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20 U.S.C. § 6515 (EDUCATION)
§ 6515. Local applications
(a) In general
Each local educational agency or consortium of local educational agencies desiring a subgrant under this part shall submit an application to the State educational agency at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the State educational agency may reasonably require.
(b) Contents
Each such application shall—
(1) identify the schools that are eligible for assistance under part A of this subchapter and plan to implement a comprehensive school reform program, including the projected costs of such a program;
(2) describe the comprehensive school reforms based on scientifically based research and effective practices that such schools will implement;
(3) describe how the local educational agency or consortium will provide technical assistance and support for the effective implementation of the comprehensive school reforms based on scientifically based research and effective practices selected by such schools; and
(4) describe how the local educational agency or consortium will evaluate the implementation of such comprehensive school reforms and measure the results achieved in improving student academic achievement.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1605, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1604.)
20 U.S.C. § 6516 (EDUCATION)
§ 6516. Local use of funds
(a) Uses of funds
A local educational agency or consortium that receives a subgrant under this part shall provide the subgrant funds to schools that are eligible for assistance under part A of this subchapter and served by the agency, to enable the schools to implement a comprehensive school reform program that—
(1) employs proven strategies and proven methods for student learning, teaching, and school management that are based on scientifically based research and effective practices and have been replicated successfully in schools;
(2) integrates a comprehensive design for effective school functioning, including instruction, assessment, classroom management, professional development, parental involvement, and school management, that aligns the school’s curriculum, technology, and professional development into a comprehensive school reform plan for schoolwide change designed to enable all students to meet challenging State content and student academic achievement standards and addresses needs identified through a school needs assessment;
(3) provides high quality and continuous teacher and staff professional development;
(4) includes measurable goals for student academic achievement and benchmarks for meeting such goals;
(5) is supported by teachers, principals, administrators, school personnel staff, and other professional staff;
(6) provides support for teachers, principals, administrators, and other school staff;
(7) provides for the meaningful involvement of parents and the local community in planning, implementing, and evaluating school improvement activities consistent with section 6318 of this title;
(8) uses high quality external technical support and assistance from an entity that has experience and expertise in schoolwide reform and improvement, which may include an institution of higher education;
(9) includes a plan for the annual evaluation of the implementation of school reforms and the student results achieved;
(10) identifies other resources, including Federal, State, local, and private resources, that shall be used to coordinate services that will support and sustain the comprehensive school reform effort; and
(11)
(A) has been found, through scientifically based research to significantly improve the academic achievement of students participating in such program as compared to students in schools who have not participated in such program; or
(B) has been found to have strong evidence that such program will significantly improve the academic achievement of participating children.
(b) Special rule
A school that receives funds to develop a comprehensive school reform program shall not be limited to using nationally available approaches, but may develop the school’s own comprehensive school reform program for schoolwide change as described in subsection (a) of this section.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1606, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1604.)
20 U.S.C. § 6517 (EDUCATION)
§ 6517. Evaluation and reports
(a) In general
The Secretary shall develop a plan for a national evaluation of the programs assisted under this part.
(b) Evaluation
The national evaluation shall—
(1) evaluate the implementation and results achieved by schools after 3 years of implementing comprehensive school reforms; and
(2) assess the effectiveness of comprehensive school reforms in schools with diverse characteristics.
(c) Reports
The Secretary shall submit a report describing the results of the evaluation under subsection (b) of this section for the Comprehensive School Reform Program to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1607, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1605.)
20 U.S.C. § 6518 (EDUCATION)
§ 6518. Quality initiatives
The Secretary, through grants or contracts, shall provide funds for—
(1) a public-private effort, in which funds are matched by private organizations, to assist States, local educational agencies, and schools, in making informed decisions regarding approving or selecting providers of comprehensive school reform, consistent with the requirements described in section 6516(a) of this title; and
(2) activities to foster the development of comprehensive school reform models and to provide effective capacity building for comprehensive school reform providers to expand their work in more schools, assure quality, and promote financial stability.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1608, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1605.)
20 U.S.C. § 6532 (EDUCATION)
§ 6532. Purposes
The purposes of this part are—
(1) to support State and local efforts to raise academic standards through advanced placement programs, and thus further increase the number of students who participate and succeed in advanced placement programs;
(2) to encourage more of the 600,000 students who take advanced placement courses each year but do not take advanced placement exams each year, to demonstrate their achievements through taking the exams;
(3) to build on the many benefits of advanced placement programs for students, which benefits may include the acquisition of skills that are important to many employers, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores that are 100 points above the national averages, and the achievement of better grades in secondary school and in college than the grades of students who have not participated in the programs;
(4) to increase the availability and broaden the range of schools, including middle schools, that have advanced placement and pre-advanced placement programs;
(5) to demonstrate that larger and more diverse groups of students can participate and succeed in advanced placement programs;
(6) to provide greater access to advanced placement and pre-advanced placement courses and highly trained teachers for low-income and other disadvantaged students;
(7) to provide access to advanced placement courses for secondary school students at schools that do not offer advanced placement programs, increase the rate at which secondary school students participate in advanced placement courses, and increase the numbers of students who receive advanced placement test scores for which college academic credit is awarded;
(8) to increase the participation of low-income individuals in taking advanced placement tests through the payment or partial payment of the costs of the advanced placement test fees; and
(9) to increase the number of individuals that achieve a baccalaureate or advanced degree, and to decrease the amount of time such individuals require to attain such degrees.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1702, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1606.)
20 U.S.C. § 6533 (EDUCATION)
§ 6533. Funding distribution rule
From amounts appropriated under section 6302(g) of this title for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall give priority to funding activities under section 6534 of this title and shall distribute any remaining funds under section 6535 of this title.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1703, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1606.)
20 U.S.C. § 6536 (EDUCATION)
§ 6536. Supplement, not supplant
Grant funds provided under this part shall supplement, and not supplant, other non-Federal funds that are available to assist low-income individuals to pay for the cost of advanced placement test fees or to expand access to advanced placement and pre-advanced placement courses.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1706, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1609.)
20 U.S.C. § 6537 (EDUCATION)
§ 6537. Definitions
In this part:
(1) Advanced placement test
The term “advanced placement test” means an advanced placement test administered by the College Board or approved by the Secretary.
(2) High concentration of low-income students
The term “high concentration of low-income students”, used with respect to a school, means a school that serves a student population 40 percent or more of whom are low-income individuals.
(3) Low-income individual
The term “low-income individual” means an individual who is determined by a State educational agency or local educational agency to be a child, ages 5 through 19, from a low-income family, on the basis of data used by the Secretary to determine allocations under section 6333 of this title, data on children eligible for free or reduced-price lunches under the National School Lunch Act [42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.], data on children in families receiving assistance under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.], or data on children eligible to receive medical assistance under the medicaid program under title XIX of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.], or through an alternate method that combines or extrapolates from those data.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1707, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1609; amended Pub. L. 108–11, title II, § 2503, Apr. 16, 2003, 117 Stat. 599.)
heading: References in Text
text: The National School Lunch Act, referred to in par. (3), probably means the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, act June 4, 1946, ch. 281, 60 Stat. 230, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 13 (§ 1751 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1751 of Title 42 and Tables.
The Social Security Act, referred to in par. (3), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620, as amended. Part A of title IV of the Act is classified generally to part A (§ 601 et seq.) of subchapter IV of chapter 7 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Title XIX of the Act is classified generally to subchapter XIX (§ 1396 et seq.) of chapter 7 of Title 42. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of Title 42 and Tables.
heading: Amendments
text: 2003—Par. (3). Pub. L. 108–11 substituted “19” for “17”.
20 U.S.C. § 6552 (EDUCATION)
§ 6552. Purpose
The purpose of this part is to provide for school dropout prevention and reentry and to raise academic achievement levels by providing grants that—
(1) challenge all children to attain their highest academic potential; and
(2) ensure that all students have substantial and ongoing opportunities to attain their highest academic potential through schoolwide programs proven effective in school dropout prevention and reentry.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1802, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1610.)
20 U.S.C. § 6553 (EDUCATION)
§ 6553. Authorization of appropriations
For the purpose of carrying out this part, there are authorized to be appropriated $125,000,000 for fiscal year 2002 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal years, of which—
(1) 10 percent shall be available to carry out subpart 1 of this part for each fiscal year; and
(2) 90 percent shall be available to carry out subpart 2 of this part for each fiscal year.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1803, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1610.)
20 U.S.C. § 6561 (EDUCATION)
§ 6561. Definitions
In this subpart:
(1) Low-income student
The term “low-income student” means a student who is determined by a local educational agency to be from a low-income family using the measures described in section 6313(c) of this title.
(2) State
The term “State” means each of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs for purposes of serving schools funded by the Bureau.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1821, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1612.)
20 U.S.C. § 6561b (EDUCATION)
§ 6561b. Applications
(a) In general
To receive—
(1) a grant under this subpart, a State educational agency or local educational agency shall submit an application and plan to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reasonably require; and
(2) a subgrant under this subpart, a local educational agency shall submit an application and plan to the State educational agency at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the State educational agency may reasonably require.
(b) Contents
(1) State educational agency and local educational agency
Each application and plan submitted under subsection (a) of this section shall—
(A) include an outline—
(i) of the State educational agency’s or local educational agency’s strategy for reducing the State educational agency or local educational agency’s annual school dropout rate;
(ii) for targeting secondary schools, and the middle schools that feed students into those secondary schools, that have the highest annual school dropout rates; and
(iii) for assessing the effectiveness of the efforts described in the plan;
(B) contain an identification of the schools in the State or operated by the local educational agency that have annual school dropout rates that are greater than the average annual school dropout rate for the State;
(C) describe the instructional strategies to be implemented, how the strategies will serve all students, and the effectiveness of the strategies;
(D) describe a budget and timeline for implementing the strategies;
(E) contain evidence of coordination with existing resources;
(F) provide an assurance that funds provided under this subpart will supplement, and not supplant, other State and local funds available for school dropout prevention and reentry programs; and
(G) describe how the activities to be assisted conform with research knowledge about school dropout prevention and reentry.
(2) Local educational agency
Each application and plan submitted under subsection (a) of this section by a local educational agency shall contain, in addition to the requirements of paragraph (1)—
(A) an assurance that the local educational agency is committed to providing ongoing operational support for such schools to address the problem of school dropouts for a period of 5 years; and
(B) an assurance that the local educational agency will support the plan, including—
(i) provision of release time for teacher training;
(ii) efforts to coordinate activities for secondary schools and the middle schools that feed students into those secondary schools; and
(iii) encouraging other schools served by the local educational agency to participate in the plan.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1823, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1614.)
20 U.S.C. § 6561c (EDUCATION)
§ 6561c. State reservation
A State educational agency that receives a grant under paragraph (2) or (3) of section 6561a(a) of this title may reserve not more than 5 percent of the grant funds for administrative costs and State activities related to school dropout prevention and reentry activities, of which not more than 2 percent of the grant funds may be used for administrative costs.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1824, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1615.)
20 U.S.C. § 6561d (EDUCATION)
§ 6561d. Strategies and capacity building
Each local educational agency receiving a grant or subgrant under this subpart and each State educational agency receiving a grant under this subpart shall implement scientifically based, sustainable, and widely replicated strategies for school dropout prevention and reentry. The strategies may include—
(1) specific strategies for targeted purposes, such as—
(A) effective early intervention programs designed to identify at-risk students;
(B) effective programs serving at-risk students, including racial and ethnic minorities and pregnant and parenting teenagers, designed to prevent such students from dropping out of school; and
(C) effective programs to identify and encourage youth who have already dropped out of school to reenter school and complete their secondary education; and
(2) approaches such as breaking larger schools down into smaller learning communities and other comprehensive reform approaches, creating alternative school programs, and developing clear linkages to career skills and employment.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1825, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1615.)
20 U.S.C. § 6561e (EDUCATION)
§ 6561e. Selection of local educational agencies for subgrants
(a) State educational agency review and award
The State educational agency shall review applications submitted under section 6561b(a)(2) of this title and award subgrants to local educational agencies with the assistance and advice of a panel of experts on school dropout prevention and reentry.
(b) Eligibility
A local educational agency is eligible to receive a subgrant under this subpart if the local educational agency operates a public school (including a public alternative school)—
(1) that is eligible to receive assistance under part A of this subchapter; and
(2)
(A) that serves students 50 percent or more of whom are low-income students; or
(B) in which a majority of the students come from feeder schools that serve students 50 percent or more of whom are low-income students.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1826, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1616.)
20 U.S.C. § 6561f (EDUCATION)
§ 6561f. Community based organizations
A local educational agency that receives a grant or subgrant under this subpart and a State educational agency that receives a grant under this subpart may use the funds to secure necessary services from a community-based organization or other government agency if the funds are used to provide school dropout prevention and reentry activities related to schoolwide efforts.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1827, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1616.)
20 U.S.C. § 6561g (EDUCATION)
§ 6561g. Technical assistance
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each local educational agency that receives funds under this subpart shall use the funds to provide technical assistance to secondary schools served by the agency that have not made progress toward lowering annual school dropout rates after receiving assistance under this subpart for 2 fiscal years.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1828, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1616.)
20 U.S.C. § 6561h (EDUCATION)
§ 6561h. School dropout rate calculation
For purposes of calculating an annual school dropout rate under this subpart, a school shall use the annual event school dropout rate for students leaving a school in a single year determined in accordance with the National Center for Education Statistics’ Common Core of Data.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1829, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1616.)
20 U.S.C. § 6561i (EDUCATION)
§ 6561i. Reporting and accountability
(a) Local educational agency reports
(1) In general
To receive funds under this subpart for a fiscal year after the first fiscal year that a local educational agency receives funds under this subpart, the local educational agency shall provide, on an annual basis, a report regarding the status of the implementation of activities funded under this subpart, and the dropout data for students at schools assisted under this subpart, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, to the—
(A) Secretary, if the local educational agency receives a grant under section 6561a(a)(1) of this title; or
(B) State educational agency, if the local educational agency receives a subgrant under paragraph (2) or (3) of section 6561a(a) of this title.
(2) Dropout data
The dropout data under paragraph (1) shall include annual school dropout rates for each fiscal year, starting with the 2 fiscal years before the local educational agency received funds under this subpart.
(b) State report on program activities
Each State educational agency receiving funds under this subpart shall provide to the Secretary, at such time and in such format as the Secretary may require, information on the status of the implementation of activities funded under this subpart and outcome data for students in schools assisted under this subpart.
(c) Accountability
The Secretary shall evaluate the effect of the activities assisted under this subpart on school dropout prevention compared, if feasible, to a control group using control procedures. The Secretary may use funds appropriated for subpart 1 of this part to carry out this evaluation.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1830, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1616.)
20 U.S.C. § 6572 (EDUCATION)
§ 6572. Agreements and records
(a) Agreements
All published proposed regulations shall conform to agreements that result from negotiated rulemaking described in section 6571 of this title unless the Secretary reopens the negotiated rulemaking process or provides a written explanation to the participants involved in the process explaining why the Secretary decided to depart from, and not adhere to, such agreements.
(b) Records
The Secretary shall ensure that an accurate and reliable record of agreements reached during the negotiations process is maintained.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1902, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1618.)