 
 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
SUBCHAPTER VII--BILINGUAL EDUCATION, LANGUAGE ENHANCEMENT, AND LANGUAGE 
                          ACQUISITION PROGRAMS
 
                       Part A--Bilingual Education
 
    subpart 1--bilingual education capacity and demonstration grants
 
Sec. 7422. Program development and implementation grants


(a) Purpose

    The purpose of this section is to develop and implement new 
comprehensive, coherent, and successful bilingual education or special 
alternative instructional programs for limited English proficient 
students, including programs of early childhood education, kindergarten 
through twelfth grade education, gifted and talented education, and 
vocational and applied technology education.

(b) Program authorized

                            (1) Authority

        (A) The Secretary is authorized to award grants to eligible 
    entities having applications approved under section 7426 of this 
    title to enable such entities to carry out activities described in 
    paragraph (2).
        (B) Each grant under this section shall be awarded for a period 
    of three years.

                      (2) Authorized activities

        (A) Grants awarded under this section shall be used to improve 
    the education of limited English proficient students and their 
    families by--
            (i) developing and implementing comprehensive preschool, 
        elementary, or secondary bilingual education or special 
        alternative instructional programs that are coordinated with 
        other relevant programs and services to meet the full range of 
        educational needs of limited English proficient students; and
            (ii) providing inservice training to classroom teachers, 
        administrators, and other school or community-based 
        organizational personnel to improve the instruction and 
        assessment of language-minority and limited English proficient 
        students.

        (B) Grants under this section may be used to improve the 
    education of limited English proficient students and their families 
    by--
            (i) implementing family education programs and parent 
        outreach and training activities designed to assist parents to 
        become active participants in the education of their children;
            (ii) improving the instructional program for limited English 
        proficient students by identifying, acquiring, and upgrading 
        curriculum, instructional materials, educational software and 
        assessment procedures and, if appropriate, applying educational 
        technology;
            (iii) compensating personnel, including teacher aides who 
        have been specifically trained, or are being trained, to provide 
        services to children and youth of limited English proficiency;
            (iv) providing tutorials and academic or career counseling 
        for children and youth of limited-English proficiency; and
            (v) providing such other activities, related to the purposes 
        of this part, as the Secretary may approve.

(c) ``Eligible entity'' defined

    For the purpose of this section the term ``eligible entity'' means--
        (1) one or more local educational agencies;
        (2) one or more local educational agencies in collaboration with 
    an institution of higher education, community-based organization or 
    local or State educational agency; or
        (3) a community-based organization or an institution of higher 
    education which has an application approved by the local educational 
    agency to develop and implement early childhood education or family 
    education programs or to conduct an instructional program which 
    supplements the educational services provided by a local educational 
    agency.

(d) Due consideration

    In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall give due 
consideration to the need for early childhood education, elementary 
education, and secondary education programs.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title VII, Sec. 7112, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3719.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7421 of this title.
