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 112 STAT. 1660 PUBLIC LAW 105-244 —OCT. 7, 1998 that the eligible entity will provide comprehensive mentoring, counseling, outreach, and supportive services to students participating in programs under this chapter. Such counseling shall include— "(A) financial aid counseling and information regarding the opportunities for financial assistance under this title; and "(B) activities or information regarding— "(i) fostering and improving parent involvement in promoting the advantages of a college education, academic admission requirements, and the need to take college preparation courses; (ii) college admissions and achievement tests; and "(iii) college application procedures. in such plan, pursuant to regulations of the Secretary, the methods by which the eligible entity will target services on priority students described in subsection (c), if applicable. "(b) USES OF FUNDS. — Regulations. "(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, by regulation, establish criteria for determining whether, comprenensive mentoring, counseling, outreach, and supportive services programs may be used to meet the requirements of subsection (a). "(2) PERMISSIBLE ACTIVITIES. — Examples of activities that meet the requirements of subsection (a) include the following: "(A) Providing eligible students in preschool through grade 12 with a continuing system of mentoring and advising that— "(i) is coordinated with the Federal and State community service initiatives; and "(ii) may include such support services as after school and summer tutoring, assistance in obtaining summer jobs, career mentoring, and academic counseling. "(B) Requiring each student to enter into an agreement under which the student agrees to achieve certain academic milestones, such as completing a prescribed set of courses and maintaining satisfactory progress described in section 484(c), in exchange for receiving tuition assistance for a period of time to be established by each eligible entity. "(C) Activities designed to ensure secondary school completion and college enrollment of at-risk children, such as identification of at-risk children, after school and summer tutoring, assistance in obtaining summer jobs, academic counseling, volunteer and parent involvement, providing former or current scholarship recipients as mentor or peer counselors, skills assessment, providing access to rigorous core courses that reflect challenging academic standards, personal counseling, family counseling and home visits, staff development, and programs and activities described in this subparagraph that are specially designed for students of limited English proficiency. "(D) Summer programs for individuals who are in their sophomore or junior years of secondary school or are planning to attend an institution of higher education in the succeeding academic year that—
 * (2) METHODS. —The eligible entity shall demonstrate

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