115 STAT. 1824 PUBLIC LAW 107-110-^AN. 8, 2002 "(10) The administrative and managerial relationship between the local educational agency and the smaller learning community or communities, including how such agency will demonstrate a commitment to the continuity of the smaller learning community or communities (including the continuity of student and teacher assignment to a particular learning community). "(11) How the local educational agency will coordinate or use funds provided under this subpart with other funds provided under this Act or other Federal laws. "(12) The grade levels or ages of students who will participate in the smaller learning community or communities. "(13) The method of placing students in the smaller learning community or communities, such that students are not placed according to ability or any other measure, but are placed at random or by their own choice, and not pursuant to testing or other judgments. "(c) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES. — Funds under this section may be used for one or more of the following: "(1) To study— "(A) the feasibility of creating the smaller learning community or communities; and "(B) effective and innovative organizational and instructional strategies that will be used in the smaller learning community or communities. "(2) To research, develop, and implement— "(A) strategies for creating the smaller learning community or communities; and "(B) strategies for effective and innovative changes in curriculum and instruction, geared to challenging State academic content standards and State student academic achievement standards. "(3) To provide professional development for school staff in innovative teaching methods that— "(A) challenge and engage students; and "(B) will be used in the smaller learning community or communities. "(4) To develop and implement strategies to include parents, business representatives, local institutions of higher education, community-based organizations, and other community members in the smaller learning communities as facilitators of activities that enable teachers to participate in professional development activities and provide links between students and their community. "Subpart 5—Reading Is Fundamental— Inexpensive Book Distribution Program 20 USC 7251. "SEC. 5451. INEXPENSIVE BOOK DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM FOR READING MOTIVATION. "(a) PURPOSE.— The purpose of this subpart is to establish and implement a model partnership between a governmental entity and a private entity, to help prepare young children for reading and to motivate older children to read, through the distribution of inexpensive books. Local reading motivation programs assisted under this section shall use such assistance to provide books, training for volunteers, motivational activities, and other essential
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