Summary of the Improving America's Schools Act

President Clinton signed the Improving America's Schools Act, which reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for five years, on Oct. 20. The law authorizes about $11 billion in fiscal 1995 for most federal K-12 education programs and enacts program changes that are considered the most significant since the E.S.E.A. was first passed in 1965.

Following is a title-by-title narrative summary of the law.

Authorizes $7.4 billion for the Title I compensatory-education program; $118 million for Even Start; $310 million for the education of migratory children; $40 million for a program assisting neglected, delinquent, and at-risk youths; and $41.4 million to assist districts in serving eligible private school students. States may reserve 0.5 percent of their Title I, migratory, and at-risk...