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research regarding the planning, design, financing, construction, 
improvement, operation, and maintenance of safe, healthy, high- 
performance public facilities for early learning programs, kinder-
garten through grade 12, and higher education: Provided further, 
That $230,000,000 of the funds for subpart 1 of part D of title 
V of the ESEA shall be for competitive grants to local educational 
agencies, including charter schools that are local educational agen-
cies, or States, or partnerships of: (1) a local educational agency, 
a State, or both; and (2) at least one nonprofit organization to 
develop and implement performance-based compensation systems 
for teachers, principals, and other personnel in high-need schools: 
Provided further, That such performance-based compensation sys-
tems must consider gains in student academic achievement as 
well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple times during each 
school year among other factors and provide educators with incen-
tives to take on additional responsibilities and leadership roles: 
Provided further, That recipients of such grants shall demonstrate 
that such performance-based compensation systems are developed 
with the input of teachers and school leaders in the schools and 
local educational agencies to be served by the grant: Provided 
further, That recipients of such grants may use such funds to 
develop or improve systems and tools (which may be developed 
and used for the entire local educational agency or only for schools 
served under the grant) that would enhance the quality and success 
of the compensation system, such as high-quality teacher evalua-
tions and tools to measure growth in student achievement: Provided 
further, That applications for such grants shall include a plan 
to sustain financially the activities conducted and systems developed 
under the grant once the grant period has expired: Provided further, 
That up to 5 percent of such funds for competitive grants shall 
be available for technical assistance, training, peer review of 
applications, program outreach, and evaluation activities: Provided 
further, That $250,000,000 of the funds for part D of title V of 
the ESEA shall be available through December 31, 2015 for carrying 
out, in accordance with the applicable requirements of part D 
of title V of the ESEA, a preschool development grants program: 
Provided further, That the Secretary, jointly with the Secretary 
of HHS, shall make competitive awards to States for activities 
that build the capacity within the State to develop, enhance, or 
expand high-quality preschool programs, including comprehensive 
services and family engagement, for preschool-aged children from 
families at or below 200 percent of the Federal poverty line: Pro-
vided further, That each State may subgrant a portion of such 
grant funds to local educational agencies and other early learning 
providers (including, but not limited to, Head Start programs and 
licensed child care providers), or consortia thereof, for the 
implementation of high-quality preschool programs for children from 
families at or below 200 percent of the Federal poverty line: Pro-
vided further, That subgrantees that are local educational agencies 
shall form strong partnerships with early learning providers and 
that subgrantees that are early learning providers shall form strong 
partnerships with local educational agencies, in order to carry out 
the requirements of the subgrant: Provided further, That up to 
3 percent of such funds for preschool development grants shall 
be available for technical assistance, evaluation, and other national 
activities related to such grants: Provided further, That $10,000,000 
of funds available under part D of title V of the ESEA shall
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be for the Full-Service Community Schools program: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds available for part B of title V of the 
ESEA, the Secretary shall use up to $11,000,000 to carry out 
activities under section 5205(b) and shall use not less than 
$13,000,000 for subpart 2: Provided further, That of the funds 
available for subpart 1 of part B of title V of the ESEA, and 
notwithstanding section 5205(a), the Secretary shall reserve up 
to $75,000,000 to make multiple awards to non-profit charter 
management organizations and other entities that are not for- 
profit entities for the replication and expansion of successful charter 
school models and shall reserve not less than $11,000,000 to carry 
out the activities described in section 5205(a), including improving 
quality and oversight of charter schools and providing technical 
assistance and grants to authorized public chartering agencies in 
order to increase the number of high-performing charter schools: 
Provided further, That funds available for part B of title V of 
the ESEA may be used for grants that support preschool education 
in charter schools: Provided further, That each application sub-
mitted pursuant to section 5203(a) shall describe a plan to monitor 
and hold accountable authorized public chartering agencies through 
such activities as providing technical assistance or establishing 
a professional development program, which may include evaluation, 
planning, training, and systems development for staff of authorized 
public chartering agencies to improve the capacity of such agencies 
in the State to authorize, monitor, and hold accountable charter 
schools: Provided further, That each application submitted pursuant 
to section 5203(a) shall contain assurances that State law, regula-
tions, or other policies require that: (1) each authorized charter 
school in the State operate under a legally binding charter or 
performance contract between itself and the school’s authorized 
public chartering agency that describes the rights and responsibil-
ities of the school and the public chartering agency; conduct annual, 
timely, and independent audits of the school’s financial statements 
that are filed with the school’s authorized public chartering agency; 
and demonstrate improved student academic achievement; and (2) 
authorized public chartering agencies use increases in student aca-
demic achievement for all groups of students described in section 
1111(b)(2)(C)(v) of the ESEA as one of the most important factors 
when determining to renew or revoke a school’s charter. 
SAFE SCHOOLS AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION 
For carrying out activities authorized by part A of title IV 
and subparts 1, 2, and 10 of part D of title V of the ESEA, 
$223,315,000: Provided, That $70,000,000 shall be available for 
subpart 2 of part A of title IV, of which up to $5,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, shall be for the Project School 
Emergency Response to Violence (‘‘Project SERV’’) program to pro-
vide education-related services to local educational agencies and 
institutions of higher education in which the learning environment 
has been disrupted due to a violent or traumatic crisis: Provided 
further, That $56,754,000 shall be available through December 31, 
2015 for Promise Neighborhoods. 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 
For carrying out part A of title III of the ESEA, $737,400,000, 
which shall become available on July 1, 2015, and shall remain
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available through September 30, 2016, except that 6.5 percent 
of such amount shall be available on October 1, 2014, and shall 
remain available through September 30, 2016, to carry out activities 
under section 3111(c)(1)(C): Provided, That the Secretary shall use 
estimates of the American Community Survey child counts for 
the most recent 3-year period available to calculate allocations 
under such part: Provided further, That the Secretary shall use 
$14,000,000 of funds available under this paragraph for grants 
to all State educational agencies within States with at least one 
county where 50 or more unaccompanied children have been 
released to sponsors since January 1, 2014, through the Department 
of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement: 
Provided further, That awards to eligible State educational agencies 
shall be based on the State’s relative share of unaccompanied chil-
dren that have been released to sponsors since January 1, 2014: 
Provided further, That the data on unaccompanied children used 
by the Secretary under the two preceding provisos shall be the 
most recently available data from the Department of Health and 
Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, as of the date 
of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That each eligible State 
educational agency that receives a grant shall award subgrants 
to local educational agencies in the State that have experienced 
a significant increase during the 2014–2015 school year, as deter-
mined by the State educational agency, compared to the average 
of the 2 preceding school years, in the number or percentage of 
immigrant children and youth enrolled in their schools: Provided 
further, That local educational agencies shall use those subgrants 
for supplemental academic and non-academic services and supports 
to immigrant children and youth: Provided further, That the term 
‘‘immigrant children and youth’’ has the meaning given in section 
3301 of the ESEA, and the terms ‘‘State educational agency’’ and 
‘‘local educational agency’’ have the meanings given to them in 
section 9101 of the ESEA: Provided further, That each eligible 
State educational agency shall prepare and submit to the Secretary 
not later than 1 year after the award a report identifying the 
local educational agencies that received subgrants, the State’s defi-
nition of ‘‘significant increase’’ used to award the subgrants; and 
such other information as the Secretary may require. 
SPECIAL EDUCATION 
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities Education 
Act (IDEA) and the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment 
Act of 2004, $12,522,358,000, of which $3,006,259,000 shall become 
available on July 1, 2015, and shall remain available through 
September 30, 2016, and of which $9,283,383,000 shall become 
available on October 1, 2015, and shall remain available through 
September 30, 2016, for academic year 2015–2016: Provided, That 
the amount for section 611(b)(2) of the IDEA shall be equal to 
the lesser of the amount available for that activity during fiscal 
year 2014, increased by the amount of inflation as specified in 
section 619(d)(2)(B) of the IDEA, or the percent change in the 
funds appropriated under section 611(i) of the IDEA, but not less 
than the amount for that activity during fiscal year 2014: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall, without regard to section 611(d) 
of the IDEA, distribute to all other States (as that term is defined 
in section 611(g)(2)), subject to the third proviso, any amount by
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which a State’s allocation under section 611(d), from funds appro-
priated under this heading, is reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B), 
according to the following: 85 percent on the basis of the States’ 
relative populations of children aged 3 through 21 who are of 
the same age as children with disabilities for whom the State 
ensures the availability of a free appropriate public education under 
this part, and 15 percent to States on the basis of the States’ 
relative populations of those children who are living in poverty: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may not distribute any funds 
under the previous proviso to any State whose reduction in alloca-
tion from funds appropriated under this heading made funds avail-
able for such a distribution: Provided further, That the States 
shall allocate such funds distributed under the second proviso to 
local educational agencies in accordance with section 611(f): Pro-
vided further, That the amount by which a State’s allocation under 
section 611(d) of the IDEA is reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B) 
and the amounts distributed to States under the previous provisos 
in fiscal year 2012 or any subsequent year shall not be considered 
in calculating the awards under section 611(d) for fiscal year 2013 
or for any subsequent fiscal years: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing the provision in section 612(a)(18)(B) regarding the fiscal 
year in which a State’s allocation under section 611(d) is reduced 
for failure to comply with the requirement of section 612(a)(18)(A), 
the Secretary may apply the reduction specified in section 
612(a)(18)(B) over a period of consecutive fiscal years, not to exceed 
five, until the entire reduction is applied: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may, in any fiscal year in which a State’s allocation 
under section 611 is reduced in accordance with section 
612(a)(18)(B), reduce the amount a State may reserve under section 
611(e)(1) by an amount that bears the same relation to the max-
imum amount described in that paragraph as the reduction under 
section 612(a)(18)(B) bears to the total allocation the State would 
have received in that fiscal year under section 611(d) in the absence 
of the reduction: Provided further, That the Secretary shall either 
reduce the allocation of funds under section 611 for any fiscal 
year following the fiscal year for which the State fails to comply 
with the requirement of section 612(a)(18)(A) as authorized by 
section 612(a)(18)(B), or seek to recover funds under section 452 
of the General Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1234a): Provided 
further, That the funds reserved under 611(c) of the IDEA may 
be used to provide technical assistance to States to improve the 
capacity of the States to meet the data collection requirements 
of sections 616 and 618 and to administer and carry out other 
services and activities to improve data collection, coordination, 
quality, and use under parts B and C of the IDEA: Provided 
further, That the level of effort a local educational agency must 
meet under section 613(a)(2)(A)(iii) of the IDEA, in the year after 
it fails to maintain effort is the level of effort that would have 
been required in the absence of that failure and not the LEA’s 
reduced level of expenditures: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may use funds made available for the State Personnel Development 
Grants program under part D, subpart 1 of IDEA to evaluate 
program performance under such subpart.