Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 2.djvu/927

 PUBLIC LAW 95-561~NOV. 1, 1978 "(4) activities designed to enlist the support of parents to aid in the instruction of their children at home and school; "(5) procedures for the evaluation of the effectiveness of the program, including a program of periodic testing of basic skills achievement and the publication of test results on basic skills performance by grade level and by school, without identification of performance of individual children; "(6) assessment, evaluation, and collection of information on individual children by teachers during each year of a pre-elementary program, to be made available for teachers in the subsequent year, in order that continuity for the individual child not be lost. Such information shall also be available to parents or guardians of the individual children. "(e) In addition to the grants authorized in subsection (d), the State educational agency may also make grants to support activities designed to enlist the assistance of parents working with schools to improve the skills of their children in reading, mathematics, and oral and written communication. Activities that may be supported under this section include— "(1) the development and dissemination of materials that parents may use in the home to improve their children's performance in those skills; "(2) the encouragement of closer contacts between parents and teachers to improve the coordination between learning experiences in the home and those in school; " (3) planning for, developing and improving centers accessible to parents to provide materials and professional guidance, including volunteers, for parents who desire to assist in the instruction of their children; and " (4) the demonstration of training programs for parents who desire to develop new skills to complement the instruction their children receive in school. "(f) The Secretary shall enter into an agreement which complies with the provisions of subsection (a) with any State which desires to enter into such an agreement. ((DISTRIBUTION

92 STAT. 2207

Activities support grants.

OF FUNDS

"SEC. 223. The Secretary shall distribute grants under the provisions 20 USC 2903. of this part so as to assure that each State having an agreement under section 222 will receive not less than the amount which bears the same ratio to the total amount available for this part for a fiscal year as the number of school age children (aged five through seventeen inclusive) in that State bears to the number of such children in all States, except that any State having an agreement shall not receive less than $50,000 in any such fiscal year. ((STATE

liEADERSHIP PROGRAM

"SEC. 224. The Secretary is authorized to enter into agreement with State educational agencies for the carrying out by such agencies of leadership and training activities designed to prepare personnel throughout the State to implement programs which have been demonstrated in that State or other States to be effective in overcoming deficiencies in the basic skills, and to develop and implement statewide plans for improving the skills of children, youth, and adults in reading, mathematics, and oral and written communication. The activities authorized by this section shall be limited to—

Agreements. 20 USC 2904.

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