20 U.S.C. § 7215 : US Code - Section 7215: Local uses of funds

Search 20 U.S.C. § 7215 : US Code - Section 7215: Local uses of funds

(a) Innovative assistance programs
Funds made available to local educational agencies under section
7211a of this title shall be used for innovative assistance
programs, which may include any of the following:
(1) Programs to recruit, train, and hire highly qualified
teachers to reduce class size, especially in the early grades,
and professional development activities carried out in accordance
with subchapter II of this chapter, that give teachers,
principals, and administrators the knowledge and skills to
provide students with the opportunity to meet challenging State
or local academic content standards and student academic
achievement standards.
(2) Technology activities related to the implementation of
school-based reform efforts, including professional development
to assist teachers and other school personnel (including school
library media personnel) regarding how to use technology
effectively in the classrooms and the school library media
centers involved.
(3) Programs for the development or acquisition and use of
instructional and educational materials, including library
services and materials (including media materials), academic
assessments, reference materials, computer software and hardware
for instructional use, and other curricular materials that are
tied to high academic standards, that will be used to improve
student academic achievement, and that are part of an overall
education reform program.
(4) Promising education reform projects, including magnet
schools.
(5) Programs to improve the academic achievement of
educationally disadvantaged elementary school and secondary
school students, including activities to prevent students from
dropping out of school.
(6) Programs to improve the literacy skills of adults,
especially the parents of children served by the local
educational agency, including adult education and family literacy
programs.
(7) Programs to provide for the educational needs of gifted and
talented children.
(8) The planning, design, and initial implementation of charter
schools as described in part B of this subchapter.
(9) School improvement programs or activities under sections
6316 and 6317 of this title.
(10) Community service programs that use qualified school
personnel to train and mobilize young people to measurably
strengthen their communities through nonviolence, responsibility,
compassion, respect, and moral courage.
(11) Activities to promote consumer, economic, and personal
finance education, such as disseminating information on and
encouraging use of the best practices for teaching the basic
principles of economics and promoting the concept of achieving
financial literacy through the teaching of personal financial
management skills (including the basic principles involved with
earning, spending, saving, and investing).
(12) Activities to promote, implement, or expand public school
choice.
(13) Programs to hire and support school nurses.
(14) Expansion and improvement of school-based mental health
services, including early identification of drug use and
violence, assessment, and direct individual or group counseling
services provided to students, parents, and school personnel by
qualified school-based mental health services personnel.
(15) Alternative educational programs for those students who
have been expelled or suspended from their regular educational
setting, including programs to assist students to reenter the
regular educational setting upon return from treatment or
alternative educational programs.
(16) Programs to establish or enhance prekindergarten programs
for children.
(17) Academic intervention programs that are operated jointly
with community-based organizations and that support academic
enrichment, and counseling programs conducted during the school
day (including during extended school day or extended school year
programs), for students most at risk of not meeting challenging
State academic achievement standards or not completing secondary
school.
(18) Programs for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training
in schools.
(19) Programs to establish smaller learning communities.
(20) Activities that encourage and expand improvements
throughout the area served by the local educational agency that
are designed to advance student academic achievement.
(21) Initiatives to generate, maintain, and strengthen parental
and community involvement.
(22) Programs and activities that expand learning opportunities
through best-practice models designed to improve classroom
learning and teaching.
(23) Programs to provide same-gender schools and classrooms
(consistent with applicable law).
(24) Service learning activities.
(25) School safety programs, including programs to implement
the policy described in section 9507 (!1) and which may include
payment of reasonable transportation costs and tuition costs for
such students.
(26) Programs that employ research-based cognitive and
perceptual development approaches and rely on a diagnostic-
prescriptive model to improve students' learning of academic
content at the preschool, elementary, and secondary levels.
(27) Supplemental educational services, as defined in section
6316(e) of this title.
(b) Requirements
The innovative assistance programs described in subsection (a) of
this section shall be -
(1) tied to promoting challenging academic achievement
standards;
(2) used to improve student academic achievement; and
(3) part of an overall education reform strategy.
(c) Guidelines
Not later than 120 days after January 8, 2002, the Secretary
shall issue guidelines for local educational agencies seeking
funding for programs described in subsection (a)(23) of this
section.