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 PUBLIC LAW 100-297—APR. 28, 1988

102 STAT. 221

desire that their children and teachers participate in programs or projects assisted under this part. "(B) The State educational agency shall distribute 50 percent Disadvantaged of the funds available under this subsection based on the pei^^ns. relative number of children aged 5 to 17 who— "(i) are from families below the poverty level as determined under section 1005(c)(2)(A) of this Act; and "(ii) are from families above the poverty level as determined under section 1005(c)(2)(B) of this Act; in the schools of the local educational agencies within the State. "(b) HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS.—For each fiscal year, 25 percent of each State's allotment under section 2004 shall be used for higher education programs in accordance with section 2007. "SEC. 2006. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

Disadvantaged persons. Women. Minorities. Handicapped persons. 20 USC 2986.

"(a) IN GENERAL.—The amount apportioned under section 2005(a)(2) from each State's allotment under this part shall be used by the State educational agency to strengthen elementary and secondary education programs in accordance with the provisions of this section. "(b) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES.—(1) Each local educational agency shall use funds distributed under this part for— "(A) the expansion and improvement of preservice training, inservice training, and retraining of teachers and other appropriate school personnel in the fields of mathematics and science, including vocational education teachers who use mathematics and science in the courses of study they teach; "(B) recruitment or retraining of minority teachers to become mathematics and science teachers; "(C) training in and instructional use of computers, video, and other telecommunications technologies as part of a mathematics and science program (which may include the purchase of computers or other telecommunications equipment in schools with an enrollment of 50 percent or more of students from lowincome families after all other training needs have been met); "(D) integrating higher order analytical and problem-solving skills into the mathematics and science curriculum; or "(E) providing funds for grants projects for individual teachers within the local educational agency to undertake projects to improve their teaching ability or to improve the instructional materials used in their classrooms in mathematics and science. "(2) Such training and instruction may be carried out through Contracts, agreements with public agencies, private industry, institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations, including museums, libraries, educational television stations, professional science, mathematics and engineering associations, and other appropriate institutions. Agreements for funds available under section 2004(a)(l)(B) may be made with institutions of higher education receiving funds under the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978. A local educational agency may carry out the activities authorized by this paragraph with one or more other local educational agencies within the State, or with the State educational agency, or both. Each local educational agency shall assure that programs of training, inservice training and retraining will take into account the need for greater access to and participation in mathematics and science programs and careers of students from historically underrepresented groups, including females, minorities,

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