‘‘(C) be of sufficient duration to have a
positive and lasting impact on classroom in-
struction;
‘‘(D) be an integral part of broader school
and district-wide plans for raising student
achievement to State standards;
‘‘(E) be based on the best available re-
search on teaching and learning;
‘‘(F) include professional development ac-
tivities that involve collaborative groups of
teachers and administrators from the same
school or district and, to the greatest extent
possible, include follow-up and school-based
support such as coaching or study groups; and
‘‘(G) as a whole, be regularly evaluated for
its impact on increased teacher effectiveness
and improved student achievement, with the
findings of such evaluations used to improve the
quality of professional development.’’; and
(B) in paragraph (2)—
(i) by amending subparagraph (A) to
read as follows:
‘‘(A) instruction in the use of data and as-
sessments to inform and instruct classroom
practice;’’;
(ii) by amending subparagraph (D) to
read as follows:
‘‘(D) instruction in the use of technology
as a tool to improve instruction;’’; and
(iii) in subparagraph (H), by striking
‘‘Head Start’’ and all that follows through
‘‘personnel’’ and inserting ‘‘Head Start, or
family literacy programs such as Even
Start; State-run preschool program per-
sonnel; and child-care providers’’; and
(6) in subsection (h), as redesignated by para-
graph (2), by striking ‘‘this Act’’ and all that follows
through ‘‘sources’’ and inserting ‘‘this Act and other
sources’’.
SEC. 116. PARTICIPATION OF CHILDREN ENROLLED IN PRI-
VATE SCHOOLS.
Section 1120 is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘that
address their needs, and shall ensure that
teachers and families of these students partici-
pate, on an equitable basis, in services and ac-
tivities under sections 1118 and 1119’’ before
the period at the end; and
(B) in paragraph (4), by inserting, before
the period at the end, a comma and ‘‘which the
local educational agency may determine each
year or every 2 years’’;
(2) in subsection (b)—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in subparagraph (D), by striking
‘‘assessed; and’’ and inserting ‘‘assessed,
and how the results of that assessment will
be used to improve those services’’;
(ii) in subparagraph (E), by striking
‘‘what is’’ and all that follows through the
period at the end and inserting ‘‘the
amounts of funds generated by low-income
private school children in each partici-
pating attendance area for those services;’’;
and
(iii) by adding at the end new sub-
paragraphs (F) and (G) to read as follows:
‘‘(F) the method or sources of data that
are used under subsection (a)(4) to determine
the number of children from low-income fami-
lies in participating school attendance areas
who attend private schools; and
‘‘(G) how and when the agency will make
decisions about the delivery of services to those
children.’’; and
(B) in paragraph (2)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘shall include meet-
ings of agency and private school officials
and’’ after ‘‘consultation’’; and
(ii) by inserting a comma and ‘‘and
shall continue throughout implementation
and assessment of activities under this sec-
tion’’ before the period at the end; and
(3) by striking subsection (e).
SEC. 117. PRESCHOOL SERVICES AND COORDINATION RE-
QUIREMENTS.
Section 1120B is amended—
(1) by amending the section heading to read as
follows: 
‘‘PRESCHOOL 
SERVICES; 
CO-
ORDINATION REQUIREMENTS’’;
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘Head Start
Act Amendments of 1994’’ and inserting ‘‘Head
Start Amendments of 1998’’; and
(3) by adding the following at the end the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(d) PRESCHOOL SERVICES.—
‘‘(1) A local educational agency may use funds
received under this part to provide preschool
services—
‘‘(A) directly to eligible preschool children
in all or part of its jurisdiction;
‘‘(B) through any school participating in
the agency’s program under this part; or
‘‘(C) through a contract with a local Head
Start agency, a partnership operating an Even
Start program, a State-funded preschool pro-
gram, or a comparable public early-childhood
development program.
‘‘(2) Preschool programs operated with funds
provided under this part may be operated and fund-
ed jointly with Even Start programs under part B
of this title, Head Start programs, or State-funded
preschool programs.
‘‘(3) All preschool programs funded under this
part shall—
‘‘(A) focus on the developmental needs of
participating children, including their social,
cognitive, and language-development needs, and
use research-based approaches that build on
competencies that lead to school success, par-
ticularly in language and literacy development
and in reading; and
‘‘(B) ensure that participating children, at
a minimum—
‘‘(i) understand and use language to
communicate for various purposes;
‘‘(ii) understand and use increasingly
complex and varied vocabulary;
‘‘(iii) develop and demonstrate an ap-
preciation of books; and
‘‘(iv) develop phonemic, print, and
numeracy awareness.’’.
SEC. 118. BASIC GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN-
CIES.
Section 1124 is amended in subsection (a)—
(1) by amending paragraph (1) to read as
follows—
‘‘(1) GRANTS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN-
CIES.—Except as provided in paragraph (4) and in
section 1126, the grant that a local educational
agency is eligible to receive under this section for a
fiscal 
year 
is 
the 
amount 
determined 
by
multiplying—
‘‘(A) the number of children under sub-
section (c); and