application to indians on reservations

application to indians on reservations Sec. 152. (a) Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended by redesignating sections 706. 707, and 708 (and references thereto) as sections 707, 708, and 709 thereof and by inserting the following new section immediately after section 705: 84 Stat. 152 “children in schools on reservations “Sec. 706. (a) For the purpose of carrying out programs pursuant to this title for individuals on reservations serviced by elementary and secondary schools operated on such reservations for Indian children, a nonprofit institution or organization of the Indian tribe concerned which operates any such school and which is approved by the Commissioner for the purposes of this section, may be considered to be a local educational agency as such term is used in this title. “(b) From the sums appropriated pursuant to section 703, the Commissioner may also make payments to the Secretary of the Interior for elementary and secondary school programs to carry out the policy of section 702 with respect to individuals on reservations serviced by elementary and secondary schools for Indian children operated or funded by the Department of the Interior. The terms upon which payments for that purpose may be made to the Secretary of the Interior shall be determined pursuant to such criteria as the Commissioner determines will best carry out. the policy of section 702.” (b) Section 707(a) of such Act (as redesignated by this Act) is amended by inserting the following before the period at the end thereof: “or, in the case of payments to the Secretary of the Interior, an amount determined pursuant to section 706(b)”.