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‘‘SEC. 5105. ELIGIBILITY.
‘‘A local educational agency, or consortium of such agencies
where appropriate, is eligible to receive assistance under this part
to carry out the purposes of this part if such agency or consortium—
‘‘(1) is implementing a plan undertaken pursuant to a
final order issued by a court of the United States, or a court
of any State, or any other State agency or official of competent
jurisdiction, that requires the desegregation of minority-group-
segregated children or faculty in the elementary and secondary
schools of such agency; or
‘‘(2) without having been required to do so, has adopted
and is implementing, or will, if assistance is made available
to such local educational agency or consortium of such agencies
under this part, adopt and implement a plan that has been
approved by the Secretary as adequate under title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 for the desegregation of minority-
group-segregated children or faculty in such schools.
‘‘SEC. 5106. APPLICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS.
‘‘(a) APPLICATIONS.—An eligible local educational agency or
consortium of such agencies desiring to receive assistance under
this part shall submit an application to the Secretary at such
time, in such manner, and containing such information and assur-
ances as the Secretary may reasonably require.
‘‘(b) INFORMATION
AND ASSURANCES.—Each such application
shall include—
‘‘(1) a description of—
‘‘(A) how assistance made available under this part
will be used to promote desegregation, including how the
proposed magnet school project will increase interaction
among students of different social, economic, ethnic, and
racial backgrounds;
‘‘(B) the manner and extent to which the magnet school
project will increase student achievement in the instruc-
tional area or areas offered by the school;
‘‘(C) how an applicant will continue the magnet school
project after assistance under this part is no longer avail-
able, including, if applicable, an explanation of why magnet
schools established or supported by the applicant with
funds under this part cannot be continued without the
use of funds under this part;
‘‘(D) how funds under this part will be used to imple-
ment services and activities that are consistent with other
programs under this Act, the Goals 2000: Educate America
Act, and other Acts, as appropriate, in accordance with
the provisions of section 14306; and
‘‘(E) the criteria to be used in selecting students to
attend the proposed magnet school projects; and
‘‘(2) assurances that the applicant will—
‘‘(A) use funds under this part for the purposes speci-
fied in section 5102;
‘‘(B) employ State certified or licensed teachers in the
courses of instruction assisted under this part to teach
or supervise others who are teaching the subject matter
of the courses of instruction;
‘‘(C) not engage in discrimination based on race, reli-
gion, color, national origin, sex, or disability in—
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‘‘(i) the hiring, promotion, or assignment of employ-
ees of the agency or other personnel for whom the
agency has any administrative responsibility;
‘‘(ii) the assignment of students to schools, or to
courses of instruction within the school, of such agency,
except to carry out the approved plan; and
‘‘(iii) designing or operating extracurricular activi-
ties for students;
‘‘(D) carry out a high-quality education program that
will encourage greater parental decisionmaking and
involvement; and
‘‘(E) give students residing in the local attendance area
of the proposed magnet school projects equitable consider-
ation for placement in those projects.
‘‘(c) SPECIAL RULE.—No application may be approved under
this section unless the Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil
Rights determines that the assurances described in subsection
(b)(2)(C) will be met.
‘‘SEC. 5107. PRIORITY.
‘‘In approving applications under this part, the Secretary shall
give priority to applicants that—
‘‘(1) demonstrate the greatest need for assistance, based
on the expense or difficulty of effectively carrying out an
approved desegregation plan and the projects for which assist-
ance is sought;
‘‘(2) propose to carry out new magnet school projects, or
significantly revise existing magnet school projects;
‘‘(3) propose to select students to attend magnet school
projects by methods such as lottery, rather than through aca-
demic examination;
‘‘(4) 
propose 
to 
implement 
innovative 
educational
approaches that are consistent with the State’s and local edu-
cational agency’s approved systemic reform plans, if any, under
title III of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act; and
‘‘(5) propose to draw on comprehensive community involve-
ment plans.
‘‘SEC. 5108. USE OF FUNDS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Grant funds made available under this part
may be used by an eligible local educational agency or consortium
of such agencies—
‘‘(1) for planning and promotional activities directly related
to the development, expansion, continuation, or enhancement
of academic programs and services offered at magnet schools;
‘‘(2) for the acquisition of books, materials, and equipment,
including computers and the maintenance and operation
thereof, necessary for the conduct of programs in magnet
schools;
‘‘(3) for the payment, or subsidization of the compensation,
of elementary and secondary school teachers who are certified
or licensed by the State, and instructional staff where
applicable, who are necessary for the conduct of programs in
magnet schools; and
‘‘(4) with respect to a magnet school program offered to
less than the entire student population of a school, for instruc-
tional activities that—
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‘‘(A) are designed to make available the special curricu-
lum that is offered by the magnet school project to students
who are enrolled in the school but who are not enrolled
in the magnet school program; and
‘‘(B) further the purposes of this part.
‘‘(b) SPECIAL RULE.—Grant funds under this part may be used
in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a) only
if the activities described in such paragraphs are directly related
to improving the students’ reading skills or knowledge of mathe-
matics, science, history, geography, English, foreign languages, art,
or music, or to improving vocational skills.
‘‘SEC. 5109. PROHIBITIONS.
‘‘(a) TRANSPORTATION.—Grants under this part may not be used
for transportation or any activity that does not augment academic
improvement.
‘‘(b) PLANNING.—A local educational agency shall not expend
funds under this part after the third year that such agency receives
funds under this part for such project.
‘‘SEC. 5110. LIMITATIONS.
‘‘(a) DURATION
OF AWARDS.—A grant under this part shall
be awarded for a period that shall not exceed three fiscal years.
‘‘(b) LIMITATION
ON PLANNING FUNDS.—A local educational
agency may expend for planning not more than 50 percent of
the funds received under this part for the first year of the project,
15 percent of such funds for the second such year, and 10 percent
of such funds for the third such year.
‘‘(c) AMOUNT.—No local educational agency or consortium
awarded a grant under this part shall receive more than $4,000,000
under this part in any one fiscal year.
‘‘(d) TIMING.—To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall
award grants for any fiscal year under this part not later than
June 1 of the applicable fiscal year.
‘‘SEC. 5111. INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—From amounts reserved under subsection
(d) for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall award grants to local
educational agencies or consortia of such agencies described in
section 5105 to enable such agencies or consortia to conduct innova-
tive programs that—
‘‘(1) carry out the purpose of this part; and
‘‘(2) involve strategies other than magnet schools, such
as neighborhood or community model schools—
‘‘(A) organized around a special emphasis, theme or
concept; and
‘‘(B) involving extensive parent and community involve-
ment.
‘‘(b) APPLICABILITY.—Sections 5103, 5106, 5107, and 5108, shall
not apply to grants awarded under subsection (a).
‘‘(c) APPLICATIONS.—Each local educational agency or consortia
of such agencies desiring a grant under this section shall submit
an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner,
and containing such information and assurances as the Secretary
may reasonably require.
‘‘(d) INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS.—The Secretary shall reserve not
more than 5 percent of the funds appropriated under section 5113(a)
for each fiscal year to award grants under this section.
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‘‘SEC. 5112. EVALUATIONS.
‘‘(a) RESERVATION.—The Secretary may reserve not more than
two percent of the funds appropriated under section 5113(a) for
any fiscal year to carry out evaluations of projects assisted under
this part.
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each evaluation described in subsection (a),
at a minimum, shall address—
‘‘(1) how and the extent to which magnet school programs
lead to educational quality and improvement;
‘‘(2) the extent to which magnet school programs enhance
student access to quality education;
‘‘(3) the extent to which magnet school programs lead to
the elimination, reduction, or prevention of minority group
isolation in elementary and secondary schools with substantial
proportions of minority students; and
‘‘(4) the extent to which magnet school programs differ
from other school programs in terms of the organizational
characteristics and resource allocations of such magnet school
programs.
‘‘SEC. 5113. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS; RESERVATION.
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.—For the purpose of carrying out this part,
there are authorized to be appropriated $120,000,000 for fiscal
year 1995 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the
4 succeeding fiscal years.
‘‘(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR GRANTS TO AGENCIES NOT
PREVIOUSLY ASSISTED.—In any fiscal year for which the amount
appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) exceeds $75,000,000, the
Secretary shall give priority to using such amounts in excess of
$75,000,000 to award grants to local educational agencies or consor-
tia of such agencies that did not receive a grant under this part
in the preceding fiscal year.
‘‘PART B—WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
‘‘SEC. 5201. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS.
‘‘(a) SHORT TITLE.—This part may be cited as the ‘Women’s
Educational Equity Act of 1994’.
‘‘(b) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
‘‘(1) since the enactment of title IX of the Education Amend-
ments of 1972, women and girls have made strides in edu-
cational achievement and in their ability to avail themselves
of educational opportunities;
‘‘(2) because of funding provided under the Women’s Edu-
cational Equity Act, more curricula, training, and other edu-
cational materials concerning educational equity for women
and girls are available for national dissemination;
‘‘(3) teaching and learning practices in the United States
are frequently inequitable as such practices relate to women
and girls, for example—
‘‘(A) sexual harassment, particularly that experienced
by girls, undermines the ability of schools to provide a
safe and equitable learning or workplace environment;
‘‘(B) classroom textbooks and other educational mate-
rials do not sufficiently reflect the experiences, achieve-
ments, or concerns of women and, in most cases, are not
written by women or persons of color;