 
 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION
 
            Part A--Technology for Education of All Students
 
Sec. 6812. Statement of purpose

    The purpose of this part is to support a comprehensive system for 
the acquisition and use by elementary and secondary schools in the 
United States of technology and technology-enhanced curricula, 
instruction, and administrative support resources and services to 
improve the delivery of educational services. Such system shall 
include--
        (1) national leadership with respect to the need for, and the 
    provision of, appropriate technology-enhanced curriculum, 
    instruction, and administrative programs to improve learning in the 
    United States, and to promote equal access for all students to 
    educational opportunities in order to achieve the National Education 
    Goals by the year 2000;
        (2) funding mechanisms which will support the development, 
    interconnection, implementation, improvement, and maintenance of an 
    effective educational technology infrastructure, including 
    activities undertaken by State and local educational agencies to 
    promote and provide equipment, training for teachers and school 
    library and media personnel, and technical support;
        (3) support for technical assistance, professional development, 
    information and resource dissemination, in order to help States, 
    local educational agencies, teachers, school library and media 
    personnel, and administrators successfully integrate technology into 
    kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms and library media 
    centers;
        (4) support for the development of educational and instructional 
    programming in core subject areas, which shall address the National 
    Education Goals;
        (5) strengthening and building upon, but not duplicating, 
    existing telecommunications infrastructures dedicated to educational 
    purposes;
        (6) development and evaluation of new and emerging educational 
    technologies, telecommunications networks, and state-of-the-art 
    educational technology products that promote the use of advanced 
    technologies in the classroom and school library media center;
        (7) assessment data regarding state-of-the-art uses of 
    technologies in United States education upon which commercial and 
    noncommercial telecommunications entities, and governments can rely 
    for decisionmaking about the need for, and provision of, appropriate 
    technologies for education in the United States;
        (8) ensuring that uses of educational technology are consistent 
    with the overall national technology policy established by the 
    President, and ensuring that Federal technology-related policies and 
    programs will facilitate the use of technology in education;
        (9) ensuring that activities supported under this part will form 
    the basis for sound State and local decisions about investing in, 
    sustaining, and expanding uses of technology in education;
        (10) establishing working guidelines to ensure maximum 
    interoperability nationwide and ease of access for the emerging 
    technologies so that no school system will be excluded from the 
    technological revolution;
        (11) ensuring that, as technological advances are made, the 
    educational uses of these advances are considered and their 
    applications are developed; and
        (12) encouragement of collaborative relationships among the 
    State agency for higher education, the State library administrative 
    agency, the State telecommunications agency, and the State 
    educational agency, in the area of technology support to strengthen 
    the system of education.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title III, Sec. 3112, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3638.)
