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 PUBLIC LAW 103-227—MAR. 31, 1994 108 STAT. 169 (E) supporting innovative and proven methods of enhancing a teacher's ability to identify student learning needs, and motivating students to develop higher order thinking skills, discipline, and creative resolution methods; (F) supporting the development, at the State or local level, of performance-based accountability and incentive systems for schools; (G) outreach to and training for parents, tribal officials, organizations serving young children, classroom teachers, related services personnel, and other educators, and the public, related to education improvement; (H) providing technical assistance and other services to increase the capacity of local educational agencies and schools to develop and implement systemic local improvement plans, implement new State assessments, and develop curricula consistent with the State content standards and State student performance standards; (I) promoting public magnet schools, public "charter schools", and other mechanisms for increasing choice among public schools, including information and referral programs which provide parents with information on available choices; (J) supporting activities relating to the planning of, and evaluation of, projects under which local educational agencies or schools contract with private management organizations to reform a school; (K) supporting intergenerational mentoring programs; (L) supporting the development, at the State or local level, of school-based programs that restore discipline and reduce violence in schools and communities, such as community mobilization programs; and (M) collecting and analyzing data. (c) LIMIT ON ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS. —A State educational agency that receives an allotment under this title in any fiscal year shall use not more than 4 percent of such allotment in such year, or $100,000, whichever is greater, for administrative expenses, which administrative expenses shall not include the expenses related to the activities of the panel established under section 306(b)(1). (d) SPECIAL RULE. —Any new public school established under this title— (1) shall be nonsectarian; (2) shall not be affiliated with a nonpublic sectarian school or religious institution; and (3) shall operate under the authority of a State educational agency or local educational agency. SEC. 309. SUBGRANTS FOR LOCAL REFORM AND PROFESSIONAL 20 USC 5889. DEVELOPMENT. (a) SUBGRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES.— (1) IN GENERAL. — (A) Each State educational agency shall make subgrants, through a competitive process to carry out the authorized activities described in paragraph (4), to local educational agencies (or consortia of such agencies) in accordance with section 308. (B) In making such subgrants, the State educational agency Urban and shall award not less than 1 subgrant in each fiscal year to ^^^^^ ^^^^^-

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