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 108 STAT. 3856 PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994 "(D) activities designed in conjunction with community colleges to provide a kindergarten through grade 14 experience for rural public school secondary school students; "(E) efforts to increase voter registration among eligible public secondary school students attending schools served by rural eligible local educational agencies; "(F) activities designed to promote community service and volunteerism among students, parents, teachers, and the community; "(G) civic education, law-related education, and other programs designed to enhance responsible citizenship and understanding of the political process; and "(H) encouraging a positive role for rural public schools in local rural entrepreneurship and the identification of rural community economic development opportunities; "(9) recruit and retain qualified teachers, such as— "(A) school-based management projects and activities; "(B) programs designed to increase the status of the teaching profession; "(C) alternative routes to certification for qualified individuals from business, the military, and other fields; "(D) efforts to recruit and retain teachers in critical shortage areas, including early childhood teachers, mathematics and science teachers, foreign language teachers, and special education and bilingual teachers; "(E) upgrading the skills of existing classroom teachers through the use of year-round, systematic, comprehensive inservice training programs; "(F) upgrading the skills of teacher aides and paraprofessionals to assist such individuals in becoming certified teachers; "(G) efforts specifically designed to increase the number of minority teachers in rural public schools; "(H) programs designed to encourage parents and students to enter the teaching profession; "(I) incentives for teachers to work in rural public schools; "(J) collaborative activities with colleges and universities to revise and upgrade teacher training programs to meet the needs of rural public school students; and "(K) training activities for the purpose of incorporating distance learning technologies; or "(10) decrease the use of drugs and alcohol among rural public school students, and to enhance the physical and emotional health of such students, such as— "(A) activities designed to improve the self-esteem and self-worth of rural students; "(B) the provision of health care services and other social services and the coordination of such services with other health care providers; "(C) programs designed to improve safety and discipline and reduce in-school violence and vandalism; "(D) activities that begin in the early grades and are designed to prevent drug and alcohol abuse and smoking among students; "(E) collaborative activities with other agencies, businesses, and community groups;

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