Supports local educational agencies in improving teaching and learning to help low-achieving students in high-poverty schools meet the same challenging State content and performance standards that apply to all students. Promotes effective instructional strategies that increase the amount and quality of learning time for at-risk children and that deliver an enriched and accelerated curriculum. Also expands eligibility of schools for schoolwide programs that serve all children in high-poverty schools; encourages school-based planning; establishes accountability based on results; promotes effective parental participation; and supports coordination with health and social services.

Improves the educational opportunities of low-income families by integrating early childhood education, adult literacy or adult basic education, and parenting education into a unified family literacy program.

Supports educational programs for migratory children to help reduce the educational disruptions and other problems that result from repeated moves. Helps provide migratory children with the same opportunities as other children to meet challenging State content and performance standards. Targets efforts on the most mobile children, whose schooling is most likely to be disrupted.

Extends educational services and learning time in State institutions and community-day programs for neglected or delinquent children and youth. Encourages smooth transitions to enable participants to continue schooling or enter the job market upon leaving the institution. Supports programs in which school districts collaborate with locally operated correctional facilities to prepare youth in these facilities for high school completion, training, and employment and to operate dropout prevention programs.

Concentrates on upgrading the expertise of teachers and other school staff to enable them to teach all children to challenging State content standards. Supports sustained and intensive high-quality professional development, focused on achieving high performance standards in mathematics, science, and other core academic subjects.

Technology for Education of All Students: Creates a broad authority for challenge grants to develop and demonstrate technology to help all students meet challenging content standards, as well as for projects to design better technology-based learning tools and resources in the areas of literacy, English as a Second Language, and school-to-work transition.

Star Schools: Supports partnerships to provide distance learning services, equipment, and facilities and encourages national leadership activities.

Supports Goal Seven of the National Education Goals by encouraging comprehensive approaches to make schools and neighborhoods safe and drug-free. Provides funds to governors, State educational agencies (SEAs), LEAs, institutions of higher education, and nonprofit entities for a variety of drug and violence prevention programs.

Magnet Schools Assistance: Promotes desegregation through magnet school programs that are part of an approved desegregation plan and that attract students from different social, economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds with a distinctive curriculum.

Provides broad support for activities that encourage school reform and educational innovation.

Bilingual Education: Helps ensure that limited-English-proficient children have the same opportunities to achieve the same high performance standards as all other children. Builds local capacity to provide high-quality bilingual programs.

Immigrant Education: Supports LEAs that have had recent, significant increases in immigrant student populations, emphasizing transition services and coordination of education for immigrants with regular educational services.

Foreign Language Assistance: Assists State or local educational agencies in carrying out innovative model programs that establish, improve, or expand foreign language studies for elementary and secondary school students.

Provides financial assistance to LEAs whose local revenues or enrollments are adversely affected by federal activities, including the federal acquisition of real property, or the enrollment of children who reside on tax-exempt federal property or reside with a parent employed on tax-exempt federal property.

Indian Education: Supports LEA efforts to meet the special educational and culturally related academic needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives, so that these children can achieve the same challenging State standards expected of all students.

Native Hawaiians: Supports supplemental educational programs to assist Native Hawaiians in reaching the National Education Goals.

Javits Gifted and Talented Education: Supports State and local efforts to improve the education of gifted and talented students.

Public Charter Schools: Provides seed money for the development and initial implementation of public charter schools, in order to demonstrate how increased flexibility within public school systems can produce better results for children.

Other Title X programs include the Fund for the Improvement of Education; Civics Education; Arts Education; and Inexpensive Book Distribution.

Allows LEAs, schools, and consortia of schools to use 5 percent or less of the funds they receive under ESEA to develop, implement, or expand coordinated services that increase children's and parents' access to social, health, and educational services.

Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers: Builds a comprehensive, accessible network of 15 technical assistance centers that link schools, districts, States, and the U.S. Department of Education to improve access to and exchange of information and assistance about federal programs and school reform.

Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers: Builds a comprehensive, accessible network of 15 technical assistance centers that link schools, districts, States, and the U.S. Department of Education to improve access to and exchange of information and assistance about federal programs and school reform.

Provides a general waiver authority for federal education programs to allow flexibility in return for clear accountability for improved student performance. Authorizes consolidated plans and consolidation of administrative funds. Establishes uniform provisions governing maintenance of effort and equitable participation of private school students and teachers. Requires States receiving ESEA funds to have a State law mandating expulsion of students who bring weapons to school. Permits LEAs, with State approval, to use unneeded funds under any ESEA program (other than Title I, Part A) for another ESEA program.