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 97 STAT. 1414 PUBLIC LAW 98-211—DEC. 8, 1983 Educational program, upgrade. 20 USC 2753. Public school personnel, duty assignment. Ante, p. 1413. 20 USC 3805. Public meeting. under this chapter shall be determined without regard to non- Federal compensatory education funds which serve eligible children in public elementary and secondary schools, and (B) children attending private elementary and secondary schools who receive assistance under this chapter shall be identified in accordance with this section and without regard to skipping public school attendance areas or schools under this paragraph. "(6) A child who, in any previous year, was identified as being in greatest need of assistance, and who continues to be educa- tionally deprived, but who is no longer identified as being in greatest need of assistance, may participate in a program or project assisted under this title for the current year. "(7) Educationally deprived children who begin participation in a program or project assisted under this chapter who, in the same school year, are transferred to a school attendance area or a school not receiving funds under this chapter, may continue to participate in a program or project funded under this chapter for the remainder of such year. "(8) The local educational agency is not required to usc funds under this chapter to serve educationally deprived children in greatest need of assistance if such children are receiving, from non-Federal sources, services of the same nature and scope as would otherwise be provided under this chapter. "(9) In the case of any school serving an attendance area that is eligible to receive services under this chapter and in which not less than 75 per centum of the children are from low-income families, funds received under this chapter may be used for a project designed to upgrade the entire educational program in that school in the same manner and only to the same extent as permitted under section 133(b) of the Elementary and Second- ary Education Act of 1965 (but without regard to paragraph (4) of such section). "(10) Public school personnel paid entirely by funds made available under this chapter may be assigned limited, rotating, supervisory duties which are assigned to similarly situated personnel who are not paid with such funds, and such duties need not be limited to classroom instruction or to the benefit of children participating in programs or projects funded under this chapter. Such duties may not exceed the same proportion of total time as is the case with similarly situated personnel at the same school site, or 10 per centum of the total time, whichever is less.". PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT SEC. 4. Section 556 of the Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(e) PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT. —For the purposes of complying with the assurances given pursuant to subsection (b)(3) with respect to consultation with parents of participating children, (1) a local educational agency shall convene annually a public meeting, to which all parents of eligible students shall be invited, to explain to parents the programs and activities provided with funds made available under this chapter, and (2) if parents desire further activi- ties, the local educational agency may, upon request, provide reason- able support for such activities.'.

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