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 108 STAT. 3604 PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994 "(1) IN GENERAL.— The Secretary, through the Office of Education Research and Improvement, shall conduct a study to identify and describe— "(A) common barriers to effective parental involvement in the education of participating children; and "(B) successful local policies and programs which improve parental involvement and the performance of participating children. "(2) DUTIES OF SECRETARY. —The Secretary shall— "(A) complete such study by December 31, 1996; Reports. "(B) report the findings of such study to the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate; and "(C) disseminate the findings, relating to the successful local policies and programs which improve parental involvement and the performance of participating children, to local educational agencies. 20 USC 6492. "SEC. 1502. DEMONSTRATIONS OF INNOVATIVE PRACTICES. " (a) DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE ACHIEVEMENT.— "(1) IN GENERAL.— From the funds appropriated for any fiscal year under section 1002(g)(2), the Secretary may make grants to State educational agencies, local educational agencies, other public agencies, nonprofit organizations, public or private partnerships involving business and industry organizations, and consortia of such entities to carry out demonstration projects that show the most promise of enabling children served under this title to meet challenging State content standards and challenging State student performance standards. Such projects shall include promising strategies such as— "(A) accelerated curricula, the application of new technologies to improve teaching and learning, extended learning time, and a safe and enriched full-day environment ^ for children to provide children the opportunity to reach such standards; "(B) integration of education services with each other and with health, family, and other social services such as mentoring programs, particularly in empowerment zones and enterprise communities; "(C) effective approaches to whole school reform; "(D) programs that have been especially effective with limited-English-proficient children, migratory children and other highly mobile students, children leaving institutions for neglected or delinquent children and returning to school, and homeless children and youth; "(E) programs which are especially effective in recruiting, inducting, and retaining highly qualified teachers for service in schools with low student achievement; and "(F) programs that are built upon partnerships developed between elementary and middle schools, employers, and the community, which emphasize the integration of high quality academic and vocational learning, stress excellence and high expectations for success in academic subjects, instill responsibility, decisionmaking, problem solving, interpersonal skills, and other compentencies in students, and make school relevant to the workplace and

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