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life-cycle of loans from disbursement to pay-off with certain limited 
exceptions, and allocates student loan borrower accounts to eligible 
student loan servicers based on performance: Provided further, That 
such servicers described in the previous proviso shall be evaluated 
based on their ability to meet contract requirements, future 
performance on the contracts, and history of compliance with 
applicable consumer protections laws: Provided further, That to 
the extent Federal Student Aid (FSA) permits student loan servicing 
subcontracting, FSA shall hold such subcontractors accountable 
for meeting the requirements of the contract: Provided further, 
That FSA shall create a fee structure with contractors that provides 
more support to borrowers at risk of being distressed. 
HIGHER EDUCATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, titles 
II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII of the HEA, the Mutual Educational 
and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, and section 117 of the Carl 
D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006, 
$2,246,551,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, funds made available in this Act to carry out title VI 
of the HEA and section 102(b)(6) of the Mutual Educational and 
Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 may be used to support visits 
and study in foreign countries by individuals who are participating 
in advanced foreign language training and international studies 
in areas that are vital to United States national security and 
who plan to apply their language skills and knowledge of these 
countries in the fields of government, the professions, or inter-
national development: Provided further, That of the funds referred 
to in the preceding proviso up to 1 percent may be used for program 
evaluation, national outreach, and information dissemination activi-
ties: Provided further, That up to 1.5 percent of the funds made 
available under chapter 2 of subpart 2 of part A of title IV of 
the HEA may be used for evaluation. 
HOWARD UNIVERSITY 
For partial support of Howard University, $232,518,000, of 
which not less than $3,405,000 shall be for a matching endowment 
grant pursuant to the Howard University Endowment Act and 
shall remain available until expended. 
COLLEGE HOUSING AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES LOANS PROGRAM 
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out activities 
related to existing facility loans pursuant to section 121 of the 
HEA, $435,000. 
HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAPITAL 
FINANCING PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $20,150,000, as authorized 
pursuant to part D of title III of the HEA, which shall remain 
available through September 30, 2019: Provided, That such costs, 
including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided 
further, That these funds are available to subsidize total loan prin-
cipal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed
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$313,863,000: Provided further, That these funds may be used to 
support loans to public and private Historically Black Colleges 
and Universities without regard to the limitations within section 
344(a) of the HEA. 
In addition, $10,000,000 shall be made available to provide 
for the deferment of loans made under part D of title III of the 
HEA to eligible institutions that are private Historically Black 
Colleges and Universities, which apply for the deferment of such 
a loan and demonstrate financial need for such deferment by having 
a score of 2.6 or less on the Department of Education’s financial 
responsibility test: Provided, That during the period of deferment 
of such a loan, interest on the loan will not accrue or be capitalized, 
and the period of deferment shall be for at least a period of 3- 
fiscal years and not more than 6-fiscal years: Provided further, 
That when determining priority for such institutions to receive 
such a deferment, the Secretary shall give priority to institutions 
that operated in a financial deficit for at least one of the previous 
5 years according to audits provided to the Department, or were 
sanctioned for financial related reasons by the agency or association 
that accredited such institutions: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall create and execute an outreach plan to work with 
States and the Capital Financing Advisory Board to improve out-
reach to States and help additional public Historically Black Col-
leges and Universities participate in the program. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the Histori-
cally Black College and University Capital Financing Program 
entered into pursuant to part D of title III of the HEA, $334,000. 
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES 
For carrying out activities authorized by the Education Sciences 
Reform Act of 2002, the National Assessment of Educational 
Progress Authorization Act, section 208 of the Educational Technical 
Assistance Act of 2002, and section 664 of the Individuals with 
Disabilities Education Act, $613,462,000, which shall remain avail-
able through September 30, 2019: Provided, That funds available 
to carry out section 208 of the Educational Technical Assistance 
Act may be used to link Statewide elementary and secondary data 
systems with early childhood, postsecondary, and workforce data 
systems, or to further develop such systems: Provided further, That 
up to $6,000,000 of the funds available to carry out section 208 
of the Educational Technical Assistance Act may be used for awards 
to public or private organizations or agencies to support activities 
to improve data coordination, quality, and use at the local, State, 
and national levels. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
Department of Education Organization Act, including rental of con-
ference rooms in the District of Columbia and hire of three pas-
senger motor vehicles, $430,000,000: Provided, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, none of the funds provided 
by this Act or provided by previous Appropriations Acts to the 
Department of Education available for obligation or expenditure 
in the current fiscal year may be used for any activity relating
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to implementing a reorganization that decentralizes, reduces the 
staffing level, or alters the responsibilities, structure, authority, 
or functionality of the Budget Service of the Department of Edu-
cation, relative to the organization and operation of the Budget 
Service as in effect on January 1, 2018. 
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, as author-
ized by section 203 of the Department of Education Organization 
Act, $117,000,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General, 
as authorized by section 212 of the Department of Education 
Organization Act, $61,143,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
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 transportation of any 
student to a school other than the school which is nearest the 
student’s home, except for a student requiring special education, 
to the school offering such special education, in order to comply 
with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 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 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 voluntary prayer 
and meditation in the public schools. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds 
(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985) which are appropriated for the Department of Edu-
cation in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, but 
no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 percent 
by any such transfer: Provided, That the transfer authority granted 
by this section 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 Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified 
at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.
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SEC. 305. Section 105(f)(1)(B)(ix) of the Compact of Free 
Association Amendments Act of 2003 (48 U.S.C. 1921d(f)(1)(B)(ix)) 
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘2018’’ for ‘‘2017’’. 
SEC. 306. Funds appropriated in this Act and consolidated 
for evaluation purposes under section 8601(c) of the ESEA shall 
be available from July 1, 2018, through September 30, 2019. 
SEC. 307. (a) An institution of higher education that maintains 
an endowment fund supported with funds appropriated for title 
III or V of the HEA for fiscal year 2018 may use the income 
from that fund to award scholarships to students, subject to the 
limitation in section 331(c)(3)(B)(i) of the HEA. The use of such 
income for such purposes, prior to the enactment of this Act, shall 
be considered to have been an allowable use of that income, subject 
to that limitation. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall be in effect until titles III and V of 
the HEA are reauthorized. 
SEC. 308. Section 114(f) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1011c(f)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘2017’’ and inserting ‘‘2018’’. 
SEC. 309. Section 458(a) of the HEA (20 U.S.C. 1087h(a)) is 
amended in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘2017’’ and inserting ‘‘2018’’. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 310. Section 401(b)(7)(A)(iv)(VIII) of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a(b)(7)(A)(iv)(VIII)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘$1,382,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,334,000,000’’. 
SEC. 311. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law except 
as provided under subsection (c), with respect to a local educational 
agency that was notified by the Secretary in fiscal year 2017 of 
the agency’s eligibility to receive a basic support payment pursuant 
to section 7003(b)(2)(B)(i)(III) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7703(b)(2)(B)(i)(III)) for fiscal 
year 2017 but did not receive a payment under section 7003(b)(2) 
of such Act for fiscal year 2017, in addition to payments received 
by the local educational agency under section 7003(b)(1) of such 
Act, the Secretary shall reserve from funds appropriated to carry 
out section 7003(b) of such Act and make payments from such 
funds to such local educational agency for fiscal years 2017, 2018, 
2019, and 2020 in the following amounts: 
(1) $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2017. 
(2) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2018. 
(3) $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2019. 
(4) $4,000,000 for fiscal year 2020. 
(b) For fiscal year 2017, a local educational agency described 
in subsection (a) shall not be eligible for a basic support payment 
pursuant to section 7003(b)(2) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7703(b)(2)). 
(c) For fiscal year 2018 and succeeding fiscal years, if a local 
educational agency described in subsection (a) is eligible to receive 
a basic support payment pursuant to section 7003(b)(2) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7703(b)(2)), the payment received by the local educational agency 
shall be calculated under section 7003(b)(2) of such Act and not 
under subsection (a). 
(d) Section 7003(b)(2)(B) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 7703(b)(2)(B)) is amended— 
(1) in clause (i)(III)—