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SECTION 1. IMMIGRANTS TO NEW AMERICANS MODEL PROGRAMS.

(a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ''Immigrants to
New Americans Act''.
(b) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) In 1997, there were an estimated 25,800,000 foreign-
born individuals residing in the United States. That number is
the largest number of such foreign-born individuals ever in
United States history and represents a 6,000,000, or 30
percent, increase over the 1990 census figure of 19,800,000 of
such foreign-born individuals. The Bureau of the Census
estimates that the recently arrived immigrant population
(including the refugee population) currently residing in the
Nation will account for 75 percent of the population growth in
the United States over the next 50 years.
(2) For millions of immigrants settling into the Nation's
hamlets, towns, and cities, the dream of ''life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness'' has become a reality. The wave of
immigrants, from various nationalities, who have chosen the
United States as their home, has positively influenced the
Nation's image and relationship with other nations. The diverse
cultural heritage of the Nation's immigrants has helped define
the Nation's culture, customs, economy, and communities. By
better understanding the people who have immigrated to the
Nation, individuals in the United States better understand what
it means to be an American.
(3) There is a critical shortage of teachers with the
skills needed to educate immigrant students and their families
in nonconcentrated, nontraditional, immigrant communities as
well as communities with large immigrant populations. The large
influx of immigrant families over the last decade presents a
national dilemma: The number of such families with school-age
children, requiring assistance to successfully participate in
elementary schools, secondary schools, and communities in the
United States, is increasing without a corresponding increase
in the number of teachers with skills to accommodate their
needs.
(4) Immigrants arriving in communities across the Nation
generally settle into high-poverty areas, where funding for
programs to provide immigrant students and their families with
the services the students and families need to successfully
participate in elementary schools, secondary schools, and
communities in the United States is inadequate.
(5) The influx of immigrant families settling into many
United States communities is often the result of concerted
efforts by local employers who value immigrant labor. Those
employers realize that helping immigrants to become productive,
prosperous members of a community is beneficial for the local
businesses involved, the immigrants, and the community.
Further, local businesses benefit from the presence of the
immigrant families because the families present businesses with
a committed and effective workforce and help to open up new
market opportunities. However, many of the communities into
which the immigrants have settled need assistance in order to
give immigrant students and their families the services the
students and families need to successfully participate in
elementary schools, secondary schools, and communities, in the
United States.
(c) Purpose.--The purpose of this section is to establish a grant
program, within the Department of Education, that provides funding to
partnerships of local educational agencies and community-based
organizations for the development of model programs to provide to
immigrant students and their families the services the students and
families need to successfully participate in elementary schools,
secondary schools, and communities, in the United States.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Community-based organization; elementary school; local
educational agency; secondary school.--The terms ''community-
based organization'', ''elementary school'', ''local educational
agency'', and ''secondary school'' have the meanings given the terms in
section 14101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 8801).
(2) Immigrant.--The term ''immigrant'' has the meaning
given the term in section 101 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).
(3) Secretary.--The term ''Secretary'' means the Secretary
of Education.
(e) Program Authorized.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary is authorized to award not
more than 10 grants in a fiscal year to eligible partnerships
for the design and implementation of model programs to--
(A) assist immigrant students to achieve in
elementary schools and secondary schools in the United
States by offering such educational services as English
as a second language classes, literacy programs,
programs for introduction to the education system, and
civics education; and
(B) assist parents of immigrant students by
offering such services as parent education and literacy
development services and by coordinating activities
with other entities to provide comprehensive community
social services such as health care, job training,
child care, and transportation services.
(2) Duration.--Each grant awarded under this section shall
be awarded for a period of not more than 5 years. A partnership
may use funds made available through the grant for not more
than 1 year for planning and program design.
(f) Applications for Grants.--
(1) In general.--Each eligible partnership desiring a grant
under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary
at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may require.
(2) Eligible partnerships.--To be eligible to receive a
grant under this section, a partnership--
(A) shall include--
(i) at least 1 local educational agency;
and
(ii) at least 1 community-based
organization; and
(B) may include another entity such as an
institution of higher education, a local or State
government agency, a private sector entity, or another
entity with expertise in working with immigrants.
(3) Required documentation.--Each application submitted by
a partnership under this section for a proposed program shall
include documentation that--
(A) the partnership has the qualified personnel
required to develop, administer, and implement the
proposed program; and
(B) the leadership of each participating school has
been involved in the development and planning of the
program in the school.
(4) Other application contents.--Each application submitted
by a partnership under this section for a proposed program
shall include--
(A) a list of the organizations entering into the
partnership;
(B) a description of the need for the proposed
program, including data on the number of immigrant
students, and the number of such students with limited
English proficiency, in the schools or school districts
to be served through the program and the
characteristics of the students described in this
subparagraph, including--
(i) the native languages of the students to
be served;
(ii) the proficiency of the students in
English and the native languages;
(iii) achievement data for the students
in--
(I) reading or language arts (in
English and in the native languages, if
applicable); and
(II) mathematics; and
(iv) the previous schooling experiences of
the students;
(C) a description of the goals of the program;
(D) a description of how the funds made available
through the grant will be used to supplement the basic
services provided to the immigrant students to be
served;
(E) a description of activities that will be
pursued by the partnership through the program,
including a description of--
(i) how parents, students, and other
members of the community, including members of
private organizations and nonprofit
organizations, will be involved in the design and implementation of the
program;
(ii) how the activities will further the
academic achievement of immigrant students
served through the program;
(iii) methods of teacher training and
parent education that will be used or developed
through the program, including the
dissemination of information to immigrant
parents, that is easily understandable in the
language of the parents, about educational
programs and the rights of the parents to
participate in educational decisions involving
their children; and
(iv) methods of coordinating comprehensive
community social services to assist immigrant
families;
(F) a description of how the partnership will
evaluate the progress of the partnership in achieving
the goals of the program;
(G) a description of how the local educational
agency will disseminate information on model programs,
materials, and other information developed under this
section that the local educational agency determines to
be appropriate for use by other local educational
agencies in establishing similar programs to facilitate
the educational achievement of immigrant students;
(H) an assurance that the partnership will annually
provide to the Secretary such information as may be
required to determine the effectiveness of the program;
and
(I) any other information that the Secretary may
require.
(g) Selection of Grantees.--
(1) Criteria.--The Secretary, through a peer review
process, shall select partnerships to receive grants under this
section on the basis of the quality of the programs proposed in
the applications submitted under subsection (f), taking into
consideration such factors as--
(A) the extent to which the program proposed in
such an application effectively addresses differences
in language, culture, and customs;
(B) the quality of the activities proposed by a
partnership;
(C) the extent of parental, student, and community
involvement;
(D) the extent to which comprehensive community
social services are made available;
(E) the quality of the plan for measuring and
assessing success; and
(F) the likelihood that the goals of the program
will be achieved.
(2) Geographic distribution of programs.--The Secretary
shall approve applications under this section in a manner that
ensures, to the extent practicable, that programs assisted
under this section serve different areas of the Nation,
including urban, suburban, and rural areas, with special
attention to areas that are experiencing an influx of immigrant
groups (including refugee groups), and that have limited prior
experience in serving the immigrant community.
(h) Evaluation and Program Development.--
(1) Requirement.--Each partnership receiving a grant under
this section shall--
(A) conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the
program assisted under this section, including an
evaluation of the impact of the program on students,
teachers, administrators, parents, and others; and
(B) prepare and submit to the Secretary a report
containing the results of the evaluation.
(2) Evaluation report components.--Each evaluation report
submitted under this section for a program shall include--
(A) data on the partnership's progress in achieving
the goals of the program;
(B) data showing the extent to which all students
served by the program are meeting the State's student
performance standards, including--
(i) data comparing the students served to
other students, with regard to grade retention
and academic achievement in reading and
language arts, in English and in the native
languages of the students if the program
develops native language proficiency, and in
mathematics; and
(ii) a description of how the activities
carried out through the program are coordinated
and integrated with the overall school program
of the school in which the program described in
this section is carried out, and with other
Federal, State, or local programs serving
limited English proficient students;
(C) data showing the extent to which families
served by the program have been afforded access to
comprehensive community social services; and
(D) such other information as the Secretary may
require.
(i) Administrative Funds.--A partnership that receives a grant
under this section may use not more than 5 percent of the grant funds
received under this section for administrative purposes.
(j) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of carrying
out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000
for fiscal year 2001 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the
4 succeeding fiscal years.
Output:
Limits the number of such grants to ten in a fiscal year. Limits the duration of any such grant to five years, with not more than one year for planning and design. Requires that each partnership eligible to receive such a grant include at least one local educational agency and at least one community-based organization. Allow such a partnership to include another entity such as an institution of higher education, a local or State government agency, a private sector entity, or another entity with expertise in working with immigrants.
Authorizes appropriations.