Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 108 Part 5.djvu/39

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PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994 108 STAT. 3529 "(g) PROHIBITION. — Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require any State educational agency, local educational agency, or school, to implement opportunity-to-leam standards or strategies developed by such State under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. "(h) SPECIAL RULE. —I f the aggregate State expenditure by a State educational agency for the operation of elementary and secondary education programs in the State is less than such agency's aggregate Federal expenditure for the State operation of all Federal elementary and secondary education programs, then the State plan shall include assurances and specific provisions that such State will provide State expenditures for the operation of elementary and secondary education programs equal to or exceeding the level of Federal expenditures for such operation by October 1, 1998. "SEC. 1112. LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY PLANS. "(a) PLANS REQUIRED. — "(1) SUBGRANTS. — ^A local educational agency may receive a subgrant under this part for any fiscal year only if such agency has on file with the State educational agency a plan, approved by the State educational agency, that is coordinated with other programs under this Act, the Groals 2000: Educate America Act, and other Acts, as appropriate, as specified in section 14306. "(2) CONSOLIDATED APPLICATION, —The plan may be submitted as part of a consolidated application under section 14304. "(b) PLAN PROVISIONS. —Each local educational agency plan shall include— "(1) a description of additional high-quality student assessments, if any, other than the assessments described in the State plan under section 1111, that the local educational agency and schools served under this part will use to— "(A) determine the success of children served under this part in meeting the State's student performance standards and provide information to teachers, parents, and students on the progress being made toward meeting the State student performance standards described in section llll(b)(l)(D)(ii); "(B) assist in diagnosis, teaching, and learning in the classroom in ways that best enable children served under this part to meet State standards and do well in the local curriculum; and "(C) determine what revisions are needed to projects under this part so that such children will meet the State's student performance standards; "(2) at the local educational agency's discretion, a description of any other indicators that will be used in addition to the assessments described in paragraph (1) for the uses described in such paragraph; "(3) a description of the strategy the local educational agency will use to provide professional development for teachers, and, where appropriate, pupil services personnel, administrators, parents and other starff, including local educational agency level staff in accordance with section 1119; "(4) a description of how the local educational agency will coordinate and integrate services provided under this part with