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 92 STAT. 2208

PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978 "(1) the development of a comprehensive statewide program providing for the coordination of all Federal and State programs that provide instruction in basic skills; "(2) planning activities that involve local administrators, teachers, and parents in the development of strategies to improve instruction in basic skills; "(3) statewide assessments of need relating to basic skills, including the needs of both students and instructional personnel; "(4) in-service training programs for local administrators, instructional personnel, and other staff members involved in instruction in basic skills; and "(5) the provision of technical assistance and the dissemination of information relating to basic skills instruction to local educational agencies and other organizations and institutions involved in programs of instruction in basic skills. "PART C—SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR IMPROVING BASIC SKILLS " I N E X P E N S IV E BOOK DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM FOR READING MOTIVATION

Contract. 20 USC 2911.

"SEC. 231, (a) The Commissioner is authorized (1) to enter into a contract with a private nonprofit group or public agency (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'contractor'), which has as its primary purpose the motivation of children to learn to read, to support and promote the establishment of reading motivational programs which Federal share, include the distribution of inexpensive books to students and (2) to payment. pay the Federal share of the cost of such programs. Contract " (b) The contract shall provide that— provisions. "(1) the contractor will enter into subcontracts with local private nonprofit groups or organizations or with public agencies (hereinafter referred to as 'subcontractors') under which the subcontractors will agree to establish, operate, and provide the nonFederal share of the cost of reading motivational programs which include the distribution of books by gift or loan, to pre-elementary, elementary or secondary schoolchildren; " (2) funds made available by the Commissioner to a contractor pursuant to any contract entered into under this section will be used to pay the Federal share of the cost of establishing and oper.8tit?s::$•«!] 0 ating reading motivational programs as provided in paragraph (1); and "(3) the contractor will meet such other conditions and standards as the Commissioner determines to be necessary to assure the effectiveness of the programs authorized by this section and will provide technical assistance in furtherance of the purposes of this section. ) "(c) The Commissioner shall make no payment of the Federal share of the cost of acquiring and distributing books pursuant to a contract authorized by this section unless he determines that the contractor or the subcontractor, as the case may be, has made arrangements with book publishers or distributors to obtain books at discounts at least as favorable as discounts that are customarily given by such publisher or distributor for book purchases made under similar circumstances in the absence of Federal assistance. Definitions. "(d) For purposes of this section— "(1) the term 'nonprofit', when used in connection with any organization, means an organization no part of the net earning of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual;

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