[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR280.1]

[Page 556]
 
                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
              SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 280--MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 280.1  What is the Magnet Schools Assistance Program?


    The Magnet Schools Assistance Program provides grants to eligible 
local educational agencies (LEAs) or consortia of LEAs for use in magnet 
schools that are part of an approved desegregation plan and that are 
designed to bring students from different social, economic, ethnic and 
racial backgrounds together. The purposes of the program are to support, 
through financial assistance to eligible LEAs or consortia of LEAs,:
    (a) The elimination, reduction, or prevention of minority group 
isolation in elementary and secondary schools with substantial portions 
of minority students;
    (b) The development and implementation of magnet school projects 
that will assist LEAs in achieving systemic reforms and providing all 
students the opportunity to meet challenging State content standards and 
challenging State performance standards;
    (c) The development and design of innovative educational methods and 
practices; and
    (d) Courses of instruction within magnet schools that will 
substantially strengthen the knowledge of academic subjects and the 
grasp of tangible and marketable vocational skills of students attending 
such schools.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7202)

[51 FR 20414, June 4, 1986, as amended at 60 FR 14865, Mar. 20, 1995]