 
 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
    SUBCHAPTER I--HELPING DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN MEET HIGH STANDARDS
 
 Part A--Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies
 
                  subpart 1--basic program requirements
 
Sec. 6312. Local educational agency plans


(a) Plans required

                            (1) Subgrants

        A local educational agency may receive a subgrant under this 
    part for any fiscal year only if such agency has on file with the 
    State educational agency a plan, approved by the State educational 
    agency, that is coordinated with other programs under this chapter, 
    the Goals 2000: Educate America Act [20 U.S.C. 5801 et seq.], and 
    other Acts, as appropriate, as specified in section 8856 of this 
    title.

                    (2) Consolidated application

        The plan may be submitted as part of a consolidated application 
    under section 8854 of this title.

(b) Plan provisions

    Each local educational agency plan shall include--
        (1) a description of additional high-quality student 
    assessments, if any, other than the assessments described in the 
    State plan under section 6311 of this title, that the local 
    educational agency and schools served under this part will use to--
            (A) determine the success of children served under this part 
        in meeting the State's student performance standards and provide 
        information to teachers, parents, and students on the progress 
        being made toward meeting the State student performance 
        standards described in section 6311(b)(1)(D)(ii) of this title;
            (B) assist in diagnosis, teaching, and learning in the 
        classroom in ways that best enable children served under this 
        part to meet State standards and do well in the local 
        curriculum; and
            (C) determine what revisions are needed to projects under 
        this part so that such children will meet the State's student 
        performance standards;

        (2) at the local educational agency's discretion, a description 
    of any other indicators that will be used in addition to the 
    assessments described in paragraph (1) for the uses described in 
    such paragraph;
        (3) a description of the strategy the local educational agency 
    will use to provide professional development for teachers, and, 
    where appropriate, pupil services personnel, administrators, parents 
    and other staff, including local educational agency level staff in 
    accordance with section 6320 of this title;
        (4) a description of how the local educational agency will 
    coordinate and integrate services provided under this part with 
    other educational services at the local educational agency or 
    individual school level, such as--
            (A) Even Start, Head Start, and other preschool programs, 
        including plans for the transition of participants in such 
        programs to local elementary school programs, vocational 
        education programs, and school-to-work transition programs; and
            (B) services for children with limited English proficiency 
        or with disabilities, migratory children served under part C of 
        this subchapter or who were formerly eligible for services under 
        part C of this subchapter in the two-year period preceding 
        October 20, 1994, neglected or delinquent youth and youth at 
        risk of dropping out served under part D of this subchapter, 
        homeless children, and immigrant children in order to increase 
        program effectiveness, eliminate duplication, and reduce 
        fragmentation of the instructional program;

        (5) a description of the poverty criteria that will be used to 
    select school attendance areas under section 6313 of this title;
        (6) a description of how teachers, in consultation with parents, 
    administrators, and pupil services personnel, in targeted assistance 
    schools under section 6315 of this title, will identify the eligible 
    children most in need of services under this part;
        (7) a general description of the nature of the programs to be 
    conducted by such agency's schools under sections 6314 and 6315 of 
    this title and, where appropriate, educational services outside such 
    schools for children living in local institutions for neglected or 
    delinquent children, for neglected and delinquent children in 
    community day school programs, and for eligible homeless children;
        (8) a description of how the local educational agency will 
    ensure that migratory children and formerly migratory children who 
    are eligible to receive services under this part are selected to 
    receive such services on the same basis as other children who are 
    selected to receive services under this part;
        (9) where appropriate, a description of how the local 
    educational agency will use funds under this part to support 
    preschool programs for children, particularly children participating 
    in a Head Start or Even Start program, which services may be 
    provided directly by the local educational agency or through a 
    subcontract with the local Head Start agency designated by the 
    Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 9836 of title 
    42, agencies operating Even Start programs, or another comparable 
    public early childhood development program.

(c) Assurances

                           (1) In general

        Each local educational agency plan shall provide assurances that 
    the local educational agency will--
            (A) inform eligible schools and parents of schoolwide 
        project authority;
            (B) provide technical assistance and support to schoolwide 
        programs;
            (C) work in consultation with schools as the schools develop 
        the schools' plans pursuant to section 6314 of this title and 
        assist schools as the schools implement such plans or undertake 
        activities pursuant to section 6315 of this title so that each 
        school can make adequate yearly progress toward meeting the 
        State content standards and State student performance standards;
            (D) fulfill such agency's school improvement 
        responsibilities under section 6317 of this title, including 
        taking corrective actions under section 6317(c)(4) \1\ of this 
        title;
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            (E) coordinate and collaborate, to the extent feasible and 
        necessary as determined by the local educational agency, with 
        other agencies providing services to children, youth, and 
        families, including health and social services;
            (F) provide services to eligible children attending private 
        elementary and secondary schools in accordance with section 6321 
        of this title, and timely and meaningful consultation with 
        private school officials regarding such services;
            (G) take into account the experience of model programs for 
        the educationally disadvantaged, and the findings of relevant 
        research indicating that services may be most effective if 
        focused on students in the earliest grades at schools that 
        receive funds under this part; and
            (H) beginning in fiscal year 1997 and in the case that a 
        local educational agency chooses to use funds under this part to 
        provide early childhood development services to low-income 
        children below the age of compulsory school attendance, ensure 
        that such services comply with the performance standards 
        established under section 9836a(a) of title 42 or under section 
        9846 of title 42, as such section 9846 of title 42 was in effect 
        on the day preceding May 18, 1994.

                          (2) Special rule

        In carrying out subparagraph (H) of paragraph (1) the 
    Secretary--
            (A) in fiscal year 1995, shall consult with the Secretary of 
        Health and Human Services on the implementation of such 
        subparagraph and shall establish procedures (taking into 
        consideration existing State and local laws, and local teacher 
        contracts) to assist local educational agencies to comply with 
        such subparagraph; and
            (B) in fiscal year 1996, shall disseminate to local 
        educational agencies the Head Start Performance Standards 
        revised pursuant to section 9836a(a) of title 42, and such 
        agencies effected \2\ by such subparagraph shall plan for the 
        implementation of such subparagraph (taking into consideration 
        existing State and local laws, and local teacher contracts), 
        including pursuing the availability of other Federal, State, and 
        local funding sources to assist in compliance with such 
        subparagraph.
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                         (3) Inapplicability

        The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to preschool 
    programs using the Even Start model or to Even Start programs which 
    are expanded through the use of funds under this part.

(d) Plan development and duration

    Each local educational agency plan shall--
        (1) be developed in consultation with teachers, including 
    vocational teachers, and pupil services personnel, where 
    appropriate, and parents of children in schools served under this 
    part; and
        (2)(A) remain in effect for the duration of the local 
    educational agency's participation under this part; and
        (B) periodically be reviewed and revised, as necessary, to 
    reflect changes in the local educational agency's strategies and 
    programs.

(e) State approval

                           (1) In general

        Each local educational agency plan shall be filed according to a 
    schedule established by the State educational agency, except that a 
    local educational agency shall have not more than one year after 
    October 20, 1994, to have such plan provisionally approved by the 
    State educational agency and not more than two years after October 
    20, 1994, to have such plan finally approved by the State 
    educational agency.

                            (2) Approval

        The State educational agency shall approve a local educational 
    agency's plan only if the State educational agency determines that 
    the local educational agency's plan will enable schools served under 
    this part to substantially help all children served under this part 
    meet the standards expected of all children described in section 
    6311(b)(1) of this title.

                             (3) Review

        The State educational agency shall review the local educational 
    agency's plan to determine if such agency's professional development 
    activities are in accordance with section 6320 of this title.

(f) Program responsibility

    The local educational agency plan shall reflect the shared 
responsibility of schools, teachers, and the local educational agency in 
making decisions regarding activities under sections 6314 and 6315 of 
this title.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title I, Sec. 1112, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3529.)

                       References in Text

    The Goals 2000: Educate America Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), 
is Pub. L. 103-227, Mar. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 125 (except titles V and 
IX), as amended, which is classified principally to chapter 68 
(Sec. 5801 et seq.) of this title (except subchapters V (Sec. 5931 et 
seq.) and IX (Sec. 6001 et seq.)). For complete classification of this 
Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5801 of this 
title and Tables.
    Section 9846 of title 42, referred to in subsec. (c)(1)(H), was in 
the original a reference to section 651 of the Head Start Act, which was 
amended and renumbered as section 650 by Pub. L. 103-252, title I, 
Sec. 118, May 18, 1994, 108 Stat. 648.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 6311, 6313, 6314, 6317, 
6319, 6320, 7814, 8857 of this title.
