§ 7215. Local uses of funds
(a)
Innovative assistance programs
Funds made available to local educational agencies under section
7211a of this title shall be used for innovative assistance programs, which may include any of the following:
(1)
Programs to recruit, train, and hire highly qualified teachers to reduce class size, especially in the early grades, and professional development activities carried out in accordance with subchapter II of this chapter, that give teachers, principals, and administrators the knowledge and skills to provide students with the opportunity to meet challenging State or local academic content standards and student academic achievement standards.
(2)
Technology activities related to the implementation of school-based reform efforts, including professional development to assist teachers and other school personnel (including school library media personnel) regarding how to use technology effectively in the classrooms and the school library media centers involved.
(3)
Programs for the development or acquisition and use of instructional and educational materials, including library services and materials (including media materials), academic assessments, reference materials, computer software and hardware for instructional use, and other curricular materials that are tied to high academic standards, that will be used to improve student academic achievement, and that are part of an overall education reform program.
(5)
Programs to improve the academic achievement of educationally disadvantaged elementary school and secondary school students, including activities to prevent students from dropping out of school.
(6)
Programs to improve the literacy skills of adults, especially the parents of children served by the local educational agency, including adult education and family literacy programs.
(8)
The planning, design, and initial implementation of charter schools as described in part B of this subchapter.
(10)
Community service programs that use qualified school personnel to train and mobilize young people to measurably strengthen their communities through nonviolence, responsibility, compassion, respect, and moral courage.
(11)
Activities to promote consumer, economic, and personal finance education, such as disseminating information on and encouraging use of the best practices for teaching the basic principles of economics and promoting the concept of achieving financial literacy through the teaching of personal financial management skills (including the basic principles involved with earning, spending, saving, and investing).
(14)
Expansion and improvement of school-based mental health services, including early identification of drug use and violence, assessment, and direct individual or group counseling services provided to students, parents, and school personnel by qualified school-based mental health services personnel.
(15)
Alternative educational programs for those students who have been expelled or suspended from their regular educational setting, including programs to assist students to reenter the regular educational setting upon return from treatment or alternative educational programs.
(17)
Academic intervention programs that are operated jointly with community-based organizations and that support academic enrichment, and counseling programs conducted during the school day (including during extended school day or extended school year programs), for students most at risk of not meeting challenging State academic achievement standards or not completing secondary school.
(20)
Activities that encourage and expand improvements throughout the area served by the local educational agency that are designed to advance student academic achievement.
(22)
Programs and activities that expand learning opportunities through best-practice models designed to improve classroom learning and teaching.
(25)
School safety programs, including programs to implement the policy described in section
9507 [1] and which may include payment of reasonable transportation costs and tuition costs for such students.
(b)
Requirements
The innovative assistance programs described in subsection (a) of this section shall be—
(c)
Guidelines
Not later than 120 days after January 8, 2002, the Secretary shall issue guidelines for local educational agencies seeking funding for programs described in subsection (a)(23) of this section.
[1] So in original. Pub. L. 89–10 does not contain a section 9507.