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 PUBLIC LAW 103-227—MAR. 31, 1994 108 STAT. 239 as such polic)anakers pursue school restructuring and reform. (D) A concentrated Federal effort is needed to support research, development, demonstration, and evaluation of approaches to scnool governance, finance and management which promise to improve education equity and excellence throughout the United States. (2) PURPOSE. —It shall be the purpose of the National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policy-Making, and Management to carry out a coordinated and comprehensive program of research and development to provide nonpartisan, research-based leadership to the United States as it seeks to improve student achievement through school restructuring and reform. Such program shall undertake research necessary to provide a sound basis from which to identify, develop and evaluate approaches in elementary and secondary school governance, finance, policy-making, and management at the State, local, tribal, scnool building and classroom level which promise to improve educational equity and excellence, such as— (A) open enrollment programs, public school choice, magnet schools and other systems through which parents may select the public schools and educational programs in which their children are enrolled; (B) innovative school design, including lengthening the school day and the school year, reducing class size and building professional development into the weekly school schedule and, as appropriate, conducting such further research as may be recommended or suggested by the report issued by the National Education Commission on Time and Learning pursuant to section 102 of the Education Council Act of 1991 (20 U.S.C. 1221 -1 note); (C) effective approaches to organizing learning; (D) effective ways of grouping students for learning so that a student is not labeled or stigmatized in ways that may impede such student's achievement; (E) effective approaches to organizing, structuring, and financing vocational education; (F) the provision of financial and other rewards and incentives to schools and educators based on performance to improve student achievement; (G) the use of regulatory flexibility on the State or school district level to promote innovation and school restructuring; (H) policy decisions at all levels and the impact of such decisions on school achievement and other student outcomes; (I) the effective use of dollars for classroom construction; (J) expanding the role of teachers in polic3anaking and administration at the school and school districtwide level; (K) disparity in school financing among States, school districts, schools, and schools funded by the Bureau; (L) the use of technology in areas such as assisting in school-based management or ameliorating the effects of disparity in school financing among States, school districts, and schools funded by the Bureau;

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