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Provided further, That up to 5 percent of the amount referred 
to in the previous proviso may be reserved by the Federated States 
of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands to admin-
ister the Supplemental Education Grants programs and to obtain 
technical assistance, oversight and consultancy services in the 
administration of these grants and to reimburse the United States 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education 
for such services: Provided further, That up to 2 percent of the 
funds for subpart 1 of part A of title II of the ESEA shall be 
reserved by the Secretary for competitive awards for teacher or 
principal recruitment and training or professional enhancement 
activities to national not-for-profit organizations, of which up to 
10 percent may be used for related research, dissemination, evalua-
tion, technical assistance, and outreach activities: Provided further, 
That $149,717,000 shall be to carry out part B of title II of the 
ESEA. 
INDIAN EDUCATION 
For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent not otherwise 
provided, title VII, part A of the ESEA, $123,939,000. 
INNOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT 
For carrying out activities authorized by part G of title I, 
subpart 5 of part A and parts C and D of title II, parts B, C, 
and D of title V of the ESEA, and sections 14006 and 14007 
of division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 
of 2009, as amended, $1,181,317,000: Provided, That $250,000,000 
shall be available through December 31, 2014 for awards to States, 
in accordance with the applicable requirements of section 14006 
of division A of Public Law 111–5, as amended: Provided further, 
That the Secretary, jointly with the Secretary of HHS, shall use 
all funds made available under the immediately preceding proviso 
to make competitive awards in accordance with such section 14006 
to States for improving early childhood care and education, except 
that, notwithstanding sections 14006(a) and 14005(d)(6) of such 
division, such awards may be limited to activities that build the 
capacity within the State to develop, enhance, or expand high- 
quality preschool programs, including comprehensive services and 
family engagement, for preschool-aged children from families at 
or below 200 percent of the Federal poverty line: Provided further, 
That each State may subgrant a portion of such grant funds to 
local educational agencies and other early learning providers 
(including but not limited to Head Start programs and licensed 
child care providers), or consortia thereof, for the implementation 
of high-quality preschool programs for children from families at 
or below 200 percent of the Federal poverty line: Provided further, 
That subgrantees that are local educational agencies shall form 
strong partnerships with early learning providers and that sub-
grantees that are early learning providers shall form strong partner-
ships with local educational agencies, in order to carry out the 
requirements of the subgrant: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing the second proviso, up to 3 percent of such funds for 
improving early childhood care and education shall be available 
for technical assistance, evaluation, and other national activities 
related to such grants: Provided further, That not later than 30 
days prior to the announcement of a competition under such section
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14006 pursuant to the requirements of this Act, the Secretary 
shall submit a report outlining the proposed competition and prior-
ities to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall administer State grants for improving early childhood care 
and education under such section jointly with the Secretary of 
HHS on such terms as such Secretaries set forth in an interagency 
agreement: Provided further, That up to $141,602,000 shall be 
available through December 31, 2014 for section 14007 of division 
A of Public Law 111–5, and up to 5 percent of such funds may 
be used for technical assistance and the evaluation of activities 
carried out under such section: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may renew a grant made under section 14007 for additional 1- 
year periods, for fiscal year 2014 and thereafter, if the grantee 
is meeting its performance targets, up to a total award period 
of 6 years: Provided further, That the education facilities clearing-
house established through a competitive award process in fiscal 
year 2013 is authorized to collect and disseminate information 
on effective educational practices and the latest research regarding 
the planning, design, financing, construction, improvement, oper-
ation, and maintenance of safe, healthy, high-performance public 
facilities for early learning programs, kindergarten through grade 
12, and higher education: Provided further, That $288,771,000 of 
the funds for subpart 1 of part D of title V of the ESEA shall 
be for competitive grants to local educational agencies, including 
charter schools that are local educational agencies, or States, or 
partnerships of: (1) a local educational agency, a State, or both; 
and (2) at least one nonprofit organization to develop and implement 
performance-based compensation systems for teachers, principals, 
and other personnel in high-need schools: Provided further, That 
such performance-based compensation systems must consider gains 
in student academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations 
conducted multiple times during each school year among other 
factors and provide educators with incentives to take on additional 
responsibilities and leadership roles: Provided further, That recipi-
ents of such grants shall demonstrate that such performance-based 
compensation systems are developed with the input of teachers 
and school leaders in the schools and local educational agencies 
to be served by the grant: Provided further, That recipients of 
such grants may use such funds to develop or improve systems 
and tools (which may be developed and used for the entire local 
educational agency or only for schools served under the grant) 
that would enhance the quality and success of the compensation 
system, such as high-quality teacher evaluations and tools to 
measure growth in student achievement: Provided further, That 
applications for such grants shall include a plan to sustain finan-
cially the activities conducted and systems developed under the 
grant once the grant period has expired: Provided further, That 
up to 5 percent of such funds for competitive grants shall be 
available for technical assistance, training, peer review of applica-
tions, program outreach, and evaluation activities: Provided further, 
That of the funds available for part B of title V of the ESEA, 
the Secretary shall use not less than $11,000,000 to carry out 
activities under section 5205(b) and shall use not less than 
$12,000,000 for subpart 2: Provided further, That of the funds 
available for subpart 1 of part B of title V of the ESEA, and 
notwithstanding section 5205(a), the Secretary shall reserve not
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less than $45,000,000 to make multiple awards to non-profit charter 
management organizations and other entities that are not for- 
profit entities for the replication and expansion of successful charter 
school models and shall reserve up to $11,000,000 to carry out 
the activities described in section 5205(a), including improving 
quality and oversight of charter schools and providing technical 
assistance and grants to authorized public chartering agencies in 
order to increase the number of high-performing charter schools: 
Provided further, That funds available for part B of title V of 
the ESEA may be used for grants that support preschool education 
in charter schools: Provided further, That each application sub-
mitted pursuant to section 5203(a) shall describe a plan to monitor 
and hold accountable authorized public chartering agencies through 
such activities as providing technical assistance or establishing 
a professional development program, which may include evaluation, 
planning, training, and systems development for staff of authorized 
public chartering agencies to improve the capacity of such agencies 
in the State to authorize, monitor, and hold accountable charter 
schools: Provided further, That each application submitted pursuant 
to section 5203(a) shall contain assurances that State law, regula-
tions, or other policies require that: (1) each authorized charter 
school in the State operate under a legally binding charter or 
performance contract between itself and the school’s authorized 
public chartering agency that describes the rights and responsibil-
ities of the school and the public chartering agency; conduct annual, 
timely, and independent audits of the school’s financial statements 
that are filed with the school’s authorized public chartering agency; 
and demonstrate improved student academic achievement; and (2) 
authorized public chartering agencies use increases in student aca-
demic achievement for all groups of students described in section 
1111(b)(2)(C)(v) of the ESEA as the most important factor when 
determining to renew or revoke a school’s charter. 
SAFE SCHOOLS AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION 
For carrying out activities authorized by part A of title IV 
and subparts 1, 2, and 10 of part D of title V of the ESEA, 
$270,892,000: Provided, That $90,000,000 shall be available for 
subpart 2 of part A of title IV, of which up to $8,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, shall be for the Project School 
Emergency Response to Violence (‘‘Project SERV’’) program to pro-
vide education-related services to local educational agencies and 
institutions of higher education in which the learning environment 
has been disrupted due to a violent or traumatic crisis: Provided 
further, That $56,754,000 shall be available for Promise Neighbor-
hoods and shall be available through December 31, 2014. 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 
For carrying out part A of title III of the ESEA, $723,400,000, 
which shall become available on July 1, 2014, and shall remain 
available through September 30, 2015, except that 6.5 percent 
of such amount shall be available on October 1, 2013, and shall 
remain available through September 30, 2015, to carry out activities 
under section 3111(c)(1)(C): Provided, That the Secretary shall use 
estimates of the American Community Survey child counts for 
the most recent 3-year period available to calculate allocations 
under such part.
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SPECIAL EDUCATION 
For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities Education 
Act (IDEA) and the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment 
Act of 2004, $12,497,300,000, of which $2,981,201,000 shall become 
available on July 1, 2014, and shall remain available through 
September 30, 2015, and of which $9,283,383,000 shall become 
available on October 1, 2014, and shall remain available through 
September 30, 2015, for academic year 2014–2015: Provided, That 
the amount for section 611(b)(2) of the IDEA shall be equal to 
the lesser of the amount available for that activity during fiscal 
year 2013, increased by the amount of inflation as specified in 
section 619(d)(2)(B) of the IDEA, or the percent change in the 
funds appropriated under section 611(i) of the IDEA, but not less 
than the amount for that activity during fiscal year 2013: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall, without regard to section 611(d) 
of the IDEA, distribute to all other States (as that term is defined 
in section 611(g)(2)), subject to the third proviso, any amount by 
which a State’s allocation under section 611(d), from funds appro-
priated under this heading, is reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B), 
according to the following: 85 percent on the basis of the States’ 
relative populations of children aged 3 through 21 who are of 
the same age as children with disabilities for whom the State 
ensures the availability of a free appropriate public education under 
this part, and 15 percent to States on the basis of the States’ 
relative populations of those children who are living in poverty: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may not distribute any funds 
under the previous proviso to any State whose reduction in alloca-
tion from funds appropriated under this heading made funds avail-
able for such a distribution: Provided further, That the States 
shall allocate such funds distributed under the second proviso to 
local educational agencies in accordance with section 611(f): Pro-
vided further, That the amount by which a State’s allocation under 
section 611(d) of the IDEA is reduced under section 612(a)(18)(B) 
and the amounts distributed to States under the previous provisos 
in fiscal year 2012 or any subsequent year shall not be considered 
in calculating the awards under section 611(d) for fiscal year 2013 
or for any subsequent fiscal years: Provided further, That the funds 
reserved under 611(c) of the IDEA may be used to provide technical 
assistance to States to improve the capacity of the States to meet 
the data collection requirements of sections 616 and 618 and to 
administer and carry out other services and activities to improve 
data collection, coordination, quality, and use under parts B and 
C of the IDEA: Provided further, That funds made available for 
the Special Olympics Sport and Empowerment Act of 2004 may 
be used to support expenses associated with the Special Olympics 
National and World Games: Provided further, That the level of 
effort a local educational agency must meet under section 
613(a)(2)(A)(iii) of the IDEA, in the year after it fails to maintain 
effort is the level of effort that would have been required in the 
absence of that failure and not the LEA’s reduced level of expendi-
tures. 
REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, 
and the Helen Keller National Center Act, $3,680,497,000, of which