Title 20 — Education
Part B · Chapter 28 — Higher Education Resources and Student Assistance
§ 1102b. Authorized activities
Statutory text
Grants awarded under this part shall be used for one or more of the following activities:
Purchase, rental, or lease of scientific or laboratory equipment for educational purposes, including instructional and research purposes.
Construction, maintenance, renovation, and improvement of classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and other instructional facilities, including purchase or rental of telecommunications technology equipment or services.
Purchase of library books, periodicals, technical and other scientific journals, microfilm, microfiche, and other educational materials, including telecommunications program materials.
Support for low-income postbaccalaureate students including outreach, academic support services, mentoring, scholarships, fellowships, and other financial assistance to permit the enrollment of such students in postbaccalaureate certificate and postbaccalaureate degree granting programs.
Support of faculty exchanges, faculty development, faculty research, curriculum development, and academic instruction.
Creating or improving facilities for Internet or other distance education technologies, including purchase or rental of telecommunications technology equipment or services.
Collaboration with other institutions of higher education to expand postbaccalaureate certificate and postbaccalaureate degree offerings.
Other activities proposed in the application submitted pursuant to section 1102c of this title that—
contribute to carrying out the purposes of this part; and
are approved by the Secretary as part of the review and acceptance of such application.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Higher Education Act of 1965
Pub. L. 89–329 title V § 513 · 79 Stat. 1219
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 1102b
(Pub. L. 89–329, title V, § 513, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title V, § 502(a)(3), Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3332.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 89–329, title V, § 513, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title V, § 502(a)(3), Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3332.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 513. teacher corps program (a) For the purpose of carrying out this part, the Commissioner is authorized to— (1) recruit, select, and enroll experienced teachers, and inexperienced teacher-interns who have a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent, in the Teacher Corps for periods of up to two years; (2) enter into arrangements, through grants or contracts, with institutions of higher education or State or local educational agencies to provide members of the Teacher Corps with such training as the Commissioner may deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of this part, including not more than three months of training for members before they undertake their teaching duties under this part; (3) enter into arrangements (‘including the payment of the cost of such arrangements) with local educational agencies, after consultation in appropriate cases with State educational agencies and institutions of higher education, to furnish to local educational agencies, for service during regular or summer sessions, or both, in the schools of such agencies in areas having concentrations of children from low-income families, either or both (A) experienced teachers, or (B) teaching teams, each of which shall consist of an experienced teacher and a number of teacher-interns who, in addition to teaching duties, shall be afforded time by the local educational agency for a teacher-intern training program developed according to criteria established by the Commissioner and carried out under the guidance of the experienced teacher in cooperation with an institution of higher education; and (4) pay to local educational agencies the amount of the compensation which such agencies pay to or on behalf of members of the Teacher Corps assigned to them pursuant to arrangements made pursuant to the preceding clause. (b) Arrangements with institutions of higher education to provide training for teacher-interns while teaching in schools for local educational agencies under the provisions of this part shall provide, wherever possible, for training leading to a graduate degree. (c) (1) Whenever the Commissioner determines that the demand for the services of experienced teachers or of teaching teams furnished pursuant to clause (3) of subsection (a) exceeds the number of experienced teachers or teaching teams available from the Teacher Corps, the Commissioner shall, to the extent practicable, allocate experienced teachers or teaching teams, as the case may be, from the Teacher Corps among the States in accordance with paragraph (2). (2) Not to exceed 2 per centum of such teachers or teams, as the case may be, shall be allocated to Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands according to their respective needs. The remainder of such teams or teachers, as the case may be, shall be allocated among the other States in proportion to the number of children counted in each State for the purpose of determining the amount of basic grants made under section 203 of title II of Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, as Ante, p. 28. amended, for the fiscal year for which the allocation is made. (d) A local educational agency may utilize members of the Teacher Corps assigned to it in providing, in the manner described in section 205(a) (2) of Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, as amended, educational services in which children enrolled in private elementary and secondary schools can participate.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 1102b, Pub. L. 89–329, title V, § 503, as added Pub. L. 102–325, title V, § 501(a), , 106 Stat. 658, related to local applications and use of funds, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–244.
A prior section 513 of Pub. L. 89–329 was renumbered section 523, and is classified to section 1103b of this title.
Another prior section 513 of Pub. L. 89–329 was classified to section 1103b of this title, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–244.
Another prior section 513 of Pub. L. 89–329 was classified to section 1103b of this title, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 102–325.
Another prior section 513 of Pub. L. 89–329 was classified to section 1103 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–35.
Credits
(Pub. L. 89–329, title V, § 513, as added Pub. L. 110–315, title V, § 502(a)(3), , 122 Stat. 3332.)