The Secretary awards grants to SEAs for projects offering technical assistance (including training) to school boards and other responsible governmental agencies, at their request, for desegregation assistance in the preparation, adoption, and implementation of desegregation plans. Desegregation assistance may include, among other activities:
(a)
Dissemination of information regarding effective methods of coping with special educational problems occasioned by desegregation;
(b)
Assistance and advice in coping with these problems; and
(c)
Training designed to improve the ability of teachers, supervisors, counselors, parents, community members, and other elementary or secondary school personnel to deal effectively with special educational problems occasioned by desegregation.
(Authority: 42 U.S.C.3000c-2)