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PUBLIC LAW 91-230-APR. 13, 1970

[84 STAT.

riculum research findings, (B) discovering and testing new educational ideas (including new uses of printed and audiovisual media) and more effective educational practices, and putting into use those which show promise of success, and (C) studying ways to improve the legal and organizational structure for education, and the management and administration of education in the district of such agency; "(4) programs to improve the quality of teacher preparation, including student-teaching arrangements, in cooperation with institutions of higher education and State educational agencies; "(5) programs and other activities specifically designed to encourage the full and adequate utilization and acceptance of auxiliary personnel (such as instructional assistants and teacher aides) in elementary and secondary schools on a permanent basis; "(6) providing such agencies and the schools of such agencies with consultative and technical assistance and services relating to academic subjects and to particular aspects of education such as the education of the handicapped, the gifted and talented, and the disadvantaged, vocational education, school building design and utilization, school social work, the utilization of modern instructional materials and equipment, transportation, educational administrative procedures, and school health, physical education, and recreation; "^7) training programs for the officials of such agencies; and "(8) carrying out any such activities or programs, where appropriate, in cooperation with other local educational agencies. ((APPROVAL

Reports. R«<^°'^ds.

OF APPLICATION S BY THE COMMISSIONER

"SEC, 524. (a) An application for a grant under this part for each fiscal year shall set forth a plan under which Federal funds received by the applicant under this part for that fiscal year will be used solely for a program of activities specifically designed to strengthen the leadership resources of the applicant and to establish and improve programs to identify and meet the educational needs of the persons served by the applicant. " (b) The Commissioner may approve an application under this part only if the application for that year— " (1) contains or is supported by adequate assurance that Federal funds made available under the approved application will be so used as to supplement, and to the extent practical, increase the amounts of State and local funds that would in the absence of such Federal funds be made available for projects and activities which meet the requirements of section 523; "(2) sets forth such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for. Federal funds paid under this part; and "(3) provides for making such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Commissioner may require to carry out his functions under this part, and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Commissioner may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports. "APPROVAL

or

APPLICATIONS

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STATE

EDUCATIONAL

AGENCIES

"SEC. 525. In approving applications for the purposes of this part a State educational agency shall— "(1) approve only such applications for proposed projects, programs, or activities as will—

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