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S. 1 (107th): Better Education for Students and Teachers Act
- Introduced:
- Mar 28, 2001 (107th Congress, 2001–2002)
- Sponsor:
- Sen. James “Jim” Jeffords [I-VT]
- Status:
- Died (Reported by Committee)
The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. S. stands for Senate bill.
Library of Congress Summary
The summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.
3/28/2001. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise, rename, consolidate, and reauthorize certain programs and activities.
Title
I
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Better Results for Disadvantaged Children
Revises ESEA title I as Better Results for Disadvantaged Children (currently Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards).
Part
A
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Better Results for Disadvantaged Children
Revises title I part A, also Better Results for Disadvantaged Children, with respect to: (1) yearly testing and assessments of student performance; (2) Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards; (3) identification of schools for improvement and corrective actions; (4) public school choice options to be offered under certain conditions; (5) reporting to parents and the public on school performance and teacher quality; (6) State reservation of funds for school improvement; (7) formulas relating to Basic, Concentration, Targeted, and Education Finance Incentive Grants; and (8) eligibility requirements for schoolwide programs.
Part
B
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Literacy for Children and Families
Revises title I part B, Literacy for Children and Families, to: (1) reauthorize the William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy Program; and (2) establish Reading First and Early Reading First initiative programs.
Part
C
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Education of Migratory Children
Reauthorizes and revises ESEA title I part C, Education of Migratory Children.
Part
D
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Initiatives for Neglected, Delinquent, or at Risk Youth
Sets forth as ESEA title I part D, Initiatives for Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk Youth (replacing part D, Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk of Dropping Out).
Part
E
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21st Century Learning Centers; Comprehensive School Reform; School Dropout Prevention
Revises ESEA title I to reauthorize and revise the 21st Century Learning Centers program as part F (21st Century Community Learning Centers Act).
Section
151
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Establishes a part G Comprehensive School Reform program of formula grants to States for competitive subgrants to LEA.
Dropout Prevention Act - Establishes a part H School Dropout Prevention program, including: (1) a Coordinated National Strategy; and (2) a National School Dropout Prevention Initiative.
Part
F
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Education for Homeless Children and Youth
Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise and reauthorize provisions for Education for Homeless Children and Youth.
Title
II
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Teachers
Revises ESEA title II, Teachers, to eliminate the current Eisenhower Professional Development and Class-Size Reduction programs. Establishes a part A Teacher Quality formula grant program for State and local educational agencies (SEAs and LEAs) to support various similar activities to improve elementary and secondary school teaching. Sets forth requirements relating to such SEA and LEA activities and performance objectives. Includes among authorized national teacher activities, to be administered by the Secretary of Education (the Secretary), support for: (1) professional development for school leaders; (2) teachers seeking advanced certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; (3) the Troops-to-Teachers program recruiting military retirees into teaching; and (4) a program supporting transition to teaching by mid-career professionals.
Section
201
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Establishes a part B Mathematics and Science Partnerships program involving SEAs, higher education mathematics or science departments, and LEAs.
Reauthorizes the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science Education.
Establishes the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology grants program.
Sets forth a title II part C, State and Local Programs for Technology Use in Classrooms, with formula grants to States to provide competitive grants to LEAs.
Section
202
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Teacher Mobility Act - Sets forth a title II part D, Portability of Teacher Pensions and Credentials. Establishes a National Panel on Portability of Teacher Pensions and Credentials.
Title
III
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Moving Limited English Proficient Students to English Fluency
Eliminates the current ESEA title III, Technology for Education, including programs for technology for education of all students, Star Schools, Ready-to-Learn Television, and elementary mathematics and science equipment.
Section
301
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Sets forth as a new title III, Education for Limited English Proficient and Recent Immigrant Pupils (transferring and revising some of current title VII, Bilingual Education, Language Enhancement, and Language Acquisition Programs). Revises and reauthorizes the Bilingual Education Act to: (1) consolidate certain programs; (2) require yearly assessment of English proficiency of students served; (3) eliminate a funding cap for non-bilingual programs under instructional services grants; and (4) set priorities in making grants to certain applicants.
Sets forth part A, Bilingual Education, including provisions for: (1) capacity and demonstration grants; (2) research, evaluation, and dissemination; and (3) professional development.
Reauthorizes the programs of: (1) part B, Foreign Language Assistance (the Foreign Language Assistance Act of 1994); and (2) part C, Emergency Immigrant Education.
Title
IV
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Safe and Drug-free Schools and Communities
Revises ESEA title IV, Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities, to: (1) authorize assistance for hiring drug prevention and school safety program coordinators in schools; (2) require participating schools to assess drug and violence problems, set measurable goals, use a research-based prevention framework for programs, and conduct evaluations; (3) include among uses of funds drug testing, locker searches, nationwide background checks of employees, and training in threat and crisis management and identification and response to troubled and violent youth.
Section
401
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Reauthorizes and revises as part A (State Grants) the current ESEA title IV (the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994), including: (1) State grants for drug and violence prevention programs, including programs for Native Hawaiians; and (2) national programs.
Revises requirements for: (1) SEAs, LEAs, and Governors, in developing program applications; (2) school accountability; and (3) national evaluations.
Directs the Secretary to establish a National Coordinator Program of grants to LEAs to hire drug prevention and school safety program coordinators.
Establishes the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Advisory Committee to review regulations and standards.
Revises requirements relating to national programs, including specified Federal activities as well as grants for local hate crime prevention.
Section
402
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Redesignates Gun Possession as part B of title IV (it is currently under title XIV part F, known as the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994). Revises requirements for States receiving ESEA funds to require LEA agencies to: (1) expel from school for at least one year any student who brings a weapon to school, allowing for case-by-case modifications; and (2) have a policy requiring each school to refer to the criminal justice or juvenile delinquency system any student who brings a firearm to school.
Section
403
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Establishes as ESEA title IV part C School Safety and Violence Prevention. Allows Federal funds provided under title IV and certain title V provisions of ESEA to be used for: (1) training school personnel in threat identification, crisis preparedness and intervention, and emergency response; (2) training parents, teachers, school personnel and community members in identifying and responding to early warning signs of troubled and violent youth; (3) establishing innovative research-based delinquency and violence prevention programs, including school anti-violence and mentoring programs; (4) making comprehensive school security assessments; (5) purchasing school security equipment and technologies, including metal detectors, electronic locks, and surveillance cameras; (6) establishing collaborative efforts with community-based organizations, including faith-based organizations, statewide consortia, and law enforcement agencies; (7) assisting States, LEAs, or schools to establish school uniform policies; (8) assisting school resource officers, including community policing officers; and (9) establishing other innovative, local responses.
Provides that nothing in the ESEA can be construed to prohibit States, LEAs, or schools from establishing a school uniform policy.
Requires States receiving Federal funds under ESEA to establish a procedure for transfer of a student's suspension and expulsion disciplinary records by LEAs to any private or public elementary or secondary school in which a student is or seeks to be enrolled. Makes such requirement inapplicable to such records transferred from nonpublic schools or entities.
Amends the National Child Protection Act of 1993 to allow certain funds under such Act to be made available for background checks on individuals who are employed, or seek employment, with schools in any capacity, including as a child care provider, teacher, or another member of school personnel.
Section
404
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Pro-Children Act of 2001 - Redesignates as ESEA title IV part D Environmental Tobacco Smoke prohibitions current similar requirements for a tobacco smoke-free environment for schools under part C of title X of the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, which is herewith repealed. Reauthorizes prohibitions against smoking within any indoor facility used for routine or regular provision of children's services (up to age 18), including health, day care, early development, education, or library services. Sets forth procedures for civil penalties and administrative compliance orders to be enforced by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Title
V
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Public School Choice and Flexibility
Sets forth as ESEA title V, Public School Choice and Flexibility. (Eliminates current title V. Promoting Equity, current parts B and C provisions for Women's Educational Equity and for Assistance to Address School Dropout Problems.)
Section
501
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Sets forth part A Public School Choice to: (1) reauthorize provisions for public Charter Schools (current title X, part C) and for Magnet Schools assistance (current title V, part A); and (2) establish a Public School Choice program.
Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 2001 - Revises and reauthorizes (under part B Flexibility) provisions for education flexibility partnerships.
Rural Education Achievement Program - Revises and reauthorizes (under part B Flexibility) provisions for a Rural Education Initiative, with grants for small rural schools and for low-income and rural schools.
Reauthorizes and revises (under part B Flexibility) provisions for: (1) waivers of certain ESEA requirements; and (2) certain Innovative Education Program Strategies (currently under title VI).
Reauthorizes current title XIV part B as part C Flexibility in the Use of Administrative and Other Funds.
Reauthorizes current title XIV part C as part D Coordination of Programs; Consolidated State and Local Plans and Applications.
Access to High Standards Act - Establishes part E Advanced Placement (AP) Programs of assistance to increase the access of low-income students to AP high school courses and AP tests to earn advanced placement and credits at institutions of higher education.
Title
VI
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Parental Involvement and Accountability
Sets forth a new ESEA title VI, Parental Involvement and Accountability, with part A Parental Assistance authorizing Parental Information and Resource Centers (currently under the Goals 200: Educate America Act). (Certain current title VI provisions for Innovative Education Program Strategies are transferred to and revised under title V.)
Section
601
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Sets forth part B, Improving Academic Achievement, which: (1) authorizes various education performance awards for States and schools; and (2) penalizes States that fail to achieve progress in certain educational assessments by reducing administrative funds under ESEA formula grant programs.
Title
VII
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Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education
Reauthorizes and revises title VII Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education (current title IX).
Title
VIII
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Repeals
Repeals the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, and the following ESEA titles: (1) IX, transferred to VII; (2) X, Programs of National Significance, including the Fund for the Improvement of Education and programs for gifted and talented children, arts in education, inexpensive book distribution, civic education, Ellender fellowships, urban and rural education assistance, and the national writing project; (3) XI, Coordinated Services; (4) XII, School Facilities Infrastructure Improvement, a program of grants for school construction and renovation; (5) XIII, Support and Assistance Programs to Improve Education, including comprehensive regional assistance centers, the national diffusion network, Eisenhower regional mathematics and science education consortia, and technology-based technical assistance; and (6) XIV, some general provisions.
Title
IX
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Miscellaneous Provisions
Authorizes the Secretary to award a grant to the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to enable it to conduct an ongoing evaluation (for up to four years) of a representative sample of SEAs and LEAs on the intended and unintended consequences of high stakes assessments on: (1) individual students, teachers, parents, families, schools, and school districts; (2) students with disabilities; and (3) low socio-economic students, limited English proficient students, and minority students.
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Slip Laws
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- Public Law 88-210:
H.R. 4955 (88th): An Act to strengthen and improve the quality of vocational education and to expand the vocational education opportunities in the Nation, to extend for three years the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and Public Laws 815 and 874, Ei - Public Law 103-150:
S.J.Res. 19 (103rd): A joint resolution to acknowledge the 100th anniversary of the January 17, 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and to offer an apology to Native Hawaiians on behalf of the United States for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. - Public Law 103-239:
H.R. 2884 (103rd): School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 - Public Law 104-134:
H.R. 3019 (104th): Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 - Public Law 105-332:
H.R. 1853 (105th): Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 - Public Law 106-554:
H.R. 4577 (106th): Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001
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- Title 5: GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
- Part I: THE AGENCIES GENERALLY
- Chapter 5: ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
- Subchapter II: ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
- Section 554: Adjudications
- Title 16: CONSERVATION
- Chapter 1: NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
- Subchapter XLI: HAWAII NATIONAL PARK
- Section 391b: Extension of boundaries
- Section 391b-1: Laws applicable to added lands
- Section 392b: Conveyance of added lands to United States by Governor
- Section 392c: Addition to Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
- Section 396: Additional lands; acceptance of title
- Section 396a: Lease of lands to native Hawaiians, residence requirements; fishing
- Chapter 1A: HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
- Subchapter II: NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION
- Section 470: Short title; Congressional finding and declaration of policy
- Title 18: CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
- Part I: CRIMES
- Chapter 44: FIREARMS
- Section 921: Definitions
- Title 20: EDUCATION
- Chapter 3: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
- Subchapter XIII: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
- Section 80q: Findings
- Chapter 28: HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE
- Subchapter III: INSTITUTIONAL AID
- Part A: Strengthening Institutions
- Section 1059d: Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions
- Chapter 31: GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING EDUCATION
- Subchapter III: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS AND CONDITIONS CONCERNING OPERATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS: GENERAL AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY
- Part 4: Records; Privacy; Limitation on Withholding Federal Funds
- Section 1232g: Family educational and privacy rights
- Chapter 33: EDUCATION OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES
- Subchapter I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Section 1400: Short title; findings; purposes
- Subchapter II: ASSISTANCE FOR EDUCATION OF ALL CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
- Section 1411: Authorization; allotment; use of funds; authorization of appropriations
- Chapter 44: CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
- Subchapter I: CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION ASSISTANCE TO THE STATES
- Part A: Allotment and Allocation
- Section 2326: Native American programs
- Chapter 56: AMERICAN INDIAN, ALASKA NATIVE, AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN CULTURE AND ART DEVELOPMENT
- Section 4401: Findings
- Chapter 68: NATIONAL EDUCATION REFORM
- Section 5801: Purpose
- Chapter 70: STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
- Subchapter I: IMPROVING THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DISADVANTAGED
- Section 6301: Statement of purpose
- Section 6302: Authorization of appropriations
- Section 6303: School improvement
- Part A: Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies
- Subpart 1: basic program requirements
- Section 6311: State plans
- Section 6312: Local educational agency plans
- Section 6313: Eligible school attendance areas
- Section 6314: Schoolwide programs
- Section 6315: Targeted assistance schools
- Section 6316: Academic assessment and local educational agency and school improvement
- Section 6317: School support and recognition
- Section 6318: Parental involvement
- Section 6319: Qualifications for teachers and paraprofessionals
- Section 6320: Participation of children enrolled in private schools
- Section 6321: Fiscal requirements
- Section 6322: Coordination requirements
- Subpart 2: allocations
- Section 6331: Grants for the outlying areas and the Secretary of the Interior
- Part B: Student Reading Skills Improvement Grants
- Subpart 1: reading first
- Section 6361: Purposes
- Part C: Education of Migratory Children
- Section 6391: Program purpose
- Section 6394: State applications; services
- Section 6396: Comprehensive needs assessment and service-delivery plan; authorized activities
- Section 6398: Coordination of migrant education activities
- Part D: Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk
- Section 6421: Purpose and program authorization
- Part F: Comprehensive School Reform
- Section 6511: Purpose
- Subchapter II: PREPARING, TRAINING, AND RECRUITING HIGH QUALITY TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS
- Part A: Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund
- Section 6601: Purpose
- Subchapter IV: 21ST CENTURY SCHOOLS
- Part A: Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
- Section 7101: Short title
- Subchapter VI: FLEXIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
- Part A: Improving Academic Achievement
- Subpart 1: accountability
- Section 7301: Grants for State assessments and related activities
- Subchapter VII: INDIAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN, AND ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATION
- Part A: Indian Education
- Section 7401: Statement of policy
- Subchapter IX: GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Part A: Definitions
- Section 7801: Definitions
- Part E: Uniform Provisions
- Subpart 1: private schools
- Section 7881: Participation by private school children and teachers
- Subpart 2: other provisions
- Section 7912: Unsafe school choice option
- Chapter 72: MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES
- Subchapter II: LIBRARY SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY
- Section 9122: Definitions
- Part 3: Administrative Provisions
- Subpart b: federal requirements
- Section 9161: Services for Native Americans
- Title 25: INDIANS
- Chapter 14: MISCELLANEOUS
- Subchapter II: INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE
- Part B: Contracts With States
- Section 456: Local committee of Indian parents in school districts having school boards composed of non-Indian majority
- Chapter 27: TRIBALLY CONTROLLED SCHOOL GRANTS
- Section 2507: Application with respect to Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
- Chapter 31: NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES
- Section 2901: Findings
- Section 2902: Definitions
- Chapter 32: NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION
- Section 3001: Definitions
- Title 28: JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
- Part IV: JURISDICTION AND VENUE
- Chapter 81: SUPREME COURT
- Section 1254: Courts of appeals; certiorari; certified questions
- Part V: PROCEDURE
- Chapter 133: REVIEW—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
- Section 2112: Record on review and enforcement of agency orders
- Title 29: LABOR
- Chapter 30: WORKFORCE INVESTMENT SYSTEMS
- Subchapter I: WORKFORCE INVESTMENT DEFINITIONS
- Section 2801: Definitions
- Subchapter IV: NATIONAL PROGRAMS
- Section 2911: Native American programs
- Title 31: MONEY AND FINANCE
- Subtitle II: THE BUDGET PROCESS
- Chapter 13: APPROPRIATIONS
- Subchapter III: LIMITATIONS, EXCEPTIONS, AND PENALTIES
- Section 1342: Limitation on voluntary services
- Title 42: THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
- Chapter 7: SOCIAL SECURITY
- Subchapter IV: GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID AND SERVICES TO NEEDY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND FOR CHILD-WELFARE SERVICES
- Part A: Block Grants to States for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- Section 604: Use of grants
- Chapter 21: CIVIL RIGHTS
- Subchapter I: GENERALLY
- Section 1996: Protection and preservation of traditional religions of Native Americans
- Subchapter V: FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS
- Section 2000d: Prohibition against exclusion from participation in, denial of benefits of, and discrimination under federally assisted programs on ground of race, color, or national origin
- Chapter 34: ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM
- Subchapter VIII: NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS
- Section 2991: Short title
- Chapter 35: PROGRAMS FOR OLDER AMERICANS
- Subchapter I: DECLARATION OF OBJECTIVES AND DEFINITIONS
- Section 3001: Congressional declaration of objectives
- Chapter 46: JUSTICE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT
- Subchapter XII-H: GRANTS TO COMBAT VIOLENT CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
- Section 3796gg-2: Definitions and grant conditions
- Chapter 67: CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT AND ADOPTION REFORM
- Subchapter VI: CHILD ABUSE CRIME INFORMATION AND BACKGROUND CHECKS
- Section 5119c: Definitions
- Chapter 72: JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION
- Subchapter III: RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH
- Section 5701: Findings
- Chapter 106: COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
- Section 9902: Definitions
- Chapter 119: HOMELESS ASSISTANCE
- Subchapter VI: EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- Part B: Education for Homeless Children and Youths
- Section 11431: Statement of policy
- Section 11432: Grants for State and local activities for the education of homeless children and youths
- Section 11433: Local educational agency subgrants for the education of homeless children and youths
- Section 11434: Secretarial responsibilities
- Section 11434a: Definitions
- Section 11435: Authorization of appropriations
- Chapter 130: NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING
- Subchapter I: GENERAL PROVISIONS AND POLICIES
- Section 12705: State and local housing strategies
- Title 47: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Chapter 5: WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
- Subchapter III: SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO RADIO
- Part IV: Assistance for Planning and Construction of Public Telecommunications Facilities; Telecommunications Demonstrations; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; General Provisions
- Subpart e: general provisions
- Section 397: Definitions
- Other Citations
- 20 U.S.C. 8801et seq.
- 20 U.S.C. 1201a(2)
Statutes at Large
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- 30 Stat. 750
- 42 Stat. 108
- 52 Stat. 781
- 73 Stat. 4
- 88 Stat. 2213
- 102 Stat. 130
- 107 Stat. 1510
- 108 Stat. 3518
- 110 Stat. 1321-229
- 112 Stat. 3076
Other Citations
- 5 U.S.C. Chapter 57
- 31 U.S.C. Chapter 75