 
                  CHAPTER 68--NATIONAL EDUCATION REFORM
 
                      SUBCHAPTER VII--SAFE SCHOOLS
 
Sec. 5964. Applications and plans


(a) Application

    In order to receive a grant under this subchapter, an eligible local 
educational agency shall submit to the Secretary an application that 
includes--
        (1) an assessment of the current violence and crime problems in 
    the schools to be served by the grant and in the community to be 
    served by the applicant;
        (2) an assurance that the applicant has written policies 
    regarding school safety, student discipline, and the appropriate 
    handling of violent or disruptive acts;
        (3) a description of the schools and communities to be served by 
    the grant, the activities and projects to be carried out with grant 
    funds, and how these activities and projects will help to reduce the 
    current violence and crime problems in the schools and communities 
    served;
        (4) a description of educational materials to be developed in 
    the first most predominate non-English language of the schools and 
    communities to be served by the grant, if applicable;
        (5) if the local educational agency receives Federal education 
    funds, an explanation of how activities assisted under this 
    subchapter will be coordinated with and support any systemic 
    education improvement plan prepared with such funds;
        (6) the applicant's plan to establish school-level advisory 
    committees, which include faculty, parents, staff, and students, for 
    each school to be served by the grant and a description of how each 
    committee will assist in assessing that school's violence and 
    discipline problems as well as in designing appropriate programs, 
    policies, and practices to combat such problems;
        (7) the applicant's plan for collecting baseline and future 
    data, by individual schools, to monitor violence and discipline 
    problems and to measure the applicant's progress in achieving the 
    purpose of this subchapter;
        (8) a description of how, in subsequent fiscal years, the 
    grantee will integrate the violence prevention activities the 
    grantee carries out with funds under this subchapter with activities 
    carried out under the grantee's comprehensive plan for drug and 
    violence prevention adopted under the Drug-Free Schools and 
    Communities Act of 1986;
        (9) a description of how the grantee will coordinate the 
    grantee's school crime and violence prevention efforts with 
    education, law enforcement, judicial, health, and social service 
    programs supported under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
    Prevention Act of 1974 [42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.], and other 
    appropriate agencies and organizations serving the community;
        (10) a description of how the grantee will inform parents about 
    the extent of crime and violence in their children's schools and 
    maximize the participation of parents in the grantee's violence 
    prevention activities;
        (11) an assurance that grant funds under this subchapter will be 
    used to supplement and not supplant State and local funds that 
    would, in the absence of funds under this subchapter, be made 
    available by the applicant for the purposes of the grant;
        (12) an assurance that the applicant will cooperate with, and 
    provide assistance to, the Secretary in gathering statistics and 
    other data the Secretary determines are necessary to determine the 
    effectiveness of projects and activities assisted under this 
    subchapter or the extent of school violence and discipline problems 
    throughout the Nation; and
        (13) such other information as the Secretary may require.

(b) Plan

    In order to receive funds under this subchapter for a second year, a 
grantee shall submit to the Secretary a comprehensive, long-term, school 
safety plan for reducing and preventing school violence and discipline 
problems. Such plan shall contain a description of how the grantee will 
coordinate the grantee's school crime and violence prevention efforts 
with education, law-enforcement, judicial, health, social service, and 
other appropriate agencies and organizations serving the community.

(Pub. L. 103-227, title VII, Sec. 704, Mar. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 205.)

                       References in Text

    The Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986, referred to in 
subsec. (a)(8), is title V of Pub. L. 89-10 as added by Pub. L. 100-297, 
title I, Sec. 1001, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 252, which was classified 
generally to subchapter V (Sec. 3171 et seq.) of chapter 47 of this 
title, prior to the general amendment of Pub. L. 89-10 by Pub. L. 103-
382, title I, Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3519. See section 7101 
et seq. of this title.
    The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, 
referred to in subsec. (a)(9), is Pub. L. 93-415, Sept. 7, 1974, 88 
Stat. 1109, as amended, which is classified principally to chapter 72 
(Sec. 5601 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 5601 of Title 42 and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 5963, 5967 of this title.
