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 PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 112 STAT. 2681-364 consistent with current departmental practices and policies: Provided further, That $8,000,000 shall be awarded to continue and expand the Iowa Communications Network statewide fiber optic demonstration project, and $800,000 shall be awarded to the School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks to enhance distance delivery of natural resources management courses; $350,000 shall be for multi-media classrooms for the rural education technology center at the Western Montana College in Dillon, Montana: Provided further, That of the funds made available for section 3136, $2,500,000 shall be to establish the RUNet 2000 project at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; $500,000 snail be for state-of-the-art information technology systems at Mansfield University, Mansfield, Pennsylvania; $1,000,000 shall be for professional development for technology training at the Krell Institute, Ames, Iowa; $850,000 shall be for Internet-based curriculum at the State of Alaska, Department of Education; $2,000,000 shall be for "Magnet E-School" technology training and curriculum initiative at the Hawaii Department of Education; $600,000 shall be for technology in the classroom pilot program for the Green Bay Public School System, Green Bay, Wisconsin; $250,000 shall be for the "Passport to Chicago Community Network" technology training project; $1,200,000 for LEARN North Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and $1,500,000 for the Iowa Department of Education for community college grants to low-income schools for technology. EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and section 418A of the Higher Education Act, $8,370,520,000, of which $2,198,134,000 shall become available on July 1, 1999, and shall remain available through September 30, 2000, and of which $6,148,386,000 shall become available on October 1, 1999 and shall remain available through September 30, 2000, for academic year 1999-2000: Provided, That $6,574,000,000 shall be available for basic grants under section 1124: Provided further. That up to $3,500,000 of these funds shall be available to the Secretary on October 1, 1998, to obtain updated local-educational-agency-level census poverty data from the Bureau of the Census: Provided further. That $1,102,020,000 shall be available for concentration grants under section 1124A, $7,500,000 shall be available for evaluations under section 1501 and not more than $8,500,000 shall be reserved for section 1308, of which not more than $3,000,000 shall be reserved for section 1308(d): Provided further. That grant awards under section 1124 and 1124A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act shall be made to each State or local educational agency at no less than 100 percent of the amount such State or local educational agency received under this authority for fiscal year 1998: Provided further. That $120,000,000 shall be available under section 1002(g)(2) to demonstrate effective approaches to comprehensive school reform to be allocated and expended in accordance with the instructions relating to this activity in the statement of the managers on the conference report accompanying Public Law 105-78 and in the statement of the managers on the conference report accompanying this Act: Provided further. That in carrying out this initiative, the Secretary and the States shall support only approaches that show the most promise of enabling children served by title I to

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