(1) In general In order to help low-achieving children meet challenging achievement academic standards, each local educational agency plan shall include
(A) a description of high-quality student academic assessments, if any, that are in addition to the academic assessments described in the State plan under section
6311 (b)(3) of this title, that the local educational agency and schools served under this part will use
(i) to determine the success of children served under this part in meeting the State student academic achievement standards, and to provide information to teachers, parents, and students on the progress being made toward meeting the State student academic achievement standards described in section
6311 (b)(1)(D)(ii) of this title;
(ii) to assist in diagnosis, teaching, and learning in the classroom in ways that best enable low-achieving children served under this part to meet State student achievement academic standards and do well in the local curriculum;
(iii) to determine what revisions are needed to projects under this part so that such children meet the State student academic achievement standards; and
(iv) to identify effectively students who may be at risk for reading failure or who are having difficulty reading, through the use of screening, diagnostic, and classroom-based instructional reading assessments, as defined under section
6368 of this title;
(B) at the local educational agencys discretion, a description of any other indicators that will be used in addition to the academic indicators described in section
6311 of this title for the uses described in such section;
(C) a description of how the local educational agency will provide additional educational assistance to individual students assessed as needing help in meeting the States challenging student academic achievement standards;
(D) a description of the strategy the local educational agency will use to coordinate programs under this part with programs under subchapter II of this chapter to provide professional development for teachers and principals, and, if appropriate, pupil services personnel, administrators, parents and other staff, including local educational agency level staff in accordance with sections
6318 and
6319 of this title;
(E) a description of how the local educational agency will coordinate and integrate services provided under this part with other educational services at the local educational agency or individual school level, such as
(i) Even Start, Head Start, Reading First, Early Reading First, and other preschool programs, including plans for the transition of participants in such programs to local elementary school programs; and
(ii) services for children with limited English proficiency, children with disabilities, migratory children, neglected or delinquent youth, Indian children served under part A of subchapter VII of this chapter, homeless children, and immigrant children in order to increase program effectiveness, eliminate duplication, and reduce fragmentation of the instructional program;
(F) an assurance that the local educational agency will participate, if selected, in the State National Assessment of Educational Progress in 4th and 8th grade reading and mathematics carried out under section
9622 (b)(2) of this title;
(G) a description of the poverty criteria that will be used to select school attendance areas under section
6313 of this title;
(H) a description of how teachers, in consultation with parents, administrators, and pupil services personnel, in targeted assistance schools under section
6315 of this title, will identify the eligible children most in need of services under this part;
(I) a general description of the nature of the programs to be conducted by such agencys schools under sections
6314 and
6315 of this title and, where appropriate, educational services outside such schools for children living in local institutions for neglected or delinquent children, and for neglected and delinquent children in community day school programs;
(J) a description of how the local educational agency will ensure that migratory children and formerly migratory children who are eligible to receive services under this part are selected to receive such services on the same basis as other children who are selected to receive services under this part;
(K) if appropriate, a description of how the local educational agency will use funds under this part to support preschool programs for children, particularly children participating in Early Reading First, or in a Head Start or Even Start program, which services may be provided directly by the local educational agency or through a subcontract with the local Head Start agency designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section
9836 of title
42, or an agency operating an Even Start program, an Early Reading First program, or another comparable public early childhood development program;
(L) a description of the actions the local educational agency will take to assist its low-achieving schools identified under section
6316 of this title as in need of improvement;
(M) a description of the actions the local educational agency will take to implement public school choice and supplemental services, consistent with the requirements of section
6316 of this title;
(N) a description of how the local educational agency will meet the requirements of section
6319 of this title;
(O) a description of the services the local educational agency will provide homeless children, including services provided with funds reserved under section
6313 (c)(3)(A) of this title;
(P) a description of the strategy the local educational agency will use to implement effective parental involvement under section
6318 of this title; and
(Q) where appropriate, a description of how the local educational agency will use funds under this part to support after school (including before school and summer school) and school-year extension programs.