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Provision Previous law No Child Left Behind Act
were funded in FY2001- $28 million for day before the enactment of the NCLBA. Authority was extended on a year-to-
Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers, year basis after the multiyear grants and contracts have expired. Unlike the
and $15 million for Eisenhower Regional six-year authorizations for ESEA programs, ERDDIA Part J authorized such sums
Mathematics and Science Education Consortia. as may be necessary for each year, indefinitely.
In addition, the Regional Technology in
Education Consortia program was funded at $10
million in FY2001. The National Diffusion
Network had not been funded since FY1995.
Education for Indians, Title IX of the ESEA authorized formula grants In reauthorizing Title IX of ESEA, the NCLBA redesignates it as Title VII,
Alaska Natives, and for supplemental education programs to LEAs creates a demonstration program allowing LEAs and BIA-funded schools
Native Hawaiians and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) funded receiving formula grants to integrate those funds with other federal funds they
schools, as well as discretionary grants to Native receive for Indian children, and consolidates the Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native,
Hawaiian and Alaska Native educational and several additional Indian programs into fewer programs.
organizations, and to a wider range of entities -
for educational improvement for Indian children The NCLBA reauthorized P.L. 95-561 and P.L. 100-297, amending the former act
and adults. The Education Amendments of 1978 to create a new accountability provision for BIA-funded schools, requiring that
(P.L. 95-561), Title XI, Part B, authorizes each school be accredited (or be a candidate for accreditation) within two years,
standards, distribution formulas, administrative and setting various corrective actions the Secretary of the Interior may take for
grants, and other programs for BIA-funded schools that are still unaccredited after that time. Accreditation may be by tribal
schools. The Tribally Controlled Schools Act of as well as regional or state accrediting agencies, as long as the tribal accreditation
1988 (P.L. 100-297) authorizes tribes and tribal is acknowledged by a state or regional agency. The amendments also
school boards operating BIA-funded schools to consolidated support services in the BIA education office, increase tribal
receive BIA grants, instead of contracts, for influence in various matters, and require reports to Congress on BIA school
educational operations. construction needs.
Education for The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, The NCLBA extends the Education for Homeless Children and Youth program,
Homeless Children P.L. 100-77 as amended (McKinney-Vento), leaving most of the major provisions of the program in place. In particular, the
and Youth authorized the Education for Homeless Children key program policy states that "homelessness alone is not sufficient reason to
and Youth program under Subtitle B of Title separate students from the mainstream school environment." The state grant
VII. Formula grants were made to states in formula is based on allocations made under ESEA Title I, Part A grants to LEAs,
proportion to ESEA Title I-A grants to LEAs. except that no state shall receive less than the greater of (a) $150,000; (b) one-
States were required to use funds according to a fourth of 1% of the total appropriation; and (c) the amount the state received in
state plan to ensure that homeless children and FY2001. Each state must allocate at least 75% of its grant to LEAs, except that it
youth have access to a free, appropriate can retain up to 50% if it is funded at the minimum state grant level.
education equal to that provided to other
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