 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION
 
                    Part C--Ready-To-Learn Television
 
Sec. 6923. Duties of Secretary

    The Secretary is authorized--
        (1) to establish and administer a Special Projects of National 
    Significance program to award grants, contracts, or cooperative 
    agreements to public and nonprofit private entities, or local public 
    television stations or such public television stations that are part 
    of a consortium with one or more State educational agencies, local 
    educational agencies, local schools, institutions of higher 
    education, or community-based organizations of demonstrated 
    effectiveness, for the purpose of--
            (A) addressing the learning needs of young children in 
        limited English proficient households, and developing 
        appropriate educational and instructional television programming 
        to foster the school readiness of such children;
            (B) developing programming and support materials to increase 
        family literacy skills among parents to assist parents in 
        teaching their children and utilizing educational television 
        programming to promote school readiness; and
            (C) identifying, supporting, and enhancing the effective use 
        and outreach of innovative programs that promote school 
        readiness;

        (2) to establish within the Department a clearinghouse to 
    compile and provide information, referrals and model program 
    materials and programming obtained or developed under this part to 
    parents, child care providers, and other appropriate individuals or 
    entities to assist such individuals and entities in accessing 
    programs and projects under this part; and
        (3) to develop and disseminate training materials, including--
            (A) interactive programs and programs adaptable to distance 
        learning technologies that are designed to enhance knowledge of 
        children's social and cognitive skill development and positive 
        adult-child interactions; and
            (B) support materials to promote the effective use of 
        materials developed under paragraph (2);

    among parents, Head Start providers, in-home and center based day 
    care providers, early childhood development personnel, and 
    elementary school teachers, public libraries, and after school 
    program personnel caring for preschool and elementary school 
    children;
        (4) coordinate activities with the Secretary of Health and Human 
    Services in order to--
            (A) maximize the utilization of quality educational 
        programming by preschool and elementary school children, and 
        make such programming widely available to federally funded 
        programs serving such populations; and
            (B) provide information to recipients of funds under Federal 
        programs that have major training components for early childhood 
        development, including Head Start, Even Start, and State 
        training activities funded under the Child Care Development 
        Block Grant Act of 1990 [42 U.S.C. 9858 et seq.] regarding the 
        availability and utilization of materials developed under 
        paragraph (3) to enhance parent and child care provider skills 
        in early childhood development and education.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title III, Sec. 3303, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3664.)

                       References in Text

    The Child Care Development and Block Grant Act of 1990, referred to 
in par. (4)(B), probably means the Child Care and Development Block 
Grant Act of 1990, which is subchapter C (Sec. 658A et seq.) of chapter 
8 of subtitle A of title VI of Pub. L. 97-35, as added by Pub. L. 101-
508, title V, Sec. 5082(2), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1388-236, as 
amended, and which is classified generally to subchapter II-B (Sec. 9858 
et seq.) of chapter 105 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 9801 of Title 42 and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 6924, 6925, 6928 of this 
title.
