 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
                     SUBCHAPTER V--PROMOTING EQUITY
 
          Part C--Assistance To Address School Dropout Problems
 
Sec. 7264. Application


(a) Application required

                           (1) In general

        A grant under this part may be made only to a local educational 
    agency or an educational partnership which submits an application to 
    the Secretary containing such information as may be required by the 
    Secretary by regulation.

                            (2) Duration

        Each such application shall be for a three-year period.

(b) Contents

    Each such application shall--
        (1) provide documentation of--
            (A) the number of children who were enrolled in the schools 
        to be served by the applicant for the five academic years prior 
        to the date application is made who have not completed their 
        elementary or secondary education and who are classified as 
        school dropouts; and
            (B) the percentage that such number of children is of the 
        total school-age population in the applicant's schools;

        (2) include a plan for the development and implementation of a 
    school dropout information collection and reporting system for 
    documenting the extent and nature of the dropout problem, which 
    system shall collect and cross tabulate data, where feasible, by sex 
    according to race or ethnicity and socioeconomic status;
        (3) include a plan for coordinated activities involving not less 
    than one secondary school and its feeder junior high or middle 
    schools and elementary schools for local educational agencies that 
    have feeder systems;
        (4) when applicable, describe how programs assisted under this 
    part will be coordinated with, and not duplicate, programs assisted 
    under subchapter I of this chapter;
        (5) include a description of how the program assisted under this 
    part is consistent with the second National Education Goal, relating 
    to school completion, and other Federal programs as appropriate; and
        (6) contain such other information as the Secretary considers 
    necessary to determine the nature of the local needs, the quality of 
    the proposed project, and the capability of the applicant to carry 
    out the project.

(c) Priority

    The Secretary shall, in approving applications under this section, 
give priority to applications which--
        (1) demonstrate the replication of successful programs conducted 
    in other local educational agencies or the expansion of successful 
    programs within a local educational agency; and
        (2) reflect very high numbers or very high percentages of school 
    dropouts in the schools of the applicant in each category described 
    in section 7263(a) of this title.

(d) Special consideration

    The Secretary shall give additional special consideration to 
applications that include--
        (1) provisions which emphasize early intervention services 
    designed to identify at-risk students in elementary or early 
    secondary schools; and
        (2) provisions for significant parental involvement.

(e) Grants for new grantees

    In awarding grants under this part the Secretary shall use only the 
priorities and special considerations described in subsections (c) and 
(d) of this section.

(f) Continuation of assistance

    For the two fiscal years beginning after October 20, 1994, the 
Secretary shall approve an application under this section for a local 
educational agency which received funding in fiscal year 1994 under the 
School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Act of 1988 (20 U.S.C. 3241 et 
seq.) and which--
        (1) satisfies the requirements of this section;
        (2) qualifies for special consideration or priority under--
            (A) section 7263(b) of this title; and
            (B) subsections (c) and (d) of this section; and

        (3) provides evidence that the program for which such agency is 
    seeking assistance is effective in--
            (A) providing early intervention services to at-risk 
        students in elementary and secondary schools;
            (B) identifying potential student dropouts; and
            (C) preventing students from dropping out of school.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title V, Sec. 5404 [5304], as added Pub. L. 103-382, 
title I, Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3703.)

                       References in Text

    The School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Act of 1988 (20 U.S.C. 
3241 et seq.), referred to in subsec. (f), is part A of title VI of Pub. 
L. 89-10, as added by Pub. L. 100-297, title I, Sec. 1001, Apr. 28, 
1988, 102 Stat. 265, as amended, which was classified generally to part 
A (Sec. 3241 et seq.) of subchapter VI 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. Another School Dropout 
Demonstration Assistance Act of 1988 is subpart 1 of part C of title VI 
of Pub. L. 100-418 which was classified to subpart 1 (Sec. 5051 et seq.) 
of part C of subchapter I of chapter 62 of this title prior to repeal by 
Pub. L. 103-382, title III, Sec. 391(i), Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 4023.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 7263, 7265 of this title.
