 CHAPTER 70--STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                                 SCHOOLS
 
   SUBCHAPTER IX--INDIAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN, AND ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATION
 
                     Part C--Alaska Native Education
 
Sec. 7935. Alaska Native home based education for preschool 
        children
        

(a) General authority

    The Secretary shall make direct grants to Alaska Native 
organizations or educational entities with experience in developing or 
operating Alaska Native programs, or to partnerships involving Alaska 
Native organizations, to implement home instruction programs for Alaska 
Native preschool youngsters. The objective of such programs shall be to 
develop parents as educators for their children and to assure the active 
involvement of parents in the education of their children from the 
earliest ages.

(b) Program elements

    Home based education programs for Alaska Native children shall 
include--
        (1) parent-infant programs for prenatal through three-year olds;
        (2) preschool programs for four- and five-year olds;
        (3) training, education and support programs to teach parents 
    skills in observation, reading readiness, story telling and critical 
    thinking;
        (4) continued research and development; and
        (5) a long-term followup and assessment program.

(c) Eligibility of HIPPY programs

    Programs based on the HIPPY (Home Instruction Program for Preschool 
Youngsters) model shall be eligible for funding under this section.

(d) Administrative costs

    Not more than 10 percent of the funds appropriated to carry out the 
provisions of this section for any fiscal year may be used for 
administrative purposes.

(e) Authorization of appropriations

    There is authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 
1995, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the four succeeding 
fiscal years, to carry out this section. Funds appropriated under the 
authority of this subsection shall remain available until expended.

(Pub. L. 89-10, title IX, Sec. 9305, as added Pub. L. 103-382, title I, 
Sec. 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3807.)
