20 U.S.C. § 1231c — Advice, counsel, and technical assistance
submitted 56 years ago by Pub. L. 90-247 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 402 words · no verdicts yet
On request, the Secretary may help education agencies, higher-education institutions, and approved schools understand and use Federal education programs. The Secretary must also allow certain systematic cost methods and promote dissemination of federally funded curricula and instructional materials.
(a) State agencies and higher-education institutions. To carry out Federal education programs more effectively, the Secretary* may, on request, give advice, counsel, and technical help to State educational agencies and institutions of higher education, and, with the appropriate State agency’s approval, to elementary and secondary schools, to (1) determine benefits available under Federal law; (2) prepare applications and meet program requirements; (3) improve quality, depth, or scope of program activities; and (4) simplify applications, reports, evaluations, and other administration. (b) Local cost methods. The Secretary must allow local educational agencies to use organized, systematic methods for allocating, collecting, measuring, and reporting costs if the Secretary finds that the methods will not reduce program effectiveness, the agency will adequately evaluate each program, and the methods follow audit criteria set by the Comptroller General. A cost is allocable to a cost objective to the extent of the relative benefits that objective receives. (c) Dissemination. When awarding curriculum or instructional-material contracts and grants, the Secretary and the National Institute of Education Director must (1) encourage applicants to develop materials in a way that supports continuing dissemination through consultation with publishers, State and local education personnel, teachers, administrators, community representatives, and others experienced in dissemination; (2) allow reasonable consultation fees or planning costs; and (3) ensure that grants to public agencies and nonprofit private organizations, and contracts with public agencies and private organizations, for publishing and disseminating curricula or instructional materials, or both, are awarded competitively to agencies and organizations that assure the materials will reach the target populations for which they were developed. (d) Annual report. The Secretary’s annual report must state the Secretary’s activities under this section.
For the purpose of carrying out more effectively Federal education programs, the Secretary* is authorized, upon request, to provide advice, counsel, and technical assistance to State educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and, with the approval of the appropriate State educational agency, elementary and secondary schools—
in determining benefits available to them under Federal law;
in preparing applications for, and meeting requirements of, applicable programs;
in order to enhance the quality, increase the depth, or broaden the scope of activities under applicable programs; and
in order to encourage simplification of applications, reports, evaluations, and other administrative procedures.
The Secretary shall permit local educational agencies to use organized and systematic approaches in determining cost allocation, collection, measurement, and reporting under any applicable program*, if he determines (1) that the use of such approaches will not in any manner lessen the effectiveness and impact of such program in achieving purposes for which it is intended, (2) that the agency will use such procedures as will insure adequate evaluation of each of the programs involved, and (3) that such approaches are consistent with criteria prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States for the purposes of audit. For the purpose of this subsection a cost is allocable to a particular cost objective to the extent of relative benefits received by such objective.
In awarding contracts and grants for the development of curricula or instructional materials, the Secretary and the Director of the National Institute of Education shall—
encourage applicants to assure that such curricula or instructional materials will be developed in a manner conducive to dissemination through continuing consultations with publishers, personnel of State and local educational agencies, teachers, administrators, community representatives, and other individuals experienced in such dissemination;
permit applicants to include provision for reasonable consultation fees or planning costs; and
insure that grants to public agencies and nonprofit private organizations and contracts with public agencies and private organizations for publication and dissemination of curricula or instructional materials, or both, are awarded competitively to such agencies and organizations which provide assurances that the curricula and instructional materials will reach the target populations for which they were developed.
The Secretary’s annual report shall contain a statement of the Secretary’s activities under this section.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 90–247, title IV, § 433, formerly § 414, as added Pub. L. 91–230, title IV, § 401(a)(10), Apr. 13, 1970, 84 Stat. 167; renumbered § 424, Pub. L. 92–318, title III, § 301(a)(1), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 326; renumbered § 426, Pub. L. 93–380, title V, § 508(a), Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 565; amended Pub. L. 95–561, title XII, § 1248, Nov. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 2354; Pub. L. 96–88, title III, § 301(a)(1), title V, § 507, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 677, 692; renumbered § 433, Pub. L. 103–382, title II, § 212(b)(1), Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3913.)
- 1970Enacted · Pub. L. 90-247 · 84 Stat. 167
- 1972Amended · Pub. L. 92-318 · 86 Stat. 326
- 1974Amended · Pub. L. 93-380 · 88 Stat. 565
- 1978Amended · Pub. L. 95-561 · 92 Stat. 2354
- 1979Amended · Pub. L. 96-88 · 93 Stat. 677, 692
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-382 · 108 Stat. 3913
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