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 PUBLIC LAW 107-110-^AN. 8, 2002 115 STAT. 1983 "(4) create any legally enforceable right. "SEC. 9527. PROHIBITIONS ON FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND USE OF 20 USC 7907. FEDERAL FUNDS. "(a) GENERAL PROHIBITION. —Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize an officer or employee of the Federal Government to mandate, direct, or control a State, local educational agency, or school's curriculum, program of instruction, or allocation of State or local resources, or mandate a State or any subdivision thereof to spend any funds or incur any costs not paid for under this Act. "(b) PROHIBITION ON ENDORSEMENT OF CURRICULUM.— Notwithstanding any other prohibition of Federal law, no funds provided to the Department under this Act may be used by the Department to endorse, approve, or sanction any curriculum designed to be used in an elementary school or secondary school. "(c) PROHIBITION ON REQUIRING FEDERAL APPROVAL OR CERTIFI- CATION OF STANDARDS. — "(1) IN GENERAL. — Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law, no State shall be required to have academic content or student academic achievement standards approved or certified by the Federal Government, in order to receive assistance under this Act. "(2) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.— Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to affect requirements under title I or part A of title VI. "(d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION ON BUILDING STANDARDS.— Nothing in this Act shall be construed to mandate national school building standards for a State, local educational agency, or school. "SEC. 9528. ARMED FORCES RECRUITER ACCESS TO STUDENTS AND 20 USC 7908. STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION. " (a) POLICY.— "(1) ACCESS TO STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION. — Notwithstanding section 444(a)(5)(B) of the General Education Provisions Act and except as provided in paragraph (2), each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide, on a request made by military recruiters or an institution of higher education, access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings. "(2) CONSENT. —^A secondary school student or the parent of the student may request that the student's name, address, and telephone listing described in paragraph (1) not be released without prior written parental consent, and the local educational agency or private school shall notify parents of the option to make a request and shall comply with any request. "(3) SAME ACCESS TO STUDENTS.—Each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide military recruiters the same access to secondary school students as is provided generally to post secondary educational institutions or to prospective employers of those students. "(b) NOTIFICATION. —The Secretary, in consultation with the Deadline. Secretary of Defense, shall, not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, notify principals, school administrators, and other educators about the requirements of this section. "(c) EXCEPTION.—The requirements of this section do not apply to a private secondary school that maintains a religious objection

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