PURPOSE.

SEC. 6062. PURPOSE. The purpose of this subchapter is to reduce the number of children who do not complete their elementary and secondary education by providing grants to local educational agencies to establish and demonstrate— (1) effective programs to identify potential student dropouts and prevent them from dropping out; (2) effective programs to identify and encourage children who have already dropped out to reenter school and complete their elementary and secondary education; (3) effective early intervention programs designed to identify at-risk students in elementary and secondary schools; and (4) model systems for collecting and reporting information to local school officials on the number, ages, and grade levels of the children not completing their elementary and secondary education and the reasons why such children have dropped out of school.