AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.

SEC. 6044. AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES. An eligible partnership may use payments received under this chapter in any fiscal year for— (1) model cooperative programs designed to apply the resources of the private and nonprofit sectors of the community to102 STAT. 1484 the elementary and secondary schools of the local educational agency or institutions of higher education in that community, (2) projects designed to encourage business concerns and other participants in the eligible partnership, to work with educationally disadvantaged students and with gifted students in the elementary and secondary schools of local educational agencies or institutions of higher education; (3) projects designed to apply the resources of the community to the elementary and secondary schools of the local educational agency or institutions of higher education in that community to improve the education of students in such schools; (4) projects which are designed to address the special educational needs of gifted and talented children in the elementary and secondary schools of such agencies which are conducted with the support of the private sector, (5) projects designed to enrich the career awareness of secondary or postsecondary school students through exposure to officers and employees of business concerns and other agencies and organizations participating in the eligible partnership for education; (6) projects for statewide activities designed to carry out the purpose of this chapter, including the development of model State statutes for the support of cooperative arrangements between the private sector and the elementary and secondary schools or institutions of higher education within the State; (7) special training projects for staff designed to develop skills necessary to facilitate cooperative arrangements between the private and nonprofit sectors and the elementary and secondary schools of local educational agencies or institutions of higher education; (8) academic internship programs, including where possible academic credit, involving activities designed to carry out the purpose of this chapter; and (9) projects encouraging tutorial and volunteer work in the elementary and secondary schools of local education agencies or institutions of higher education by personnel assigned from business concerns and other participants in the eligible partnership.