Elementary and Secondary Education Act

The Act defines a local educational agency as (A) any LEA as defined in 5 14101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, (B) the owner of any private, nonprofit elementary or secondary school building, and (C) the governing authority of any school operated under the defense dependents education system. 15 U.S.C. 2641(7). 

I) a local educadonal agency (as defined in section 7801 of Title 20 [the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of1965], or (II) an edncation association which principally represents anploy-ees of 1 or more agencies described in snbclause (I) and which is described in section 501(c) (5) or (6) of Title 26 [the Internal Revenue Code of 1986] and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of Title 26 [the Internal Revenue Code of1986], and... 

Local educational agencies are defined by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 as follows (Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 2011) ... 

Skinner, R. R., and McCalhon, G. (2008). School and Campus Srrfety Programs and Requirements in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Higher Education Act. Congressional Research Service, Washington, D.C. 

U.S. Department of Education. (2010a). A Blueprint for Reforming the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C. 

This chapter concludes with descriptions of two federal consensus reports critical to children s school-based mental health and the newly reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Each contains sections pivoted to the advancement of school-based mental health for children and adolescents. Given the recency of mlease of the reports and passage of the legislation, however, their potential is largely untapped. 

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (H.R. 1), which was signed into Public Law No. 107-110 in January 2002, is the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which had been previously reauthorized in 1994. In particular. Titles IV and V contain sections with high relevance to school mental health (No Child Left Behind Act, 2001). 

The concepts of service learning and engaged universities have come into the educational lexicon in recent years. The possibility to volunteer with service organisations, to shadow potential employers or to contribute in numerous ways to the community can broaden the learning experience and give students contacts in the real world that could be useful later. In 2003 an environmental art project in Lincoln, Nebraska, was initiated with secondary school students acting as teachers and resource people for elementary students both groups found... 

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