; and (5) to enter into cooperative agreements, contracts, or grants (or other arrangements which may be permitted by the Secretary) with nonprofit organizations possessing demonstrable expertise and experience serving students with visual disabilities or the professionals trained to work with such students, institutions of higher education, State educational agencies, local educational agencies, public and private specialized schools serving students with visual disabilities, and consortia of such entities, for the purpose of carrying out activities authorized in this subsection that are not otherwise directly conducted, in whole or in part, by the Anne Sullivan Macy Center. 214. Relationship to other programs and activities (a) Maximizing resources No funds made available pursuant to this subtitle may be used to fund programs or activities otherwise concurrently funded under part D of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (b) Coordination of research The Secretary shall ensure that research activities authorized and carried out pursuant to this title are conducted or funded in coordination as appropriate with the National Center for Special Education Research and other divisions within the Department of Education responsible for research activities. (c) Relationship to services offered by the American printing house for the blind Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to limit or otherwise condition the use of any funds appropriated pursuant to the Act entitled An Act to Promote the Education of the Blind , approved March 3, 1879 ( 20 U.S.C. 101 et seq.), and no funds made available pursuant to this subtitle shall be used by any State educational agency or local educational agency to supplant the use of funds appropriated under such Act. (d) Relationship to funding for National Center on Deaf-Blindness, State deaf-Blind projects, and the Helen Keller National Center The Secretary shall ensure that any activities conducted or funded by the Anne Sullivan Macy Center directly serving individuals