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cludes 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 described 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. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discre-
tionary funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) which are appro-
priated for the current fiscal year for the Department of 
Education in this Act may be transferred between an ap-
propriation, but no such appropriation shall be increased 
by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, 
That an appropriation may be increased by up to an addi-
tional 2 percent subject to approval by the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate: Provided further, That the transfer authority 
granted by this section shall be available only to meet un-
anticipated 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 
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Committees on Appropriations are notified at least 15 
days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 305. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this Act to the Department of Edu-
cation may be expended in contravention of section 505 
of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Respon-
sibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1623). 
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, $4,995,000. 
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 
DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROGRAMS, OPERATING 
EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service to carry out the provisions 
of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, 
$313,050,000: Provided, That none of the funds made 
available to the Corporation for National and Community 
Service in this Act for activities authorized by section 122 
of part C of title I and part E of title II of the Domestic 
Volunteer Service Act of 1973 shall be used to provide 
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stipends or other monetary incentives to volunteers or vol-
unteer leaders whose incomes exceed 125 percent of the 
national poverty level. 
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS, 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service (the Corporation) in car-
rying out programs, activities, and initiatives under the 
National and Community Service Act of 1990 (the Act) 
(42 U.S.C. 12501 et seq.), $437,457,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2008: Provided, That not more 
than $218,060,000 of the amount provided under this 
heading shall be available for grants under the National 
Service Trust Program authorized under subtitle C of title 
I of the Act (42 U.S.C. 12571 et seq.) (relating to activi-
ties of the AmeriCorps program), including grants to orga-
nizations operating projects under the AmeriCorps Edu-
cation Awards Program (without regard to the require-
ments of sections 121(d) and (e), 131(e), 132, and 140(a), 
(d), and (e) of the Act): Provided further, That not less 
than $124,720,000 of the amount provided under this 
heading, to remain available without fiscal year limitation, 
shall be transferred to the National Service Trust for edu-
cational awards authorized under subtitle D of title I of 
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the Act (42 U.S.C. 12601): Provided further, That in addi-
tion to amounts otherwise provided to the National Service 
Trust under the second proviso, the Corporation may 
transfer funds from the amount provided under the first 
proviso, to the National Service Trust authorized under 
subtitle D of title I of the Act (42 U.S.C. 12601) upon 
determination that such transfer is necessary to support 
the activities of national service participants and after no-
tice is transmitted to Congress: Provided further, That of 
the amount provided under this heading for grants under 
the National Service Trust program authorized under sub-
title C of title I of the Act, not more than $55,000,000 
may be used to administer, reimburse, or support any na-
tional service program authorized under section 121(d)(2) 
of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12581(d)(2)): Provided further, 
That not more than $3,966,000 shall be available for qual-
ity and innovation activities authorized under subtitle H 
of title I of the Act (42 U.S.C. 12853 et seq.): Provided 
further, That notwithstanding subtitle H of title I of the 
Act (42 U.S.C. 12853), none of the funds provided under 
the previous proviso shall be used to support salaries and 
related expenses (including travel) attributable to Cor-
poration employees: Provided further, That to the max-
imum extent feasible, funds appropriated under subtitle 
C of title I of the Act shall be provided in a manner that 
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is consistent with the recommendations of peer review 
panels in order to ensure that priority is given to programs 
that demonstrate quality, innovation, replicability, and 
sustainability: Provided further, That $26,730,000 of the 
funds made available under this heading shall be available 
for the National Civilian Community Corps authorized 
under subtitle E of title I of the Act (42 U.S.C. 12611 
et seq.): Provided further, That $34,155,000 shall be avail-
able for school-based and community-based service-learn-
ing programs authorized under subtitle B of title I of the 
Act (42 U.S.C. 12521 et seq.): Provided further, That 
$2,460,000 shall be available for audits and other evalua-
tions authorized under section 179 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 
12639): Provided further, That $9,900,000 of the funds 
made available under this heading shall be made available 
for the Points of Light Foundation for activities author-
ized under title III of the Act (42 U.S.C. 12661 et seq.), 
of which not more than $2,500,000 may be used to sup-
port an endowment fund, the corpus of which shall remain 
intact and the interest income from which shall be used 
to support activities described in title III of the Act, pro-
vided that the Foundation may invest the corpus and in-
come in federally insured bank savings accounts or com-
parable interest bearing accounts, certificates of deposit, 
money market funds, mutual funds, obligations of the 
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