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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1981

95 STAT. 474 42 USC 1862. 20 USC 1101, ^^^^^

PUBLIC LAW 97-35—AUG. 13, 1981 Science Foundation Act of 1950, relating to precoUege science teacher training, and part A and section 532 of title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965, relating to the Teacher Corps and teacher centers, in accordance with the planned allocation of funds set forth in the applications under sections 564 and 566, in conformity with the other requirements of this chapter. AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES

20 USC 3832.

SEC. 577. Programs and projects authorized under this subchapter include— (1) the acquisition and utilization— (A) of school library resources, textbooks, and other printed and published instructional materials for the use of children and teachers in public and private elementary and secondary schools which shall be used for instructional purposes only, and (B) of instructional equipment and materials suitable for use in providing education in academic subjects for use by children and teachers in elementary and secondary schools which shall be used for instructional purposes only, which take into account the needs of children in both public and private schools based upon periodic consultation with teachers, librarians, media specialists, and private school officials; (2) the development of programs designed to improve local educational practices in elementary and secondary schools, and particularly activities desired to address educational problems such as the education of cmldren with special needs (educationally deprived children, gifted and talented children, including children in private schools); (3) programs designed to assist local educational agencies, upon their request, to more effectively address educational problems caused by the isolation or concentration of minority group children m certain schools if such assistance is not conditioned upon any requirement that a local educational agency which assigns students to schools on the basis of geogpraphic attendance areas adopt any other method of student assignment, and that such assistance is not made available for the transportation of students or teachers or for the acquisition of equipment for such transportation; (4) comprehensive guidance, counseling, and testing programs in elementary and secondary schools and State and local support services necessary for the effective implementation and evmuation of such programs (including those designed to help prepare students for employment); (5) programs and projects to improve the planning, manaj^ement and implementation of educational programs, including fiscal management, by both State and local educational agencies, and the cooperation of such agencies with other public agencies; (6) programs and projects to assist in teacher training and inservice staff development, particularly to better prepare both new and in-service ^rsonnel to deal with contemporary teaching and learning requirements and to provide assistance in the teaching and learning of educationally deprived students; and (7) programs and projects to assist local educational agencies to meet the needs of children in schools undergoing desegregation and to assist such agencies to develop and implement plans for desegregation in the schools of such agencies.