New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter XXI - Annual Program Plans › Part 2302 - Fiscal Year 1978 Annual Program Plan For Libraries And Learning Resources And Educational Innovation And Support › Section 2302.20 - Purposes-part c: educational innovation and support

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Funds received under section 402(a)(2) of the Elementary and
				  Secondary Education Act for part C will be expended for administration of the
				  annual program plan and for the following purposes:
(a) Supplementary educational centers. For
				supplementary educational centers and services to stimulate and assist in the
				provision of vitally needed educational services (including preschool
				education, special education, compensatory education, vocational education,
				education of gifted and talented children, and dual enrollment programs) not
				available in sufficient quantity or quality, and to stimulate and assist in the
				development and establishment of exemplary elementary and secondary school
				programs (including the remodeling, lease or construction of necessary
				facilities) to serve as models for regular school programs.
(b) Nutrition and health services. For the
				support of demonstration projects by local educational agencies designed to
				improve nutrition and health services in public and private elementary and
				secondary schools serving areas with high concentrations of children from
				low-income families, and such projects may include payment of the cost of (1)
				coordinating nutrition and health service resources in the areas to be served
				by a project, (2) providing supplemental health, mental health, nutritional,
				and food services available to children from low-income families when the
				resources for such services available to the applicant from other sources are
				inadequate to meet the needs of such children, (3) nutrition and health
				programs designed to train professional and other school personnel to provide
				nutrition and health services in a manner which meets the needs of children
				from low-income families for such services, and (4) the evaluation of projects
				assisted with respect to their effectiveness in improving school nutrition and
				health services for such children.
(c) Strengthening leadership in State and
				local educational agencies. For strengthening the leadership resources of State
				and local educational agencies, and for assisting those agencies in the
				establishment and improvement of programs to identify and meet educational
				needs of States and of local school districts.
(d) Dropout prevention. For making
				arrangements with local educational agencies for the carrying out by such
				agencies, in schools which (1) are located in urban or rural areas, (2) have a
				high percentage of children from low-income families, and (3) have a high
				percentage of such children who do not complete their secondary school
				education, of demonstration projects involving the use of innovative methods,
				systems, materials, or programs which show promise of reducing the number of
				such children who do not complete their secondary school education.