 
 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 3--professional development
 
Sec. 7473. Bilingual education teachers and personnel grants


(a) Purpose

    The purpose of this section is to provide for--
        (1) preservice and inservice professional development for 
    bilingual education teachers, administrators, pupil services 
    personnel, and other educational personnel who are either involved 
    in, or preparing to be involved in, the provision of educational 
    services for children and youth of limited-English proficiency; and
        (2) national professional development institutes that assist 
    schools or departments of education in institutions of higher 
    education to improve the quality of professional development 
    programs for personnel serving, preparing to serve, or who may 
    serve, children and youth of limited-English proficiency.

(b) Priority

    The Secretary shall give priority in awarding grants under this 
section to institutions of higher education, in consortia with local or 
State educational agencies, that offer degree programs which prepare new 
bilingual education teachers in order to increase the availability of 
educators to provide high-quality education to limited English 
proficient students.

(c) Authorization

    (1) The Secretary is authorized to award grants for not more than 
five years to institutions of higher education which have entered into 
consortia arrangements with local or State educational agencies to 
achieve the purposes of this section.
    (2) The Secretary is authorized to make grants for not more than 
five years to State and local educational agencies for inservice 
professional development programs.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title VII, Sec. 7143, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3733.)
