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 PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994 108 STAT. 3819 "(3) the extent of involvement of teachers and other school personnel in investigating, designing, implementing and sustaining the smaller learning community or communities; "(4) the process to be used for involving students, parents and other stakeholders in the development and implementation of the smaller learning community or communities; "(5) any cooperation or collaboration among community agencies, organizations, businesses, and others to develop or implement a plan to create the smaller learning community or communities; "(6) the training and professional development activities that will be offered to teachers and others involved in the activities assisted under this part; "(7) the goals and objectives of the activities assisted under this part, including a description of how such activities will better enable all students to reach challenging State content standards and State student performance standards; "(8) the methods by which the applicant will assess progress in meeting such goals and objectives; "(9) if the smaller learning community or communities exist as a school-within-a -school, the relationship, including governance and administration, of the smaller learning community to the rest of the school; "(10) a description of the administrative and managerial relationship between the local educational agency and the smaller learning community or communities, including how such agency will demonstrate a commitment to the continuity of the smaller learning community or communities, including the continuity of student and teacher assignment to a particular learning community; "(11) how the applicant will coordinate or use funds provided under this part with other funds provided under this Act or other Federal laws; "(12) grade levels or ages of students who will participate in the smaller learning community or communities; and "(13) the method of placing students in the smaller learning community or communities, such that students are not placed according to ability, performance or any other measure, so that students are placed at random or by their own choice, not pursuant to testing or other judgments. "(b) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.— Funds under this section may be used— "(1) to study the feasibility of creating the smaller learning community or communities as well as effective and innovative organizational and instructional strategies that will be used in the smaller learning community or communities; "(2) to research, develop and implement strategies for creating the smaller learning community or communities, as well as effective and innovative changes in curriculum and instruction, geared to high State content standards and State student performance standards; "(3) to provide professional development for school staff in innovative teaching methods that challenge and engage students to be used in the smaller learning community or communities; and "(4) to develop and implement strategies to include parents, business representatives, local institutions of higher education.

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