1.This Act may be cited as the
Pathways for All Students to Succeed
Act
.
<enum>I</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reading and mathematics skills for
success</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9561177DF16D46D29885EA5969993AAE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Congress makes the following
findings:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5C7B1B30B7F7431997F681AADAB68B15"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">While the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), as amended by the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107–110, 115 Stat. 1425), provides a strong
framework for helping children in the early grades, our Nation still needs a
comprehensive strategy to address the literacy problems and learning gaps of
students in middle school and secondary school.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6B4E0C154EAA45AAA388F11AC9602A20"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Approximately 60 percent of students in the
poorest communities fail to graduate from secondary school on time, in large
part because of severe reading deficits that contribute to academic
failure.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF229F331EC5E4692979D4C878EF0DC6F"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Forty percent of students attending high
minority enrollment secondary schools enroll in remedial reading coursework
when entering higher education, in an effort to gain the skills their secondary
education failed to provide.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC65CEB5BFA514FCEB938BEC7482BFF4C"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">While 33 percent of all low-income students
are enrolled in secondary schools, only 15 percent of the funding targeted to
disadvantaged students goes to secondary schools.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5A73E68D51B649C18A8B2F44DF46A76A"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Data from the 1998 National Assessment of
Educational Progress show that 32 percent of boys and 19 percent of girls in
eighth grade cannot read at a basic level. These numbers do not change
significantly in the secondary school years and are even more dramatic when
students are identified by minority status.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE18DD91D989B48E3A1249E6200AE0A75"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The 2002 National Assessment of Educational
Progress writing scores indicate that while the percentage of fourth and eighth
graders writing at or above a basic level increased between 1998 and 2002, the
percentage of 12th graders writing at or above a basic level decreased. These
numbers show that our concentrated efforts for elementary school students have
improved their writing skills, but by neglecting the needs of secondary school
students, we are squandering these gains.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBAA54D6BA91B4F7EA62B9B96ED597DF9"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The United States cannot maintain its
position as the world’s strongest economy if we continue to ignore the literacy
needs of adolescents in middle school and secondary school.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A64716A2C054878AD32D37EF1FF5D14"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The achievement gap between White and Asian
students and Black and Hispanic students remains wide in the area of
mathematics.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idEBCB310069F4416BBCDDE276C4C13311"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The 2003 National Assessment of Educational
Progress shows that the achievement gap between the mathematics scores of
eighth grade Black and Hispanic students and White students is the same in 2003
as in 1990.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDFCEF56C1B64CBB89C06757E344A2FA"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The 2003 National Assessment of Educational
Progress shows that eighth grade students eligible for a free or reduced-price
school lunch did not meet the basic mathematics score, unlike non-eligible
students.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDD10843B94F84706A1E8168394CBD571"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">According to the latest results from
international assessments, 15-year-olds from the United States performed below
the international average in mathematics literacy and problem-solving, placing
27th out of 39 countries.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4DD7E46A7CBE42FDB79981C4C1684821"><enum>(12)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Only <fraction>1/3</fraction> of the United
States workforce has any post-secondary education, yet 60 percent of new jobs
in the 21st century will require post-secondary education.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4980D84B9D1B405E87A69D6150225DD7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>102.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Purposes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purposes of this title are—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id072532170AF6457A84B256542D613D06"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide assistance to State educational
agencies and local educational agencies in establishing effective
research-based reading, writing, and mathematics programs for students in
middle schools and secondary schools, including students with disabilities and
students with limited English proficiency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6944972AF0B04025A1B07C1BFB4D4976"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide adequate resources to schools to
hire and to provide in-service training for not less than 1 literacy coach per
20 teachers who can assist middle school and secondary school teachers to
incorporate research-based reading and writing instruction into the teachers'
teaching of mathematics, science, history, civics, geography, literature,
language arts, and other core academic subjects;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5CBC82F87A8D49859B636B323CE1B2A9"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide assistance to State educational
agencies and local educational agencies—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1DB93B9A7E6244FCA5D5CCF82524F289"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in strengthening reading and writing
instruction in middle schools and secondary schools; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0127AC0A9B6440EC9BFBFE9BA53EA647"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in procuring high-quality diagnostic
reading and writing assessments and comprehensive research-based programs and
instructional materials that will improve reading and writing performance among
students in middle school and secondary school; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7881C7B3E08C426295AE542AFF769A8C"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide adequate resources to schools to
hire and to provide in-service training for not less than 1 mathematics coach
per 20 teachers who can assist middle school and secondary school teachers to
utilize research-based mathematics instruction to develop students’
mathematical abilities and knowledge, and assist teachers in assessing student
learning.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCF090304B1C74FA7A94953EE59AFBBDB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB1671DE12B8D418C98690BF5A7407199"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>local educational
agency</term>, <term>Secretary</term>, and <term>State educational
agency</term> have the meaning given the terms in
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/9101">section
9101</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)</act-name>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE03F2B3B00624AC08D6327A777E586C3"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible local educational
agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>eligible local educational agency</term> means a local educational agency
who is eligible to receive funds under part A of title I of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.)</act-name>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19FE31601BB240C1B0D35357A588FFE9"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Literacy
coach</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>literacy
coach</term> means a certified or licensed teacher with a demonstrated
effectiveness in teaching reading and writing to students with specialized
reading and writing needs, and the ability to work with classroom teachers to
improve the teachers' instructional techniques to support reading and writing
improvement, who works on site at a school—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8151D028BD694E9ABB213DBED5230DDC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to train teachers from across the
curriculum to incorporate the teaching of reading and writing skills into their
instruction of content;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6B601C6F155F4D049CAFF976BE3920FE"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to train teachers to assess students’
reading and writing skills and identify students requiring remediation;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idABD40EB44CD242C2A7751AD8FD6EE54D"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide or assess remedial literacy
instruction, including for—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id145CA7359910492FA9A1060E5084BB44"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">students in after school and summer school
programs;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id46AC4B5B8F9443A68285D5434A269723"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">students requiring additional
instruction;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2CB3DFD9D58F4154BCBD48F3E4ECDB33"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">students with disabilities; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA5B395B1783040F6BBCCDCDD50F2F235"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">students with limited English
proficiency.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6F0763C3BD794CF5A99CDFE0136096EF"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mathematics coach</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>mathematics coach</term>
means a certified or licensed teacher, with a demonstrated effectiveness in
teaching mathematics to students with specialized needs in mathematics, a
command of mathematical content knowledge, and the ability to work with
classroom teachers to improve the teachers' instructional techniques to support
mathematics improvement, who works on site at a school—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0417ADE4754745E69F8E257194190A57"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to train teachers to better assess student
learning in mathematics;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5E80FE5BC42A437B93334185C33672BC"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to train teachers to assess students'
mathematics skills and identify students requiring remediation; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD2E86C91FCAF4F34BBCF08DA856438A0"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide or assess remedial mathematics
instruction, including for—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDA9C04662E9147CB82F1756305B8449A"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">students in after school and summer school
programs;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38538A819C1141B884B7037B6ABB3EF0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">students requiring additional
instruction;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2DA67082F4424391AD6DA55B1DC7CDBB"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">students with disabilities; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5957FB4889C04E27967703C030B1B61A"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">students with limited English
proficiency.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id805FC44F93974982B0C3119624A95A13"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Middle school</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>middle school</term> means a
school that provides middle school education, as determined under State
law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28002587935A414BAA8B9CE0F2DBCB8F"><enum>(6)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Secondary school</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>secondary school</term>
means a school that provides secondary education, as determined under State
law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDBC397CFF542B4FC781ED5968B7804341"><enum>(7)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means each of
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the
United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID92B8A79A65ED46F1BEEEFCA78C3E59A6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of appropriations</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69C9E01C51964AC793E842E0A2D56B7D"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Literacy grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the purposes of carrying out subtitle
A, there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2008
and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal
years.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB662874371244F48A9FCBFDF86A5A731"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mathematics grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the purposes of carrying out subtitle
B, there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2008
and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal
years.</text>
</subsection></section><subtitle commented="no" id="idAFAF6DD5DCDD45AEB4DC878DA9A9CBBC" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>A</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Literacy skills programs</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2753063DAE114EFA8E402F7EB6B0698D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>111.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Literacy skills programs</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1EF70D89ED1C42869461E7DB30A6747F"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants authorized</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB2D045D62F9E4A17819A337E23B4BE27"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds appropriated under section
104(a) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall establish a program, in
accordance with the requirements of this subtitle, that will provide grants to
State educational agencies, and grants or subgrants to eligible local
educational agencies, to establish reading and writing programs to improve the
overall reading and writing performance of students in middle school and
secondary school.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDFB440C7EF5A5450FA16FD86F36A601DD"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Length of grant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A grant to a State educational agency under
this subtitle shall be awarded for a period of 6 years.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID21F5785D3BD94014818E5BBEC74FE232"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservation of funds by the
Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From amounts
appropriated under section 104(a) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall
reserve—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE58A716E6C71494CBF57BB29D886B833"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">3 percent of such amounts to fund national
activities in support of the programs assisted under this subtitle, such as
research and dissemination of best practices, except that the Secretary may not
use the reserved funds to award grants directly to local educational agencies;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCC999232A3EA42C0A813C7C14CBAD6C7"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 percent of such amounts for the Bureau of
Indian Affairs to carry out the services and activities described in section
112(c) for Indian children.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3BECE4AF65D04C33AE5CED934EF8C9BF"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant formulas</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID73658C2D7CB64F9BB2DEF2A82F28FDD7"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Formula grants to State educational
agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the amounts
appropriated under section 104(a) for a fiscal year are equal to or greater
than $500,000,000, then the Secretary shall award grants, from allotments under
paragraph (3), to State educational agencies to enable the State educational
agencies to provide subgrants to eligible local educational agencies to
establish reading and writing programs to improve overall reading and writing
performance among students in middle school and secondary school.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB3F10F201F4C4ABF9B379500F3EBEDED"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Direct grants to eligible local educational
agencies</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5A6DDF4DE4434A3CBA461F88C044BCBE"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the amounts appropriated under section
104(a) for a fiscal year are less than $500,000,000, then the Secretary shall
award grants, on a competitive basis, directly to eligible local educational
agencies to establish reading and writing programs to improve overall reading
and writing performance among students in middle school and secondary
school.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDAE85ACD5621F4B03A0DF08D3B68E2478"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall give priority in
awarding grants under this paragraph to eligible local educational agencies
that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID247441535D03420F9E38C703FC653B97"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are among the local educational agencies in
the State with the lowest graduation rates, as described in
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1111(b)(2)(C)(vi)">section
1111(b)(2)(C)(vi)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name>
(20 U.S.C. 6311(b)(2)(C)(vi)); and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCE2B841CC34F48EBA59E0075A2C56100"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have the highest number or percentage of
students who are counted under
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1124(c)">section
1124(c)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6333(c)).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID15DF28ACB4F44FAE89E8A83095188F1F"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allotments to States</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCC4E5903B50A419D9E00CF1207314DC1"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds appropriated under section
104(a) and not reserved under subsection (b) for a fiscal year, the Secretary
shall make an allotment to each State educational agency having an application
approved under subsection (d) in an amount that bears the same relation to the
funds as the amount the State received under part A of title I of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) bears to the amount received under
such part by all States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID73B6075817E540D1A5DFD2122106AB8D"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minimum allotment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), no State
educational agency shall receive an allotment under this paragraph for a fiscal
year in an amount that is less than 0.25 percent of the funds allotted to all
State educational agencies under subparagraph (A) for the fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1BB165B3ECAF465486BC7E1657ACD3E9"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reallotment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a State educational agency does not
apply for a grant under this subtitle, the Secretary shall reallot the State
educational agency’s allotment to the remaining States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE5828E0581BF494C925300CE9BFA5CFD"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID96589BB4BC54487BB71690E6DCD6D2CE"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order to receive a grant under this
subtitle, a State educational agency shall submit an application to the
Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as
the Secretary may require. Each such application shall meet the following
conditions:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDEAC4CCFD9D5B42CD937C1C9876B2BC2E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State educational agency shall not
include the application for assistance under this subtitle in a consolidated
application submitted under
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/9302">section
9302</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 7842).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID90B6A20FBD3448868D0668DD8BE170F2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The State educational agency’s application
shall include an assurance that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID846A2EB0054749548CB432298B15C852"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State educational agency has
established a reading and writing partnership that—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6D86DCA6545B4B188136E36D443E2124"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinated the development of the
application for a grant under this subtitle; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID60BE66F0151C48338585A0FCA6C5538D"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">will assist in designing and administering
the State educational agency’s program under this subtitle; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDFE58326ACAD249808100C3EE51DD3FA4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State educational agency will
participate, if requested, in any evaluation of the State educational agency's
program under this subtitle.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID12D5389486394960AB3D7D1FBA1419E8"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The State educational agency’s application
shall include a program plan that contains a description of the
following:</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC05D0079AB73421CB4F3A1E300451B01"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will
assist eligible local educational agencies in implementing subgrants, including
providing ongoing professional development for literacy coaches, teachers,
paraprofessionals, and administrators.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID24C64C108F6C4E5F8DE500520066AD43"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will help
eligible local educational agencies identify high-quality screening,
diagnostic, and classroom-based instructional reading and writing
assessments.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID03C9C230E3B24FE580B2F5D7D55229A7"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will help
eligible local educational agencies identify high-quality research-based
materials and programs.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID12DD4620BD694E169D27ED9C88580088"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will help
eligible local educational agencies identify appropriate and effective
materials, programs, and assessments for students with disabilities and
students with limited English proficiency.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID77C2BB8C5E4E4639B6CDC515B45886F4"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will
ensure that professional development funded under this subtitle—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6A192A1C8C944C40BBD6D6FFB442131B"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is based on reading and writing
research;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB4876A6D17FF4C6B940D031CD1C19618"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">will effectively improve instructional
practices for reading and writing for middle school and secondary school
students; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id385E7F57B671424D8AF60237670798F9"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is coordinated with professional
development activities funded through other programs (including federally
funded programs such as programs funded under the Adult Education and Family
Literacy Act (20 U.S.C. 9201 et seq.), the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.), and the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name>
(20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.)).</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1736E42F1BB449FB873EDFE345064970"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How funded activities will help teachers
and other instructional staff to implement research-based components of reading
and writing instruction.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4F0D19C84BBF43829200602E714F7847"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The subgrant process the State educational
agency will use to ensure that eligible local educational agencies receiving
subgrants implement programs and practices based on reading and writing
research.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDB0B585458AA4AACAFB3E11D2FD2A9B3"><enum>(viii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will build
on and promote coordination among reading and writing programs in the State to
increase overall effectiveness in improving reading and writing instruction,
including for students with disabilities and students with limited English
proficiency.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA2032F21C0EC412894206E2B5068F027"><enum>(ix)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will
regularly assess and evaluate the effectiveness of the eligible local
educational agency activities funded under this subtitle.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2B0A5751C41049DBBFCC2B48050070BF"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Review of applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall review applications
from State educational agencies under this subsection as the applications are
received.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2043D09BF9EF436F81A32C9762F779E3"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State educational agency receiving a
grant under this subtitle shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9FCB52424EB84F08ACDF695C5F42D769"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish a reading and writing
partnership, which may be the same as the partnership established under
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1203(d)">section
1203(d)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6363(d)), that will
provide guidance to eligible local educational agencies in selecting or
developing and implementing appropriate, research-based reading and writing
programs for middle school and secondary school students;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7508482B719C4CA58CFCDA1000CFC567"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">use 80 percent of the grant funds received
under this subtitle for a fiscal year to award subgrants to eligible local
educational agencies having applications approved under section 112(a);
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD4EAEB5AADA74D9B86D44F4B9FF6C4DD"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">use 20 percent of the grant funds received
under this subtitle—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4CF0D50D460340F58AEF59FE7A97416A"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out State-level activities
described in the application submitted under subsection (d);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8D2F0A1688F54C5FA5896D06A80FD911"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id284D66751BFE41AB8359FE90CA092DD7"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">technical assistance to eligible local
educational agencies; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9404E2CE81B3450DB4E2B6B4003569C2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">high-quality professional development to
teachers and literacy coaches;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id554177F27AC244AFAF3E4BED2636461F"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to oversee and evaluate subgrant services
and activities undertaken by the eligible local educational agencies as
described in section 112(c); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id45ED11BC5A2A42DCB126B43737121C83"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for administrative costs,</text>
</subparagraph><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="paragraph">of which not more than 10 percent of
the grant funds may be used for planning, administration, and reporting.</continuation-text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCB2119C2F84C45C787CCBF37D46B7D9E"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notice to eligible local educational
agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State
educational agency receiving a grant under this subtitle shall provide notice
to all eligible local educational agencies in the State about the availability
of subgrants under this subtitle.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA5688C92AC4143848E5D2100E16F8FAC"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplement not supplant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State educational agency receiving a
grant under this subtitle shall use the grant funds to supplement, not
supplant, State funding for activities authorized under this subtitle or for
other educational activities.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID27987177953441B6A225268B3526A214"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">New services and activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant funds provided under this subtitle
may be used only to provide services and activities authorized under this
subtitle that were not provided on the day before the date of enactment of this
Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCAD75EA1DD504FBB95AD72960061AF95" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>112.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrants to eligible local educational
agencies</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID014A4AD0FB904C1897CDF83D481187AF"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDAFBB8DB1E0A4F6EB9A3A2B5DCEC53E9"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
desiring a subgrant under this subtitle shall submit an application to the
State educational agency in the form and according to the schedule established
by the State educational agency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDBC097DFD21884F07BE498DC492804FC0"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to any information required by
the State educational agency, each application under paragraph (1) shall
demonstrate how the eligible local educational agency will carry out the
following required activities:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID511AFA0EDBF940989B1ED0FBC8817700"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Development or selection and implementation
of research-based reading and writing assessments.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF185F1C1FE57480D887644FEB7985405"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Development or selection and implementation
of research-based reading and writing programs, including programs for students
with disabilities and students with limited English proficiency.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA42134BF1662494BB59E556C294CDCDB"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Selection of instructional materials based
on reading and writing research.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID68074CCA064843209392B8A070772800"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">High-quality professional development for
literacy coaches and teachers based on reading and writing research.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8EE4ACB50CDF42D5A2D4B367D983AC2D"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluation strategies.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6B5B76288B934CCE9F7CEBE245050960"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reporting.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID27526AF8CB784ADCB87B711FDD9895D5"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing access to research-based reading
and writing materials.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA83B8AA226C743E794F4C900C1E6F6CD"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consortia</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible local educational agency may
apply to the State educational agency for a subgrant as a member of a
consortium, if each member of the consortium is an eligible local educational
agency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9E71344DA7C9410F9D9929BD14AAFA87"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Award basis</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1E192D27BEC644D3BFC549C5036EE586"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minimum subgrant amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this subtitle for a fiscal year shall receive a
minimum subgrant amount that bears the same relation to the amount of funds
made available to the State educational agency under section 111(e)(2) as the
amount the eligible local educational agency received under part A of title I
of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for the preceding fiscal year bears to
the amount received by all eligible local educational agencies in the State
under such part for the preceding fiscal year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID67FEEFE02CC9422AB7E5C25BBEFA49E7"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sufficient size and scope</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrants under this section shall be of
sufficient size and scope to enable eligible local educational agencies to
fully implement activities assisted under this subtitle.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE63B47A4A1564F55A558FB7CC7808D82"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Local use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this subtitle shall use the subgrant funds to carry
out, at the middle school and secondary school level, the following services
and activities:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0173BDD79607492400F553A57B00BDA3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hiring literacy coaches, at a ratio of not
less than 1 literacy coach for every 20 teachers, and providing professional
development for literacy coaches—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCCF3CBAF98124946B6B97F8DFDBA9D59"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to work with classroom teachers to
incorporate reading and writing instruction within all subject areas, during
regular classroom periods, after school, and during summer school programs, for
all students;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID62FBE55500E644438E1F4E0598D92971"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to work with classroom teachers to identify
students with reading and writing problems and, where appropriate, refer
students to available programs for remediation and additional services;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5FCC15CB6E1847EDA0435916594DDACD"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to work with classroom teachers to diagnose
and remediate reading and writing difficulties of the lowest-performing
students, by providing intensive, research-based instruction, including during
after school and summer sessions, geared toward ensuring that the students can
access and be successful in rigorous academic coursework; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDF7D43F100584F38AE09BACF57241291"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to assess and organize student data on
literacy and communicate that data to school administrators to inform school
reform efforts.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC93293990FDD47B28C657F07351BB748"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reviewing, analyzing, developing, and,
where possible, adapting curricula to make sure literacy skills are taught
within the content area subjects.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7B860618B67D4F33AD903116A0CFACB5"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing reading and writing professional
development for all teachers in middle school and secondary school that
addresses both remedial and higher level literacy skills for students in the
applicable curriculum.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4D54EC7135C64E37B53165F8AA9D22A0"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing professional development for
teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals serving middle schools and
secondary schools to help the teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals
meet literacy needs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE9881EED3A4147588C12AE54D033D5A9"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Procuring and implementing programs and
instructional materials based on reading and writing research, including
software and other education technology related to reading and writing
instruction.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA472DE62F70A437283E0C9CDFAC50000"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Building on and promoting coordination
among reading and writing programs in the eligible local educational agency to
increase overall effectiveness in improving reading and writing instruction,
including for students with disabilities and students with limited English
proficiency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF1B5A743B3264F608862475CDB86851E"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluating the effectiveness of the
instructional strategies, teacher professional development programs, and other
interventions that are implemented under the subgrant.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF66DCFF812544D659EA949036CEF2DE3"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplement not supplant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this subtitle shall use the subgrant funds to
supplement, not supplant, the eligible local educational agency funding for
activities authorized under this subtitle or for other educational
activities.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB7F7EFB70CB240B6976B7733A39B66EF"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">New services and activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrant funds provided under this subtitle
may be used only to provide services and activities authorized under this
subtitle that were not provided on the day before the date of enactment of this
Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9BC5F328E517414C8F355BE65C83A6D7"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a grant under this subtitle shall participate, as requested by the
State educational agency or the Secretary, in reviews and evaluations of the
programs of the eligible local educational agency and the effectiveness of such
programs, and shall provide such reports as are requested by the State
educational agency and the Secretary.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle commented="no" id="idAEFCD009845F4262A6962327AA0808E1" level-type="subsequent" style="OLC"><enum>B</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mathematics skills programs</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id34A24C13BCBD4EFEAF4B7B595DAC8FF5" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>121.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Mathematics skills programs</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD6F81A9F1ADC483EB861334D3785AA11"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants authorized</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA44083D69B50421A9984EA17988709E8"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds appropriated under section
104(b) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall establish a program, in
accordance with the requirements of this subtitle, that will provide grants to
State educational agencies, and grants and subgrants to eligible local
educational agencies, to establish mathematics programs to improve the overall
mathematics performance of students in middle school and secondary
school.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6CE21A4A01994D31BE7FFD5F0C4853D5"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Length of grant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A grant to a State educational agency under
this subtitle shall be awarded for a period of 6 years.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id795A392893284E67864873C5952B0E8D"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservation of funds by the
Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From amounts
appropriated under section 104(b) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall
reserve—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9C3CD49069E544AAB8146ABD1CFDD51C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">3 percent of such amounts to fund national
activities in support of the programs assisted under this subtitle, such as
research and dissemination of best practices, except that the Secretary may not
use the reserved funds to award grants directly to local educational agencies;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE469E219ED6A41419FC7CBCFEBAB0743"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 percent of such amounts for the Bureau of
Indian Affairs to carry out the services and activities described in section
122(c) for Indian children.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5FB275AA841D4E1AA031C24EB2544F63"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant formulas</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA2409CBA6FF841DE87DBA8ED7FE7D0C2"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Formula grants to State educational
agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the amounts
appropriated under section 104(b) for a fiscal year are equal to or greater
than $500,000,000, then the Secretary shall award grants, from allotments under
paragraph (3), to State educational agencies to enable the State educational
agencies to provide subgrants to eligible local educational agencies to
establish mathematics programs to improve overall mathematics performance among
students in middle school and secondary school.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFC9E98DD98C64480808A8E03C6B122F0"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Direct grants to eligible local educational
agencies</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA23B574B0D874290A21357551AAC537E"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the amounts appropriated under section
104(b) for a fiscal year are less than $500,000,000, then the Secretary shall
award grants, on a competitive basis, directly to eligible local educational
agencies to establish mathematics programs to improve overall mathematics
performance among students in middle school and secondary school.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8BC53328F7604DACBFC76123FC4B2BE3"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall give priority in
awarding grants under this paragraph to eligible local educational agencies
that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id77AC151A94D74E39B8A6DA17D712AFE3"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are among the local educational agencies in
the State with the lowest graduation rates, as described in
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1111(b)(2)(C)(vi)">section
1111(b)(2)(C)(vi)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name>
(20 U.S.C. 6311(b)(2)(C)(vi)); and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8632D96583904ECEBA1AF231728DF832"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have the highest number or percentage of
students who are counted under
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1124(c)">section
1124(c)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6333(c)).</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id67D8FF2C6E8E4AF3BDD3AEB85A3130CA"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allotments to States</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE0378034DF98426C99568F7D3AF373A1"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds appropriated under section
104(b) and not reserved under subsection (b) for a fiscal year, the Secretary
shall make an allotment to each State educational agency having an application
approved under subsection (d) in an amount that bears the same relation to the
funds as the amount the State received under part A of title I of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) bears to the amount received under
such part by all States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4F7FD829D5474F8CA8F7D1A6423E6238"><enum>(B)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minimum allotment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), no State
educational agency shall receive an allotment under this paragraph for a fiscal
year in an amount that is less than 0.25 percent of the funds allotted to all
State educational agencies under subparagraph (A) for the fiscal year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id036245801571425387800136809C0AFA"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reallotment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a State educational agency does not
apply for a grant under this subtitle, the Secretary shall reallot the State
educational agency’s allotment to the remaining States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5D4952CE383B467A935AC3D02287755C"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6F09B845CFEE4C45B7BD7929D8CEDFDB"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order to receive a grant under this
subtitle, a State educational agency shall submit an application to the
Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as
the Secretary may require. Each such application shall meet the following
conditions:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id651ADAA0337149C589A2C3814F2E69A7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State educational agency shall not
include the application for assistance under this subtitle in a consolidated
application submitted under
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/9302">section
9302</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 7842).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC76F77393EFE43DE9AA976BED719344C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The State educational agency’s application
shall include an assurance that—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA73EDB113DCE4A66B2EE7E62A4ADB017"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State educational agency has
established a mathematics partnership that—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE5AFEEA0E53C4AE281F733CA3757757B"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinated the development of the
application for a grant under this subtitle; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id23708A23452A485FB5CC92EF59B55689"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">will assist in designing and administering
the State educational agency’s program under this subtitle; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id586A263E0A194B9DB0E8357BC326CA78"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State educational agency will
participate, if requested, in any evaluation of the State educational agency's
program under this subtitle.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0B5BF733524A41079B817818541437E2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The State educational agency’s application
shall include a program plan that contains a description of the
following:</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0F19C618514E420CB49B2527E64F595B"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will
assist eligible local educational agencies in implementing subgrants, including
providing ongoing professional development for mathematics coaches, teachers,
paraprofessionals, and administrators.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id32FE73FD511248B5B620EC0CCB311965"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will help
eligible local educational agencies identify high-quality screening,
diagnostic, and classroom-based instructional mathematics assessments.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF2392D580ACB4170B786958F2F7BD994"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will help
eligible local educational agencies identify high-quality research-based
mathematics materials and programs.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82BB665FCDFC438BA2943F0884D1A432"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will help
eligible local educational agencies identify appropriate and effective
materials, programs, and assessments for students with disabilities and
students with limited English proficiency.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1233B91A70894EBA8DF47403F9B3E80B"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will
ensure that professional development funded under this subtitle—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF998AF109DAA43BB97350F924E222BE2"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is based on mathematics research;</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7AA9A6D10D064C27A319E1287C027308"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">will effectively improve instructional
practices for mathematics for middle school and secondary school students;
and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC4C1A5B4080840729BAC797E7183DB8A"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is coordinated with professional
development activities funded through other programs.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2DBE2131B10044A2A3EF53AC264ACD92"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How funded activities will help teachers
and other instructional staff to implement research-based components of
mathematics instruction.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id42D96070DEFA437ABB70E2704D26D46B"><enum>(vii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The subgrant process the State educational
agency will use to ensure that eligible local educational agencies receiving
subgrants implement programs and practices based on mathematics
research.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA6384F9CF66545EE8476C64A5E5D4C07"><enum>(viii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will build
on and promote coordination among mathematics programs in the State to increase
overall effectiveness in improving mathematics instruction, including for
students with disabilities and students with limited English
proficiency.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id894CADB0FD6B4C199140CC363C4F964F"><enum>(ix)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">How the State educational agency will
regularly assess and evaluate the effectiveness of the eligible local
educational agency activities funded under this subtitle.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90D1D424D186408783D405339FF92D9E"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Review of applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall review applications
from State educational agencies under this subsection as the applications are
received.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA8E9ABEE56AD4A899A52141ABD13D001"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State educational agency receiving a
grant under this subtitle shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB8DBA5AAA8A04DD4AFFD90EDCB338FE9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish a mathematics partnership that
will provide guidance to eligible local educational agencies in selecting or
developing and implementing appropriate, research-based mathematics programs
for middle school and secondary school students;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A93470288544283B2DEE6389F9B2224"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">use 80 percent of the grant funds received
under this subtitle for a fiscal year to approve high-quality applications for
subgrants to eligible local educational agencies having applications approved
under section 122(a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCAF38D5CFD414BE7AC41BE1F93D37380"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">use 20 percent of the grant funds received
under this subtitle—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id71B79E2E48F7464DB99E4F1B8579F7EC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to carry out State-level activities
described in the application submitted under subsection (d);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC5AA621F7C85446684FA8A0A7FD44E8F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to provide—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id14F906A6223D434EB6A9E16BCBC520B6"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">technical assistance to eligible local
educational agencies; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2FE12C92637F4066B57005204BC6DDBA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">high-quality professional development to
teachers and mathematics coaches;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF75565CF14204B5BA601C5CC82A7A828"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to oversee and evaluate subgrant services
and activities undertaken by the eligible local educational agencies as
described in section 122(c); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC35ABB0A41144216AA82BBFD1A3C642F"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for administrative costs,</text>
</subparagraph><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="paragraph">of which not more than 10 percent of
the grant funds may be used for planning, administration, and reporting.</continuation-text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF184885AA022433A9A15ECC8CD292AFB"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notice to eligible local educational
agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State
educational agency receiving a grant under this subtitle shall provide notice
to all eligible local educational agencies in the State about the availability
of subgrants under this subtitle.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id41046157AADA428D93E6C549535B2FB9"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplement not supplant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State educational agency receiving a
grant under this subtitle shall use the grant funds to supplement, not
supplant, State funding for activities authorized under this subtitle or for
other educational activities.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFEA53BC9BA294356B098D216FF187F45"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">New services and activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant funds provided under this subtitle
may be used only to provide services and activities authorized under this
subtitle that were not provided on the day before the date of enactment of this
Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8FA67F8FCA744313B382F9E2F3EE8DB4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>122.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrants to eligible local educational
agencies</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id341BD605256F4556995AD1C6FF5D58D9"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id82CA3C94AB144A0A8B22CE6E5CBE30C5"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
desiring a subgrant under this subtitle shall submit an application to the
State educational agency in the form and according to the schedule established
by the State educational agency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA95898DD33A142D8A03A9BA7598DF38C"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to any information required by
the State educational agency, each application under paragraph (1) shall
demonstrate how the eligible local educational agency will carry out the
following required activities:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5A5BDB31E2EB47179C50A57C5928E313"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Development or selection and implementation
of research-based mathematics assessments.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idD997F685E8D04EBC9DD6DB3B4A9D95F5"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Development or selection and implementation
of research-based mathematics programs, including programs for students with
disabilities and students with limited English proficiency.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8195F691A1074DB28F515B172C6771CF"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Selection of instructional materials based
on mathematics research.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id907E5E183AC049EBBFDE761DC1B955CB"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">High-quality professional development for
mathematics coaches and teachers based on mathematics research.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE55CE1019D61468DA3A03D2204EA9CF2"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluation strategies.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0EA1D1666B1E42E49FB7262B84D32833"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reporting.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9E9E085C727D41E2812D42A877310B7E"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing access to research-based
mathematics materials.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50C2FB8BEDAE4CE292ACDE0DE010B7D3"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consortia</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible local educational agency may
apply to the State educational agency for a subgrant as a member of a
consortium if each member of the consortium is an eligible local educational
agency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id424408E2B68C43BCAAC813CF5830168A"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Award basis</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9FCC3600771746D088DCAF90EDCAA8DA"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minimum subgrant amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this subtitle for a fiscal year shall receive a
minimum subgrant amount that bears the same relation to the amount of funds
made available to the State educational agency under section 121(e)(2) as the
amount the eligible local educational agency received under part A of title I
of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for the preceding fiscal year bears to
the amount received by all eligible local educational agencies under such part
for the preceding fiscal year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idC6F015E358D44512BD84258CDDB438A9"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sufficient size and scope</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrants under this section shall be of
sufficient size and scope to enable eligible local educational agencies to
fully implement activities assisted under this subtitle.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id01D18A4277474714A25BF58AF168A5C2"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Local use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this subtitle shall use the subgrant funds to carry
out, at the middle school and secondary school level, the following services
and activities:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0FA10C20D37F458FAD89837C9CC5839F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hiring mathematics coaches, at a ratio of
not less than 1 mathematics coach for every 20 teachers, and providing
professional development for mathematics coaches—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id933E5EBA1CE446FABBE5E4D1482AABF7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to work with classroom teachers to better
assess student learning in mathematics;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id621DF2D89CB4488CAAC8F257936DE86C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to work with classroom teachers to identify
students with mathematics problems and, where appropriate, refer students to
available programs for remediation and additional services;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9235E4FE112E435F8BB446A0923CF1B5"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to work with classroom teachers to diagnose
and remediate mathematics difficulties of the lowest-performing students, by
providing intensive, research-based instruction, including during after school
and summer sessions, geared toward ensuring that those students can access and
be successful in rigorous academic coursework; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id888C7A3E02D342A0B40B52E4AA743E68"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to assess and organize student data on
mathematics and communicate that data to school administrators to inform school
reform efforts.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id406C0B588CD24A68A5FFBE4157F3CFEC"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reviewing, analyzing, developing, and,
where possible, adapting curricula to make sure mathematics skills are taught
within the content area subjects.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id250DF74BBF4B4FE1840B021AE0F7FE15"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing mathematics professional
development for all teachers in middle school and secondary school that
addresses both remedial and higher level mathematics skills for students in the
applicable curriculum.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id77F0152451254A6290418CDA9003A7C9"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing professional development for
teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals serving middle schools and
secondary schools to help the teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals
meet mathematics needs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9C0AC511535C4B4B8B1ADEBB970A8509"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Procuring and implementing programs and
instructional materials based on mathematics research, including software and
other education technology related to mathematics instruction.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id96450F8E431242FCBA477AD1F910707B"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Building on and promoting coordination
among mathematics programs in the eligible local educational agency to increase
overall effectiveness in improving mathematics instruction, including for
students with disabilities and students with limited English
proficiency.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id19876A4677E94ACA9D67D59082A4C6BE"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluating the effectiveness of the
instructional strategies, teacher professional development programs, and other
interventions that are implemented under the subgrant.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id94A9581B97E44676B50BB7DABC555A04"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplement not supplant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this subtitle shall use the subgrant funds to
supplement, not supplant, the eligible local educational agency funding for
activities authorized under this subtitle or for other educational
activities.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA9BBEBA60EDD48A6BECF3A9C132BEB34"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">New services and activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrant funds provided under this subtitle
may be used only to provide services and activities authorized under this
subtitle that were not provided on the day before the date of enactment of this
Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDEB00ED45813741AB8FB7257D442E1424"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a grant under this subtitle shall participate, as requested by the
State educational agency or the Secretary, in reviews and evaluations of the
programs of the eligible local educational agency and the effectiveness of such
programs, and shall provide such reports as are requested by the State
educational agency and the Secretary.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><enum>II</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Pathways to success</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCA2746C981314033A64FE290C6C76170" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Congress makes the following
findings:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDBA14C8875129401BA20085BBE395E6CD"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In 2003, approximately 60 percent of
students in the poorest communities failed to graduate from secondary school on
time.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID533DE5A9311A44D39EC2ED75F0DED6DF"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All ninth grade students should have a plan
that assesses the student’s instructional needs and outlines the coursework the
student must complete to graduate on time, properly prepared for college and
career.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3655DD70254F401DB0090089C256276E"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Research shows that 1 of the most important
factors behind student success in secondary school is a close connection with
at least 1 adult who demonstrates concern for the student’s advancement.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDEC166B2813DD43E58B87A2D1A2DBCE18"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Secondary school counselors can help
students receive the instructional, tutorial, and social supports that
contribute to academic success.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2E75C2F14265412AAF9B5E4468D45DF9"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Model programs around the Nation have
demonstrated that effective academic and support plans for students, developed
by counselors serving as academic coaches, in cooperation with students and
parents, result in a higher percentage of students graduating from secondary
school well prepared for college study.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7793FFF8AFC041D0A4F35DD08D304C1F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD2CC239E85A04202ACD5261B0084082C"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>local educational
agency</term>, <term>poverty line</term>, <term>secondary school</term>,
<term>Secretary</term>, and <term>State educational agency</term> have the
meaning given the terms in
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/9101">section
9101</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 7801).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID38BCC6FB33784BA8944425BD1732D041"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Academic counselor</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>academic counselor</term>
means a highly qualified professional who has received professional development
appropriate to perform the services described in section 205(c).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE50BCE9D9E76429FBA2EEF0041E3D146"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible local educational
agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>eligible local educational agency</term> means a local educational agency
who has jurisdiction over not less than 1 secondary school receiving assistance
under part A of title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.)</act-name>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF3F2EDA11E1C4607B9FCCDE298A7002C"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> means each of
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the
United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8792420D394542C7B77B825159878805" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program authorized</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary is authorized to establish a
program, in accordance with the requirements of this title, that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID11A89282171B4672B372F31794211D00"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enables a secondary school that receives
assistance under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), to hire a sufficient number of academic counselors,
in a ratio of not less than 1 counselor to 150 students, to develop personal
plans for each student at the school, including students with limited English
proficiency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCCAA34F33EE64DA1BFE6334159DE818D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">involves parents in the development and
implementation of the personal plans; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDBDD6388A2D7F448783C63122007FE078"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provides academic counselors and staff at
the schools receiving grants under this title the opportunity to coordinate
with other programs and services, including those supported by Federal funds,
to ensure that students have access to the resources and services necessary to
fulfill the students’ personal plans.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF73BD14C43E84BBDA0418D8600BE44BC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants to States</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8C0F3213B29943C9B4CE0247264D6E26"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants authorized</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From amounts made available under section
206 and not reserved under subsection (i), the Secretary shall award grants,
from allotments under subsection (b), to State educational agencies to enable
the State educational agencies to provide subgrants to eligible local
educational agencies to implement programs in secondary schools in accordance
with this title.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID11EC673A594D4A5BBB6ED57273616619"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allotments to States</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5A87A8214388400987D0E42C3169AC95"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds appropriated under section 206
and not reserved under subsection (i) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall
make an allotment to each State educational agency having an application
approved under subsection (d) in an amount that bears the same relation to the
funds as the amount the State received under part A of title I of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) bears to the amount received under
such part by all States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDACAB5E3EA8294DA7838FB3602CA66692"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minimum allotment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding paragraph (1), no State
educational agency shall receive an allotment under this subsection for a
fiscal year in an amount that is less than 0.25 percent of the funds allotted
to all State educational agencies under paragraph (1) for the fiscal
year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC3B1736E974A434DAF321C6B2F7F19A1"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Ratable reductions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the amount appropriated to carry out
this title for any fiscal year is less than $2,000,000,000, then the Secretary
shall ratably reduce the allotment made to each State educational agency under
this subsection in proportion to the relative number of children who are
counted under <external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1124(c)">section 1124(c)</external-xref> of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6333(c)), in the State compared to such number for
all States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID43E6D260EDFD48D1949300E083879FBF"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Length of grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A grant to a State educational agency under
this title shall be awarded for a period of 6 years.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5E7E4F5D98B94624A64F6EF1C37FD783"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order to receive a grant under this
title, a State educational agency shall submit an application to the Secretary
in the form and according to the schedule established by the Secretary by
regulation.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDFC776604365049FABC12EAE7782890A4"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State educational agency receiving a
grant under this title shall use—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5EAB5BF0548443F280B5F98D2C6B3D54"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">80 percent of the grant funds to award
subgrants to eligible local educational agencies under section 205; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD68F0FF4F16649C083D082FDE94D6936"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">20 percent of the grant funds to provide
professional development to academic counselors and technical assistance to
local educational agencies, and to pay for administrative costs, of which not
more than 10 percent of such 20 percent may be used for planning,
administration, and reporting.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA47E61BA49B24D8B00B6005659CDBDA0"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplement not supplant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant funds provided to State educational
agencies under this title shall be used to supplement, not supplant, funding
provided by the State for activities authorized under this title or for other
educational activities.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID76A16F9FC53D4C11B98569B2388C8E68"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">New services and activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grant funds provided under this title may
be used only to provide services and activities authorized under this title
that were not provided on the day before the date of enactment of this
Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7B82DB335216443F9FB6912C53BD3962"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reallotment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a State educational agency does not
apply for funding under this title, the Secretary shall reallot the State
educational agency’s allotment to the remaining eligible State educational
agencies.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID67E31602E4604EBE99131CDF35235E15"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Of the funds appropriated under section 206
for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID916B50E6D5B14CFE94E9B1F4462DF6B1"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 percent for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
to carry out the authorized activities described in section 205(c); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID15DCBE9043DD47238DF6067C91396200"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">3 percent for national activities that
support the programs assisted under this title, except that the Secretary shall
not use such reserved funds to award grants directly to local educational
agencies.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5A7F664B763941FA8F9265C915E86CA7" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>205.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrants to eligible local educational
agencies</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1C23B740308340DF865BD5289C38B3C0"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrants authorized</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From amounts made available under section
204(e)(1), a State educational agency shall award subgrants to eligible local
educational agencies having applications approved under subsection (b) to
enable the eligible local educational agencies to carry out the authorized
activities described in subsection (c).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID631BA494C9134A16AC04219EE2786B12"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8A79923EBEA94C66921F905DF2492521"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
desiring a subgrant under this title shall submit an application to the State
educational agency in the form and according to the schedule established by the
State educational agency. Each such application shall describe how the eligible
local educational agency will—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3AED03A49952451EBC58F700E5148C44"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">hire a sufficient number of highly
qualified academic counselors to develop personal plans for all students in
such students’ first year of secondary school, with a ratio of 1 academic
counselor to not more than 150 students in each secondary school served under
the subgrant;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5135BA690B1F4EC0B339D3547227683D"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide adequate resources to each such
school to offer the supplemental and other support services that the
implementation of students’ personal plans require, and provide such
supplemental services, where possible, through coordination with Federal TRIO
programs under chapter 1 of subpart 2 of part A of title IV of the
<act-name parsable-cite="HEA65">Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1070a–11 et seq.)</act-name>, Gear Up programs under chapter 2 of such subpart
(20 U.S.C. 1070a–21 et seq.), programs under title I of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.)</act-name>, 21st Century Community Learning Centers
under part B of title IV of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 7171 et seq.), programs
under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.)
(in accordance with students’ individualized education programs), and programs
under the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C.
2301 et seq.);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB9B1EC47D71E4CBA9D230433F36C52F7"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include parents in the development and
implementation of students’ personal plans; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1D21557658B040AFA8D4EC49D451C83D"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide staff at each such school with
opportunities for appropriate professional development and coordination to help
the staff support students in implementing the students’ personal plans.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0A1282BFBE3C4D59918BF6AAD3DD0099"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Consortia</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An eligible local educational agency may
apply to the State educational agency for a subgrant as a consortium, if each
member of the consortium is an eligible local educational agency.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0467FB98019F41EC80C0948D75002625"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorized activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this title shall use the subgrant funds to provide
the following services:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID047BA877FFCC49728F6323004E48E497"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hiring academic counselors (at a ratio of
not less than 1 counselor per 150 students) to develop the 6-year personal
plans for all students in such students’ first year of secondary school and
coordinate the services required to implement such personal plans. Such
academic counselors shall—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDBD0CC6EB3B104B8582BB62F17728C2FB"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">work with students and their families to
develop an individual plan that will define such students’ career and education
goals, assure enrollment in the coursework necessary for on-time graduation and
preparation for career development or postsecondary education, and identify the
courses and supplemental services necessary to meet those goals;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE822B5B2C93F4C908DF7D074C9814707"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">advocate for students, helping the students
to access the services and supports necessary to achieve the goals laid out in
the personal plan for the student;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID36C50D3A07704E59B4C0608B33CB1B54"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assure student access to services, both
academic and nonacademic, needed to lower barriers to succeed as needed;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC55E7E1E2BA1470BBB6429205EB26717"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assess student progress on a regular
basis;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8E6CF01A859B4AD8BE3E6EDA11003FF9"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">work with school and eligible local
educational agency administrators to promote reforms based on student needs and
performance data;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD465AFE0A40544DD9150CC6B44761166"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">involve parents or caregivers, including
those parents or caregivers who are limited English proficient, and teachers,
in the development of students’ personal plans to ensure the support and
assistance of the parents, caregivers, and teachers in meeting the goals
outlined in such personal plans; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID42CEBB4A57FC4F979165522E322331F9"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">communicate to students and their families
the importance of implementing the 2 years of the personal plan following
secondary school graduation, and work with institutions of higher education to
help students transition successfully and fully implement the students’
personal plans.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC4DCCF021B1E484B82415836C9A17665"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Determining the academic needs of all
students entering grade 9 and identifying barriers to success.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC9FAEDD2C1C94E828FA8EE143512F04D"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Ensuring availability of the services
necessary for the implementation of students’ personal plans, including access
to a college preparatory curriculum and advanced placement or international
baccalaureate courses.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID41F00990FB94489F00978CAB7ED0AA46"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Where appropriate, modifying the curriculum
at a secondary school receiving subgrant funds under this title to address the
instructional requirements of students’ personal plans.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDABBC9314D5D24A598822AAE5195B42C9"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Providing for the ongoing assessment of
students for whom personal plans have been developed and modifying such
personal plans as necessary.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3A601C402C45443283B0D3DEB3C80106"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Coordinating the services offered with
subgrant funds received under this title with other Federal, State, and local
funds, including programs authorized under title I of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.), sections 402A and 404A of the
<act-name parsable-cite="HEA65">Higher Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20
U.S.C. 1070a–11 and 1070a–21), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.) (in accordance with students’ individualized education
programs), and the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006
(20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID87E17C5E4E5F418D86A344E0F7722FC0"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible local educational agency
priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In awarding
subgrants to eligible local educational agencies, a State educational agency
shall give priority to eligible local educational agencies with—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7A91291588E74F08B0779C6318005CAF"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the largest number or percentage of
students in grades 6 through 12 reading below grade level; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6D2629ABCECE4721B3110066E58FC5AB"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the lowest graduation rates as described in
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1111(b)(2)(C)(vi)">section
1111(b)(2)(C)(vi)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
6311(b)(2)(C)(vi))</act-name>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDADEA073C35A842119BA16F6869D7E4D5"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">School priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In awarding subgrant funds to secondary
schools, an eligible local educational agency shall give priority to secondary
schools that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC15B4B124629451EB19C33DE28CCCB72"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have the highest percentages or numbers of
students in grades 6 through 12 reading below grade level;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDBA827D62C4374A7CB8F7593CDC44DBE1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have the highest percentages or numbers of
children living below the poverty line according to census figures; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDAA2FCF8FF63D43E38DE00081DE4F0123"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have the lowest graduation rates as
described in
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1111(b)(2)(C)(vi)">section
1111(b)(2)(C)(vi)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
6311(b)(2)(C)(vi))</act-name>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCBFCE52A78A34A96AAEC5B4BE8FE7671"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Minimum subgrant amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this title for a fiscal year shall receive a minimum
subgrant amount that bears the same relation to the amount of funds made
available to the State educational agency under section 204(e)(1) as the amount
the eligible local educational agency received under part A of title I of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6311 et seq.) for the preceding fiscal year bears to
the amount received by all eligible local educational agencies in the State
under such part for the preceding fiscal year.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID76B0D6D3A7F94F8FAF2D596266681FB4"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sufficient size and scope</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrants under this section shall be of
sufficient size and scope to enable eligible local educational agencies to
fully implement activities assisted under this title.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID43E2E61089B64ACA9786B8F3865BBFD3"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Supplement not supplant</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this section shall use the subgrant funds to
supplement, not supplant, funding for activities authorized under this title or
for other educational activities.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDF97D8280C2C48C0ABBCE446811D98E6"><enum>(i)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">New services and activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subgrant funds provided under this section
may be used only to provide services and activities authorized under this
section that were not provided on the day before the date of enactment of this
Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7FBF460A0E944BAAB55B275CA3C4E4AA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>206.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For the
purposes of carrying out this title, there are authorized to be appropriated
$2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2008 and such sums as may be necessary for each
of the 5 succeeding fiscal years.</text>
</section><enum>III</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fostering successful secondary
schools</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID9319F49893A748D8BEA1A0B2C22C5EDC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Congress makes the following
findings:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA708734107AA45D6B9746FA8E4294ECA"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Personalization of the school environment
has been proven to be an essential factor in helping low-performing secondary
school students succeed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID4E5034959AEC4724A341B1A238FFBDF5"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective schools provide ongoing,
high-quality professional development for teachers and administrators to
improve instruction.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID37E688423BAB4B369BCCF04CEA662F13"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Student success is dependent upon alignment
of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID545D9453C8B0417AAC65433DDDCE2DFA"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Successful schools adapt instruction to the
unique interests and talents of each student.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA1DDA1591F234FFCB8E91627B267FB71"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Successful schools have high expectations
for all students and offer a rigorous curriculum for the entire student
body.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF506A6ABB2974E5C93C6435D5E667CA7"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Ongoing assessment is the best way to
measure how each student is learning and responding to the teacher’s
instructional methods.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID80833B32C67447D2AFD5A301DB880904"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective secondary schools have access to,
and utilize, data related to student performance prior to, and following,
secondary school enrollment.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6F2196F20B7749E79892309403AE0382"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Despite significant increases to the
program, only about 7 percent of funding for title I of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.) goes to secondary schools.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDde2425e9907c4fb299d494ae2a576a55"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Every year, 1,300,000 students do not
graduate with their peers, which means every school day, our Nation loses 7,000
students.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8793ac00317943d4a6fc4b626a0883b3"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nationally, of 100 ninth-graders, only 68
will graduate from high school on time, only 38 will directly enter college,
only 26 will still be enrolled for the sophomore year, and only 18 will end up
graduating from college. The numbers for minority students are even
lower.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF1B42562E09346FF8161CD9400FCE31C"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Even secondary school graduates going on to
college are struggling with basic literacy skills, with 40 percent of all
4-year college students taking a remedial course and 63 percent of all
community college students assigned to at least 1 remedial course.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID57B84ECC5959410A96FC1E27E8D5A5C3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>302.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Purposes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the purpose of this title to implement
research-based programs, practices, and models that will improve student
achievement in low performing secondary schools.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0CB17B4BE5774D248F6208774C006510" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDA2E789432DAE4CAEAFFBB82ECAB65D74"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The terms <term>institution of higher
education</term>, <term>local educational agency</term>, <term>secondary
school</term>, <term>Secretary</term>, and <term>State educational
agency</term> have the meanings given the terms in
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/9101">section
9101</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/7801">20 U.S.C. 7801</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID601AE50162E9426AB93D4BD1CA4C6B78"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible local educational
agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term
<term>eligible local educational agency</term> means a local educational agency
that has jurisdiction over not less than 1 eligible secondary school.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCBBB920819C0430F9015275DF6D6A698"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible partnership</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible partnership</term>
means—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF0F38AA5C1544705975BA4D8C5D7EE8F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an eligible local educational agency in
partnership with a regional educational laboratory, an institution of higher
education, or another nonprofit institution with significant experience in
implementing and evaluating education reforms; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDD439D7FEAB6F4316B2EA7C6B2D04D5CA"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a consortium of eligible secondary schools
or eligible local educational agencies, each of which is in a
partnership.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB48576FB77F9478184E3F38B977BDDF3"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible secondary school</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>eligible secondary
school</term> means a secondary school identified for school improvement under
<external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1116(b)">section
1116(b)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6316(b)), as of the day
preceding the date of enactment of the Pathways for All Students to Succeed
Act.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID261DBB7A842F493D81799CF61F7F3C87"><enum>(5)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State</term> 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, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF73B9D15841D4BC7A0654C59CE72F314" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program authorized; authorization of
appropriations</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID95861E8309C54A1DA27BDB268F086E47"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program authorized</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary is authorized to award grants
to State educational agencies, from allotments under section 305(b), to enable
the State educational agencies to award subgrants to eligible local educational
agencies, from allocations under section 305(c)(2), to promote secondary school
improvement and student achievement.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE9AE7F2DE09844E1A175A2D6ECD19638"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title $500,000,000 for fiscal
year 2008 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 5 succeeding fiscal
years.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID19C2E3E53ECA4837BFE4C927EAF1001D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>305.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservations, State allotments, and local
allocations</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7A763A9663204D6EBD6077E41547D9D5"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds appropriated under section
304(b) for a fiscal year the Secretary shall reserve—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF332980421CA4E26A21DC176FCFE3FB2"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 percent for schools funded or supported
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to carry out the purposes of this title for
Indian children;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID6C9D32ADD3FA4A6E84BB4FCF815DAC4B"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">3 percent to carry out national activities
in support of the purposes of this title; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID138EDEDFDC07422B84DCAE090668D7AB"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">95 percent for allotment to the States in
accordance with subsection (b).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDCEE29CBE4E984AB4BD64ADC4E4C5CD14"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allotment to States</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID2984384E458E4FA9A5FBCC924F00B38C"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds reserved under subsection (a)(3)
for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall make an allotment to each State
educational agency in an amount that bears the same relationship to the funds
as the number of schools in that State that have been identified for school
improvement under <external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1116(b)">section 1116(b)</external-xref> of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6316(b)), bears to the number of schools in all
States that have been identified for school improvement under such section
1116(b).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID152D95FE258C4AF69673633CE3456463"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reallotment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The portion of any State educational
agency’s allotment that is not used by the State educational agency shall be
reallotted among the remaining State educational agencies on the same basis as
the original allotments were made under paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID42C75B79312041E6B7E7DE25A0CBE7F9"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Allocations to eligible local educational
agencies</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5597A0B257E7421891D519E6FBD87500"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reservations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State educational agency receiving a
grant under this title shall reserve—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDE380A6E894A14426974B61E0BC729D2E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not more than 10 percent of the grant
funds—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3F28F390E26D4C23A855E01918003B63"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for State-level activities to provide
high-quality professional development and technical assistance to eligible
local educational agencies receiving funds under this title and to other local
educational agencies as appropriate, including the dissemination and
implementation of research-based programs, practices, and models for secondary
school improvement; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0CA3C0EAFF3D4B1293311906D96C2361"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to contract for the evaluation of all
programs and activities in the State that are assisted under this title;
and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID5A8B669C0AB54EAD82E7E2C1E1EF6601"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less than 90 percent of the grant funds
to award subgrants to eligible local educational agencies to enable the
eligible local educational agencies to carry out the activities described in
section 306.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID39E18B22EC484D36B4604D5124A83D83"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Local allocation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds reserved under paragraph (1)(B),
the State educational agency shall allocate to each eligible local educational
agency in the State an amount that bears the same relation to such funds as the
number of secondary schools that have been identified for school improvement
under <external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1116(b)">section
1116(b)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965</act-name> (20 U.S.C. 6316(b)), that are served
by the eligible local educational agency, bears to the number of such schools
served by all eligible local educational agencies in the State.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID67B2209A2F0B4AC986CA0024ACBCF0AA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>306.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Local uses of funds</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Each eligible local educational agency
receiving a subgrant under this title shall use the subgrant funds for
activities to improve secondary schools that have been identified for school
improvement under <external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="ESEA/1116(b)">section 1116(b)</external-xref> of the
<act-name parsable-cite="ESEA">Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 6316(b))</act-name>, such as—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDDC960B4C4F8D45D8A73D8664029FA72B"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">developing and implementing research-based
programs or models that have been shown to raise achievement among secondary
school students, including smaller learning communities, adolescent literacy
programs, block scheduling, whole school reforms, individualized learning
plans, personalized learning environments, and strategies to target students
making the transition from middle school to secondary school;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDF35ECEEC89B842A58D6644BEE0D878C9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">promoting community investment in school
quality by engaging parents, businesses, and community-based organizations in
the development of reform plans for eligible secondary schools;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDC01A0D4C62F2420B9B00BA9F71FF3FEC"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">researching, developing, and implementing a
school district strategy to create smaller learning communities for secondary
school students, both by creating smaller learning communities within existing
secondary schools, and by developing new, smaller, and more personalized
secondary schools;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID0F5842D9E0244A54B457196F54E299F9"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing professional development for
school staff in research-based practices, such as interactive instructional
strategies and opportunities to connect learning with experience; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDAD24847DA63549AAB3BE837DBCD32DFF"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">providing professional development and
leadership training for principals and other school leaders in the best
practices of instructional leadership and implementing school reforms to raise
student achievement.</text>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDFAD4A1B9F5464A8A84F2E354E25E7EA2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>307.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDB0430A2787864AC08BA4803802FE8017"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">States</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State educational agency desiring a
grant under this title shall submit to the Secretary an application at such
time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may
require to ensure compliance with the requirements of this title.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID7B94919B8A3B47D58580D91622CF7321"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Eligible local educational
agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each eligible local
educational agency desiring a subgrant under this title shall submit to the
State educational agency an application at such time, in such manner, and
containing such information as the State educational agency may require to
ensure compliance with the requirements of this title. Each such application
shall describe how the eligible local educational agency will form an eligible
partnership to carry out the activities assisted under this title.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID64C3DD41F2034687B4ABE600ADAB79A4" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>308.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Evaluations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In cooperation with the State educational
agencies receiving funds under this title, the Secretary shall undertake or
contract for a rigorous evaluation of the effectiveness and success of
activities conducted under this title.</text>
</section><enum>IV</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Data capacity</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3432941C100A4B7897B6DCE6005A5BBE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Grants for increasing data capacity for
purposes of assessment and accountability</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0595D67A35B7403AB70CD09D64EEA497"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Program authorized</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">From funds appropriated under subsection
(e) for a fiscal year, the Secretary may award grants, on a competitive basis,
to State educational agencies to enable the State educational agencies to
develop or increase the capacity of data systems for assessment and
accountability purposes, including the collection of graduation rates.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID852440a76ea04c3aa38c562d8110d7ab"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State educational agency desiring a
grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such
time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may
require.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2E7B0BC2B9D2435B86E01D60665AED9D"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State educational agency that receives
a grant under this section shall use the grant funds for the purpose of—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDd24cb82e8806401f8974976a8ff5f572"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">increasing the capacity of, or creating,
State databases to collect, disaggregate, and report information related to
student achievement, enrollment, and graduation rates for assessment and
accountability purposes; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID769b19ee58d84decae0170d08eaabb42"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">reporting, on an annual basis, for the
elementary schools and secondary schools within the State, on—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID76539f4b6ce34c01b721639e58f050d0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the enrollment data from the beginning of
the academic year;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID10fe9dca039b42aca6958678d804e032"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the enrollment data from the end of the
academic year; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDf57d820c5fc243d9b4ed835045f91fc1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the twelfth grade graduation rates.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID250f88e37a3a416ab5c7f3cc4a39ef29"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID244e9bdbb6974ef782ff58fc4c6ff709"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Graduation rate</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>graduation rate</term> means
the percentage that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID307d78f17f5d4643b6d6041733f07556"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total number of students who—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID3aefa7a9ff5046e8adbff8a8eefca54a"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">graduate from a secondary school with a
regular diploma (which shall not include the recognized equivalent of a
secondary school diploma or an alternative degree) in an academic year;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID86a7516869a545c983bb147893bed770"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">graduated on time by progressing 1 grade
per academic year; represents of</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDace504c0a2f34796aabd3d1c3be1d05b"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total number of students who entered
the secondary school in the entry level academic year applicable to the
graduating students.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDc7c7bb5acf8c4ce587094e005708c01e"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">State educational agency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State educational
agency</term> has the meaning given such term in section 9101 of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID8770d7f896f2455ba91f0d7660f02876"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Secretary</term> means the
Secretary of Education.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="IDecebead4c457459992742aea8f9cd848"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authorization of
appropriations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There are
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $50,000,000 for fiscal
year 2008, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 2 succeeding
fiscal years.</text>
</subsection></section>