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 PUBLIC LAW 105-244—OCT. 7, 1998 112 STAT. 1627 "(d) REQUIRED USES OF FUNDS. — An eligible partnership that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant funds to carry out the following activities: "(1) REFORMS. —Implementing reforms within teacher preparation programs to hold the programs accountable for preparing teachers who are highly competent in the academic content areas in which the teachers plan to teach, and for promoting strong teaching skills, including working with a school of arts and sciences and integrating reliable researchbased teaching methods into the curriculum, which curriculum shall include programs designed to successfully integrate technology into teaching and learning. " (2) CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND INTERACTION. —Providing sustained and high quality preservice clinical experience including the mentoring of prospective teachers by veteran teachers, and substantially increasing interaction between faculty at institutions of higher education and new and experienced teachers, principals, and other administrators at elementary schools or secondary schools, and providing support, including preparation time, for such interaction. "(3) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.— Creating opportunities for enhanced and ongoing professional development that improves the academic content knowledge of teachers in the subject areas in which the teachers are certified to teach or in which the teachers are working toward certification to teach, and that promotes strong teaching skills. "(e) ALLOWABLE USES OF FUNDS. — An eligible partnership that receives a grant under this section may use such funds to carry out the following activities: " (1) TEACHER PREPARATION AND PARENT INVOLVEMENT. — Preparing teachers to work with diverse student populations, including individuals with disabilities and limited English proficient individuals, and involving parents in the teacher preparation program reform process. "(2) DISSEMINATION AND COORDINATION.—Broadly disseminating information on effective practices used by the partnership, and coordinating with the activities of the Gfovemor, State board of education, State higher education agency, and State educational agency, as appropriate. "(3) MANAGERIAL AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS. —Developing and implementing proven mechanisms to provide principals and superintendents with effective managerial and leadership skills that result in increased student achievement. "(4) TEACHER RECRUITMENT.— Activities described in section 204(d). "(f) SPECIAL RULE. —No individual member of an eligible partnership shall retain more than 50 percent of the funds made available to the partnership under this section. "(g) CONSTRUCTION. —Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit an eligible partnership from using grant funds to coordinate with the activities of more than one Governor, State board of education. State educational agency, local educational agency, or State agency for higher education. 'SEC. 204. TEACHER RECRUITMENT GRANTS. 20 USC 1024. "(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED. —From amounts made available under section 210(3) for a fiscal year, the Secretary is authorized

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