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 PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978 "(5) the development and production of integrated children's television and radio programs of cognitive and affective educational value, as described in section 611. "(b) From the amount appropriated for any fiscal year under section 604(b)(3), the Assistant Secretary, in cases in which it would effectively carry out the purpose of this title stated in section 602(b), may assist by grant or contract any public or private nonprofit agency, institution, or organization (other than a local educational agency) in any State to carry out programs or projects designed to support the development or implementation of a plan described in section 606(a). "(cWl) From the amount available for the purposes of this section for each fiscal year, the Assistant Secretary shall carry out a program of making grants to State educational agencies, or other State agencies involved in or responsible for the desegregation of public elementary and secondary schools, to pay a portion of the cost of State activities related to— "(A) planning (i) for the implementation of voluntary plans to eliminate or reduce minority group isolation in those schools, and (ii) to assess future needs, and to develop further strategies to meet those needs; "(B) providing technical assistance to encourage local educational agencies or groups of those agencies to develop or implement voluntary plans to eliminate or reduce minority group isolation in those schools; and "(C) providinsr training for educational personnel involved in developing or carrying out a voluntary plan to eliminate or reduce minority group isolation in those schools. "(2) The amount of assistance made available to a State under this subsection for any fiscal year shall be twice the amount of State funds expended in the preceding fiscal year for the activities listed in pararaph (1). The amount provided to a State under this section for any seal year shall not exceed— "(A) 10 per centum of the amount apportioned to the State for that fiscal year under section 605, or "(B) $500,000, whichever is greater. "(3) No grant may be made to a State under this subsection unless the application for that grant has been developed in consultation with teachers, educators, parents (including parents of minority group children), and representatives of the general public (including representatives of minority groups), of whom the proportion of minority group individuals shall be approximately the same as the proportion of minority group children enrolled in the elementary and secondary schools in the State.

92 STAT. 2259

Grants and contracts.

Assistance for State activities.

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Grant applications.

"METROPOLITAN AREA PROJECTS

"SEC. 609. (a) Sums available to the Assistant Secretary under 20 USC 3199. section 608 for metropolitan area projects shall be available for the following purposes: "(1) A program of grants to, and contracts with local educational agencies which are eligible under section 606(a)(2) in order

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