 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
        SUBCHAPTER IV--SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
 
    Part \1\A--State Grants for Drug and Violence Prevention Programs
 
                      subpart 3--general provisions
 
Sec. 7144. Quality rating


(a) In general

    The chief executive officer of each State, or in the case of a State 
in which the constitution or law of such State designates another 
individual, entity, or agency in the State to be responsible for 
education activities, such individual, entity, or agency, is authorized 
and encouraged--
        (1) to establish a standard of quality for drug, alcohol, and 
    tobacco prevention programs implemented in public elementary schools 
    and secondary schools in the State in accordance with subsection (b) 
    of this section; and
        (2) to identify and designate, upon application by a public 
    elementary school or secondary school, any such school that achieves 
    such standard as a quality program school.

(b) Criteria

    The standard referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall 
address, at a minimum--
        (1) a comparison of the rate of illegal use of drugs, alcohol, 
    and tobacco by students enrolled in the school for a period of time 
    to be determined by the chief executive officer of the State;
        (2) the rate of suspensions or expulsions of students enrolled 
    in the school for drug, alcohol, or tobacco-related offenses;
        (3) the effectiveness of the drug, alcohol, or tobacco 
    prevention program as proven by research;
        (4) the involvement of parents and community members in the 
    design of the drug, alcohol, and tobacco prevention program; and
        (5) the extent of review of existing community drug, alcohol, 
    and tobacco prevention programs before implementation of the public 
    school program.

(c) Request for quality program school designation

    A school that wishes to receive a quality program school designation 
shall submit a request and documentation of compliance with this section 
to the chief executive officer of the State or the individual, entity, 
or agency described in subsection (a) of this section, as the case may 
be.

(d) Public notification

    Not less than once a year, the chief executive officer of each State 
or the individual, entity, or agency described in subsection (a) of this 
section, as the case may be, shall make available to the public a list 
of the names of each public school in the State that has received a 
quality program school designation in accordance with this section.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title IV, Sec. 4134, as added Pub. L. 105-277, div. D, 
title I, Sec. 122, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-756.)
