English Language Acquisition

English Language Acquisition For carrying out part A of title III of the ESEA, $737,400,000, which shall become available on July 1, 2015, and shall remain 128 STAT. 2498 available through September 30, 2016, except that 6.5 percent of such amount shall be available on October 1, 2014, and shall remain available through September 30, 2016, to carry out activities under section 3111(c)(1)(C): Provided, That the Secretary shall use estimates of the American Community Survey child counts for the most recent 3-year period available to calculate allocations under such part: Provided further, That the Secretary shall use $14,000,000 of funds available under this paragraph for grants to all State educational agencies within States with at least one county where 50 or more unaccompanied children have been released to sponsors since January 1, 2014, through the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement: Provided further, That awards to eligible State educational agencies shall be based on the State’s relative share of unaccompanied children that have been released to sponsors since January 1, 2014: Provided further, That the data on unaccompanied children used by the Secretary under the two preceding provisos shall be the most recently available data from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, as of the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That each eligible State educational agency that receives a grant shall award subgrants to local educational agencies in the State that have experienced a significant increase during the 2014–2015 school year, as determined by the State educational agency, compared to the average of the 2 preceding school years, in the number or percentage of immigrant children and youth enrolled in their schools: Provided further, That local educational agencies shall use those subgrants for supplemental academic and non-academic services and supports to immigrant children and youth: Provided further, That the term “immigrant children and youth” has the meaning given in section 3301 of the ESEA, and the terms “State educational agency” and “local educational agency” have the meanings given to them in section 9101 of the ESEA: Provided further, That each eligible State educational agency shall prepare and submit to the Secretary not later than 1 year after the award a report identifying the local educational agencies that received subgrants, the State’s definition of “significant increase” used to award the subgrants; and such other information as the Secretary may require.