activities authorized under this
section or for other educational activities.
(5) NEW SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES.—Subgrant
funds provided under this subsection may be used
only to provide services and activities authorized
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under this section that were not provided on the day
before the date of enactment of this Act.
(6) EVALUATIONS.—Each eligible local edu-
cational agency receiving a grant under this sub-
section shall participate, as requested by the State
educational agency or the Secretary, in reviews and
evaluations of the programs of the eligible local edu-
cational agency and the effectiveness of such pro-
grams, and shall provide such reports as are requested
by the State educational agency and the Secretary.
(m) MATCHING REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) STATE
EDUCATIONAL
AGENCY
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—A State educational agency that receives a
grant under this section shall provide, from non-Fed-
eral sources, an amount equal to 50 percent of the
amount of the grant, in cash or in-kind, to carry out
the activities supported by the grant, of which not
more than 20 percent of such 50 percent may be pro-
vided by local educational agencies within the State.
(2) WAIVER.—The Secretary may waive all or a
portion of the matching requirements described in
paragraph (1) for any fiscal year, if the Secretary de-
termines that—