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22 U.S.C. § 2452c — Program to provide grants to American-sponsored schools in predominantly Muslim countries to provide scholarships
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**(a) Findings** Congress makes the following findings:
(1) During the 2003–2004 school year, the Office of Overseas Schools of the Department of State is financially assisting 189 elementary and secondary schools in foreign countries.
(2) United States-sponsored elementary and secondary schools are located in more than 20 countries with predominantly Muslim populations in the Near East, Africa, South Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia.
(3) United States-sponsored elementary and secondary schools provide an American-style education in English, with curricula that typically include an emphasis on the development of critical thinking and analytical skills.
**(b) Statement of policy** The United States has an interest in increasing the level of financial support provided to United States-sponsored elementary and secondary schools in countries with predominantly Muslim populations in order to—
(1) increase the number of students in such countries who attend such schools;
(2) increase the number of young people who may thereby gain at any early age an appreciation for the culture, society, and history of the United States; and
(3) increase the number of young people who may thereby improve their proficiency in the English language.
**(c) Program** The Secretary of State, acting through the Director of the Office of Overseas Schools of the Department of State, may conduct a program to make grants to United States-sponsored elementary and secondary schools in countries with predominantly Muslim populations for the purpose of providing full or partial merit-based scholarships to students from lower-income and middle-income families of such countries to attend such schools.
**(d) Determination of eligible students** For purposes of the program, a United States-sponsored
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**(a) Findings** Congress makes the following findings:
(1) During the 2003–2004 school year, the Office of Overseas Schools of the Department of State is financially assisting 189 elementary and secondary schools in foreign countries.
(2) United States-sponsored elementary and secondary schools are located in more than 20 countries with predominantly Muslim populations in the Near East, Africa, South Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia.
(3) United States-sponsored elementary and secondary schools provide an American-style education in English, with curricula that typically include an emphasis on the development of critical thinking and analytical skills.
**(b) Statement of policy** The United States has an interest in increasing the level of financial support provided to United States-sponsored elementary and secondary schools in countries with predominantly Muslim populations in order to—
(1) increase the number of students in such countries who attend such schools;
(2) increase the number of young people who may thereby gain at any early age an appreciation for the culture, society, and history of the United States; and
(3) increase the number of young people who may thereby improve their proficiency in the English language.
**(c) Program** The Secretary of State, acting through the Director of the Office of Overseas Schools of the Department of State, may conduct a program to make grants to United States-sponsored elementary and secondary schools in countries with predominantly Muslim populations for the purpose of providing full or partial merit-based scholarships to students from lower-income and middle-income families of such countries to attend such schools.
**(d) Determination of eligible students** For purposes of the program, a United States-sponsored elementary and secondary school that receives a grant under the program may establish criteria to be implemented by such school to determine what constitutes lower-income and middle-income families in the country (or region of the country, if regional variations in income levels in the country are significant) in which such school is located.
**(e) Restriction on use of funds** Amounts appropriated to the Secretary of State pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in subsection (h) shall be used for the sole purpose of making grants under this section, and may not be used for the administration of the Office of Overseas Schools of the Department of State or for any other activity of the Office.
**(f) Voluntary participation** Nothing in this section shall be construed to require participation in the program by a United States-sponsored elementary or secondary school in a predominantly Muslim country.
**(g) Report** Not later than April 15, 2006, and April 15, 2008, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on the program. The report shall assess the success of the program, examine any obstacles encountered in its implementation, and address whether it should be continued, and if so, provide recommendations to increase its effectiveness.
**(h) Funding** There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State for each of the fiscal years 2007 and 2008, unless otherwise authorized by Congress, such sums as necessary to implement the program under this section.
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**(a) Grants or contracts for educational or cultural exchanges; participation in international fairs and expositions abroad** The Director of the United States Information Agency is authorized, when he considers that it would strengthen international cooperative relations, to provide, by grant, contract, or otherwise, for—
(1) educational exchanges, (i) by financing studies, research, instruction, and other educational activities—
(A) of or for American citizens and nationals in foreign countries, and
(B) of or for citizens and nationals of foreign countries in American schools and institutions of learning located in or outside the United States;
and (ii) by financing visits and interchanges between the United States and other countries of students, trainees, teachers, instructors, and professors;
(2) cultural exchanges, by financing—
(i) visits and interchanges between the United States and other countries of leaders, experts in fields of specialized knowledge or skill, and other influential or distinguished persons;
(ii) tours in countries abroad by creative and performing artists and athletes from the United States, individually and in groups, representing any field of the arts, sports, or any other form of cultural attainment;
(iii) United States representation in international artistic, dramatic, musical, sports, and other cultural festivals, competitions, meetings, and like exhibitions and assemblies; and
(iv) participation by groups and individuals from other countries in nonprofit activities in the United States, including in coordination and consultation with the private sector, similar to those described in subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, when the Director of the United States Information Agency determines that such parti
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 2452c
summarizing all such activities not later than 1
year after the closure of the pavilion or exhibit.
(Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title
II, § 204], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–420;
Pub. L. 115–32, § 5(b), May 8, 2017, 131 Stat. 844.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section is comprised of section 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title
II, § 204] of div. B of Pub. L. 106–113. Subsec. (e) of sec-
tion 204 of title II of section 1000(a)(7) of Pub. L. 106–113
repealed section 230 of Pub. L. 103–236 which was classi-
fied as a note under section 2452 of this title.
Section was enacted as part of the Admiral James W.
Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign Relations Authoriza-
tion Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001, and not as part of
the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of
1961 which comprises this chapter.
AMENDMENTS
2017—Subsec. (b)(1)(C). Pub. L. 115–32 inserted before
period at end ‘‘, except that no employees of the De-
partment of State may, in their official capacity, so-
licit funds to pay expenses for a United States pavilion
or other major exhibit at any international exposition
or world’s fair registered by the Bureau of Inter-
national Expositions’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
DEFINITIONS
In subsecs. (c) and (d), ‘‘appropriate congressional
committees’’ means the Committee on International
Relations (now Committee on Foreign Affairs) of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on For-
eign Relations of the Senate, see section 1000(a)(7)
[§ 3(1)] of Pub. L. 106–113, set out as a note under section
2651 of this title.
UNITED STATES COMPETITION FOR A WORLD EXPO
Pub. L. 115–32, May 8, 2017, 131 Stat. 843, provided
that:
‘‘SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
‘‘Th
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