Provides funds to ensure that children in high-poverty schools meet challenging State academic content and student achievement standards.

Provides funds for additional academic instruction designed to increase the academic achievement of students in Title I schools in the second year of Improvement, Corrective Action, or Restructuring.

Provides funds to increase student academic achievement through strategies such as improving teacher and principal quality and increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom.

Provides funds to improve student achievement through the use of technology in elementary and secondary schools.

Provides funds to improve the education of Limited English Proficient (LEP) children and youths by helping them learn English and meet challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards.

Provides competitive grant funds for the creation of community learning centers that provide services, during non-school hours, to help students meet state and local student standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and math; offers students a broad array of enrichment activities that can complement their regular academic programs; and offers literacy and other educational services to the families of participating children.

Provides competitive grant funds for the development of early childhood centers of excellence that focus on all areas of development, especially on the early language, cognitive, and pre-reading skills that prepare children for continued school success and that serve primarily children from low-income families.

Provides competitive grant funds to improve student achievement through the use of technology in elementary and secondary schools.

Provides competitive grants to support local family literacy projects that integrate early childhood education, adult literacy (adult basic and secondary-level education and instruction for English language learners), parenting education, and interactive parent and child literacy activities for low-income families.

Provides competitive grant funds to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter, and succeed in, postsecondary education.

Provides funds to ensure that children with disabilities, including children aged three through five, have access to a free, appropriate public education to meet each child's unique needs and prepare him or her for further education, employment, and independent living.

Allows districts to use up to 15 percent of Special Education funds for students in Kindergarten through Grade 12 who have not been identified as needing special education and related services, but who need additional academic and behavioral support to succeed in a general education environment.

Provides funds to improve reading achievement by providing students with increased access to up-to-date school library materials; well-equipped, technologically advanced school library media centers; and professionally certified school library media specialists.

Provides competitive grants to support the implementation of SLCs and activities to improve student academic achievement in large public high schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students.

Provides competitive grant funds to raise middle and high schools students’ literacy levels in Title I-eligible schools with significant numbers of students reading below grade level, and build a strong, scientific research base for strategies that improve adolescent literacy instruction.