PART VII-GOALS 2000: EDUCATE AMERICA ACT Goals 2000: Educate America Act (Public Law 103-227) AN ACT To improve learning and teaching by providing a national framework for education reform; to promote the research, consensus building, and systemic changes needed to ensure equitable educational opportunities and high levels of educational achievement for all students; to provide a framework for reauthorization of all Federal education programs; to promote the development and adoption of a voluntary national system of skill standards and certifications; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. [20 U.S.C. 5801 note] SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act (other than titles V and IX) may be cited as the "Goals 2000: Educate America Act”. (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Purpose. Sec. 3. Definitions. Sec. 101. Purpose. TITLE I-NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS Sec. 102. National education goals. TITLE II-NATIONAL EDUCATION REFORM LEADERSHIP, STANDARDS, AND ASSESSMENTS Sec. 201. Purpose. PART A-NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS PANEL Sec. 202. National Education Goals Panel. Sec. 203. Duties. Sec. 204. Powers of the Goals Panel. Sec. 205. Administrative provisions. Sec. 206. Director and staff; experts and consultants. Sec. 207. Early childhood assessment. PART B-LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Sec. 231. Purposes. Sec. 232. Federal leadership. Sec. 233. Office of educational technology. Sec. 234. Uses of funds. Sec. 235. Non-Federal share. Sec. 236. Office of training technology transfer. PART C-AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS Sec. 241. Authorization of appropriations. TITLE III-STATE AND LOCAL EDUCATION SYSTEMIC IMPROVEMENT Sec. 301. Findings. Sec. 302. Purpose. Sec. 303. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 304. Allotment of funds. Sec. 305. State applications. Sec. 306. State improvement plans. Sec. 307. Secretary's review of applications; payments. Sec. 308. State use of funds. Sec. 309. Subgrants for local reform and professional development. Sec. 310. Availability of information and training. Sec. 311. Waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements. Sec. 312. Progress reports. Sec. 313. Technical and other assistance regarding school finance equity. Sec. 314. National leadership. Sec. 315. Assistance to the outlying areas and to the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 317. State planning for improving student achievement through integration of technology into the curriculum. Sec. 318. Prohibition on Federal mandates, direction, and control. Sec. 319. State and local government control of education. TITLE IV-PARENTAL ASSISTANCE Sec. 401. Parental information and resource centers. TITLE VI-INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Sec. 601. International Education Program. TITLE VII-SAFE SCHOOLS Sec. 701. Short title; statement of purpose. Sec. 704. Applications and plans. Sec. 705. Use of funds. Sec. 706. National activities. Sec. 707. National cooperative education statistics system. Sec. 708. Reports. Sec. 709. Coordination of Federal assistance. TITLE VIII-MINORITY-FOCUSED CIVICS EDUCATION Sec. 801. Short title. Sec. 802. Purposes. Sec. 803. Grants authorized; authorization of appropriations. Sec. 805. Applications. TITLE IX-EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT Sec. 901. Short title. PART A-GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT Sec. 911. Repeal. Sec. 912. Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Sec. 913. Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement. Sec. 914. Savings provision. Sec. 915. Existing grants and contracts. PART B-NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH POLICY AND PRIORITIES BOARD Sec. 921. Establishment within Office of Educational Research and Improvement. PART C-NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES Sec. 931. Establishment within the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. PART D-NATIONAL EDUCATION DISSEMINATION SYSTEM Sec. 941. Establishment within Office of Educational Research and Improvement. PART E-NATIONAL LIBRARY OF EDUCATION Sec. 951. Establishment within Office of Educational Research and Improvement. PART F-STAR SCHOOLS Sec. 961. Star schools. PART G-OFFICE OF COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION Sec. 971. Office of Comprehensive School Health Education. Sec. 981. Field readers. PART H-FIELD READERS PART I-AMENDMENTS TO THE CARL D. PERKINS VOCATIONAL AND APPLIED Sec. 991. National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee. TITLE X-MISCELLANEOUS PART A-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Sec. 1011. School prayer. Sec. 1012. Funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Sec. 1014. Forgiveness of certain overpayments. Sec. 1015. Study of goals 2000 and students with disabilities. Sec. 1016. Amendments to summer youth employment and training program. Sec. 1018. Contraceptive devices. Sec. 1019. Assessments. Sec. 1020. Public schools. Sec. 1021. Assessment of educational progress activities. Sec. 1022. Sense of the Congress. Sec. 1031. Short title. PART B-GUN-FREE SCHOOLS Sec. 1032. Gun-free requirements in elementary and secondary schools. PART C-ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE Sec. 1041. Short title. Sec. 1042. Definitions. Sec. 1043. Nonsmoking policy for children's services. Sec. 1044. Preemption. PART D-MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL LEAGUE TRAINING AND PARTNERSHIP Sec. 1051. Short title. Sec. 1052. Grants for midnight basketball league training and partnership pro grams. Sec. 1053. Public housing midnight basketball league programs. SEC. 2. [20 U.S.C. 5801] PURPOSE. The purpose of this Act is to provide a framework for meeting the National Education Goals established by title I of this Act by(1) promoting coherent, nationwide, systemic education re form; (2) improving the quality of learning and teaching in the classroom and in the workplace; (3) defining appropriate and coherent Federal, State, and local roles and responsibilities for education reform and lifelong learning; (4) establishing valid and reliable mechanisms for (A) building a broad national consensus on American education reform; (B) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality, internationally competitive content and student performance standards; and (C) assisting in the development and certification of high-quality assessment measures that reflect the internationally competitive content and student performance standards; (5) supporting new initiatives at the Federal, State, local, and school levels to provide equal educational opportunity for all students to meet high academic and occupational skill standards and to succeed in the world of employment and civic participation; (6) providing a framework for the reauthorization of all Federal education programs by (A) creating a vision of excellence and equity that will guide all Federal education and related programs; (B) providing for the establishment of high-quality, internationally competitive content and student performance standards and strategies that all students will be expected to achieve; (C) encouraging and enabling all State educational agencies and local educational agencies to develop comprehensive improvement plans that will provide a coherent framework for the implementation of reauthorized Federal education and related programs in an integrated fashion that effectively educates all children to prepare them to participate fully as workers, parents, and citizens; (D) providing resources to help individual schools, including those serving students with high needs, develop and implement comprehensive improvement plans; and (E) promoting the use of technology to enable all students to achieve the National Education Goals; (7) stimulating the development and adoption of a voluntary national system of skill standards and certification to serve as a cornerstone of the national strategy to enhance workforce skills; and (8) assisting every elementary and secondary school that receives funds under this Act to actively involve parents and families in supporting the academic work of their children at home and in providing parents with skills to advocate for their children at school. SEC. 3. [20 U.S.C. 5802] DEFINITIONS. (a) TITLES I, II, III, AND X.-As used in titles I, II, III, and X of this Act (1) the terms "all students" and "all children” mean students or children from a broad range of backgrounds and circumstances, including disadvantaged students and children, students or children with diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, students or children with disabilities, students or children with limited-English proficiency, school-aged students or children who have dropped out of school, migratory students or children, and academically talented students and children; (2) the term "Bureau", unless otherwise provided, means the Bureau of Indian Affairs; (3) the terms "community", "public", and "advocacy_group" include representatives of organizations advocating for the education of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children and Indian tribes; (4) the term "content standards" means broad descriptions of the knowledge and skills students should acquire in a particular subject area; (5) the term "Governor" means the chief executive of the State; (6) the terms "local educational agency" and "State educational agency" have the meaning given such terms in section 14101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (7) the term "outlying areas" means Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau (until the effective date of the Compact of Free Association with the Government of Palau), the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia; (8) the term "performance standards" means concrete examples and explicit definitions of what students have to know and be able to do to demonstrate that such students are proficient in the skills and knowledge framed by content standards; (9) the term "related services" has the same meaning given such term under section 602(a)(17) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; (10) the term "State assessment" means measures of student performance which include at least 1 instrument of evaluation, and may include other measures of student performance, for a specific purpose and use which are intended to evaluate the progress of all students in the State toward learning the material in State content standards in 1 or more subject areas; (11) the term "school" means a public school that is under the authority of the State educational agency or a local educational agency or, for the purpose of carrying out section 315(b), a school that is operated or funded by the Bureau; (12) the term "Secretary", unless otherwise provided, means the Secretary of Education; and |