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HOWARD UNIVERSITY 
For partial support of Howard University, $237,392,000, of 
which not less than $3,526,000 shall be for a matching endowment 
grant pursuant to the Howard University Endowment Act (Public 
Law 98–480) 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 
Higher Education Act of 1965, $481,000. 
HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAPITAL 
FINANCING PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For administrative expenses to carry out the Historically Black 
College and University Capital Financing Program entered into 
pursuant to part D of title III of the Higher Education Act of 
1965, $188,000. 
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, $561,315,000, of which $293,155,000 
shall be available until September 30, 2009. 
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, $420,698,000, of which $3,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be for building alterations and 
related expenses for the move of Department staff to the Mary 
E. Switzer building in Washington, DC. 
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, $93,771,000. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector General, 
as authorized by section 212 of the Department of Education 
Organization Act, $53,239,000. 
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
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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 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 Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 
15 days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 305. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to promulgate, implement, or enforce any revision to the 
regulations in effect under section 496 of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 on June 1, 2007, until legislation specifically requiring 
such revision is enacted. 
SEC. 306. (a) MAINTENANCE OF INTEGRITY AND ETHICAL VALUES 
WITHIN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.—Within 30 days after the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Education shall implement 
procedures— 
(1) to assess whether a covered individual or entity has 
a potential financial interest in, or bias towards, a product 
or service purchased with, or guaranteed or insured by, funds 
administered by the Department of Education or a contracted 
entity of the Department; and 
(2) to disclose the existence of any such potential financial 
interest or bias. 
(b) REVIEW BY INSPECTOR GENERAL.— 
(1) Within 30 days after the implementation of the proce-
dures described in subsection (a), the Inspector General of 
the Department of Education shall report to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Senate on the adequacy of such procedures. 
(2) Within 1 year, the Inspector General shall conduct 
at least 1 audit to ensure that such procedures are properly 
implemented and are adequate to uncover and disclose the
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existence of potential financial interests or bias described in 
subsection (a). 
(3) The Inspector General shall report to such Committees 
any recommendations for modifications to such procedures that 
the Inspector General determines are necessary to uncover 
and disclose the existence of such potential financial interests 
or bias. 
(c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘covered 
individual or entity’’ means— 
(1) an officer or professional employee of the Department 
of Education; 
(2) a contractor or subcontractor of the Department, or 
an individual hired by the contracted entity; 
(3) a member of a peer review panel of the Department; 
or 
(4) a consultant or advisor to the Department. 
SEC. 307. (a) Notwithstanding section 8013(9)(B) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, North Chicago 
Community Unit School District 187, North Shore District 112, 
and Township High School District 113 in Lake County, Illinois, 
and Glenview Public School District 34 and Glenbrook High School 
District 225 in Cook County, Illinois, shall be considered local 
educational agencies as such term is used in and for purposes 
of title VIII of such Act. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, federally con-
nected children (as determined under section 8003(a) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) who are in 
attendance in the North Shore District 112, Township High School 
District 113, Glenview Public School District 34, and Glenbrook 
High School District 225 described in subsection (a), shall be consid-
ered to be in attendance in the North Chicago Community Unit 
School District 187 described in subsection (a) for purposes of com-
puting the amount that the North Chicago Community Unit School 
District 187 is eligible to receive under subsection (b) or (d) of 
such section if— 
(1) such school districts have entered into an agreement 
for such students to be so considered and for the equitable 
apportionment among all such school districts of any amount 
received by the North Chicago Community Unit School District 
187 under such section; and 
(2) any amount apportioned among all such school districts 
pursuant to paragraph (1) is used by such school districts 
only for the direct provision of educational services. 
SEC. 308. Prior to January 1, 2008, the Secretary of Education 
may not terminate any voluntary flexible agreement under section 
428A of the Higher Education Act of 1965 that existed on October 
1, 2007. With respect to an entity with which the Secretary of 
Education had a voluntary flexible agreement under section 428A 
of the Higher Education Act of 1965 on October 1, 2007, that 
is not cost neutral, if the Secretary terminates such agreement 
on or after January 1, 2008, the Secretary of Education shall, 
not later than March 31, 2008, negotiate to enter, and enter, into 
a new voluntary flexible agreement with such entity so that the 
agreement is cost neutral, unless such entity does not want to 
enter into such agreement. 
SEC. 309. Notwithstanding section 102(a)(4)(A) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965, the Secretary of Education shall not take
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into account a bankruptcy petition filed in the United States Bank-
ruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York on February 
21, 2001, in determining whether a nonprofit educational institution 
that is a subsidiary of an entity that filed such petition meets 
the definition of an ‘‘institution of higher education’’ under section 
102 of that Act. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Education Appro-
priations Act, 2008’’. 
TITLE IV 
RELATED AGENCIES 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 
SEVERELY DISABLED 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary of the Committee for Purchase From 
People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled established by Public 
Law 92–28, $4,994,000. 
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for the Corporation for National and 
Community Service to carry out the Domestic Volunteer Service 
Act of 1973 (‘‘1973 Act’’) and the National and Community Service 
Act of 1990 (‘‘1990 Act’’), $798,065,000, of which $313,054,000 is 
to carry out the 1973 Act and $485,011,000 is to carry out the 
1990 Act: Provided, 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 author-
ized by section 122 and part E of title II of the 1973 Act shall 
be used to provide stipends or other monetary incentives to program 
participants or volunteer leaders whose incomes exceed the income 
guidelines in subsections 211(e) and 213(b) of the 1973 Act: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding subtitle H of title I of the 1990 
Act, none of the funds provided for quality and innovation activities 
shall be used to support salaries and related expenses (including 
travel) attributable to Corporation for National and Community 
Service employees: Provided further, That of the amounts provided 
under this heading: (1) not less than $126,121,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, to be transferred to the National Service Trust 
for educational awards authorized under subtitle D of title I of 
the 1990 Act: Provided further, That in addition to these funds, 
the Corporation may transfer funds from the amount provided 
for AmeriCorps grants under the National Service Trust Program, 
to the National Service Trust authorized under subtitle D of title 
I of the 1990 Act, upon determination that such transfer is nec-
essary to support the activities of national service participants 
and after notice is transmitted to the Congress; (2) not more than 
$55,000,000 of funding provided for grants under the National