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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 trans-
portation 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 in-
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 clus-
tering. 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 Department of Education in this Act may 
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be transferred between appropriations, but no such appro-
priation shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any 
such transfer: Provided, That the transfer authority 
granted by this section shall be available only to meet 
emergency 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 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in ad-
vance of any transfer. 
SEC. 305. The signature pages submitted by Heart 
Butte School District in Pondera County, Montana, as 
part of its application for Impact Aid under title VIII of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 
shall be considered to have been timely and complete for 
purposes of receiving funding under such program for fis-
cal year 2009. 
SEC. 306. The Outlying Areas may consolidate funds 
received under this Act as well as any remaining funds 
received under the Department of Education Appropria-
tions Act, 2008, pursuant to 48 U.S.C. 1469a, under part 
A of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Edu-
cation Appropriations Act, 2009’’. 
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TITLE IV 
RELATED AGENCIES 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE 
BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Committee for Pur-
chase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 
established by Public Law 92–28, $5,094,000. 
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service to carry out the Domestic 
Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (‘‘1973 Act’’) and the Na-
tional and Community Service Act of 1990 (‘‘1990 Act’’), 
$680,564,000, of which $309,835,000 shall be to carry 
out the 1973 Act and $370,729,000 shall be to carry out 
the 1990 Act: Provided, That $27,500,000 of the amount 
provided under this heading shall be available to carry out 
subtitle E of the 1990 Act at five campuses throughout 
the United States: Provided further, That up to 1 percent 
of program grant funds may be used to defray the costs 
of conducting grant application reviews, including the use 
of outside peer reviewers and electronic management of 
the grants cycle: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available under this heading for activities authorized 
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