Sec. 5. Grants for pre-service and in-service teacher training
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The Secretary, in coordination with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Secretary of Education, shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities to enable such eligible entities to carry out the activities described in subsection (e). Grants awarded under this section shall be for a period of 5 years. In this section, the term eligible entity means— a State educational agency; a local educational agency; a tribe or tribal organization, as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act ( 25 U.S.C. 450b ); a State or local department of health; a State or local department of education; a nonprofit institution of higher education; a national or statewide nonprofit organization that has as its primary purpose the improvement of provision of comprehensive sex education through effective teaching of comprehensive sex education; or a consortium of nonprofit organizations that has as its primary purpose the improvement of provision of comprehensive sex education through effective teaching of comprehensive sex education.
An eligible entity desiring a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. Each eligible entity receiving a grant under this section shall use grant funds to train targeted faculty and staff, in order to increase effective teaching of comprehensive sex education for elementary school and secondary school students. Each eligible entity receiving a grant under this section may use grant funds to— strengthen and expand the eligible entity’s relationships with— institutions of higher education;
State educational agencies; local educational agencies; or other public and private organizations with a commitment to comprehensive sex education and the benefits of comprehensive sex education; support and promote research-based training of teachers of comprehensive sex education and related disciplines in elementary schools and secondary schools as a means of broadening student knowledge about issues related to human development, relationships, personal skills, sexual behavior, sexual health, and society and culture; support the dissemination of information on effective practices and research findings concerning the teaching of comprehensive sex education; support research on— effective comprehensive sex education teaching practices; and the development of assessment instruments and strategies to document— student understanding of comprehensive sex education; and the effects of comprehensive sex education; convene national conferences on comprehensive sex education, in order to effectively train teachers in the provision of comprehensive sex education; and develop and disseminate appropriate research-based materials to foster comprehensive sex education.
Each eligible entity receiving a grant under this section may award subgrants to nonprofit organizations, State educational agencies, or local educational agencies to enable such organizations or agencies to— train teachers in comprehensive sex education; support Internet or distance learning related to comprehensive sex education; promote rigorous academic standards and assessment techniques to guide and measure student performance in comprehensive sex education; encourage replication of best practices and model programs to promote comprehensive sex education; develop and disseminate effective, research-based comprehensive sex education learning materials; develop academic courses on the pedagogy of sex education at institutions of higher education; or convene State-based conferences to train teachers in comprehensive sex education and to identify strategies for improvement.
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Grants for pre-service and in-service teacher training
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