PUBLIC LAW 100-297—APR. 28, 1988
102 STAT. 247
purpose of providing general assistance to improve public education in the Virgin Islands. "SEC. 4502. TERRITORIAL TEACHER TRAINING ASSISTANCE.
20 USC 3142. "There are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for the fiscal Appropriation year 1989 and for each of the 4 subsequent fiscal years for the authorization. Grants. purpose of assisting teacher training programs in Guam, American Contracts.
Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. From the sums appropriated pursuant to this section the Secretary shall make grants and enter into contracts for the purpose of providing training to teachers in schools in Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The Secretary may make grants to or contracts with any organization considered qualified to provide training for teachers in such schools and shall allot such sums among such territories on the basis of the need for such training. "PART F—SECRETARY'S FUND FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION "SEC. 4601. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.
20 USC 3151.
"(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—(1) From funds appropriated under this part, the Secretary is authorized to carry out programs and projects which show promise of identifying and disseminating innovative educational approaches. "(2) The Secretary, in carrying out the provisions of this part, is authorized to— "(A) develop, prepare, and conduct an optional test for academic excellence in accordance with section 4602; "(B) carry out programs for technology education in accordance with section 4603; "(C) strengthen and expand computer education resources available in public and private elementary and secondary schools in accordance with section 4604; and "(D) establish and strengthen comprehensive school health education programs in accordance with section 4605. "(b) ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY.—The Secretary is authorized to Grants. carry out programs and projects under this section directly, or Contracts. through grants to or contracts with State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions. "SEC. 4602. OPTIONAL TESTS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE. "(a) TEST OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary
is authorized, after consultation with appropriate State and local educational agencies and public and private organizations, to approve oomprehensive tests of academic excellence or to develop such a test where commercially unavailable, to be administered to identify outstanding students who are in the eleventh grade of public and private secondary schools. "(b) PREPARATION AND CONDUCT OF TESTS.—(1) The Secretary is
authorized to establish a program through arrangements with appropriate State educational agencies, local educational agencies, public and private secondary schools, and public and private organizations throughout the Nation, under which the tests of academic excellence prepared or approved under this part may be
20 USC 3152.
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