12 2 STA T .3 3 78PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 31 5— AU G .1 4, 2008 (2)insub s ect i o n (b)( 1 ) , b y inse r tin g‘ ‘, sub j ecttot h e av ai l- ability o f a p propriations, ’ ’ after ‘‘the S ecretary shall’’
an d ( 3 ) in subsection (e), by inserting after ‘‘of this A ct)’’ the follo w ing
‘‘, or those nonprofit organi z ations that have agree- m ents with the Secretary under section 4 3 5 (j)’’ .TI T LEV III —AD DITI ON AL PR O G RA MSSEC.801 . AD D IT I ON A LPR O G RA M S. T he H igher E ducation Act of 1 96 5(2 0U .S. C . 1001 et se q .) is further amended by adding at the end the following new title: ‘ ‘TITLE VIII—ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS ‘ ‘ PART A — PR OJEC T G RA D‘ ‘SEC. 801. PRO J ECT GRAD. ‘‘(a) PURPOSE S. — The purposes of this section are— ‘‘(1) to provide support and assistance to programs imple- menting integrated education reform services in order to improve secondary school graduation, postsecondary program attendance, and postsecondary completion rates for low-income students; and ‘‘(2) to promote the establishment of new programs to imple- ment such integrated education reform services. ‘‘(b) D E FIN I T IONS.— I n this section: ‘‘(1) L O W -IN C O M E STU D ENT.—The term ‘low-income student’ means a student who is determined by a local educational agency to be from a low-income family using the measures described in section 1113(a)(5) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. ‘‘(2) F EEDER P A TTERN.—The term ‘feeder pattern’ means a secondary school and the elementary schools and middle schools that channel students into that secondary school. ‘‘(c) CONTRACT AUT H ORI Z ED.—From the amount appropriated to carry out this section, the Secretary is authorized to award a five-year contract to Project GR AD USA (referred to in this section as the ‘contractor’), a nonprofit education organization that has as its primary purpose the improvement of secondary school graduation and postsecondary attendance and completion rates for low-income students. Such contract shall be used to carry out the requirements of subsection (d) and to implement and sustain integrated education reform services through subcontractor activi- ties described in subsection (e)(3) at e x isting Project GRAD program sites and to promote the expansion to new sites. ‘‘(d) RE Q UIREMENTS OF CONTRACT.—The Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the contractor that requires that the con- tractor shall— ‘‘(1) enter into subcontracts with nonprofit educational organizations that serve a substantial number or percentage of low-income students (referred to in this subsection as ‘sub- contractors’), under which the subcontractors agree to imple- ment the Project GRAD programs described in subsection (e) and provide matching funds for such programs; ‘‘(2) directly carry out— 20USC1 1 6 1 a.
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