 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
SUBCHAPTER VII--BILINGUAL EDUCATION, LANGUAGE ENHANCEMENT, AND LANGUAGE 
                          ACQUISITION PROGRAMS
 
              Part C--Emergency Immigrant Education Program
 
Sec. 7547. Uses of funds


(a) Use of funds

    Funds awarded under this part shall be used to pay for enhanced 
instructional opportunities for immigrant children and youth, which may 
include--
        (1) family literacy, parent outreach, and training activities 
    designed to assist parents to become active participants in the 
    education of their children;
        (2) salaries of personnel, including teacher aides who have been 
    specifically trained, or are being trained, to provide services to 
    immigrant children and youth;
        (3) tutorials, mentoring, and academic or career counseling for 
    immigrant children and youth;
        (4) identification and acquisition of curricular materials, 
    educational software, and technologies to be used in the program;
        (5) basic instructional services which are directly attributable 
    to the presence in the school district of immigrant children, 
    including the costs of providing additional classroom supplies, 
    overhead costs, costs of construction, acquisition or rental of 
    space, costs of transportation, or such other costs as are directly 
    attributable to such additional basic instructional services; and
        (6) such other activities, related to the purposes of this part, 
    as the Secretary may authorize.

(b) Consortia

    A local educational agency that receives a grant under this part may 
collaborate or form a consortium with one or more local educational 
agencies, institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations 
to carry out the program described in an application approved under this 
part.

(c) Subgrants

    A local educational agency that receives a grant under this part 
may, with the approval of the Secretary, make a subgrant to, or enter 
into a contract with, an institution of higher education, a nonprofit 
organization, or a consortium of such entities to carry out a program 
described in an application approved under this part, including a 
program to serve out-of-school youth.

(d) Construction

    Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit a local 
educational agency from serving immigrant children simultaneously with 
students with similar educational needs, in the same educational 
settings where appropriate.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title VII, Sec. 7307, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3743.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 7544, 7545 of this title.
