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regarding the availability and utilization of materials devel-
oped under paragraph (3) to enhance parent and child
care provider skills in early childhood development and
education.
‘‘SEC. 3304. APPLICATIONS.
‘‘Each eligible entity desiring a grant, contract, or cooperative
agreement under section 3301 or 3303 shall submit an application
to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied
by such information as the Secretary may reasonably require.
‘‘SEC. 3305. REPORTS AND EVALUATION.
‘‘(a) ANNUAL REPORT TO SECRETARY.—An entity receiving funds
under section 3301 shall prepare and submit to the Secretary an
annual report which contains such information as the Secretary
may require. At a minimum, the report shall describe the program
activities undertaken with funds received under this section, includ-
ing—
‘‘(1) the programming that has been developed directly
or indirectly by the entity, and the target population of the
programs developed;
‘‘(2) the support materials that have been developed to
accompany the programming, and the method by which such
materials are distributed to consumers and users of the
programming;
‘‘(3) the means by which programming developed under
this section has been distributed, including the distance learn-
ing technologies that have been utilized to make programming
available and the geographic distribution achieved through such
technologies; and
‘‘(4) the initiatives undertaken by the entity to develop
public-private partnerships to secure non-Federal support for
the development and distribution and broadcast of educational
and instructional programming.
‘‘(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary shall prepare and
submit to the relevant committees of Congress a biannual report
which includes—
‘‘(1) a summary of the information made available under
section 3302(a); and
‘‘(2) a description of the training materials made available
under section 3303(3), the manner in which outreach has been
conducted to inform parents and child care providers of the
availability of such materials, and the manner in which such
materials have been distributed in accordance with such sec-
tion.
‘‘SEC. 3306. ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.
‘‘With respect to the implementation of section 3302, entities
receiving a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement from the Sec-
retary may use not more than 5 percent of the amounts received
under such section for the normal and customary expenses of admin-
istering the grant, contract, or cooperative agreement.
‘‘SEC. 3307. DEFINITION.
‘‘For the purposes of this part, the term ‘distance learning’
means the transmission of educational or instructional program-
ming to geographically dispersed individuals and groups via tele-
communications.
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‘‘SEC. 3308. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appropriated
to carry out this part, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1995, and such
sums as may be necessary for each of the four succeeding fiscal
years. Not less than 60 percent of the amounts appropriated under
this subsection for each fiscal year shall be used to carry out
section 3302.
‘‘(b) SPECIAL PROJECTS.—Of the amount appropriated under
subsection (b) for each fiscal year, at least 10 percent of such
amount shall be used for each such fiscal year for activities under
section 3303(1)(C).
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D—TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
DEMON-
STRATION PROJECT FOR MATHEMATICS
‘‘SEC. 3401. PROJECT AUTHORIZED.
‘‘The Secretary is authorized to make grants to a nonprofit
telecommunications entity, or partnership of such entities, for the
purpose of carrying out a national telecommunications-based dem-
onstration project to improve the teaching of mathematics. The
demonstration project authorized by this part shall be designed
to assist elementary and secondary school teachers in preparing
all students for achieving State content standards.
‘‘SEC. 3402. APPLICATION REQUIRED.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each nonprofit telecommunications entity,
or partnership of such entities, desiring a grant under this part
shall submit an application to the Secretary. Each such application
shall—
‘‘(1) demonstrate that the applicant will use the existing
publicly funded telecommunications infrastructure to deliver
video, voice and data in an integrated service to train teachers
in the use of new standards-based curricula materials and
learning technologies;
‘‘(2) assure that the project for which assistance is sought
will be conducted in cooperation with appropriate State edu-
cational agencies, local educational agencies, State or local non-
profit public telecommunications entities, and a national
mathematics education professional association that has devel-
oped content standards;
‘‘(3) assure that a significant portion of the benefits avail-
able for elementary and secondary schools from the project
for which assistance is sought will be available to schools of
local educational agencies which have a high percentage of
children counted for the purpose of part A of title I; and
‘‘(4) contain such additional assurances as the Secretary
may reasonably require.
‘‘(b) APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS; NUMBER OF DEMONSTRATION
SITES.—In approving applications under this section, the Secretary
shall assure that the demonstration project authorized by this part
is conducted at elementary and secondary school sites in at least
15 States.
‘‘SEC. 3403. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this
part, $5,000,000 for the fiscal year 1995, and such sums as may
be necessary for each of the four succeeding fiscal years.
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‘‘PART E—ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS AND
SCIENCE EQUIPMENT PROGRAM
‘‘SEC. 3501. SHORT TITLE.
‘‘This part may be cited as the ‘Elementary Mathematics and
Science Equipment Act’.
‘‘SEC. 3502. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
‘‘It is the purpose of this part to raise the quality of instruction
in mathematics and science in the Nation’s elementary schools
by providing equipment and materials necessary for hands-on
instruction through assistance to State and local educational agen-
cies.
‘‘SEC. 3503. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.
‘‘The Secretary is authorized to make allotments to State edu-
cational agencies under section 3504 to enable such agencies to
award grants to local educational agencies for the purpose of provid-
ing equipment and materials to elementary schools to improve
mathematics and science education in such schools.
‘‘SEC. 3504. ALLOTMENTS OF FUNDS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—From the amount appropriated under section
3509 for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve—
‘‘(1) not more than one-half of 1 percent for allotment
among Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the
Northern Mariana Islands according to their respective needs
for assistance under this part; and
‘‘(2) one-half of 1 percent for programs for Indian students
served by schools funded by the Secretary of the Interior which
are consistent with the purposes of this part.
‘‘(b) ALLOTMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The remainder of the amount so appro-
priated (after meeting requirements in subsection (a)) shall
be allotted among State educational agencies so that—
‘‘(A) one-half of such remainder shall be distributed
by allotting to each State educational agency an amount
which bears the same ratio to such one-half of such remain-
der as the number of children aged 5 to 17, inclusive,
in the State bears to the number of such children in all
States; and
‘‘(B) one-half of such remainder shall be distributed
according to each State’s share of allocations under part
A of title I.
‘‘(2) MINIMUM.—Except as provided in paragraph (3), no
State educational agency shall receive an allotment under this
subsection for any fiscal year in an amount that is—
‘‘(A) less than one-half of 1 percent of the amount
made available under this subsection for such fiscal year;
or
‘‘(B) less than the amount allotted to such State for
fiscal year 1988 under title II of the Education for Economic
Security Act.
‘‘(3) RATABLE REDUCTIONS.—(A) If the sums made available
under this part for any fiscal year are insufficient to pay
the full amounts that all State educational agencies are eligible
to receive under paragraph (2)(B) for such year, the Secretary
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shall ratably reduce the allotment to such agencies for such
year.
‘‘(B) If additional funds become available for making pay-
ments under paragraph (2)(B) for such fiscal year, allotments
that were reduced under subparagraph (A) shall be increased
on the same basis as such allotments were reduced.
‘‘(c) REALLOTMENT
OF UNUSED FUNDS.—The amount of any
State educational agency’s allotment under subsection (b) for any
fiscal year to carry out this part which the Secretary determines
will not be required for that fiscal year to carry out this part
shall be available for reallotment from time to time, on such dates
during that year as the Secretary may determine, to other State
educational agencies in proportion to the original allotments to
those State educational agencies under subsection (b) for that year
but with such proportionate amount for any of those other State
educational agencies being reduced to the extent it exceeds the
sum the Secretary estimates that the State educational agency
needs and will be able to use for that year, and the total of
those reductions shall be similarly reallotted among the State edu-
cational agencies whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced.
Any amounts reallotted to a State educational agency under this
subsection during a year shall be deemed a part of the State
educational agency’s allotment under subsection (b) for that year.
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—For the purposes of this part the term ‘State’
means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
‘‘(e) DATA.—The number of children aged 5 to 17, inclusive,
in the State and in all States shall be determined by the Secretary
on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available to the
Secretary.
‘‘SEC. 3505. STATE APPLICATION.
‘‘(a) APPLICATION.—Each State educational agency desiring to
receive an allotment under this part shall file an application with
the Secretary which covers a period of 5 fiscal years. Such applica-
tion shall be filed at such time, in such manner, and containing
or accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reason-
ably require.
‘‘(b) CONTENTS
OF APPLICATION.—Each application described
in subsection (a) shall—
‘‘(1) provide assurances that—
‘‘(A) the State educational agency shall use the allot-
ment provided under this part to award grants to local
educational agencies within the State to enable such local
educational agencies to provide assistance to schools served
by such agency to carry out the purpose of this part;
‘‘(B) the State educational agency will provide such
fiscal control and funds accounting as the Secretary may
require;
‘‘(C) every public elementary school in the State is
eligible to receive assistance under this part once over
the 5-year duration of the program assisted under this
part;
‘‘(D) funds provided under this part will supplement,
not supplant, State and local funds made available for
activities authorized under this part;