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OBJECTIVES: INTERNSHIP PROGRAM FOR POSTSECONDARY STUDENTS
To aid and promote experiential training activities which foster future employment in the Federal Government in general.
U.S. citizens enrolled as students in 2-year and 4-year accredited educational institutions will participate in on-site work experiences in bureaus and offices in order to integrate academic theory and workplace requirements; gain relevant skills and knowledge, explore Federal career options, develop professional networks, and develop a greater awareness of the role of Federal agencies.
SPECIAL AMERICAN BUSINESS INTERNSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM
The SABIT program awards funding to qualified U.S. companies for training business executives and scientists from the New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union.
SABIT exposes business managers and scientists to a completely new way of thinking in which demand, consumer satisfaction, and profits drive production.
Mid to senior level interns visiting the U.S. for internship programs with public or private sector companies will be exposed to an environment which will provide them with practical knowledge for restructuring their enterprises.
The program provides first-hand, eye-opening experience to managers and scientists which cannot be duplicated by American managers traveling to their territories.
TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES
To promote the widespread use and availability of advanced telecommunications and information technologies in the public and nonprofit sectors.
By providing matching grants for information infrastructure projects, this program will help develop a nationwide, interactive, multimedia information infrastructure that is accessible to all citizens, in rural areas as well as urban areas.
ALASKA NATIVE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING, AND RECRUITMENT PROGRAM
To provide funds to Alaska Native organizations or educational entities to operate Alaska Native programs or programs of instruction conducted in the Alaska Native language, for the following purposes:
(1) The consolidation of existing educational plans, recommendations, and research into implementation methods and strategies to improve schooling for Alaska Natives;
(2) the adoption and implementation of specific educational plans;
(3) the development of curricula to address the needs of elementary and secondary Alaska Natives students, including innovative programs, pilots, and demonstration programs that reflect cultural diversity or contributions of Alaska Native people;
(4) the development and implementation of pre-teacher training programs to ensure student teachers are prepared to address the cultural diversity and unique needs of Alaska Native students;
(5) the development and implementations of teacher recruitment programs; and
(6) the development and implementation of in-service teacher training programs to ensure teachers are better prepared to address the uniqueness of Alaska Native students.
ALASKA NATIVE HOME BASED EDUCATION FOR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
To provide funds to Alaska Native organizations or educational entities 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 assure active involvement of parents in the education of their children from the earliest ages.
Home based education programs for Alaska Native children shall include the following:
(1) Parent-infant programs for parents and their children 0-3 years old;
(2) preschool programs for four and five years old;
(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 follow-up and assessment program.
BILINGUAL EDUCATION_PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS
To develop and implement new comprehensive, coherent, and successful bilingual education or special alternative instructional programs for limited English proficient students, including programs of early childhood education, kindergarten through twelfth grade education, gifted and talented education, and vocational and applied technology education;
to improve the education of limited English proficient students and their families by implementing family education programs and parent outreach and training activities designed to assist parents to become active participants in the education of their children;
to improve the instructional program by identifying, acquiring, and upgrading curriculum, instructional and educational software, and assessment procedures, to compensate personnel, including teacher aides who have been specifically trained, or are being trained, to provide services, and to provide tutorials and academic career counseling for children and youth of limited English proficiency.
BYRD HONORS SCHOLARSHIPS
To provide scholarships to support postsecondary education to outstanding high school seniors who show promise of continued academic achievement in an effort to recognize and promote student excellence and achievement.
CAPITAL EXPENSES
To help local educational agencies (LEAs) pay for capital expenses incurred as a result of implementing alternative arrangements to provide equitable Title I services to eligible private school children, in compliance with the Aguilar v. Felton decision.
CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
To provide independent living services to individuals with significant disabilities to assist them to function more independently in family and community settings, by developing and supporting a statewide network of centers for independent living.
CHARTER SCHOOLS
To increase national understanding of the Charter Schools Model by:
(1) Providing financial assistance for the design and initial implementation of charter schools; and
(2) evaluating the effects of such schools, including the effects on students, student achievement, staff, and parents.
CHILD CARE ACCESS MEANS PARENTS IN SCHOOL
To support the participation of low-income parents in postsecondary education through the provision of campus-based child care services.
CLASS SIZE REDUCTION
To provide funding in order to reduce class size, particularly in the early grades, using highly qualified teachers to improve educational achievement for regular and special needs children.
COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY CENTERS
To promote the use of technology in education through the development of model programs that demonstrate the educational effectiveness of technology in urban and rural areas and economically distressed communities.
EDUCATION FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN AND YOUTH
To ensure that homeless children and youth have equal access to the same free, appropriate public education as other children;
to provide activities for and services to ensure that these children enroll in, attend, and achieve success in school; to establish or designate an office in each State educational agency (SEA) for the coordination of education for homeless children and youth;
to develop and implement programs for school personnel to heighten awareness of specific problems of homeless children and youth;
and to provide grants to local educational agencies (LEAs).
FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOANS
To encourage lenders such as banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, pension funds, insurance companies, and schools to make loans to vocational, undergraduate, and graduate students enrolled at eligible postsecondary institutions to help pay for educational expenses. The loans are insured by a State or private nonprofit guaranty agency and reinsured by the Federal government.
FEDERAL PELL GRANT PROGRAM
To provide eligible undergraduate postsecondary students who have demonstrated financial need with grant assistance to help meet educational expenses.
FEDERAL WORK-STUDY PROGRAM
To provide part-time employment to eligible postsecondary students to help meet educational expenses and encourage students receiving program assistance to participate in community service activities.
FUND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION
To conduct nationally significant programs to improve the quality of education, assist all students to meet challenging State content standards, and contribute to the achievement of the National Education Goals.
GAINING EARLY AWARENESS AND READINESS FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
To encourage eligible entities to provide or maintain a guarantee to eligible low-income students who obtain a secondary diploma (or its recognized equivalent), of the financial assistance necessary to permit the students to attend an institution of higher education;
and supports eligible entities in providing additional counseling, mentoring, academic support, outreach, and supportive services to elementary and middle schools, and secondary school students who are at risk of dropping out of school;
and information to students and their parents about the advantages of obtaining a postsecondary education and the college financing options for the students and their parents.
GOALS 2000: PARENTAL INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTERS
To provide grants to nonprofit organizations and nonprofit organizations in consortia with local education agencies (LEAs) to assist them in establishing parental information and resource centers.
These centers strive to:
(1) Increase parents knowledge of and confidence in child-rearing activities such as teaching and nurturing their young children;
(2) strengthen partnerships between parents and professionals in meeting the educational needs of preschool and school-aged children and the working relationships between home and school; and
(3) enhance the developmental progress of the children assisted under this program.
GRADUATE ASSISTANCE IN AREAS OF NATIONAL NEED
To provide fellowships through graduate academic departments, programs, and units of institutions of higher education to graduate students of superior ability who demonstrate financial need for the purpose of sustaining and enhancing the capacity for teaching and research in academic areas of national need, as designated by the Secretary.
GRANTS TO STATES FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH OFFENDERS
To assist incarcerated youth offenders in obtaining postsecondary education and postsecondary vocational training.
HIGHER EDUCATION TRIO STAFF TRAINING PROGRAM
To provide training for staff and leadership personnel employed in, or preparing for employment in, projects funded under the Federal TRIO Programs.
IMMIGRANT EDUCATION
To provide assistance to States for educational services and costs for immigrant children enrolled in elementary and secondary public and nonpublic schools.
States provide funding to those local educational agencies (LEAs) where the enrollment of immigrant children in elementary and secondary public and nonpublic schools is at least 500 or three percent of the total enrollment.
To be counted, immigrant children must have been enrolled in U.S. schools for less than 3 years.
INDIAN EDUCATION GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES
Support local educational agencies in their efforts to reform elementary and secondary school programs that serve Indian students in order to ensure that programs are based on challenging State content standards and student performance standards that are used for all students, and are designed to assist Indian students meet those standards in reaching the National Education Goals.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EDUCATION
To promote innovation and improvement in international business education curricula at institutions of higher education (IHEs) and promote linkages between IHEs and the business community.
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND STUDIES
To improve foreign language, area, and other international studies training through support of research, studies, experimentation, development of specialized instructional materials, and the publication of specialized materials developed as a result of research conducted under this program.
INTERNATIONAL: OVERSEAS SEMINARS ABROAD BILATERAL PROJECTS
To increase mutual understanding and knowledge between the people of the United States and those in other countries by offering qualified U.S. educators opportunities to participate in short-term study seminars abroad on topics in the social sciences and the humanities.
INTERNATIONAL: OVERSEAS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
To provide opportunities for graduate students to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign language and area studies with the exception of Western Europe. This program is designed to develop research knowledge and capability in world areas not widely included in American curricula.
JAVITS FELLOWSHIPS
To provide fellowships for graduate study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to individuals of superior ability selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise.
Fellowships are awarded to students intending to pursue a doctoral degree and may be awarded to students pursuing a master's degree in those fields in which the master's degree is commonly accepted as the terminal degree.
JAVITS GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM
To provide financial assistance to State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other public and private agencies and organizations, to stimulate research, development, training, and similar activities designed to build a nationwide capability in elementary and secondary schools to meet the special educational needs of gifted and talented students.
To supplement the use of State and local funds for the education of gifted and talented students.
LITERACY PROGRAMS FOR PRISONERS
To assist persons incarcerated in a prison, jail, or detention center to achieve functional literacy.
To reduce prisoner recidivism through the development and improvement of life skills necessary for reintegration into society.
MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE
To provide grants to eligible local educational agencies (LEAs) or consortia of LEAs for use in magnet schools that are part of approved desegregation plans and that are designed to bring together students from different social, economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.
MCNAIR POST-BACCALAUREATE ACHIEVEMENT
To provide grants for institutions of higher education to prepare low-income, first-generation college students and students underrepresented in graduate education for graduate study.
MIGRANT EDUCATION_BASIC STATE GRANT PROGRAM
To assist States to ensure that migratory children have the opportunity to meet the same challenging State content and performance standards that all children are expected to meet.
MIGRANT EDUCATION COLLEGE ASSISTANCE MIGRANT PROGRAM
To assist students that are engaged, or whose parents are engaged in migrant and other seasonal farmwork, and are enrolled or are admitted for enrollment on a full-time basis in the first academic year at an institution of higher education.
MIGRANT EDUCATION COORDINATION PROGRAM
To encourage the interstate and intrastate coordination of migrant education including consortium arrangements to reduce the administrative costs of state educational agencies (SEAs) receiving Title I Migrant Education Program funds under 84.011.
MIGRANT EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY PROGRAM
To assist students who are engaged, or whose parents are engaged, in migrant and other seasonal farm work to obtain the equivalent of a secondary school diploma and subsequently to gain employment or be placed in an institution of higher education or other postsecondary education or training.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH
To support and coordinate research and its utilization to improve the lives of people of all ages with physical and mental disabilities, especially persons with severe disabilities through:
(1) Identifying and eliminating causes and consequences of disability;
(2) maximizing the health, physical, and emotional status of persons with disabilities and their functional ability, self- sufficiency, self-development and personal autonomy;
(3) preventing or minimizing personal and family, physical, mental, social, educational, vocational, and economic effects of disability; and
(4) reducing and eliminating physical, social, educational, vocational, and environmental barriers to permit access to services and assistance and to use their abilities in daily life.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON THE EDUCATION OF AT-RISK STUDENTS
To provide national leadership and support to expand research based knowledge and strategies that will promote excellence and equity in the education of children and youth who are at-risk of education failure.
NATIVE HAWAIIAN CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, TEACHER TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT
To fund native Hawaiian programs of instruction for math, science, the Native Hawaiian language and other subjects. Curriculum development and teacher training are supported as well.
NATIVE HAWAIIAN HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
To make direct grants to Native Hawaiian education organizations or education entities with experience in developing or operating Native Hawaiian programs or programs of instruction conducted in the Native Hawaiian language to enable them to provide a program of baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate fellowship assistance to Native Hawaiian students.
PREPARING TOMORROW'S TEACHERS TO USE TECHNOLOGY
To guarantee that future teachers are proficient in the new learning technologies they will find in their twenty-first century schools, teacher preparation programs are encouraged to form partnerships that will insure that teachers have mastered the instructional strategies, learning styles, and content applications enabled by modern learning technologies.
READING EXCELLENCE
To award grants to States to provide children with the readiness skills and support they need in early childhood to learn to read once they enter school;
teach every child to learn to read once they enter school;
teach every child to read by the end of the third grade;
and, improve the instructional practices of teachers and other instructional staff in elementary schools.
READY-TO-LEARN TELEVISION
To develop educational programming for preschool and early elementary school children and their families.
To develop educational television, programming and ancillary materials to increase school readiness for young children in limited English proficient households and to increase family literacy.
To develop support materials and services that promote effective use of educational programming.
SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES NATIONAL PROGRAMS
To enhance the Nation's efforts to prevent the illegal use of drugs and violence among, and promote safety and discipline for, students at all educational levels.
SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES STATE GRANTS
To support programs to meet the National Education Goal that, by the year 2000, every school in the United States will be free of drugs, violence, and the unauthorized presence of firearms and alcohol.
To offer a disciplined environment conducive to learning, by preventing violence in and around schools and strengthen programs that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, involve parents, and coordinated with related Federal, State, and community efforts and resources.
TEACHER QUALITY ENHANCEMENT GRANTS
To improve student achievement; improve the quality of the current and future teaching force by improving the preparation of prospective teachers and enhancing professional development activities;
hold institutions of higher education accountable for preparing teachers who have the necessary teaching skills and are highly competent in the academic content areas in which the teachers plan to teach, such as mathematics, science, English, foreign language, history, economics, art, civics, Government, and geography, including training in the effective uses of technology in the classroom; and recruit highly qualified individuals, including individuals from other occupations, into the teaching force.
TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES
To help local education agencies (LEAs) and schools improve the teaching and learning of children failing, or most at-risk of failing, to meet challenging State academic standards.
TITLE I PROGRAM FOR NEGLECTED AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN
To help provide education continuity for children and youth in State-run institutions for juveniles and in adult correctional institutions, so that these youth can make successful transitions to school or employment once they are released from State institutions.
WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL EQUITY ACT PROGRAM
(1) To promote gender equity in education in the United States;
(2) to promote equity in education for women and girls who suffer from multiple forms of discrimination based on sex, race, ethnic origin, limited-English proficiency, disability, or age; and
(3) to provide financial assistance to enable educational agencies and institutions to meet the requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
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