Section 804-A. Comprehensive school health education demonstration program

1.    Within  the  amounts  appropriated,  the  commissioner  is  hereby
  authorized  to establish a demonstration program and to distribute state
  funds to local  school  districts,  boards  of  cooperative  educational
  services  and  in  certain instances community school districts, for the
  development, implementation, evaluation, validation,  demonstration  and
  replication  of  exemplary  comprehensive  health  education programs to
  assist the public schools in developing curricula, training  staff,  and
  addressing local health education needs of students, parents, and staff.
    2. School districts or BOCES may contract with appropriate agencies or
  organizations  to  participate  in  such  program. Such program shall be
  limited to health  education  at  the  elementary  level  and  shall  be
  designed  on  a  multi-year basis. Such program shall include but not be
  limited to the following components:
    a.  Developer  grants  for  comprehensive  school   health   education
  programs.
    (i)  Such  grants  shall  include the development, implementation, and
  evaluation of a comprehensive health education  program  including  such
  activities as:
    (A)  coordination  of health instruction with other available programs
  in the school and the community related to health education;
    (B) provision of inservice training and materials for elementary level
  school teachers in comprehensive health education;
    (C) development and implementation of evaluation procedures to measure
  students' knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes prior to and after
  project implementation; and
    (D)  development  and  implementation  of  a  mechanism  for   project
  maintenance and long-range programming.
    (ii)  Upon  successful  completion  of  the  above  activities and the
  availability of funds, such grant recipients  will  assist  other  local
  educational agencies with replication.
    b.  Health  education  regional  training  centers.  Regional training
  centers for the purpose of developing materials and  providing  training
  programs  to  meet the needs of teachers statewide in the implementation
  of comprehensive school health  education  programs  at  the  elementary
  level will be established.
    c.  Statewide advocacy for comprehensive health education. Development
  and  implementation  of  a  statewide  advocacy  program  to  create  an
  awareness  on  the  part of school administrators of the need to develop
  strategies  for  implementing  comprehensive  school  health   education
  programs at the elementary level.
    d.  Replication of validated health education programs. Grants will be
  awarded to local school districts or boards of  cooperative  educational
  services  for the replication of nationally or state-validated exemplary
  health education programs.