area of education of handicapped children. Such members shall Tenure. "(c) The Council shall make an annual report of its findings and recommendations (including recommendations for changes in the provisions of this title) to the President and the Congress not later than January 20 of each year. The President is requested to transmit to the Congress such comments and recommendations as he may have with respect to such report." Report to President and (b) In the case of any fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1973, each State submitting a State plan under title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 shall assure Ante, p. 130. the Commissioner of Education that it will expend for the purpose described in paragraph (4) of section 303 (b) of such title III an amount at least equal to 50 per centum of the amount expended by that State for the purposes of title V-A of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 from funds appropriated pursuant to such title V-A for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970. (c) Any appropriation for the purposes of title V of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 for any fiscal year ending after June 30, 1970, shall be deemed to have been appropriated pursuant to section 301 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 1592; 72 Stat: 1103 $2 Stat. 1057. 20 USC 481-485. date. (d) The amendment made by this section shall be effective Effective with respect to fiscal years ending after June 30, 1970. PART D-AMENDMENTS TO TITLE V OF THE ELEMENTARY AND EXTENSION OF TITLE V OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 SEC. 141. Section 501 (b) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended by striking out "and" where it appears after "1969," and by striking out all that follows "1968" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "$80,000,000 each for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1969, June 30, 1970, and June 30, 1971, $85,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and $90,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973". 79 Stat. 47: 81 Stat. 799. 20 USC 861. 84 Stat. 142. 79 Stat. 49; 20 USC 863. 79 Stat. 47. 20 USC 861870. PROVISION RELATING TO GIFTED AND TALENTED CHILDREN SEC. 142. (a) Section 503 (11) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (relating to grants to strengthen State departments of education) is amended by inserting after "handicapped" a comma and the following: "and gifted and talented children”. (b) The amendment made by this section shall be effective upon enactment of this Act. STRENGTHENING LEADERSHIP AND QUALITY IN EDUCATION; IM- SEC. 143. (a) (1) The heading of title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended to read as follows: "TITLE V-STRENGTHENING STATE AND LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES". (2) Such title V is amended by inserting before section 501 thereof the following heading: "PART A-GRANTS TO STRENGTHEN STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION". (3) Section 507 of such title V, and all references thereto, is redesignated as section 553 of such title and is amended, in subsection (a), by striking out "but it does not include a local educational agency" and inserting in lieu thereof "including local educational agencies". (4) Such title V is amended (A) by striking out sections 506, 508, 509, and 510; (B) in sections 501, 502, 503, 504, and 505, by striking out "this title" wherever it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof "this part"; (C) in section 503, by inserting "and" at the end of clause (11), by striking out the semicolon at the end of clause (12) and inserting in lieu thereof a period, and by striking out clauses (13) and (14); and (D) by inserting after section 505 the following: "PART B-LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES "APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED "SEC. 521. (a) The Commissioner shall carry out a program for making grants to stimulate and assist local educational agencies in strengthening the leadership resources of their districts, and to assist those agencies in the establishment and improvement of programs to identify and meet the educational needs of their districts. "(b) For the purpose of making grants under this part, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973. "APPORTIONMENT AMONG STATES "SEC. 522. (a) From the sums appropriated for carrying out this part for each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall reserve such amount, but not in excess of 2 per centum of such sums, as he may determine and shall apportion such amount among the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands according to their respective needs for assistance under this part. The remainder of such sums shall be apportioned by the Commissioner as follows: "(A) He shall apportion 40 per centum of such remainder among the States in equal amounts. "(B) He shall apportion to each State an amount that bears the same ratio to 60 per centum of such remainder as the number of public school pupils in the State bears to the number of public school pupils in all the States, as determined by the Commissioner on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available to him. 84 Stat. 143. For purposes of this paragraph, the term 'State' does not include the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, "State." the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. "(b) The amount apportioned to any State under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required for that year shall be available for reapportionment from time to time, on such dates during that year as the Commissioner may fix, to other States in proportion to the amounts originally apportioned among those States under subsection (a) for that year, but with the proportionate amount for any of the other States being reduced to the extent it exceeds. the sum the Commissioner estimates the local educational agencies of such State need and will be able to use for that year; and the total of these reductions shall be similarly reapportioned among the States whose proportionate amounts were not so reduced. Any amount reapportioned to a State under this subsection from funds appropriated pursuant to section 521 for any fiscal year shall be deemed part of the amount apportioned to it under subsection (a) for that year. "GRANTS FROM APPORTIONED FUNDS "SEC. 523. From the amount apportioned to any State for any fiscal year under section 522 the Commissioner may, upon approval of an application in accordance with section 524 submitted to him by a local educational agency of such State, after approval by the State educational agency in accordance with section 525, make a grant or grants to such local educational agency equal to the expenditures incurred by such agency for S4 Stat. 144. the planning of, and for programs for, the development, improvement, or expansion of activities promoting the purposes set forth in section 521 (a) and more particularly described in such application and for which such application is approved. such as "(1) educational planning on a district basis, including the identification of educational problems, issues, and needs in the district and the evaluation on a periodic or continuing basis of educational programs in the district; "(2) providing support or services for the comprehensive and compatible recording, collecting, processing, analyzing, interpreting, storing, retrieving, and reporting of educa tional data including the use of automated data systems: "(3) programs for conducting, sponsoring, or cooperat ing in educational research and demonstration programs and projects such as (A) establishing and maintaining curriculum research and innovation centers to assist in locating and evaluating curriculum research findings, (B) discovering and testing new educational ideas (including new uses of printed and audiovisual media) and more ef fective educational practices, and putting into use those which show promise of success, and (C) studying ways to improve the legal and organizational structure for education, and the management and administration of education in the district of such agency; "(4) programs to improve the quality of teacher preparation, including student-teaching arrangements, in cooperation with institutions of higher education and State educational agencies; "(5) programs and other activities specifically designed to encourage the full and adequate utilization and acceptance of auxiliary personnel (such as instructional assistants and teacher aides) in elementary and secondary schools on a permanent basis; "(6) providing such agencies and the schools of such agencies with consultative and technical assistance and services relating to academic subjects and to particular aspects of education such as the education of the handicapped, the gifted and talented, and the disadvantaged, vocational education, school building design and utilization, school social work, the utilization of modern instructional materials and equipment, transportation, educational administrative procedures, and school health, physical education, and recreation; "(7) training programs for the officials of such agencies; and "(8) carrying out any such activities or programs, where appropriate, in cooperation with other local educational agencies. 66 "SEC. 524. (a) An application for a grant under this part for each fiscal year shall set forth a plan under which Federal funds received by the applicant under this part for that fiscal year "(1) contains or is supported by adequate assurance that "(2) sets forth such fiscal control and fund accounting Reports. procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for, Federal funds paid under this part; and "(3) provides for making such reports, in such form "APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS BY STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES "(1) approve only such applications for proposed proj- Records. "(A) make a significant contribution to strengthen 84 Stat. 145. the leadership resources of the applicant or its ability to participate effectively in meeting the educational "(B) involve an expenditure of at least $2,500, and "PART C-COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND EVALUATION "AUTHORIZATION "SEC. 531. (a) The Commissioner is authorized to make comprehensive planning and evaluation grants to State and local educational agencies in order to assist and stimulate them to enhance their capability to make effective progress, through comprehensive and continuing planning and evaluation, toward the achievement of opportunities for high-quality education for all segments of the population. |