APPLICATION.

SEC. 6076. APPLICATION. (a) In General.— (1) A grant under this subchapter may be made only to a local educational agency which submits an application to the Secretary containing or accompanied by such information as the Secretary may reasonably require. (2) Applications shall be for a 1-year period. (b) Contents of Application.— Each such application shall include— (1) a description of the program goals and the manner in which funds will be used to initiate or expand services to secondary school students; (2) a description of the activities and services which will be provided by the program (including documentation to demonstrate that the local educational agency has the qualified personnel needed to develop, administer, and implement the program under this subchapter); (3) a list of the secondary schools within the local educational agency in which programs will be conducted and a description of the needs of the schools, in terms of achievement levels of students and poverty rates; 102 STAT. 1498 (4) an assurance that programs will be operated in secondary schools with the greatest need for assistance, in terms of achievement levels and poverty rates; (5) an assurance that parents of eligible students will be involved in the development and implementation of programs under this subchapter; (6) a statement of the methods which will be used— (A) to ensure that the programs will serve eligible students most in need of the activities and services provided by this subchapter; and (B) an assurance that services will be provided under this subchapter to special populations, such as individuals with limited English proficiency and individuals with handicaps; (7) an assurance that the program will be of sufficient size, scope, and quality to offer reasonable promise of success; (8) a description of the manner in which the agency will provide for equitable participation of private school students under provisions applicable to chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, relating to participation of children enrolled in private schools; (9) a description of the methods by which the applicant will coordinate programs under this subchapter with programs for the eligible student population operated by community-based organizations, social service organizations and agencies, private sector entities, and other agencies, organizations, and institutions, and with programs conducted under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, the Job Training Partnership Act, and other relevant Acts; and (10) such other information as the Secretary may require to determine the nature and quality of the proposed project and the applicant’s ability to carry out the project. (c) Approval of Applications.— (1) The Secretary shall, in approving applications under this section, give special consideration to programs that— (A) demonstrate the greatest need for services assisted under this subchapter on their numbers or proportions of secondary school children from low-income families and numbers or proportions of low-achieving secondary school children; and (B) offer innovative approaches to improving achievement among eligible secondary school children and offer approaches which show promise for replication and dissemination. (2) The Secretary shall ensure that programs for which applications are approved under this section are representative of urban and rural regions in the United States. (d) Administrative Costs.— Not more than 5 percent of any grant under this subchapter may be used for Administrative costs.