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‘‘(E) is nonsectarian in its programs, ad-
missions policies, employment practices, and all 
other operations, and is not affiliated with a 
sectarian school or religious institution; 
‘‘(F) does not charge tuition; 
‘‘(G) complies with the Age Discrimination 
Act of 1975, title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 
1964, title IX of the Education Amendments of 
1972, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 
1973, part B of the Individuals with Disabil-
ities Education Act, the Americans with Dis-
abilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.), 
and section 444 of the General Education Pro-
visions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232(g)) (commonly 
known as the ‘Family Education Rights and 
Privacy Act of 1974’); 
‘‘(H) is a school to which parents choose to 
send their children, and admits students on the 
basis of a lottery if more students apply for ad-
mission than can be accommodated, except that 
in cases in which students who are enrolled in 
a charter school affiliated (such as by sharing 
a network) with another charter school, those 
students may be automatically enrolled in the 
next grade level at such other charter school, so 
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long as a lottery is used to fill seats created 
through regular attrition in student enrollment; 
‘‘(I) agrees to comply with the same Fed-
eral and State audit requirements as do other 
elementary schools and secondary schools in the 
State, unless such State audit requirements are 
waived by the State; 
‘‘(J) meets all applicable Federal, State, 
and local health and safety requirements; 
‘‘(K) operates in accordance with State 
law; 
‘‘(L) has a written performance contract 
with the authorized public chartering agency in 
the State that includes a description of how 
student performance will be measured in char-
ter schools pursuant to State assessments that 
are required of other schools and pursuant to 
any other assessments mutually agreeable to 
the authorized public chartering agency and the 
charter school; and 
‘‘(M) may serve prekindergarten or post-
secondary students.’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through 
(4) as paragraphs (4) through (6), respectively; 
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(3) by inserting after paragraph (1), the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) CHARTER MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION.— 
The term ‘charter management organization’ means 
a not-for-profit organization that manages a network 
of charter schools linked by centralized support, op-
erations, and oversight. 
‘‘(3) CHARTER
SCHOOL
SUPPORT
ORGANIZA-
TION.—The term ‘charter school support organiza-
tion’ means a nonprofit, nongovernmental entity that 
is not an authorized public chartering agency, which 
provides on a statewide basis— 
‘‘(A) assistance to developers during the 
planning, program design, and initial implemen-
tation of a charter school; and 
‘‘(B) technical assistance to charter schools 
to operate such schools.’’; 
(4) in paragraph (5)(B), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘under section 5203(d)(3)’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) 
EXPANDED, 
HIGH-QUALITY
CHARTER 
SCHOOL.—The term ‘expanded, high-quality charter 
school’ means a high-quality charter school that has 
either significantly increased its enrollment or added 
one or more grades to its school. 
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‘‘(8) HIGH-QUALITY
CHARTER
SCHOOL.—The 
term ‘high-quality charter school’ means a charter 
school that— 
‘‘(A) shows evidence of strong academic re-
sults, which may include strong academic 
growth as determined by a State; 
‘‘(B) has no significant issues in the areas 
of student safety, operational and financial 
management, or statutory or regulatory compli-
ance; 
‘‘(C) has demonstrated success in signifi-
cantly increasing student academic achieve-
ment, including graduation rates where applica-
ble, consistent with the requirements under title 
I, for all students served by the charter school; 
and 
‘‘(D) has demonstrated success in increas-
ing student academic achievement, including 
graduation rates where applicable, for the 
groups 
of 
students 
described 
in 
section 
1111(b)(2)(C)(v)(II), except that such dem-
onstration is not required in a case in which the 
number of students in a group is insufficient to 
yield statistically reliable information or the re-
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sults would reveal personally identifiable infor-
mation about an individual student. 
‘‘(9) REPLICATED, 
HIGH-QUALITY
CHARTER 
SCHOOL MODEL.—The term ‘replicated, high-quality 
charter school model’ means a high-quality charter 
school that has opened a new campus under an ex-
isting charter or an additional charter if required or 
permitted by State law.’’. 
SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Section 5211 (20 U.S.C. 7221j) is amended to read 
as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 5211. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subpart $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2015 and each 
of the 5 succeeding fiscal years.’’. 
SEC. 11. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
(a) REPEAL.—Subpart 2 of part B of title V (20 
U.S.C. 7223 et seq.) is repealed. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents in 
section 2 is amended— 
(1) by striking the item relating to subpart 1 
of part B of title V and inserting the following: 
‘‘Subpart 1—Charter School Program’’; 
(2) by striking the item relating to section 5203 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘Sec. 5203. Grants to support high-quality charter schools.’’; 
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