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 92 STAT. 2238

PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978 ?'

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" (3) activities designed to improve the achievement of children in basic skills; " (4) activities to encourage the participation of parents in the education of their children; " (5) the development of programs to diagnose learning problems and assess the educational achievement of children, including children in nonprofit private schools; " (6) developing and implementing model plans to demonstrate effective means of improving school management and fully coordinating all the Federal, State, and local resources available in a school in a fashion designed to meet the individual needs of every child in that school; " (7) professional development programs for teachers, administrators, and other instructional personnel in the schools of such agencies; " (8) early (ihildhood and family education programs for children not yet enrolled in kindergarten programs and below age six for activities related to the identification of potential barriers to learning, the education of p a i e n t s in child development, homebased programs, and referral services; and " (9) programs to extent the educational process beyond the school building through the use of other resources in the community, such as museums, businesses, cultural organizations, labor unions, and governmental agencies. " (b)(1) Funds available to the States under this part shall also be used (pursuant to State plans approved under section 404) for the purpose of encouraging innovation and improvement in compensatory educational efforts. Such efforts may include— " (A) programs of grants to local educational agencies for summer bridge programs which provide students with continued academic improvement and stimulation during the summer months in order to preserve and increase the academic progress of such students in regular school year program s; " (B) programs of parent education which enable parents to better contribute to their children's academic progress by such means as the conducting of parent education or parenting programs which promote partnership between parents and teachers and help parents develop the skills necessary to motivate and assist such children; " (C) programs that provide retraining to improve the skills of teachers and other educational personnel to enable such personnel to meet better the specific educational needs of the children served by such personnel; and " (D) programs to develop educational materials for use by children in the home to improve student achievement in the basic skills. " (2) E a c h State shall ensure that not less than 50 per centum of those funds appropriated for any fiscal year which exceed the amount appropriated for this part for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, will be used for the purposes of programs described in paragraph (1). "PROGRAM REQTTTREMENTS

20 USC 3112.

" SEC. 432. (a) Funds may be provided to a local educational agency under this part for a particular activity for a period of not to exceed

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