PUBLIC LAW 100-297—APR. 28, 1988
102 STAT. 201
school levels and that have the objective of (A) promoting school-level planning, instructional improvement, and staff development, (B) increasing the academic achievement levels of all children and, particularly, educationally deprived children, and (C) achieving as ongoing conditions in the school the following factors identified through effective school research as distinguishing effective from ineffective schools— "(i) strong and effective administrative and instructional leadership that creates consensus on instructional goals and organizational capacity for instructional problem solving; "(ii) emphasis on the acquisition of basic and higher order skills; "(iii) a safe and orderly school environment that allows teachers and pupils to focus their energies on academic achievement; "(iv) a climate of expectations that all children can learn under appropriate conditions; and "(v) continuous assessment of students and programs to evaluate the effects of instruction. "(8) The term 'elementary school' means a day or residential school which provides elementary education, as determined under State law. "(9) The term 'equipment' includes machinery, utilities, and building equipment and any necessary enclosures or structures to house them, and includes all other items necessary for the functioning of a particular facility as a facility for the provision of educational services, including items such as instructional equipment and necessary furniture, printed, published, and audio-visual instructional materials, and books, periodicals, documents, and other related materials. "(10) The term 'institution of higher education' has the meaning given that term in section 1201(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965. "(11) The term 'free public education' means education which is provided at public expense, under public supervision and direction, and without tuition charge, and which is provided as elementary or secondary school education in the applicable State, except that such term does not include any education provided beyond grade 12. "(12) The term 'local educational agency' means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or such combination of school districts or counties as are recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary or secondary schools. Such term includes any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public elementary or secondary school. "(13) The term 'more advanced skills' means skills including reasoning, analysis, interpretation, problem-solving, and decisionmaking as they relate to the particular subjects in which instruction is provided under programs supported by this chapter.
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