Sec. 309. Coordinated school health initiatives
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From the amounts appropriated to carry out this section, the Secretary of Education shall carry out a pilot program to award grants to not more than 5 eligible entities to carry out coordinated school health initiatives in schools. A grant awarded under subsection
(a)may not exceed $15,000. An eligible entity receiving a grant under this section shall carry out a coordinated school health initiative in each school under the jurisdiction of the entity under which the entity shall— carry out a program, such as a fitness program, to assess the physical fitness (including aerobic capacity, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition) of each student served by the entity; and evaluate such assessments to— establish baselines with respect to aerobic capacity, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition that each such student should meet by a certain period; and identify interventions to assist each such student, including those with disabilities, in meeting such baselines; review the interventions identified under paragraph (2)(B) to determine the best practices with respect to such interventions; use the determinations for best practices under paragraph
(3)to implement interventions in each school under the jurisdiction of the entity; and not later than 1 year after the implementation of the interventions, assess the physical fitness of each student served by the entity. Each eligible entity receiving a grant under this section shall submit to the Secretary at such time and in such manner as determined by the Secretary, a report on— the initial physical fitness assessments carried out under subsection (c)(1) ; the interventions implemented under subsection (c)(4) ; and the physical fitness assessments carried out under subsection (c)(5) after the interventions have been implemented. Not later than the first appropriation of Federal funds to carry out this section, the Secretary shall use the reports received under paragraph
(1)to prepare and transmit to Congress a report on— the average physical fitness levels of students participating in the coordinated school health initiative under this section— prior to the interventions implemented by each eligible entity under this section; and 1 year after the implementation of the interventions; the best practices with respect to the interventions; and recommendations on how schools and local educational agencies may incorporate such best practices. To receive a grant under this section, an eligible entity shall submit an application to the Secretary of Education at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. Funds received under this section shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, non-Federal funds that would otherwise be used for activities authorized under this section. For purposes of this section: The term eligible entity means a local educational agency— that serves— a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced price lunches under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act; or a community otherwise determined by the Secretary to be a low-income community; and that forms a partnership with an institution of higher education or a nonprofit health or education organization, as determined by the Secretary, for the purposes of carrying out the coordinated school health initiative described in subsection
(c). The term institution of higher education has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). The term local educational agency has the meaning given such term in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 ). The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture.
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