 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
   SUBCHAPTER IX--INDIAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN, AND ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATION
 
                        Part A--Indian Education
 
    subpart 2--special programs and projects to improve educational 
                    opportunities for indian children
 
Sec. 7831. Improvement of educational opportunities for Indian 
        children
        

(a) Purpose

                           (1) In general

        It is the purpose of this section to support projects to 
    develop, test, and demonstrate the effectiveness of services and 
    programs to improve educational opportunities and achievement of 
    Indian children.

                          (2) Coordination

        The Secretary shall take such actions as are necessary to 
    achieve the coordination of activities assisted under this subpart 
    with--
            (A) other programs funded under this chapter; and
            (B) other Federal programs operated for the benefit of 
        American Indian and Alaska Native children.

(b) Eligible entities

    For the purpose of this section, the term ``eligible entity'' means 
a State educational agency, local educational agency, Indian tribe, 
Indian organization, federally supported elementary and secondary school 
for Indian students, Indian institution, including an Indian institution 
of higher education, or a consortium of such institutions.

(c) Grants authorized

                           (1) In general

        The Secretary shall award grants to eligible entities to enable 
    such entities to carry out activities that meet the purpose 
    specified in subsection (a)(1) of this section, including--
            (A) innovative programs related to the educational needs of 
        educationally deprived children;
            (B) educational services that are not available to such 
        children in sufficient quantity or quality, including remedial 
        instruction, to raise the achievement of Indian children in one 
        or more of the core academic subjects of English, mathematics, 
        science, foreign languages, art, history, and geography;
            (C) bilingual and bicultural programs and projects;
            (D) special health and nutrition services, and other related 
        activities, that address the special health, social, and 
        psychological problems of Indian children;
            (E) special compensatory and other programs and projects 
        designed to assist and encourage Indian children to enter, 
        remain in, or reenter school, and to increase the rate of 
        secondary school graduation;
            (F) comprehensive guidance, counseling, and testing 
        services;
            (G) early childhood and kindergarten programs, including 
        family-based preschool programs that emphasize school readiness 
        and parental skills, and the provision of services to Indian 
        children with disabilities;
            (H) partnership projects between local educational agencies 
        and institutions of higher education that allow secondary school 
        students to enroll in courses at the postsecondary level to aid 
        such students in the transition from secondary school to 
        postsecondary education;
            (I) partnership projects between schools and local 
        businesses for school-to-work transition programs designed to 
        provide Indian youth with the knowledge and skills the youth 
        need to make an effective transition from school to a first job 
        in a high-skill, high-wage career;
            (J) programs designed to encourage and assist Indian 
        students to work toward, and gain entrance into, an institution 
        of higher education; or
            (K) other services that meet the purpose described in 
        subsection (a)(1) of this section.

                (2) Preservice or inservice training

        Preservice or inservice training of professional and 
    paraprofessional personnel may be a part of any program assisted 
    under this section.

(d) Grant requirements and applications

                       (1) Grant requirements

        (A) The Secretary may make multiyear grants under this section 
    for the planning, development, pilot operation, or demonstration of 
    any activity described in subsection (c) of this section for a 
    period not to exceed 5 years.
        (B) In making multiyear grants under this section, the Secretary 
    shall give priority to applications that present a plan for 
    combining two or more of the activities described in subsection (c) 
    of this section over a period of more than 1 year.
        (C) The Secretary shall make a grant payment to an eligible 
    entity after the initial year of the multiyear grant only if the 
    Secretary determines that the eligible entity has made substantial 
    progress in carrying out the activities assisted under the grant in 
    accordance with the application submitted under paragraph (2) and 
    any subsequent modifications to such application.
        (D)(i) In addition to awarding the multiyear grants described in 
    subparagraph (A), the Secretary may award grants to eligible 
    entities for the dissemination of exemplary materials or programs 
    assisted under this section.
        (ii) The Secretary may award a dissemination grant under this 
    subparagraph if, prior to awarding the grant, the Secretary 
    determines that the material or program to be disseminated has been 
    adequately reviewed and has a demonstrated--
            (I) educational merit; and
            (II) the ability to be replicated.

                           (2) Application

        (A) Any eligible entity that desires to receive a grant under 
    this subsection shall submit an application to the Secretary at such 
    time and in such manner as the Secretary may require.
        (B) Each application submitted to the Secretary under 
    subparagraph (A) shall contain--
            (i) a description of how parents of Indian children and 
        representatives of Indian tribes have been, and will be, 
        involved in developing and implementing the activities for which 
        assistance is sought;
            (ii) assurances that the applicant will participate, at the 
        request of the Secretary, in any national evaluation of 
        activities assisted under this section; and
            (iii) such other assurances and information as the Secretary 
        may reasonably require.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title IX, Sec. 9121, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3782.)
