Improving America's Schools Act of 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act Part B: The Department of Education Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations Part D: Administration of Education Programs Part E: Technical and Conforming Amendments Part F: Related Amendments to Other Acts Title III: Amendments to Other Acts Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B: Education for Homeless Children and Youth Part C: Repeal of Impact Aid Statutes Part D: Amendments to Adult Education Act Part E: Higher Education Part F: Other Acts Part G: Library Services and Construction Reauthorization Part H: Amendments to Statutes Pertaining to Indian Education Part I: Cross References and Conforming Amendments Title IV: National Education Statistics Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions Part A: Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Act Part B: Community School Partnerships Part C: 1994 Institutions Part D: Workers Technology Skill Development Part E: Multiethnic Placement Part F: Miscellaneous Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 - Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise and reauthorize ESEA. (Sec. 101) Establishes a title I program for Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards, which revises and reauthorizes some of the current title I chapter 1 programs of Financial Assistance to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Children. Declares it to be U.S. policy: (1) that a high-quality education for all individuals and a fair and equal opportunity to attain it are a societal good and moral imperative; and (2) to expand the title I program over FY 1996 through 1999 by increasing funding by a specified minimum amount each fiscal year and increasing the percentage of eligible children served, with the intent of serving them all by FY 2004. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) local educational agency (LEA) grants under the basic program; (2) Even Start; (3) education of migratory children; (4) prevention and intervention programs for youth who are neglected, delinquent, or at risk of dropping out; (5) capital expenses; (6) additional assistance for school improvement; and (7) Federal activities. Allows States to reserve certain funds to carry out specified school improvement duties. Provides for additional State allocations for school improvement. Requires any State desiring to receive a grant (under provisions for improving basic educational programs operated by LEAs) to submit State plans that are coordinated with other programs under ESEA, the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, and other Acts, as appropriate. Requires each State plan to describe challenging standards for all children that will be used by the State, its LEAs, and its schools to carry out this Act, including: (1) challenging academic content standards; and (2) challenging student performance standards. Sets forth assessment provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a process for peer review and Secretarial approval. Requires LEAs receiving subgrants to have plans with standards and assessments provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Provides for State approval and shared program responsibility of schools and the LEA in deciding on schoolwide programs and targeted assistance schools. Allows an LEA to only use basic program funds in eligible school attendance areas in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least as high as that in the LEA as a whole. Sets forth formulas for ranking eligible school attendance areas for purposes of such funding in various cases where there are insufficient funds. Provides for LEA discretion in eligibility determinations and use of funds under certain conditions. Sets forth criteria which a school must meet in order for the LEA to use basic program funds to upgrade the entire educational program at an eligible school (schoolwide programs). Provides that, in participating schools that are ineligible for a schoolwide program or that choose not to operate a schoolwide program, an LEA may use basic program funds only for targeted assistance programs that provide services to eligible children identified as having the greatest need for special assistance (targeted assistance schools). Sets forth criteria for eligible children at such schools. Allows title I basic grant funds to be used for school choice programs which permit parents of eligible children to select the public school their children will attend. Provides for assessment and LEA and school improvement, including local review, designation of Distinguished Schools, school improvement identification, and State review and LEA improvement. Requires each State educational agency (SEA) to establish a statewide system of intensive and sustained support and improvement for schools receiving basic program funds. Requires such system to work with and receive support and assistance from the comprehensive regional technical assistance centers. Requires such system to include school support teams, Distinguished Schools, and State establishment of a corps of Distinguished Educators. Sets forth requirements for: (1) parental involvement; (including coordination with other programs, such as Head Start, Even Start, Parents As Teachers, Home Instruction for Preschool Youngsters, and State-run preschool programs); (2) professional development; (3) participation of children enrolled in private schools; and fiscal and coordination requirements. Revises formulas for allocations of title I basic program funds. Targets the greater share of increased appropriations on high poverty areas. Sets forth hold-harmless provisions. Provides for allocations to States, basic grants to LEAs, concentration grants to LEAs, targeted grants to LEAs, and special allocation procedures, including ones for neglected children. Sets forth carryover and waiver provisions. Establishes an education finance incentive program. Authorizes the Secretary to make such program grants to States for allocation to LEAs and schools. Authorizes appropriations. Revises Even Start Family Literacy Programs to increase program services and high-poverty-area targeting and include teenage parents. Revises Education of Migratory Children to restrict eligibility to children who have moved within the previous 36 months. Allows State consortium arrangements. Provides for continuation of services. Authorizes distance learning program grants in the education of migratory children. Renames Education of Neglected and Delinquent Youth as Prevention and Intervention for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk of Dropping Out. Bases a part of the formula for subgrants to State agencies on the number of neglected or delinquent children who are enrolled for at least: (1) 15 hours per week in education programs in adult correctional institutions; or (2) 20 hours per week in education programs in institutions for such children or in community day programs for them. Adds provisions for youth in local correctional facilities. Sets forth title I provisions for Federal evaluations, demonstrations, and transition projects. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for innovative transition projects in elementary schools. Establishes title I provisions for a negotiated rulemaking process, program assistance manual, and State committees of practitioners to advise States on title I responsibilities. Establishes a new ESEA title II, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program, to support professional development of elementary and secondary school teachers in core academic subjects. (This replaces the current Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act programs.) Gives priority for professional development in mathematics and science. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for Federal program activities in general, as well as for a mathematics and science education clearinghouse and a national teacher training project. Authorizes the Secretary to award a grant or contract to establish an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education. National Teacher Training Project Act of 1994 - Authorizes the Secretary to award up to ten grants to ten different eligible recipients for half of the costs of supporting: (1) teacher training programs in early childhood development and one of nine specified core academic subjects; and (2) classroom research on effective teaching practices. Provides for State and local activities, with priority for professional development in mathematics and science. Directs the Secretary to award demonstration grants to eligible partnerships for planning and implementing professional development programs. Technology for Education Act of 1994 - Establishes a new ESEA title II, Technology for Education for All Students. (The current title III, Magnet Schools Assistance, is transferred to a new title IV.) Authorizes appropriations for programs under the following parts of title III. Sets forth title III part A provisions for Technology for Education of All Students. Includes under National Programs for Technology in Education: (1) Federal leadership activities by the Secretary and through the Office of Educational Technology, including a national long-range technology plan and assistance for State planning for use of technology in schools in accordance with the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, technical assistance, research and development, assessment, and collaboration, and study, evaluation and report on funding alternatives for schools; (2) school technology resource grants and national challenger grants for technology in education under State and Local Programs for School Technology Resources; (3) regional technical support and professional development grants; and (4) educational technology product development grants. Star Schools Act - Revises the Star Schools Program (currently under the Star Schools Program Assistance Act) and makes it part B of title III of ESEA. Extends the authorization of appropriations. Provides for leadership and evaluation activities and for other assistance to a special statewide and a special local network. Provides for grants for telecommunications programs for continuing education. Revises, and transfers to part C of title III (currently IV-G), the Ready-to-Learn Television program. Extends the authorization of appropriations. Establishes a new title II part D, Telecommunications Demonstration Project for Mathematics. Authorizes appropriations for project grants. Elementary Mathematics and Science Equipment Act - Establishes the Elementary Mathematics and Science Equipment Program as part E of title III of ESEA. Authorizes the Secretary to allot funds to State educational agencies to award grants to local educational agencies to provide hands-on instruction equipment and materials to elementary schools to improve mathematics and science education. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes the Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Resources Program as part F of title III of ESEA. Directs the Secretary to award grants or make allocations for acquisition of school library media resources for elementary and secondary schools. Reserves a portion of part A funds for such awards to States. Requires State plans and distribution of allocation to LEAs. Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 - Establishes as ESEA title IV a Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program, which replaces and revises the current title V Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act program to include violence prevention activities and increase the role of community-based agencies and student organizations. Includes under the new program: (1) State Grants for Drug and Violence Prevention Programs at State and local levels, including reservation of funds for territorial, Indian, native Hawaiian, and evaluation programs; and (2) national programs, including grants for hate crime prevention and higher education institution grants. Reserves 20 percent of State assistance for Governor's programs. Requires the Governor to use ten percent of such reserved funds for drug abuse resistance education programs and establish an advisory panel to develop a plan for use of such reserved funds. Includes prevention of use of tobacco and alcohol under drug prevention. Establishes as ESEA title V, Promoting Equity, which authorizes appropriations for: (1) a revised Magnet Schools Assistance program; (2) a revised Women's Educational Equity Act program (currently under title IV part A), retaining the current grant program and adding implementation grants; and (3) assistance to address school dropout problems. Women's Educational Equity Act of 1994 - Sets forth (as noted above) a revised Women's Educational Equity program. School Dropout Assistance Act - Sets forth (as noted above) Assistance to Address School Dropout Problems. Provides for grants to LEAs and community organizations, with special consideration for LEAs forming educational partnerships with various other entities. Allows grants to be used for various educational, occupational, and basic skills testing services and activities. Establishes a new title VI, Innovative Education Program Strategies, which modifies the current title I chapter 2 program. Provides for support of educational reform activities consistent with State and local efforts under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Authorizes use of such funds also to provide support for innovation and educational improvement. Authorizes appropriations for such program, including: (1) State and local programs; (2) State programs; and (3) local innovative education programs, including effective schools and magnet schools programs. Provides for participation of children enrolled in private schools. Sets forth ESEA title VII Bilingual Education, Language Enhancement, and Language Acquisiton Programs, with part A bilingual education programs, part B foreign language assistance, and part C Emergency Immigrant Education Program. Revises the Bilingual Education Act (currently all of ESEA title VII) to establish it as part A of title VII and to extend its authorization of appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) bilingual education capacity and demonstration grants, including ones for program development and implementation, program enhancement, comprehensive schoolwide programs, and system-wide improvement; (2) research, evaluation, and dissemination, including academic excellence awards, State grants, the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, and instructional materials development; and (3) bilingual education professional development, including a training-all-teachers program, bilingual education teachers and personnel grants, a career ladder program, and graduate fellowships in bilingual education. Provides programs for Native Hawaiian and Native American Pacific Islander, as well as Native American and Alaska Native, children and youth. Limits the funding period for recipients of bilingual education grants awarded before the enactment of this Act. Foreign Language Assistance Act of 1994 - Revises the Foreign Language Assistance Program (currently under ESEA title II part B) to establish it as title VII part B and extend its authorization of appropriations. Provides for competitive, three-year grants to SEAs and LEAs for innovative model programs of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students. Requires annual incentive payments to each public elementary school that provides students with a program designed to lead to communicative competency in a foreign language. Extends the authorization of appropriations for a revised Emergency Immigrant Education Program, under part C of title VII of ESEA. Establishes a new ESEA title VIII, Impact Aid. (The current impact aid laws are repealed later in this Act.) Revises formulas for payments to LEAs relating to Federal acquisition of real property. Revises payments to LEAs for eligible federally connected children by: (1) revising payments for children whose parents either live on Federal land or work for the Federal Government; (2) changing the payment formula for those children whose parents work for the Federal Government and live on Federal property, and those who live on Indian lands; (3) providing additional funding for very large LEAs with very high numbers of federally connected children; (4) providing separate authorizations and payments to LEAs for federally connected children with disabilities, increases in military children, construction, and facilities maintenance; and (5) reserving funds for additional assistance to heavily impacted LEAs. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new ESEA title IX, Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education, which adds revised Indian Education Act programs to ESEA. (Eliminates the current title VI provisions for Projects and Programs Designed to Address School Dropout Problems and to Strengthen Basic Education.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title VI part A Indian Education programs: (1) formula grants to LEAs; (2) special programs and projects to improve educational opportunities for Indian children, including grants for certain services and projects, Indian teacher and other helping professional development support and graduate training assistance, fellowships for Indian students, gifted and talented centers, and grants to tribes for education administrative planning and development; (3) special programs relating to adult education for Indians; (4) national research activities; and (5) Federal administration including a National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Native Hawaiian Education Act - Sets forth as part B of title IX, programs for Native Hawaiians. Establishes a Native Hawaiian Education Council to: (1) coordinate and assess educational and related services available to Native Hawaiians; and (2) guide Federal, State, and local agencies to focus resources for Native Hawaiian education. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for Native Hawaiian: (1) curriculum development and teacher training and recruitment; (2) community-based education learning centers; (3) family-based education centers; (4) higher education; (5) gifted and talented education; and (6) special education. Authorizes appropriations. Alaska Native Educational Equity, Support and Assistance Act - Establishes, under part C of title IX, an Alaska Native Education program. Directs the Secretary to make grants to Alaska Native organizations, partnerships thereof or educational entities with experience in Alaska Native programs for: (1) educational planning; (2) implementation of educational plans; (3) curricula development; (4) preteacher training; (5) teacher recruitment; (6) inservice teacher training; (7) home instruction programs for preschool youngsters; and (8) student enrichment programs in science and mathematics. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new ESEA title X, Programs of National Significance, with the following various parts consisting of transferred or new ESEA programs. Establishes as part A a revised and renamed Fund for the Improvement of Education (currently under title IV as the Secretary's Fund for Innovation in Education). Establishes: (1) an elementary school counseling demonstration grant program; (2) a Partnerships in Character Education Pilot Project; (3) a Promoting Scholar-Athlete Competitions program; (4) Smaller Learning Communities program; (5) grants for national student and parent mock elections to promote voter participation in elections; and (6) a Model Projects program of grants to cultural institutions for model projects of outreach activities for at-risk children in communities served by such institutions, including integrating of cultural programming with other disciplines, including environmental, mathematics, and science programs. Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talended Students Education Act of 1994 - Revises the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education program under part B (currently under title IV). Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations, under part C, for a new Public Charter Schools program to increase public school choice through grants for innovative programs and exemptions from regulations that limit school operational and management flexibility. Provides, under part D Arts in Education, for: (1) an expanded Arts in Education program; and (2) demonstration grants for educational and cultural services for at-risk children and youth. Requires, if funding for the Arts in Education program does not reach a certain level, that all such program funds be used for model projects and programs: (1) in the performing arts for children and youth through the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; or (2) developed by Very Special Arts to assure participation in mainstream arts and education programs of persons of all ages with disabilities. Authorizes appropriations. Extends the authorization of appropriations, under part E, for the Inexpensive Book Distribution Program, through Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., giving priority to new projects serving a substantial number or percentage of children with special needs. Provides, under part F, for an expanded Civic Education program, including the "We the People...The Citizen and the Constitution" program as well as a new program to support attainment of challenging content and student performance standards in civics, government, and the law and of National Education Goals Three and Six. Authorizes appropriations. Extends the authorization of appropriations, under part G, for a revised Allen J. Ellender Fellowship Program, with Close Up Foundation activities for middle and secondary school students and teachers, recent immigrants, older Americans, and (added) students of migrant parents. Authorizes appropriations for a renamed De Lugo Territorial Education Improvement Program of grants for innovative education. 21st Century Community Learning Centers Act - Directs the Secretary to make grants to rural and inner city public schools or consortia for projects that benefit the educational needs of rural or inner city communities. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes under part J Urban and Rural Education Assistance. Authorizes appropriations for urban and rural education demonstration grants to eligible LEAs or SEAs, as well as grants to partnerships of higher education institutions and rural LEAs. Authorizes the President to conduct a White House Conference on Urban Education and a White House Conference on Rural Education. Sets forth a part K which revises and reauthorizes appropriations for the National Writing Project. Establishes, under part L, the Extended Time for Learning and Longer School Year program. Authorizes grants to LEAs for various activities, including: (1) research, development, and implementation of strategies, outreach, professional development, and community involvement, for extending learning time within and beyond the school day and year; and (2) public school improvement that includes expansion of time devoted to core academic subjects and extension of the school year to at least 210 days. Authorizes appropriations. Extends the authorization of appropriations, transferred to part M, for general assistance to improve public education in the Virgin Islands. Establishes a new ESEA title XI, Coordinated Services. Allows an LEA, individual school, or schools consortium to use specified funds received under ESEA for coordinating services projects to provide students and their families better access to social, health, and education services (but bars direct provision of health or health-related services). Requires project development and implementation or expansion plans. Requires various Federal agencies to review and report to the Congress on barriers to service coordination. Education Infrastructure Act of 1994 - Establishes a new ESEA title XII, School Facilities Infrastructure Improvement Act. Directs the Secretary to award grants to eligible LEAs to meet the National Education Goals by ensuring the health and safety of students through repair, renovation, alteration, and construction of public elementary or secondary school libraries, media centers, or facilities, used for academic or vocational instruction, including certain authorized activities. Sets forth requirements for: (1) maintenance of effort, supplementation of non-Federal funds, and general limitations; (2) payment of wages in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act; and (3) Federal evaluation. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes an ESEA title XIII, Support and Assistance Programs to Improve Education. Includes under such national technical assistance and dissemination system: (1) comprehensive regional assistance centers; (2) State-based activities through the National Diffusion Network; (3) Eisenhower Regional Mathematics and Science Education Consortia; and (4) technology-based technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Revises ESEA General Provisions, transferring them from title X to title XIV. Makes competitive program requirements applicable to Bureau of Indian Affairs schools or consortia of schools and tribal or community organizations applying for assistance. Provides for: (1) flexibility in the use of administrative and other funds, through consolidation of State administrative funds for elementary and secondary education programs and consolidation of funds for local administration; (2) coordination of programs, including consolidated State and local plans and applications; (3) waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; (4) certain uniform provisions (including barring Federal control over private, religious, or home schools) and certain prohibitions against Federal mandates, sex education, or violations of student rights with respect to prayer in public schools. Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 - Establishes as part F of title XIV of ESEA, provisions with respect to Gun Possession. Requires LEAs, as a condition of receiving ESEA assistance from the State, to have in effect a policy requiring expulsion from school for at least one year of any student who has brough a firearm to a school under LEA jurisdiction. Prohibits ESEA funds to any LEA that does not have a policy requiring referral to the criminal justice or juvenile delinquency system of any student who brings a firearm or weapon to a school served by such agency. Directs the Secretary to collect data and disseminate Department policy with respect to disciplining children with disabilities. Sets forth general provisions with respect to evaluations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal spending on education should increase by at least one percent per year until it reaches ten percent of the total Federal budget. Sets forth Buy American requirements. Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act - Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise applicability and other aspects. Part B: Department of Education - Revises GEPA with respect to functions of the Department of Education. Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations - Revises GEPA with respect to forward funding, availability of appropriations, contingent extension of programs, State reports, biennial evaluation reports, equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries, disclosure requirements, and coordination. Part D: Administration of Education Programs - Revises GEPA with respect to joint funding of programs, information collection and dissemination, review of application, parental involvement and dissemination, use of withheld funds, applications, regulations, reduction of record retention requirements, privacy rights, and enforcement. Part E: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Makes various technical and conforming amendments to ESEA and related Acts. Part F: Related Amendments to Other Acts - Makes related amendments to the Department of Education Organization Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Provides for a Special Assistant for Gender Equity in the Department. Title III: Amendments to Other Acts - Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to revise provisions for allocations. Combines the current ESEA title I chapter I State agency program for the handicapped with the IDEA programs of grants to States and for infants and toddlers with disabilities. (Sec. 315) Families of Children with Disabilities Support Act of 1994 - Amends IDEA to add a new Part I, Family Support. Directs the Secretary to make three-year grants to states for systems change activities for statewide systems of support for families with children with disabilities. Sets forth priorities and application requirements. Requires States desiring such assistance to designate lead entities and establish State Policy Councils for Families of Children with Disabilities. Includes among authorized activities training and technical assistance, interagency coordination, local or regional councils, outreach, policy studies, hearings and forums, public awareness and education, needs assessment, program data, and pilot demonstration projects. Requires State strategic plans, progress criteria, and reports. Requires panels of experts to evaluate grant applications. Directs the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with appropriate public or private agencies and organizations, including institutions of higher education, for: (1) providing technical assistance and information on statewide systems of family support; and (2) conducting a national evaluation of the program of grants to States. Directs the Secretary to: (1) review Federal programs with respect to their impact on such family support, consistent with specified policies; and (2) make grants or contracts for projects of national significance for developing national and State policies and practices for family-centered and family-directed systems of support for families of children with disabilities. Authorizes appropriations for such family support programs. Part B: Educationfor Homeless Children and Youth - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise provisions with respect to grants for State adult literacy initiatives and grants for State and local activities for the education of homeless children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Repeal of Impact Aid Statutes - Repeals certain Federal laws for impact aid. (Impact aid provisions are added to ESEA earlier in this Act.) Part D: Amendments to Adult Education Act - Amends the Adult Education Act to include Even Start programs under State planning and coordination requirements. Extends the authorization of appropriations for national research activities. Part E: Higher Education - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act with respect to the definition of institution of higher education, notwithstanding certain provisions of the Higher Education Amendments of 1992. (Sec. 352) Makes a technical amendment to the Second Morrill Act. (Sec. 353) Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to revise definitions of eligible institutions. (Sec. 353A) Renames the Federal direct student loan program under HEA the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. (Sec. 354) Removes a limitation on expenditure under the authorization of appropriations for the National Early Intervention Scholarship and Partnership Program under HEA. (Sec. 355) Directs the Secretary to exclude a student loan made pursuant to a lender-of-last-resort program when making reimbursement payment calculations under certain HEA provisions for guaranty agreements for reimbursing losses. (Sec. 356) Includes specified student loans made under the Public Health Service Act among thos eligible for the Federal consolidation loan program under HEA. (Sec. 357) Revises the definition of economic hardship, for student loan purposes. (Sec. 358) Includes related equipment, instrumentation, and furnishings under materials covered by the facilities authority of the Student Loan Marketing Association under HEA. Requires the Association to report on all facilities transactions in its annual report. (Sec. 358A) Provides that loans made under the William D. Ford Direct Loan Program that have the same terms, conditions and benefits as those under certain guaranteed loan provisions shall be known as Federal Direct Stafford/Ford Loans. (Sec. 359) Revises loan repayment deferment eligibility provisions. (Sec. 360) Makes certain clock and credit hour requirements for student aid under HEA inapplicable to diploma nursing schools. (Sec. 360A) Provides for eligibility for student aid for citizens of and attendees at certain institutions in the Republic of Palau and other specified territories. (Sec. 360B) Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act - Amends HEA to require institutions of higher education to disclose gender participation rates and program support expenditures in college athletic programs to prospective students and, upon request, to the public. Directs the Secretary to compile and publish annual reports of such data. (Sec. 360C) Revises HEA provisions for Federal insurance for bonds. (Sec. 360D) Directs the Secretary to establish a program of grants to States for workplace and community transition training for incarcerated youth offenders. Authorizes appropriations. Part F: Other Acts - Amends the Goals 2000: Educate America Act (Public Law 103-227) to repeal certain provisions relating to leadership in educational technology and the Office of Educational Technology. Allows the National Education Goals Panel and the National Education Standards and Improvement Council to accept gifts. Revises provisions relating to LEA plan approval. Reserves for outlying areas a portion of funds for State planning for improving student achievement through integration of technology into curriculum. (Sec. 362) Repeals: (1) the National Writing Project of title II of the Educational Council Act of 1991; and (2) the Native Hawaiian Education Program of title IV of the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988. (Sec. 364) Repeals: (1) the Star Schools Program Assistance Act; and (2) the Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching Act. (Sec. 366) Repeals provisions for authorization of appropriations for programs of national significance under the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988. (Sec. 367) Repeals the Indian Education Act of 1988. (Sec. 368) Reduces certain payments to States under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. (Sec. 369) Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applies Technology Education Act with respect to the territories. (Sec. 370) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise provisions for the Family Support Centers program with respect to administrative costs, minimum grant amount, and report due date. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such program. (Sec. 371) Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to double the maximum amounts allowed for FY 1995 administration of programs by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Sec. 372) Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to provide for: (1) an Office of Indian Education; and (2) an Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs. Part G: Library Services and Construction Reauthorization - Amends the Library Services and Construction Act to extend through FY 1995 the authorization and availability of appropriations for various programs under such Act, as well as for Family Learning Centers and Library Literacy Centers. Part H: Amendments to Statutes Pertaining to Indian Education - Amends the Education Amendments of 1978 to require coordination of standards for BIA-funded schools with those in State plans under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) study such standards, directly or through a contract with an Indian organization; and (2) revise such BIA minimum academic standards, and provide alternative or modified standards where necessary. Authorizes the tribal governing body, or the local school board designated by such body, to waive standards it deems inappropriate. Provides for assistance to school boards of contract and grant schools in implementing standards. Requires certain standards for closure, consolidation, or substantial curtailment of program at any BIA school or peripheral dormitory. Authorizes appropriations for implementation of applicable standards for all BIA schools and contract or grant schools. Requires all BIA funded schools to include in their curriculum an alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment instructional program. Sets forth provisions for BIA: (1) national criteria for dormitory situations; (2) regulations; (3) school boundaries; (4) facilities construction; (5) education functions; (6) allotment formula; (7) administrative cost grants; (8) establishment of a Division of Budget Analysis within the Office of Indian Education Programs; (9) policy for Indian control of Indian education; and (10) education personnel. Requires establishment of a system of uniform direct funding and support of all BIA-funded schools. Provides for BIA schools' management information system, education policies, uniform procedures and practices, recruitment of Indian educators, rights of Indian students, regulations, annual report, voluntary services, proration of pay, extracurricular activities, and payments. Provides for grants for: (1) tribal early childhood development programs; and (2) tribal departments of education. (Sec. 382) Amends the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 to revise provisions for grant conditions and payments. (Sec. 383) Amends the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges Assistance Act of 1978 to revise provisions for endowment funds. (Sec. 384) Amends the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to require certain BIA cost analysis and studies, including a study of the current weighted student budget method and a possible alternative program/school-based budget system. (Sec. 386) Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 with respect to provisions for the staff and endowment fund of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development. Part I: Cross References and Conforming Amendments - Sets forth cross references and technical and conforming amendments to various Federal laws. Title IV: National Education Statistics - National Education Statistics Act of 1994 - Reauthorizes and revises provisions for the National Center for Educational Statistics (the Center) and the National Assessment of Educational Progress. (Sec. 403) Establishes the Center, within the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the Department of Education and headed by the Commissioner of Education Statistics, under this Act while repealing similar provisions under the General Education Provisions Act. (Sec. 404) Revises provisions for the Center's: (1) duties; (2) performance; (3) reports; (4) Advisory Council on Education Statistics; (5) confidentiality; (6) dissemination; (7) cooperative education statistics systems; (8) National Assessment of Educational Progress; and (9) National Assessment Governing Board. (Sec. 413) Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Part A: Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Act - Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish the Department of Energy Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program to provide fellowships within the National Laboratories to outstanding elementary or secondary school teachers of mathematics or science. (Sec. 517) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to establish a Waste Management Education Research Consortium (WERC), including programs involving environmentally conscious manufacturing and waste management activities that have undergraduate and graduate educational training as a component. (Sec. 518) Authorizes appropriations for the Einstein fellowships and the WERC program. Part B: Community School Partnerships - Community School Partnership Act - Establishes a Community School Partnerships program. (Sec. 525) Directs the Secretary to award a competitive endowment grant to a national organization to support the establishment or ongoing work of area program centers that foster development of local affiliated chapters in high-poverty areas to improve high school graduation rates and postsecondary attendance through providing academic support services and scholarship assistance for postsecondary education. (Sec. 527) Authorizes appropriations. Part C: 1994 Institutions - Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 - Provides land-grant status for specified tribally controlled community colleges and postsecondary vocational institutions, Bureau of Indian Affairs postsecondary institutions, and the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts (1994 Institutions). (Sec. 533) Authorizes appropriations, in lieu of public land or script donations, for such 1994 Institutions. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a 1994 Institutions Endowment Fund. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 534) Amends specified Federal Law to authorize appropriations for such 1994 Institutions. Exempts such funds from matching requirements. (Sec. 535) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make two or more institutional capacity building grants for each of FY 1996 through 2000 to assist such 1994 Institutions. Authorizes appropriations. Part D: Workers Technology Skill Development - Workers Technology Skill Development Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to award grants to eligible entities to facilitate worker involvement in developing and implementing advanced workplace technologies and practices. (Sec. 546) Directs the Secretary of Labor, in cooperation with the Secretary of Commerce, to assist employers, employer associations, workers, and labor and worker organizations in identifying and disseminating information on best workplace practices and workplace practices assessment tools. (Sec. 547) Authorizes appropriations. Part E: Multiethnic Placement - Subpart 1: Multiethnic Placement - Howard M. Metzenbaum Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 - Prohibits an agency or entity that receives Federal assistance and is involved in adoptive or foster care placements from delaying or denying the placement of a child solely on the basis of race, color, or national origin of the adoptive or foster parent, or the child, involved. Permits consideration of the child's cultural, ethnic, or racial background when such factors are: (1) considered in conjunction with other factors; and (2) relevant to the child's best interest. (Sec. 553) Grants any individual aggrieved by a noncomplying agency or entity the right to bring an action in the appropriate U.S. District Court. Makes such noncompliance a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Provides that such prohibition does not affect the application of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. (Sec. 554) Amends the Social Security Act to require child welfare services programs to provide for the diligent recruitment of potential foster and adoptive families that reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of children in the State for whom foster and adoptive homes are needed. Subpart 2: Other Provision - Amends the Social Security Act with respect to the effect of failure to carry out a State plan. Part F: Miscellaneous - Requires budget compliance. (Sec. 562) Requires the Department of Education to display in documents transmitted to the Congress explaining the President's budget request for the Special Education accocunt amounts included in the request to offset termination by this Act of the State-operated program for the students with disabilities, under part D of chapter 1 of title I of ESEA. (Sec. 563) Prohibits the Secretary from issuing any additional regulations concerning specified final regulations relating to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act. (Sec. 564) Authorizes a specified rate of pay for anyone appointed during calendar year 1994 to be Deputy Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. (Sec. 565) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study and report to specified congressional committees on the possible need for alternative institutional and administrative systems at Haskell Indian Junior College to support its transition to a four-year university. (Sec. 566) Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the BIA, to establish therapeutic model demonstration schools for Indian youth attending off-reservation boarding schools. Requires a report on such demonstration schools to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 567) Directs the Secretary to waive any required amount of local effort in excess of a specified amount in awarding funds to the Winona R-III School District, Missouri. (Sec. 568) Exempts, temporarily, certain agreements of two or more institutions of higher education, at which all students are admitted on a need-blind basis, with respect to awards of need-based educational aid. Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1992 with respect to institutions' authority to award need-based aid. (Sec. 569) Sets forth certain conditions with respect to determinations of eligibility for an amount of impact aid.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act Title III: Amendments to Other Acts Title IV: Miscellaneous Title V: Workers Technology Skill Development Title VI: Multiethnic Placement Title VII: Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Act Title VIII: 1994 Institutions Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 - Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise and reauthorize ESEA. (Sec. 101) Establishes a title I program for Helping Children in Need Meet High Standards, which revises and reauthorizes some of the current title I chapter 1 programs of Financial Assistance to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Children. Declares it to be U.S. policy to expand the title I program over FY 1995 through 1999 by increasing funding by a specified minimum amount each fiscal year and increasing the number of eligible children served with the intent of serving them all by FY 2004. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants under the basic program; (2) Even Start; (3) education of migratory children; (4) education for neglected or delinquent youth; (5) capital expenses; and (6) Federal activities. Requires any State desiring to receive a grant (under the basic program for making high-poverty schools work) to submit State plans that are integrated with that State's plan under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act or with other State plans under this Act. Requires each State plan to describe high-quality standards for all children that will be used by the State, its local educational agencies (LEAs), and its schools to carry out this Act, including high-quality academic content standards and student performance standards, as well as assessment provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a process for peer review and Secretarial approval. Requires LEAs receiving subgrants to have plans with assessments and other provisions. Provides for State approval and shared program responsibility of schools and the LEA in deciding on schoolwide programs and targeted assistance schools. Allows an LEA to only use basic program funds in eligible school attendance areas in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least as high as that: (1) from low-income families served by the LEA as a whole; or (2) served by the LEA as a whole who are eligible to participate in a schoolwide program. Sets forth formulas for ranking eligible school attendance areas for purposes of such funding in various cases where there are insufficient funds. Sets forth criteria which a school must meet in order for the LEA to use basic program funds to upgrade the entire educational program at an eligible school (schoolwide programs). Provides that in participating schools that are ineligible for a schoolwide program or that choose not to operate a schoolwide program, an LEA may use basic program funds only for targeted assistance programs that provide services to eligible economically disadvantaged children identified as having the greatest need for special assistance (targeted assistance schools). Sets forth criteria for eligible children at such schools. Sets forth requirements for parental involvement and for participation of children enrolled in private schools. Provides for assessment and LEA and school improvement, including local review, school improvement identification, and State review and LEA improvement. Requires each State educational agency (SEA) to establish a statewide system of support and improvement for schools receiving title I funds. Includes under such system school support teams, designation of Distinguished Schools, State establishment of a corps of Distinguished Educators, State allocations for school improvement and alternative or additional approaches. Revises formulas for allocations of funds. Transitions to Success Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary to reserve a portion of basic grant funds for Transition to Success Challenge Grants allocations to States. Requires States to submit transition coordinated services proposals. Requires SEAs to make such challenge grants to LEAs that have formed consortia with early childhood development programs (including Head Start) for programs that assist low-income elementary school children in kindergarten through third grade and their families in obtaining supportive services and supporting active involvement of parents in their children's education. Provides for consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Revises Even Start Family Literacy Programs to increase program services and high-poverty-area targeting and include teenage parents. Revises Education of Migratory Children to restrict eligibility to children who have moved within the previous four years. Revises Education of Neglected and Delinquent Youth to base part of the formula for subgrants to State agencies on the number of neglected or delinquent children who are enrolled for at least: (1) 15 hours per week in education programs in adult correctional institutions; or (2) 20 hours per week in education programs in institutions for such children or in community day programs for such children. Sets forth provisions for Federal evaluations and demonstrations and general provisions, including reservation of funds for territories. Establishes an Educational Opportunity Demonstration Program, under which the Secretary may grant waivers to ten LEAs for the design and operation of one or more educational opportunity schools. Requires that any such public elementary, middle, or high school or consortium receiving such waiver: (1) establish a plan for voluntary, same gender classes at one or more schools in the community; (2) provide same gender classes for both boys and girls, as well as a coeducational option for parents; (3) use a lottery for admission if more students apply than can be accommodated; (4) have a program for volunteer community members in same gender classes; and (5) pursue a specific set of educational objectives determined by the LEA in conjunction with an educational opportunity advisory board. Requires a study and report on such program, comparing educational and behavioral achievement of those choosing same gender classes and those choosing the coeducational option. Eliminates title I provisions for the National Commission on Migrant Education, rural technical assistance centers, current chapter 2 State block grants under the partnership for educational improvement, national diffusion network, and law-related education. Eliminates under title I, but provides elsewhere for, evaluation and technical assistance and blue ribbon schools. Provides, later in this Act, for programs for handicapped children to be combined with programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Establishes a new ESEA title II, Improving Teaching and Learning, with a new part A, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program, to support professional development of elementary and secondary school teachers in core academic subjects. (This replaces the current Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act programs.) Gives priority for professional development in mathematics and science. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for Federal program activities in general, as well as for a mathematics and science education clearinghouse and a national teacher training project. Authorizes the Secretary to award a grant or contract to establish an Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education. National Teacher Training Project Act of 1994 - Authorizes the Secretary to award up to ten grants to ten different eligible recipients for half of the costs of supporting: (1) teacher training programs in early childhood development and one of nine specified core academic subjects; and (2) classroom research on effective teaching practices. Provides for State and local activities, with priority for professional development in mathematics and science. Directs the Secretary to award demonstration grants to eligible partnerships for planning and implementing professional development programs. National Writing Project Act - Establishes a new ESEA title II part B, the National Writing Project (provisions for such project under title II of the Educational Council Act of 1991 are repealed later in this Act). Provides for coordination of such project activities with other teacher training and professional development activities. Authorizes appropriations for the National Writing Project. Establishes a new title II part C, Support and Assistance for ESEA Programs. (This replaces the current Foreign Languages Assistance Act programs.) Establishes: (1) comprehensive regional centers and technology-based technical assistance; (2) a State-based outreach, consultation, and dissemination program through the National Diffusion Network and its State Facilitators; and (3) a program of grants and contracts for Eisenhower regional mathematics and science education consortia. Authorizes appropriations. Transfers from title IV part E to title II part D the Territorial Teacher Training Program, and extends the authorization of appropriations for such program. Establishes a new title II part E, Telecommunications Demonstration Project for Mathematics. Authorizes appropriations for grants for such project. Technology for Education Act of 1994 - Establishes a new ESEA title III, Technology for Education for All Students. (The current title III, Magnet Schools Assistance, is transferred to a new title IV.) Authorizes appropriations for programs under the following parts of title III. Sets forth title III part A provisions for Educational Technology for All Students. Includes under National Programs in Technology for Education: (1) Federal leadership activities by the Secretary and through the Office of Educational Technology, including a national long-range technology plan and assistance for State planning for use of technology in schools in accordance with the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, technical assistance, research and development, assessment, and collaboration; (2) regional technical support and professional development grants; (3) educational technology product development grants; (4) grants for research on educational applications of advanced technologies; (5) grants for identifying requirements, developing specifications, and operating prototypes for high performance educational computing and telecommunications networks; and (6) study, evaluation, and report on funding alternatives for schools. Provides for school technology resource grants under State and Local Programs for School Technology Resources, Technical Support, and Professional Development. Star Schools Act - Revises the Star Schools Program (currently under the Star Schools Program Assistance Act) and makes it part B of title III of ESEA. Extends the authorization of appropriations. Provides for leadership and evaluation activities and for other assistance to a special statewide and a special local network. Revises, and transfers to part C of title III (currently IV-G), the Ready-to-Learn Television program. Extends the authorization of appropriations. Elementary Mathematics and Science Equipment Act - Establishes the Elementary Mathematics and Science Equipment Program as part D of title III of ESEA. Authorizes the Secretary to allot funds to State educational agencies to award grants to local educational agencies to provide hands-on instruction equipment and materials to elementary schools to improve mathematics and science education. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes the Elementary and Secondary School Library Media Resources Program as part E of title III of ESEA. Directs the Secretary to award grants or make allocations for acquisition of school library media resources for elementary and secondary schools. Reserves a portion of part A funds for such awards to States. Requires State plans and distribution of allocation to LEAs. Buddy System Computer Education Act - Establishes the Buddy System Computer Education program as part F of title III of ESEA. Directs the Secretary to award a competitive grant to each of three States to create a computer-based education project for children in grades four through six. Gives preference to applications: (1) from States with demonstrated ability or commitment to computer-based technology education; and (2) describing projects serving school districts serving a large number or percentage of economically disadvantaged students. Requires such projects to: (1) be provided in a continuous three-year form to consecutive groups of students at the applicable grade levels; (2) be conducted in not more than seven public schools within the State; and (3) ensure each student in such classes participates and has access to a computer at school during the school year and at home during the school year and summer. Requires the use of grant funds to provide: (1) hardware and software components to all sites; and (2) training for classroom teachers as well as parents, administrators, and technical personnel. Requires an evaluation report. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes as ESEA title IV a revised Magnet Schools Assistance program (currently title III). Allows consortia of LEAs to receive grants. Allows use of funds to make available the special magnet curriculum to students in the same school who are not enrolled in the magnet program. Removes the prohibition on use of funds for consultants. Revises limitations on planning funds and award duration. Adds a non-Federal share requirement. Reserves a portion of program funds for grants for innovative programs. Provides for availability of funds for LEAs not previously assisted and for evaluations. Extends the authorization of appropriations. Establishes as ESEA title V a Better Schools for America program, with a part A for safe and drug-free schools and communities and a part B for assistance to address school dropout problems. Sets forth as part A of title V a Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program, which replaces and revises the current title V Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act program. Authorizes appropriations for such new program, which includes: (1) State Grants for Drug and Violence Prevention Programs at State and local levels, including advisory councils and reservation of funds for territorial, Indian, Native Hawaiian, and evaluation programs; and (2) national programs, including higher education institution grants. School Dropout Assistance Act - Sets forth, as part B of title V, Assistance to Address School Dropout Problems. Provides for grants to LEAs and community organizations, with special consideration for LEAs forming educational partnerships with various other entities. Allows grants to be used for various educational, occupational, and basic skills testing services and activities. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes an ESEA title VII Language Enhancement and Acquisition Programs, with part A bilingual education programs and part B foreign language assistance. Establishes a new ESEA title VI, Indian Education, which adds revised Indian Education Act programs to ESEA. (Eliminates the current title VI provisions for Projects and Programs Designed to Address School Dropout Problems and to Strengthen Basic Education.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title VI programs: (1) formula grants to LEAs; (2) special programs and projects to improve educational opportunities for Indian children, including grants for certain services and projects, Indian teacher and other helping professional development support and graduate training assistance, fellowships for Indian students, gifted and talented centers, evaluation and technical assistance, and administrative planning and development; (3) special programs relating to adult education for Indians; (4) national research activities; and (5) Federal administration, including establishment of a National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Revises the Bilingual Education Act (currently all of ESEA title VII) to establish it as part A of title VII and to extend its authorization of appropriations. Provides programs for Native Hawaiian and Native American Pacific Islander, as well as Native American and Alaska Native, children and youth. Authorizes development and enhancement grants, comprehensive school grants, and comprehensive district grants. Authorizes grants and contracts for research and evaluation and for academic excellence in bilingual education programs. Authorizes grants to State educational agencies to assist LEAs, operate bilingual education advisory panels, and collect data. Establishes a National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education. Revises program evaluation requirements. Authorizes professional development grants to higher education institutions and to SEAs and LEAs. Revises provisions for fellowships. Foreign Language Assistance Act of 1994 - Revises the Foreign Language Assistance Program (currently under ESEA title II part B) to establish it as title VII part B and extend its authorization of appropriations. Provides for competitive, three-year grants to SEAs and LEAs for innovative model programs of foreign language study for elementary and secondary school students. Requires annual incentive payments to each public elementary school that provides students with a program designed to lead to communicative competency in a foreign language. Requires a report on bilingual education. Limits the funding period for recipients of bilingual education grants awarded before the enactment of this Act. Establishes a new ESEA title VIII, Programs of National Significance, with the following various parts consisting of transferred or new ESEA programs. Authorizes appropriations for part A, an expanded Arts in Education program. Requires, if funding does not reach a certain level, that all funds be used for model projects and programs: (1) in the performing arts for children and youth through the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; or (2) developed by Very Special Arts to assure participation of persons of all ages with disabilities in mainstream arts and education programs. Authorizes appropriations for part B, a continued Inexpensive Book Distribution program contract with Reading Is Fundamental. Establishes under part C a Public Charter Schools program to increase public school choice through grants for innovative programs and exemptions from regulations that limit school operational and management flexibility. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes under part D Civic Education programs for instruction in: (1) the history and principles of U.S. democracy, through continued grant or contract support of the "We the People...the Citizen and the Constitution" program of the Center for Civic Education; and (2) civics, government, and the law, in accordance with State standards and national goals, through grants and contracts to SEAs, LEAs, and other public and private nonprofit entities. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations, under part E, for a revised Allen J. Ellender Fellowship Program, with Close Up Foundation activities for middle and secondary school students and teachers, recent immigrants, older Americans, and (added) students of migrant parents. Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1994 - Revises, under part F, the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education program. Authorizes appropriations. Women's Educational Equity Act of 1994 - Revises, under part G, the Women's Educational Equity program. Authorizes grants and contracts for: (1) implementation of gender-equity policies and practices at all educational levels; and (2) research and development. Authorizes appropriations. Revises, under part H, uses of funds from the Secretary's Fund for the Improvement of Education. Authorizes appropriations. Transfers to part I of title VIII provisions for the Blue Ribbon Schools program (currently under title I). Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes, under part J, grants for national student and parent mock elections to promote voter participation in elections. Authorizes appropriations. Elementary School Counseling Demonstration Act - Establishes an elementary school counseling demonstration grant program under part K of title VIII of ESEA. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to make such grants to LEAs. Requires LEAs to notify their State education agencies before applying for such grants. Sets certain priorities for grant awards. 21st Century Community Learning Centers Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to rural and inner city public schools or consortia for projects that benefit the educational, health, social service, cultural, and recreational needs of rural or inner city communities. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes, under part M, a Model Projects program. Authorizes grants to cultural institutions for model projects of outreach activities for at-risk children in communities served by such institutions, including integrating of cultural programming with other disciplines, including environmental, mathematics, and science programs. Gives priority to activities with substantial State, local, or private funding and commitment. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes, under part N, an Extending Time for Learning program. Authorizes grants to LEAs for various activities, including research, development, and implementation of strategies, outreach, professional development, and community involvement, for extending learning time within and beyond the school day and year. Authorizes appropriations. Longer School Year Incentive Act of 1994 - Establishes, under part O, a Longer School Year program. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to States or LEAs for public school improvement that includes expansion of time devoted to core academic subjects and extension of the school year to at least 210 days. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes, under part P, a Creating Smaller Learning Communities program. Authorizes grants to LEAs for various activities to create smaller learning communities. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes, under part Q, a Partnerships in Character Education Pilot Project. Authorizes the Secretary to make up to ten grants annually to partnerships of SEAs and LEAs to design and implement character education programs incorporating certain elements. Authorizes appropriations. Allows contracts for evaluation, materials, and program development. Alaska Native Educational Equity, Support and Assistance Act - Establishes, under part R, an Alaska Native Education program. Directs the Secretary to make grants to Alaska Native Education program. Directs the Secretary to make grants to Alaska native organizations or partnerships thereof or educational entities with experience in Alaska Native programs for: (1) educational planning; (2) implementation of educational plans; (3) curricula development; (4) preteacher training; (5) teacher recruitment; (6) inservice teacher training; (7) home instruction programs for preschool youngsters; and (8) student enrichment programs in science and mathematics. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes, under part S, a Promoting Scholar-Athlete Competitions program. Authorizes the Secretary to award a grant to a nonprofit organization to carryout model scholar-athlete games. Authorizes appropriations. Community School Partnership Act - Establishes, under part T, a Community School Partnerships program. Directs the Secretary to award a competitive endowment grant to a national organization to support the establishment or ongoing work of area program centers that foster development of local affiliated chapters in high-poverty areas to improve high school graduation rates and postsecondary attendance through providing academic support services and scholarship assistance for postsecondary education. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new title IX of ESEA, Special Programs, with a part A, Impact Aid. (The current impact aid laws are repealed later in this Act.) Revises the impact aid to LEAs. Sets forth as part B a revised Emergency Immigrant Education Program. Authorizes appropriations. Native Hawaiian Education Act - Establishes, under part C of title IX, a Native Hawaiian Education program (currently existing under the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988). Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for Native Hawaiian: (1) curriculum development and teacher training and recruitment; (2) community-based education and learning centers; (3) family-based education centers; (4) higher education; (5) gifted and talented education; and (6) special education. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and make a grant to a Native Hawaiian Education Council. Authorizes the Office of Hawaiian Affairs of the State of Hawaii to facilitate establishment of Native Hawaiian education island councils for specified islands. Authorizes appropriations. Extends the authorization of appropriations, transferred to part D, for general assistance to improve public education in the Virgin Islands. Revises ESEA General Provisions, under title X. Provides for: (1) flexibility in the use of administrative and other funds, through consolidation of State administrative funds for elementary and secondary education programs and consolidation of funds for local administration; (2) coordination of programs, including consolidated State and local applications; (3) waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; (4) certain uniform provisions; (5) other provisions, including State award recognition of exemplary performance, inapplicability of ESEA to home schools, prohibitions against Federal mandates or requiring participation in Goals 2000: Education America Act programs or standards, opportunity to contract with private management firms, requirements for remedying violations of student rights with respect to school prayer and for having policies referring students who bring firearms or weapons to school to the criminal justice or juvenile delinquency system; and (6) evaluation provisions. Cultural Partnerships for At-Risk Children and Youth Act of 1994 - Establishes a new ESEA title XI, Cultural Partnerships for At-Risk Children and Youth demonstration grant program. Establishes the National Committee on Cultural Partnerships for At-Risk Children and Youth. Directs the Secretary to make a grant to such Committee to award subgrants to eligible partnerships to provide comprehensive and coordinated education and cultural services to at-risk children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth a new ESEA title XII, Disclosure Requirements, including provisions for nondiscriminatory enrollment and service policy. Sets forth an ESEA title XIII, Targeted Assistance Program, which is revised and transferred from current title I chapter 2 provisions. Authorizes appropriations. National Education Statistics Act of 1994 - Sets forth a new ESEA title XIV, National Education Statistics. Reauthorizes and revises provisions for the National Center for Education Statistics (the Center) and the National Assessment of Educational Progress. (Establishes the Center, within the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the Department of Education and headed by the Commissioner of Education Statistics, under ESEA while repealing similar provisions under the General Education Provisions Act.) Revises provisions for the Center's: (1) duties; (2) performance; (3) reports; (4) Advisory Council on Education Statistics; (5) confidentiality; (6) dissemination; (7) cooperative education statistics systems; (8) National Assessment of Educational Progress; and (9) National Assessment Governing Board. Authorizes appropriations. Education Infrastructure Act of 1994 - Sets forth a new ESEA title XV, Education Infrastructure. Directs the Secretary to award grants to eligible LEAs to meet the National Education Goals through repair, renovation, alteration, and construction of public elementary or secondary school libraries, media centers, or facilities, used for academic or vocational instruction, including certain authorized activities. Sets forth requirements for: (1) maintenance of effort, supplementation of non-Federal funds, and general limitations; (2) payment of wages in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act; and (3) Federal evaluation. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new ESEA title XVI, Urban and Rural Education. Urban Schools of America (USA) Act of 1994 - Sets forth funds allocation factors for urban school improvement. Requires LEAs to use such funds to meet national education goals through programs designed to: (1) increase the academic achievement and graduation rates of urban school children to at least the national average; (2) prepare urban school graduates to enter higher education, pursue careers, and exercise their responsibilities as citizens; (3) recruit and retain qualified teachers; and (4) decrease the use of drugs and alcohol by urban students, and enhance their physical and emotional health. Provides for incentive awards to exemplary programs and ranking of schools to determine relative need. Authorizes the President to conduct a White House Conference on Urban Education. Rural Schools of America (RSA) Act of 1994 - Establishes a rural school improvement grants program to help meet national educational goals. Directs the Secretary, under such program, to: (1) reserve specified funds for competitive grant awards to exemplary school programs; and (2) make allotments to SEAs, for suballotment to LEAs and community-based organizations or nonprofit partnerships between the LEA, local colleges or universities, or area-wide collaborative arrangements of private sector businesses. Authorizes incentive awards to individual schools that demonstrate exemplary progress. Authorizes the President to conduct a White House Conference on Rural Education. Authorizes appropriations for such urban and rural education programs. Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 - Establishes a new title XVII of ESEA, Gun-Free Schools. Requires LEAs, as a condition of receiving ESEA assistance from the State, to have in effect a policy requiring expulsion from school for at least one year of any student who has brought a firearm to a school under LEA jurisdiction. Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act - Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise applicability and other aspects. Part B: The Department of Education - Revises GEPA with respect to functions of the Department of Education. Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations - Revises GEPA with respect to availability of appropriations, contingent extension of programs, and biennial evaluation report. Part D: Administration of Education Program - Revises GEPA with respect to joint funding of programs, information collection and dissemination, review of application, use of withheld funds, applications, regulations, reduction of record retention requirements, privacy rights, and equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries. Part E: Advisory Committees - Repeals specified GEPA provisions relating to Advisory Councils. Part F: Related Amendments to Other Acts - Makes related amendments to the Department of Education Organization Act and the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Part G: Conforming Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and to HEA. Title III: Amendments to Other Acts - Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to revise provisions for allocations. Combines the current ESEA title I chapter I State agency program for the handicapped with the IDEA programs of grants to States and for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Support for Families of Children with Disabilities Act of 1994 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to add a new Part I, Family Support, which may be cited as the Families of Children with Disabilities Support Act of 1994. Directs the Secretary to make three-year grants to States for systems change and advocacy activities for statewide systems of support for families with children with disabilities. Sets forth priorities and application requirements. Requires States desiring such assistance to designate lead entities and establish State Family Support Policy Councils. Includes among authorized activities training and technical assistance, interagency coordination, local or regional councils, outreach, advocacy services, policy studies, hearings and forums, public awareness and education, needs assessment, program data, and pilot demonstration projects. Requires State strategic plans, progress criteria, and reports. Requires panels of experts to evaluate grant applications. Directs the Secretary to make grants to or contracts with appropriate public or private agencies and organizations, including institutions of higher education, for: (1) providing technical assistance and information on statewide systems of family support; and (2) conducting a national evaluation of the program of grants to States. Directs the Secretary to: (1) review Federal programs with respect to their impact on such family support, consistent with specified policies; and (2) make grants or contracts for projects of national significance for developing national and State policies and practices for family-centered and family-directed systems of support for families of children with disabilities. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Amendments to the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise provisions with respect to grants for State literacy initiatives and grants for State and local activities for the education of homeless children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Repeal of Impact Aid Statutes - Repeals certain Federal laws for impact aid. (Impact aid provisions are added to ESEA earlier in this Act.) Part D: Other Acts - Amends the Goals 2000: Educate America Act (Public Law 103-227) to repeal certain provisions relating to leadership in educational technology and the Office of Educational Technology. Allows the National Education Goals Panel and the National Education Goals Panel and the National Education Standards and Improvement Council to accept gifts. Revises provisions relating to LEA plan approval. Reserves for outlying areas a portion of funds for State planning for improving student achievement through integration of technology into curriculum. Amends the Safe Schools Act of 1994 (also Public Law 103-227) to lower the maximum authorized reservation of funds for national activities. Repeals: (1) the National Writing Project of title II of the Educational Council Act of 1991; and (2) the Native Hawaiian Education Program of title IV of the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988. Repeals: (1) the Star Schools Program Assistance Act; and (2) the Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching Act. Repeals provisions for authorization of appropriations for programs of national significance under the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to provide for the Office of Indian Education. Repeals the Indian Education Act of 1988. Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to disclose gender participation rates and program support expenditures in college athletic programs to prospective students and, upon request, to the public. Directs the Secretary to compile and publish annual reports of such data. Establishes a Rural Community Service program under community service programs provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible institutions for authorized activities under such program. Requires peer review panels for grant applications. Requires designation and listing of eligible institutions as Rural Grant Institutions, with a network for dissemination of project results. Authorizes appropriations. Reduces certain payments to States under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act with respect to definition of institution of higher education, notwithstanding certain provisions of the Higher Education Amendments of 1992. Makes a technical amendment to the Second Morrill Act. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to remove a limitation on expenditure under the authorization of appropriations for the National Early Intervention Scholarship and Partnership Program. Directs the Secretary to exclude a student loan made pursuant to a lender-of-last-resort program when making reimbursement payment calculations under certain HEA provisions for guaranty agreements for reimbursing losses. Includes specified student loans made under the Public Health Service Act among those eligible for the Federal consolidation loan program under HEA. Includes related equipment, instrumentation, and furnishings under materials covered by the facilities authority of the Student Loan Marketing Association under HEA. Requires the Association to report on all facilities transactions in its annual report. Makes certain clock and credit hour requirements for student aid under HEA inapplicable to diploma nursing schools. Provides for eligibility for HEA student aid for citizens of and attendees at institutions in the Republic of Palau and other specified territories. Revises HEA provisions for: (1) Federal insurance for bonds; (2) definition of economic hardship; and (3) loan repayment deferment eligibility. Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1992 with respect to institutions' authority to award need-based aid. Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise provisions for the Family Support Centers program with respect to administrative costs, minimum grant amount, and report due date. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such program. Amends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 to double the maximum amounts allowed for FY 1995 administration of programs by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Part E: Library Services and Construction Reauthorization - Amends the Library Services and Construction Act to extend through FY 1995 the authorization and availability of appropriations for various programs under such Act, as well as for Family Learning Centers and Library Literacy Centers. Part F: Bureau of Indian Affairs - Amends the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to revise provisions for assistance to the Secretary of the Interior. Revises provisions for Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA): (1) cost analysis for BIA-funded schools and implementation of opportunity-to-learn standards and strategies; and (2) feasibility studies concerning methods of funding such schools. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to use certain funds for grants to BIA-funded school boards for reform planning activities. Requires a study and report on the feasibility of contracting with a private management firm to operate one or more BIA-operated schools to achieve National Education Goals and efficient use of funds. Reserves specified funds for systemic technology planning for BIA-funded schools. Amends the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 to allow schools receiving facilities improvement and repair grants to use such funds for new construction if the tribal government or other organization provides at lease one-fourth of the total funding for such new construction. Revises provisions relating to composition of grants, payments, applicability, exceptions, problems, and disputes. Amends the Education Amendments of 1978 to require coordination of standards for BIA-funded schools with those in State plans under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Provides for a contract with an Indian organization to review such BIA standards. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to revise such BIA minimum academic standards, and provide alternative or modified standards where necessary. Authorizes the tribal governing body, or the local school board designated by such body, to waive standards it deems inappropriate. Provides for assistance to school boards of contract and grant schools in implementing standards. Requires increased availability of counseling services for students in off-reservation boarding schools and other BIA-funded residential facilities. Revises provisions for school board training, funding formula adjustment, grant schools, availability, student projects, and matching funds. Sets forth a special rule for tuition payment for out-of-State boarding students who attend county schools in Richfield, Utah. Requires establishment of a system of uniform direct funding and support of all BIA-funded schools. Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 with respect to provisions for the staff of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development. Amends the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges Assistance Act of 1978 to revise provisions for endowment funds. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to study the need for alternative institutional and administrative systems at Haskell Indian Junior College to support its transition to a four-year university, and transmit study results with any appropriate draft legislation to specified congressional committees. Part G: Cross References and Conforming Amendments - Sets forth cross references and technical and conforming amendments to various Federal laws. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Requires the Department of Education to display amounts included in the request to offset termination of the State-operated program for the students with disabilities, under part D of chapter 1 of title I of ESEA, by this Act, in documents transmitted to the Congress explaining the President's budget request for the Special Education account. Declares the congressional policy of encouraging States to involve parents in disciplinary actions affecting their children who display criminal or violent behavior toward others on school property. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of grants to States for workplace and community transition training for incarcerated youth offenders. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for local control over school violence in general, with specific procedures under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for children with disabilities who bring weapons or demonstrate life-threatening behavior on school property. Prohibits any LEA that receives funds under this Act from implementing a program or activity that has the purpose or effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle. Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to: (1) develop materials or programs directed at youth that are designed to directly promote or encourage sexual activity; or (2) make condoms available in a public school. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing any new final regulations to implement the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act between June 1, 1994, and the enactment of law reauthorizing such Act. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, through the BIA, to establish therapeutic model demonstration schools for Indian youth attending off-reservation boarding schools. Requires a report on such demonstration schools to specified congressional committees. Requires LEAs to conduct criminal history investigations of school bus drivers. Authorizes a specified rate of pay for anyone appointed during calendar year 1994 to be Deputy Director of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Title V: Workers Technology Skill Development - Workers Technology Skill Development Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to award grants to eligible entities to facilitate worker involvement in developing and implementing advanced workplace technologies and practices. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in cooperation with the Secretary of Commerce, to assist employers, employer associations, workers, and labor and worker organizations in identifying and disseminating information on best workplace practices and workplace practices assessment tools. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Multiethnic Placement - Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 - Prohibits an agency or entity that receives Federal assistance and is involved in adoptive or foster care placements from delaying or denying the placement of a child solely on the basis of race, color, or national origin of the adoptive or foster parent or parents involved. Permits consideration of the child's race, color, or national origin when such factors are: (1) considered in conjunction with other factors; and (2) relevant to the child's best interest. Withholds adoption assistance funds from such an agency or entity in cases of noncompliance. Grants any individual aggrieved by a noncomplying agency or entity the right to bring an action in the appropriate U.S. District Court. Title VII: Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Act - Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Act of 1994 - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to establish the Department of Energy Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program to provide fellowships within the National Laboratories to outstanding elementary or secondary school teachers of mathematics or science. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to contract with a contractor to administer the Program. Authorizes appropriations. Title VIII: 1994 Institutions - Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994 - Provides land-grant status for specified tribally controlled community colleges and postsecondary vocational institutions, Bureau of Indian Affairs postsecondary institutions, and the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts (1994 Institutions). Authorizes appropriations, in lieu of public land or land scrip donations, for such 1994 Institutions. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a 1994 Institutions Endowment Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Amends specified Federal law to authorize appropriations for such 1994 Institutions. Exempts such funds from matching requirements. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make two or more institutional capacity building grants for each of FY 1996 through 2000 to assist such 1994 Institutions. Authorizes appropriations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act Part B: The Department of Education Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations Part D: Administration of Education Programs Part E: Related Amendments to Other Acts Title III: Amendments to Other Acts Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B: Education for Homeless Children and Youth Part C: Impact Aid Statutes Part D: Amendments to Adult Education Act Part E: Amendments to Education Council Act of 1991 Part F: Amendments to Statutes Pertaining to Indian Education Title IV: National Education Statistics Title V: Miscellaneous Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 - Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise and reauthorize ESEA. (Sec. 101) Establishes a title I program for Improved Education for Disadvantaged Children, which revises and reauthorizes some of the current title I chapter 1 programs of Financial Assistance to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Children. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants under the basic program; (2) Even Start; (3) education of migratory children; (4) prevention and intervention services for delinquent youth and youth at risk of dropping out; and (5) Federal evaluations, demonstrations, and transition projects. Requires any State desiring to receive a grant (under the basic program for making high-poverty schools work) to submit State plans that are integrated with that State's plan under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act or with other State plans under this Act and other specified plans. Requires each State plan to describe high-quality standards for all children that will be used by the State, its local educational agencies (LEAs), and its schools to carry out this Act, including: (1) challenging content standards in the core academic subjects; (2) challenging performance standards; and (3) voluntary model opportunity to learn standards that address specified factors. Sets forth assessment provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a process for peer review and Secretarial approval. Requires LEAs receiving subgrants to have plans with standards and assessments provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Provides for State approval and shared program responsibility of schools and the LEA in deciding on schoolwide programs and targeted assistance schools. Allows an LEA to only use basic program funds in eligible school attendance areas in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least as high as that in the LEA as a whole. Sets forth formulas for ranking eligible school attendance areas for purposes of such funding in various cases where there are insufficient funds. Provides for LEA discretion in eligibility determinations and use of funds under certain conditions. Allows the use of funds to serve eligible children who: (1) reside in the school attendance areas served and who attend schools in other school attendance areas in accordance with a court-ordered school desegregation plan or a plan which continues to be implemented in accordance with a district-wide, court-ordered desegregation plan; or (2) reside in school attendance areas having high concentrations of children from low-income families, in LEAs with over 900,000 students, and who attend schools in noneligible areas. Sets forth criteria which a school must meet in order for the LEA to use basic program funds to upgrade the entire educational program at an eligible school (schoolwide programs). Provides that in participating schools that are ineligible for a schoolwide program or that choose not to operate a schoolwide program, an LEA may use basic program funds only for targeted assistance programs that provide services to eligible children identified as having the greatest need for special assistance (targeted assistance schools). Sets forth criteria for eligible children at such schools. Allows title I basic grant funds to be used for school choice programs which permit parents of eligible children to select the public school their children will attend. Provides for assessment and school and district improvement, including local review, designation of Distinguished Schools, school improvement identification, State review and LEA improvement, State establishment of a corps of Distinguished Educators, and State allocations for school improvement. Sets forth requirements for: (1) parental involvement; (including coordination with Parents As Teachers programs); (2) professional development; and (3) participation of children enrolled in private schools. Revises formulas for allocations of title I basic program funds. Provides that no school shall receive a lower amount and that no program shall be ended by reason of the new formula. Targets the greater share of increased appropriations on high poverty areas. Provides for allocations to States, basic grants to LEAs, concentration grants to LEAs, targeted grants to LEAs, and special allocation procedures, including ones for neglected or delinquent children. Authorizes the Secretary to develop a presidential awards program to recognize the person or corporation producing the best educational game of the year. Revises Even Start Family Literacy Programs to increase program services and high-poverty-area targeting and include teenage parents. Revises Education of Migratory Children to restrict eligibility to children who have moved within the previous 24 months (for FY 1996 and thereafter, but 36 months for FY 1995). Allows State consortium arrangements. Provides for continuation of services. Authorizes distance learning program grants in the education of migratory children. Renames Education of Neglected and Delinquent Youth as Prevention and Intervention Services for Delinquent Youth and Youth at Risk of Dropping Out. Eliminates services for neglected youth in State facilities. Requires a 20-hour instructional week for youth in State youth correctional facilities and a ten-hour one for youth in State adult correctional facilities. Adds provisions for youth in local correctional facilities. Sets forth title I provisions for Federal evaluations, demonstrations, and transition projects. Requires a report on how schoolwide programs are meeting the needs of migratory children. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for innovative transition projects in elementary schools. Establishes title I provisions for a negotiated rulemaking process, program assistance manual, and State committees of practitioners to advise States on title I responsibilities. Establishes a new ESEA title II, Improving Teaching and Learning, with a new part A, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program, to support professional development of elementary and secondary school teachers in core academic subjects. (This replaces the current Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act programs.) Gives priority for professional development in mathematics and science. Authorizes appropriations. Technology Education Assistance Act of 1994 - Establishes a new title II part B, Technology Education Assistance. (This replaces the current Foreign Languages Assistance Act programs.) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to strengthen teacher skills and improve instruction regarding use of technology in the classroom. Sets forth formulas for allocation to States and for in-State allocation to: (1) local education agencies, for training projects and grants projects for individual teachers; (2) higher education training programs for teachers; and (3) library and literacy programs. Requires State and local technology plans. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an Office of Educational Technology in the Department of Education; (2) develop and publish a national long-range plan for educational technology; and (3) carry out Federal leadership activities to promote and assist the use of technology in education. Authorizes appropriations. Reauthorizes and broadens the Star Schools Program. Establishes a program of grants and loans for development of educational technology products. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a title II part C library media program of grants to States and subgrants to LEAs to acquire school library media resources. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a title II part D program of support and assistance for ESEA programs. Includes under such national technical assistance and dissemination system comprehensive regional assistance centers, State-based activities through the National Diffusion Network, and technology-based technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a title II part E, Innovative Education Program Strategies, which modifies the current title I chapter 2 program. Provides for support of educational reform activities consistent with State and local efforts under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Authorizes use of such funds also to provide support for innovation and educational improvement. Authorizes appropriations for such program, including: (1) State and local programs; (2) State programs; and (3) local targeted assistance programs, including effective schools programs. Provides for participation of children enrolled in private schools. Establishes a title II part F program of 21st Century Community Learning Centers for educational, recreational, cultural, health, and social service programs in public school buildings. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to rural and inner city schools for such projects. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new ESEA title III, Expanding Opportunities for Learning. (The current title III, Magnet Schools Assistance, is transferred to a new title V). Authorizes appropriations for: (1) a revised and renamed Fund for the Improvement of Education (currently under title IV as the Secretary's Fund for Innovation in Education); (2) a new Public Charter Schools program to increase public school choice through grants for innovative programs and exemptions from regulations that limit school operational and management flexibility; (3) an expanded Arts in Education program; (4) the Inexpensive Book Distribution Program, through Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., giving priority to new projects serving a substantial number or percentage of children with special needs; (5) an expanded Civic Education program, including the "We the People...The Citizen and the Constitution" program as well as a new program to support attainment of challenging content standards in civics, government, and the law and of National Education Goals Three and Six; (6) a revised Allen J. Ellender Fellowship Program, with Close Up Foundation activities for middle and secondary school students and teachers, recent immigrants, older Americans, and (added) students of migrant parents; and (7) a Territorial Education Improvement Program of grants for innovative education. Authorizes use of funds to establish a National Center for Second Language development. Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1994 - Revises the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education program (currently under title IV). Authorizes appropriations. Community Arts Partnership Act of 1994 - Provides demonstration grants for educational and cultural services for at-risk children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Native Hawaiian Education Act - Establishes a Native Hawaiian Education Council to guide Federal, State, and local agencies to focus resources for Native Hawaiian education. Directs the Secretary of Education to make direct grants to: (1) specified Native Hawaiian Language Immersion projects; (2) Native Hawaiian Organizations to set up at least 11 Family-Based Education Centers; (3) the Kamehameha Schools/Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate for a Native Hawaiian higher education fellowship demonstration program; (4) the University of Hawaii at Hilo for a Native Hawaiian Gifted and Talented Center; and (5) Pihana Na Mamo for Native Hawaiian special education projects. Authorizes appropriations. Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 - Establishes as ESEA title IV a Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program, which replaces and revises the current title V Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act program to include violence prevention activities and increase the role of community-based agencies and student organizations. Includes under the new program: (1) State Grants for Drug and Violence Prevention Programs at State and local levels; and (2) national programs, including grants for hate crime prevention. Reserves 20 percent of State assistance for Governor's programs. Requires the Governor to use ten percent of such reserved funds for drug abuse resistance education programs and establish an advisory panel to develop a plan for use of such reserved funds. Includes prevention of use of tobacco and alcohol under drug prevention. Establishes as ESEA title V, Promoting Equity, which authorizes appropriations for: (1) a revised Magnet Schools Assistance program; (2) a revised Women's Educational Equity Act program (currently under title IV part A), retaining the current grant program and adding implementation grants. Establishes a new ESEA title VI, Indian Education, which adds revised Indian Education Act programs to ESEA. (Eliminates the current title VI provisions for Projects and Programs Designed to Address School Dropout Problems and to Strengthen Basic Education.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title VI programs: (1) formula grants to LEAs; (2) special programs and projects to improve educational opportunities for Indian children, including grants for certain services and projects, Indian teacher and other helping professional development support and graduate training assistance, fellowships for Indian students, and gifted and talented centers; (3) special programs relating to adult education for Indians; (4) national activities and grants to States; and (5) Federal administration through the Office of Indian Education and the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Revises ESEA title VII Bilingual Education Programs, while transferring the Emergency Immigrant Education Program to title VII from title IV. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) bilingual education capacity and demonstration grants, including ones for program development and implementation, program enhancement, whole-school programs, and system-wide improvement; (2) research and evaluation, including academic excellence awards, State grants, the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, instructional materials development, and evaluation assistance centers and multifunctional resource centers; (3) bilingual education teacher training, including a training-all-teachers program, bilingual education teachers and personnel grants, a career ladder program, and graduate fellowships in bilingual education; and (4) a revised Emergency Immigrant Education Program. Establishes a new ESEA title VIII, Impact Aid. (The current impact aid laws are repealed later in this Act.) Revises formulas for payments to LEAs relating to Federal acquisition of real property. Revises payments to LEAs for eligible federally connected children by: (1) terminating payments for children whose parents either live on Federal land or work for the Federal Government; (2) changing the payment formula for those children whose parents work for the Federal Government and live on Federal property, and those who live on Indian lands; (3) providing additional funding for very large LEAs with very high numbers of federally connected children; (4) providing separate authorization and payments to LEAs for federally connected children with disabilities; and (5) providing separate authorization for additional assistance to heavily impacted LEAs. Provides for impact eligibility for a school district containing specified Forest Service lands and serving specified counties in Tennessee. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary of Defense to make transfer payments to the Secretary of Education to make all impact aid payments associated with children connected with defense activities. (Does not reauthorize the Department of Defense program for funding operation of schools where there are no State or local tax revenues to pay for public education of military connected children.) Revises ESEA General Provisions, transferring them from title X to title IX. Makes competitive program requirements applicable to Bureau of Indian Affairs schools or consortia of schools and tribal or community organizations applying for assistance. Provides for: (1) flexibility in the use of administrative and other funds, through consolidation of State administrative funds for elementary and secondary education programs and consolidation of funds for local administration; (2) coordination of programs, including consolidated State and local applications; (3) waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; (4) certain uniform provisions (including barring Federal control over private, religious, or home schools); (5) optional use by schools of sex education criteria stressing abstinence (with no Federal review of curricula or instructional materials); (6) prohibition of use of funds under this Act to support homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative or to aid in distribution of obscene materials to minors on school grounds (with no Federal review of curricula or instructional materials); (7) Buy American requirements; (8) a prohibition against Department of Education funds being made available to any State or LEA which has a policy of denying or which effectively prevents participation in constitutionally protected prayer in public schools by individuals on a voluntary basis; (9) a requirement that recipients of funds under this Act who provide services to elementary and secondary students enforce a nonsmoking policy (except in separately ventilated areas where children are not present); (10) a requirement that each assisted LEA have a policy relating to gun possession; (11) a sense of the Congress that schools should encourage parental teaching of certain ethical principles; (12) a prohibition against use of assistance under this Act by the local educational agency of New York City to provide compensation or other financial benefits to school janitorial or custodial services personnel; and (13) a sense of the Congress that Federal spending on education should increase by at least one percent per year until it reaches ten percent of the total Federal budget. Establishes a new ESEA title X, Coordinated Services Projects. Allows an LEA, individual school, or schools consortium to use up to five percent of funds received under ESEA for coordinating services projects to provide students and their families better access to social, health, and education services (but bars direct provision of health or health-related services). Requires project development and implementation plans. Requires various Federal agencies to review and report to the Congress on barriers to service coordination. Establishes a new ESEA title XI, School Facilities Improvement Act. Provides for direct, low-interest loans for school construction, reconstruction, and renovation for poorer LEAs. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new ESEA title XII, Urban and Rural Education Assistance. Authorizes appropriations for urban and rural education demonstration grants to eligible LEAs or SEAs, as well as research, evaluation, and improvement grants to partnerships of higher education institutions and urban or rural LEAs. Establishes: (1) the Augustus F. Hawkins National Commission on Urban Education; and (2) the National Commission on Rural Education. Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act - Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise applicability and other aspects. Part B: The Department of Education - Revises GEPA with respect to functions of the Department of Education. (Sec. 224) Requires coordination of various Boards' efforts to assist States in educational reform. Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations - Revises GEPA with respect to forward funding, availability of appropriations, contingent extension of programs, State reports, biennial evaluation reports, and coordination. Part D: Administration of Education Programs - Revises GEPA with respect to joint funding of programs, information collection and dissemination, review of application, use of withheld funds, applications, regulations, reduction of record retention requirements, release of records protection of pupil rights, enforcement, and equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries. Requires educational organizations that offer educational programs to minors for a fee to disclose certain information in written form to the minor or the minor's parent before accepting funds for the cost of the minor's participation in such a program. (Excludes from the definition of educational organization a local educational agency, an elementary or secondary school or organization sponsored by such a school, a recreational organization, or a social club.) Requires each such educational organization to include a verifiable statement of nondiscriminatory enrollment and enrollment policy on all enrollment or recruitment material. Directs the Secretary to monitor compliance. Authorizes imposition of civil fines for violations. Part E: Related Amendments to Other Acts - Makes related amendments to the Department of Education Organization Act and the Higher Education Act. Provides for a Special Assistant for Gender Equity in the Department. Title III: Amendments to Other Acts - Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to revise provisions for allocations. Combines the current ESEA title I chapter I State agency program for the handicapped with the IDEA programs of grants to States and for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Part B: Education for Homeless Children and Youth - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise provisions with respect to grants for State adult literacy initiatives and grants for State and local activities for the education of homeless children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Impact Aid Statutes - Amends certain Federal law for the impact aid construction program with respect to portion of appropriations available for payments, establishment of priorities, and limitation on total payments to any LEA. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such program. (Sec. 332) Repeals certain Federal law for impact aid. (Impact aid provisions are added to ESEA earlier in this Act.) Part D: Amendments to Adult Education Act - Amends the Adult Education Act to include Even Start programs under State planning and coordination requirements. Extends the authorization of appropriations for national research activities. Part E: Amendments to Education Council Act of 1991 - Amends the Education Council Act of 1991 to revise and reauthorize appropriations for the National Writing Project. Part F: Amendments to Statutes Pertaining to Indian Education - Amends specified Federal law relating to Indian education to revise provisions relating to Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools (under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior). Requires standards for basic education of Indian children in BIA schools to be coordinated with those under appropriate State plans under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Provides for BIA schools' management information system, education policies, uniform procedures and practices, recruitment of Indian educators, and right of Indian students. Provides for a budget and computer capacity to provide demographic information. Requires a study of the current weighted student budget method and a possible alternative program/school-based budget system. (Secs. 352) Amends the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 to revise provisions for grant conditions and payments. (Sec. 354) Amends the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges Assistance Act of 1978 to revise provisions for endowment funds. (Sec. 355) Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1992 to revise provisions for contributions by and trust fund investments of the Sante Fe Arts Institute. Title IV: National Education Statistics - National Education Statistics Act of 1994 - Reauthorizes and revises provisions for the National Center for Educational Statistics (the Center) and the National Assessment of Educational Progress. (Establishes the Center, within the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the Department of Education and headed by the Commissioner of Education Statistics, under this Act while repealing similar provisions under the General Education Provisions Act.) (Sec. 405) Revises provisions for the Center's: (1) duties; (2) performance; (3) reports; (4) Advisory Council on Education Statistics; (5) confidentiality; (6) dissemination; (7) cooperative education statistics systems; (8) National Assessment of Educational Progress; and (9) National Assessment Governing Board. (Sec. 413) Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary of Education to study and report to specified congressional committees: (1) on Federal efforts to assist States to reform their educational systems through the various education laws enacted during the 103d Congress; and (2) the effectiveness of Federal categorical aid programs and the impact of such programs on schools and local educational agencies. (Sec. 503) Requires budget compliance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act Part B: The Department of Education Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations Part D: Administration of Education Programs Part E: Related Amendments to Other Acts Title III: Amendments to Other Acts Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B: Education for Homeless Children and Youth Part C: Impact Aid Statutes Part D: Amendments to Adult Education Act Part E: Amendments to Education Council Act of 1991 Title IV: National Education Statistics Title V: Miscellaneous Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 - Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise and reauthorize ESEA. (Sec. 101) Establishes a title I program for Improved Education for Disadvantaged Children, which revises and reauthorizes some of the current title I chapter 1 programs of Financial Assistance to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Children. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants under the basic program; (2) Even Start; (3) education of migratory children; (4) prevention and intervention services for delinquent youth and youth at risk of dropping out; and (5) Federal evaluations, demonstrations, and transition projects. Requires any State desiring to receive a grant (under the basic program for making high-poverty schools work) to submit State plans that are integrated with that State's plan under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act or with other State plans under this Act and other specified plans. Requires each State plan to describe high-quality standards for all children that will be used by the State, its local educational agencies (LEAs), and its schools to carry out this Act, including: (1) challenging content standards in the core academic subjects; (2) challenging performance standards; and (3) opportunity to learn standards that address specified factors. Sets forth assessment provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a process for peer review and Secretarial approval. Requires LEAs receiving subgrants to have plans with standards and assessments provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Provides for State approval and shared program responsibility of schools and the LEA in deciding on schoolwide programs and targeted assistance schools. Allows an LEA to only use basic program funds in eligible school attendance areas in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least as high as that in the LEA as a whole. Sets forth formulas for ranking eligible school attendance areas for purposes of such funding in various cases where there are insufficient funds. Provides for LEA discretion in eligibility determinations and use of funds under certain conditions. Sets forth criteria which a school must meet in order for the LEA to use basic program funds to upgrade the entire educational program at an eligible school (schoolwide programs). Provides that in participating schools that are ineligible for a schoolwide program or that choose not to operate a schoolwide program, an LEA may use basic program funds only for targeted assistance programs that provide services to eligible children identified as having the greatest need for special assistance (targeted assistance schools). Sets forth criteria for eligible children at such schools. Provides for assessment and school and district improvement, including local review, designation of Distinguished Schools, school improvement identification, State review and LEA improvement, State establishment of a corps of Distinguished Educators, and State allocations for school improvement. Sets forth requirements for: (1) parental involvement; (2) professional development; and (3) participation of children enrolled in private schools. Revises formulas for allocations of title I basic program funds. Provides that no school shall receive a lower amount and that no program shall be ended by reason of the new formula. Targets the greater share of increased appropriations on high poverty areas. Provides for allocations to States, basic grants to LEAs, concentration grants to LEAs, targeted grants to LEAs, and special allocation procedures, including ones for neglected or delinquent children. Revises Even Start Family Literacy Programs to increase program services and high-poverty-area targeting and include teenage parents. Revises Education of Migratory Children to restrict eligibility to children who have moved within the previous 24 months (for FY 1996 and thereafter, but 36 months for FY 1995). Allows State consortium arrangements. Provides for continuation of services. Authorizes distance learning program grants in the education of migratory children. Renames Education of Neglected and Delinquent Youth as Prevention and Intervention Services for Delinquent Youth and Youth at Risk of Dropping Out. Eliminates services for neglected youth in State facilities. Requires a 20-hour instructional week for youth in State youth correctional facilities and a ten-hour one for youth in State adult correctional facilities. Adds provisions for youth in local correctional facilities. Sets forth title I provisions for Federal evaluations, demonstrations, and transition projects. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance for innovative transition projects in elementary schools. Establishes title I provisions for a negotiated rulemaking process, program assistance manual, and State committees of practitioners to advise States on title I responsibilities. Establishes a new ESEA title II, Improving Teaching and Learning, with a new part A, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program, to support professional development of elementary and secondary school teachers in core academic subjects. (This replaces the current Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act programs.) Gives priority for professional development in mathematics and science. Authorizes appropriations. Technology Education Assistance Act of 1994 - Establishes a new title II part B, Technology Education Assistance. (This replaces the current Foreign Languages Assistance Act programs.) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to strengthen teacher skills and improve instruction regarding use of technology in the classroom. Sets forth formulas for allocation to States and for in-State allocation to: (1) local education agencies, for training projects and grants projects for individual teachers; (2) higher education training programs for teachers; and (3) library and literacy programs. Requires State and local technology plans. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an Office of Educational Technology in the Department of Education; (2) develop and publish a national long-range plan for educational technology; and (3) carry out Federal leadership activities to promote and assist the use of technology in education. Authorizes appropriations. Reauthorizes and broadens the Star Schools Program. Establishes a program of grants and loans for development of educational technology products. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a title II part C library media program of grants to States and subgrants to LEAs to acquire school library media resources. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a title II part D program of support and assistance for ESEA programs. Includes under such national technical assistance and dissemination system comprehensive regional assistance centers, State-based activities through the National Diffusion Network, and technology-based technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a title II part E, Education Program Strategies, which modifies the current title I chapter 2 program. Provides for support of educational reform activities consistent with State and local efforts under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Authorizes use of such funds also to provide support for innovation and educational improvement. Authorizes appropriations for such program, including: (1) State and local programs; (2) State programs; (3) local targeted assistance programs; and (4) 21st Century Community Learning Centers for educational, recreational, health, and social service programs in public school buildings. Establishes a new ESEA title III, Expanding Opportunities for Learning. (The current title III, Magnet Schools Assistance, is transferred to a new title V.) Authorizes appropriations for: (1) a revised and renamed Fund for the Improvement of Education (currently under title IV as the Secretary's Fund for Innovation in Education); (2) a new Public Charter Schools program to increase public school choice through grants for innovative programs and exemptions from regulations that limit school operational and management flexibility; (3) an expanded Arts in Education program; (4) the Inexpensive Book Distribution Program, through Reading Is Fundamental, Inc., giving priority to new projects serving a substantial number or percentage of children with special needs; (5) an expanded Civic Education program, including the "We the People...The Citizen and the Constitution" program as well as a new program to support attainment of challenging content standards in civics, government, and the law and of National Education Goals Three and Six; (6) a revised Allen J. Ellender Fellowship Program, with Close Up Foundation activities for middle and secondary school students and teachers, recent immigrants, older Americans, and (added) students of migrant parents; and (7) a Territorial Education Improvement Program of grants for innovative education. Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1994 - Revises the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education program (currently under title IV). Authorizes appropriations. Community Arts Partnership Act of 1994 - Provides demonstration grants for educational and cultural services for at-risk children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Native Hawaiian Education Act - Establishes a Native Hawaiian Education Council to guide Federal, State, and local agencies to focus resources for Native Hawaiian education. Directs the Secretary of Education to make direct grants to: (1) specified Native Hawaiian Language Immersion projects; (2) Native Hawaiian Organizations to set up at least 11 Family-Based Education Centers; (3) the Kamehameha Schools/Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate for a Native Hawaiian higher education fellowship demonstration program; (4) the University of Hawaii at Hilo for a Native Hawaiian Gifted and Talented Center; and (5) Pihana Na Mamo for Native Hawaiian special education projects. Authorizes appropriations. Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 - Establishes as ESEA title IV a Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program, which replaces and revises the current title V Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act program to include violence prevention activities and increase the role of community-based agencies. Includes under the new program: (1) Grants for Drug and Violence Prevention Programs at State and local levels; and (2) national programs. Establishes as ESEA title V, Magnet Schools Assistance, which authorizes appropriations for: (1) Promoting Equity, a revised Magnet Schools Assistance program; (2) a new Equalization Assistance program which provides technical and other assistance, including research, regarding school finance equity; and (3) a revised Women's Educational Equity Act program (currently under title IV part A), retaining the current grant program and adding implementation grants, as well as establishing a Special Assistant of the Office of Women's Equity. Establishes a new ESEA title VI, Indian Education, which adds revised Indian Education Act programs to ESEA. (Eliminates the current title VI provisions for Projects and Programs Designed to Address School Dropout Problems and to Strengthen Basic Education.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title VI programs: (1) formula grants to LEAs; (2) special programs and projects to improve educational opportunities for Indian children, including demonstrations, services, teacher training and fellowships, fellowships for Indian students, and gifted and talented centers; (3) special programs relating to adult education for Indians; (4) national activities and grants to States; and (5) Federal administration through the Office of Indian Education and the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Sets forth provisions relating to Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools (under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior). Requires standards for basic education of Indian children in BIA schools to be coordinated with those under appropriate State plans under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. Provides for BIA schools' management information system, education policies, uniform procedures and practices, recruitment of Indian educators, and rights of Indian students. Provides for a budget and computer capacity to provide demographic information. Requires a study of the current weighted student budget method and a possible alternative program/school-based budget system. Revises ESEA title VII Bilingual Education Programs, while transferring the Emergency Immigrant Education Program to title VII from title IV. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) bilingual education capacity and demonstration grants, including ones for program development and implementation, program enhancement, whole-school programs, and system-wide improvement; (2) research and evaluation, including academic excellence awards, State grants, the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, instructional materials development, and evaluation assistance centers and multifunctional resource centers; (3) bilingual education teacher training, including a training-all-teachers program, bilingual education teachers and personnel grants, a career ladder program, and graduate fellowships in bilingual education; and (4) a revised Emergency Immigrant Education Program. Establishes a new ESEA title VIII, Impact Aid. (The current impact aid laws are repealed later in this Act.) Revises formulas for payments to LEAs relating to Federal acquisition of real property. Revises payments to LEAs for eligible federally connected children by: (1) terminating payments for children whose parents either live on Federal land or work for the Federal Government; (2) changing the payment formula for those children whose parents work for the Federal Government and live on Federal property, and those who live on Indian lands; (3) providing additional funding for very large LEAs with very high numbers of federally connected children; (4) providing separate authorization and payments to LEAs for federally connected children with disabilities; and (5) providing separate authorization for additional assistance to heavily impacted LEAs. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary of Defense to make transfer payments to the Secretary of Education to make all impact aid payments associated with children connected with defense activities. (Does not reauthorize the Department of Defense program for funding operation of schools where there are no State or local tax revenues to pay for public education of military connected children.) Revises ESEA General Provisions, transferring them from title X to title IX. Provides for: (1) flexibility in the use of administrative and other funds, through consolidation of State administrative funds for elementary and secondary education programs and consolidation of funds for local administration; (2) coordination of programs, including consolidated State and local applications; (3) waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; (4) certain uniform provisions; and (5) a requirement that each assisted LEA have a policy relating to gun possession. Establishes a new ESEA title X, Coordinated Services Projects. Allows an LEA, individual school, or schools consortium to use up to five percent of funds received under ESEA for coordinating services projects to provide students and their families better access to social, health, and education services. Requires project development and implementation plans. Requires various Federal agencies to review and report to the Congress on barriers to service coordination. Establishes a new ESEA title XI, School Facilities Improvement Act. Provides for direct, low-interest loans for school construction, reconstruction, and renovation for poorer LEAs. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new ESEA title XII, Urban and Rural Education Assistance. Authorizes appropriations for urban and rural education demonstration grants to eligible LEAs or SEAs, as well as research, evaluation, and improvement grants to partnerships of higher education institutions and urban or rural LEAs. Establishes: (1) the Augustus F. Hawkins National Commission on Urban Education; and (2) the National Commission on Rural Education. Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act - Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise applicability and other aspects. Part B: The Department of Education - Revises GEPA with respect to functions of the Department of Education. (Sec. 224) Requires coordination of various Boards' efforts to assist States in educational reform. Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations - Revises GEPA with respect to forward funding, availability of appropriations, contingent extension of programs, State reports, biennial evaluation reports, and coordination. Part D: Administration of Education Programs - Revises GEPA with respect to joint funding of programs, information collection and dissemination, review of application, use of withheld funds, applications, regulations, reduction of record retention requirements, release of records, protection of pupil rights, enforcement, and equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries. Part E: Related Amendments to Other Acts - Makes related amendments to the Department of Education Organization Act and the Higher Education Act. Provides for a Special Assistant for Gender Equity in the Department. Title III: Amendments to Other Acts - Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to revise provisions for allocations. Combines the current ESEA title I chapter I State agency program for the handicapped with the IDEA programs of grants to States and for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Part B: Education for Homeless Children and Youth - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise provisions with respect to grants for State adult literacy initiatives and grants for State and local activities for the education of homeless children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Impact Aid Statutes - Amends certain Federal law for the impact aid construction program with respect to portion of appropriations available for payments, establishment of priorities, and limitation on total payments to any LEA. (Sec. 332) Repeals certain Federal law for impact aid. (Impact aid provisions are added to ESEA earlier in this Act.) Part D: Amendments to Adult Education Act - Amends the Adult Education Act to include Even Start programs under State planning and coordination requirements. Extends the authorization of appropriations for national research activities. Part E: Amendments to Education Council Act of 1991 - Amends the Education Council Act of 1991 to revise and reauthorize appropriations for the National Writing Project. Title IV: National Education Statistics - National Education Statistics Act of 1994 - Reauthorizes and revises provisions for the National Center for Educational Statistics (the Center) and the National Assessment of Educational Progress. (Establishes the Center, within the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the Department of Education and headed by the Commissioner of Education Statistics, under this Act while repealing similar provisions under the General Education Provisions Act.) (Sec. 405) Revises provisions for the Center's: (1) duties; (2) performance; (3) reports; (4) Advisory Council on Education Statistics; (5) confidentiality; (6) dissemination; (7) cooperative education statistics systems; and (8) National Assessment of Educational Progress. (Does not reauthorize the National Assessment Governing Board.) (Sec. 412) Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary of Education to study and report to specified congressional committees on Federal efforts to assist States to reform their educational systems through the various education laws enacted during the 103d Congress. (Sec. 502) Requires budget compliance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Program Authorized Title II: Amendments to Other Educational Programs Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1993 - Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Program Authorized - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to extend for six years the authorizations of appropriations for ESEA programs, including: (1) basic grants under the title I Chapter 1 program of assistance for educationally disadvantaged children (including participation of children enrolled in private schools); (2) Even Start Family Literacy programs; (3) secondary school programs for basic skills improvement and dropout prevention and reentry; (4) funds for implementation of school improvement programs; (5) rural educational opportunities; (6) Federal, State, and local partnership for educational improvement (Chapter 2 programs); (7) Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education assistance; (8) foreign language assistance; (9) magnet schools assistance; (10) women's educational equity; (11) gifted and talented children; (12) Ellender fellowships; (13) immigrant education; (14) the Secretary's fund for innovation in education, including instruction in history and principles of U.S. democracy; (15) Ready to Learn program; (16) basic skills improvement assistance; and (17) bilingual education programs. Title II: Amendments to Other Educational Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the following programs under the following Acts: (1) Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, education for homeless adults, children, and youth; (2) the Follow Through Act, Follow Through programs; (3) impact aid to local educational agencies, under specified Federal laws; (3) the Indian Education Act, assistance to local educational agencies, improvement of education for Indian children, training for their teachers, fellowships for Indian students, gifted and talented, and improvement of education for adult Indians; (4) the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980, refugee and immigrant education; (5) education for Native Hawaiians, under specified Federal law; (6) the Education for Economic Security Act, partnerships in education for mathematics, science, and engineering, and the Star Schools program; (7) the General Education Provisions Act, the National Center for Education Statistics; (8) the Fund for the Improvement and Reform of Schools and Teaching Act, the fund under such Act; and (9) the Education Council Act of 1991, the National Writing Project.