Innovation and Improvement

Innovation and Improvement For carrying out activities authorized by parts G and H of title I, subpart 5 of part A and parts C and D of title II, parts B, C, and D of title V, and section 1504 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (“ESEA”), $1,106,811,000: Provided, That $74,513,000 for continuing and new grants to demonstrate effective approaches to comprehensive school reform shall become available on July 1, 2004, and remain available through September 30, 2005, and shall be allocated and expended in the same manner as the funds provided under the Fund for the 118 STAT. 258 Improvement of Education for this purpose were allocated and expended in fiscal year 2003: Provided further, That $18,500,000 shall be available to carry out section 2151(c) of the ESEA, of which not less than $10,000,000 shall be provided to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, not less than $7,000,000 shall be provided to the National Council on Teacher Quality, and up to $1,500,000 may be reserved by the Secretary to conduct an evaluation of activities authorized by such section: Provided further, That $430,463,000 shall be available to carry out part D of title V of the ESEA: Provided further, That $177,271,000 of the funds for subpart 1, part D of title V of the ESEA shall be available for the projects and in the amounts specified in the statement of the managers on the conference report accompanying this Act.