Sec. 304. Use of funds
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An eligible partnership receiving a grant under this title shall use such funds to implement and evaluate the results of technology-based learning practices, strategies, tools, or courses, including the practices, strategies, tools, or courses identified under paragraphs
(2)through (6). Technology-based tools and courses identified under this paragraph include the following types of tools and courses designed to personalize the learning experience: Technology-based personalized instructional systems. Adaptive software, games, or tools, that can be used to personalize learning. Computer-based tutoring courses to help struggling students. Games, digital tools, and smartphone or tablet applications to improve students’ engagement, focus, and time on task. Other tools and courses designed to personalize the learning experience. Technology-based practices and strategies identified under this paragraph include the following types of practices and strategies designed to aid and inform instruction: Adaptive software, games, or tools that can be used for the purpose of formative assessment. Web resources that provide teachers and their students access to instructional and curricular materials that are— aligned with high-quality standards; and designed to prepare students for college and a career, such as a repository of primary historical sources for use in history and civics courses or examples of developmentally appropriate science experiments. Online professional development opportunities, teacher mentoring opportunities, and professional learning communities. Tools or web resources designed to address specific instructional problems. Other practices and strategies designed to personalize the learning experience. Technology-based tools, courses, and strategies identified under this paragraph include the following types of tools, courses, and strategies designed to meet the needs of students with specific educational needs: Digital tools specifically designed to meet the needs of students with a particular disability. Online courses that give students who are not on track to graduate or have already dropped out of school the opportunity for accelerated credit recovery. Language instruction courses, games, or software designed to meet the needs of English language learners. Other tools, courses, and strategies designed to personalize the learning experience. Technology-based tools, courses, and strategies identified under this paragraph include peer-to-peer virtual learning opportunities to be used for the purposes of project-based learning, deeper learning, and collaborative learning, and other tools, courses, and strategies designed to help students develop 21st century skills, such as the ability to think critically and solve problems, be effective communicators, collaborate with others, and learn to create and innovate. Technology-based or online courses identified under this paragraph include courses or collections of courses approved by the applicable local educational agency or State educational agency that provide students with access to courses that they would not otherwise have access to, such as the following: An online repository of elective courses. Online or software-based courses in foreign languages, especially in languages identified as critical or in schools where a teacher is not available to teach the language or course level a student requires. Online advanced or college-level courses that can be taken for credit. An eligible partnership receiving a grant under this title may use grant funds to— develop or implement the technology for technology-based learning strategies, practices, courses, or tools to be carried out under the grant; purchase hardware or software needed to carry out such strategies, practices, courses, or tools under the grant, except that such purchases may not exceed 50 percent of total grant funds; address the particular needs of student subgroups, including students with disabilities and English-language learners; provide technology-based professional development or professional development on how to maximize the utility of technology; and address issues of cost and capacity in rural areas and shortage subjects. An eligible partnership that receives a grant under this title shall use the grant funds to supplement, not supplant, the work of teachers with students, and may not use such funds to reduce staffing levels for the school partners in the eligible partnership. For each student in a class or school implementing a practice, tool, strategy, or course using grant funds provided under this title, there shall be a teacher of record, holding the relevant certification or license, and otherwise qualified to implement any digitally based practice, tool, strategy or course using the grant funds. An eligible partnership shall use grant funds provided under this title, and shall determine the extent and nature of pedagogical uses of digital tools, in a manner that is consistent with the judgments of teachers of record about what is developmentally appropriate for students.