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 92 STAT. 2278

Regulations.

"Eligible applicants.'

PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978 and related personnel of bilingual education, as further determined by the Commissioner through regulations. The Commissioner may waive this requirement in extraordinary circumstances. " (7) The Commissioner shall issue regulations specifying such activities as shall constitute training under this section and section 721 (a)(3)(B). " (8) An application for a grant or contract for preservice or inservice training activities described in clause (A)(i)(I) and clause (A) (ii)(I) and in subsection (a)(1)(B) of this section shall be considered an application for a program of bilingual education for the purposes of subsection (a)(4)(E) of section 703. "(b) For the purposes of this section, the term 'eligible applicants' means"(1) institutions of higher education (including junior colleges and community colleges) and private nonprofit organizations which apply, after consultation with, or jointly with, one or more local educational agencies or a State educational agency; " (2) local educational agencies; and " (3) State educational agencies. "PART B—ADMINISTRATION'

((OFFICE Establishment.

20 USC 3241. Director.

Report to Congress and President.

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OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION

"SEC. 731. (a) There shall be, in the Office of Education, an Office of Bilingual Education (hereafter in this section referred to as the 'Office') through which the Commissioner shall carry out his functions relating to bilingual education. " (b)(1) The Office shall be headed by a Director of Bilingual Education, appointed by the Commissioner, to whom the Commissioner shall delegate all of his delegable functions relating to bilingual education. The Director shall also be assigned responsibility for coordinating the bilingual education aspects of other programs administered by the Commissioner. "(2) The Office shall be organized as the Director determines to be appropriate in order to enable him to carry out his functions and responsibilities effectively. " (c) The Commissioner, in consultation with the Council, shall prepare and, not later than February 1, 1980, 1982, and 1984, shall submit to the Congress and the President a report on the condition of bilingual education in the Nation and the administration and operation of this title and of other programs for persons of limited English proficiency. Such report shall include— "(1) a national assessment of the educational needs of children and other persons with limited English proficiency and of the, extent to which such needs are being met from Federal, State, and local efforts, including (A) not later than October 1, 1977, the results of a survey of the number of such children and persons in the States, and (B) a planf inclu'ding cost estimates, to be carried out during the five-year period beginning on such date, for extending programs of bilingual education and bilingual vocational and adult education programs to all such preschool and elementary school children and other persons of limited English proficiency, including a phased plan for the training of the necessary teachers and other educational personnel necessary for such purpose;

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