PART II-ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION PROGRAMS

TITLE I OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN OF LOW-INCOME FAMILIES

DECLARATION OF POLICY

SEC. 201. In recognition of the special educational needs of children of low-income families and the impact that concentrations of lowincome families have on the ability of local educational agencies to support adequate educational programs, the Congress hereby declares it to be the policy of the United States to provide financial assistance (as set forth in this title) to local educational agencies serving areas with concentrations of children from low-income families to expand and improve their educational programs by various means (including preschool programs) which contribute particularly to meeting the special educational needs of educationally deprived children.

(20 U.S.C. 241a) Enacted April 11, 1965, P.L. 89-10, Title I, sec. 2, 79 Stat. 27.

DURATION OF ASSISTANCE

SEC. 202. The Commissioner shall, in accordance with the provisions of this title, make payments to State educational agencies for grants to local educational agencies for the period beginning July 1, 1965, and ending June 30, 1968.

(20 U.S.C. 241b) Enacted April 11, 1965, P.L. 89–10, Title I, sec. 2, 79 Stat. 27; amended Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, sec. 101, 80 Stat. 1191.

GRANTS-AMOUNT AND ELIGIBILITY

SEC. 203. (a) (1) (A) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year for the purpose of this paragraph an amount equal to not more than 3 per centum of the amount appropriated for such year for payments to States under section 207 (a) (other than payments under such section to jurisdictions excluded from the term "State" by this subsection). The Commissioner shall allot the amount appropriated pursuant to this paragraph among Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, The Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands according to their respective need for such grants. In addition he shall allot from such amount to the Secretary of the Interior the amount necessary to make payments pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, and for the fiscal year ending June 30,

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1967, the amount necessary to meet the special educational needs of educationally deprived children on reservations serviced by elementary and secondary schools operated for Indian children by the Department of the Interior. The maximum grant which a local educational agency in Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be eligible to receive and the terms upon which payment shall be made to the Department of the Interior shall be determined pursuant to such criteria as the Commissioner determines will best carry out the purposes of this title.

(B) The terms on which payment shall be made to the Department of the Interior shall include provision for payments by the Secretary of the Interior to local educational agencies with respect to out-ofState Indian children in the elementary or secondary schools of such agencies under special contracts with that Department. The amount of any such payment may not exceed, for each such child, one-half the average per pupil expenditure in the State in which the agency is located.

(2) In any case in which the Commissioner determines that satisfactory data for that purpose are available, the maximum grant which a local educational agency in a State shall be eligible to receive under this title for any fiscal year shall be (except as provided in paragraph (3)) an amount equal to the Federal percentage (established pursuant to subsection (c)) of the average per pupil expenditure in that State [or, if greater, in the United States (which for the purposes of this and the last sentence of this paragraph means the fifty States and the District of Columbia) 1] multiplied by the number of children in the school district of such agency who are aged five to seventeen, inclusive, and are (A) in families having an annual income of less than the lowincome factor (established pursuant to subsection (c)), (B) in families receiving an annual income in excess of the low-income factor (established pursuant to subsection (c)) from payments under the program of aid to families with dependent children under a State plan approved under title IV of the Social Security Act, or (C) living in institutions for neglected or delinquent children but not counted pursuant to paragraph (5) of this subsection for the purpose of a grant to a State agency, or being supported in foster homes with public funds. In any other case, the maximum grant for any local educational agency in a State shall be determined on the basis of the aggregate maximum amount of such grants for all such agencies in the county or counties in which the school district of the particular agency is located, which aggregate maximum amount shall be equal to the Federal percentage of such per pupil expenditure multiplied by the number of children of such ages in such county or counties who are described in clauses (A), (B), or (C) of the previous sentence, and shall be allocated among those agencies upon such equitable basis as may be determined by the State educational agency in accordance with basic criteria prescribed by the Commissioner. For purposes of this subsection, the "average per pupil expenditure" in a State, or in the United States, shall be the aggregate current expenditures, during the second fiscal

1 Effective for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968.

year preceding the fiscal year for which the computation is made, of all local educational agencies as defined in section 303 (6) (A) in the State, or in the United States, as the case may be, plus any direct current expenditures by the State for operation of such agencies (without regard to the sources of funds from which either of such expenditures are made), divided by the aggregate number of children în average daily attendance to whom such agencies provided free public education during such preceding year.

(3) (A) If the maximum amount of the grant determined pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) for any local educational agency for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, is greater than 50 per centum of the sum budgeted by that agency for current expenditures for that year (as determined pursuant to regulations of the Commissioner), such maximum amount shall be reduced to 50 per centum of such budgeted sum. (B) In the case of local educational agencies which serve in whole or in part the same geographical area, and in the case of a local educational agency which provides free public education for a substantial number of children who reside in the school district of another local educational agency, the State educational agency may allocate the amount of the maximum grants for those agencies among them in sumh manner as it determines will best carry out the purposes of this title.

(4) For purposes of this subsection, the term "State" does not include Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

(5) In the case of a State agency which is directly responsible for providing free public education for handicapped children (including mentally retarded, hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, crippled, or other health impaired children who by reason thereof require special education), the maximum grant which that agency shall be eligible to receive under this title for any fiscal year shall be an amount equal to the Federal percentage of the average per pupil expenditure in that State [or, if greater, in the United States (which for the purposes of this sentence means the fifty States and the District of Columbia,2] multiplied by the number of such children in average daily attendance, as determined by the Commissioner, at schools for handicapped children operated or supported by that State agency, in the most recent fiscal year for which satisfactory data are available. Such State agency shall use payments under this title only for programs and projects (including the acquisition of equipment and where necessary the construction of school facilities) which are designed to meet the special educational needs of such children.

(6) A State educational agency which has submitted and had approved an application under section 205 (c) for any fiscal year shall be entitled to receive a grant for that year under this title for establishing or improving programs for migratory children of migratory agricultural workers. The maximum total of grants which shall be available for use in any State for any fiscal year shall be an amount equal to the Federal percentage of the average per pupil expenditure in the United

2 Effective for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968.

States multiplied by (A) the estimated number of such migratory children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, who reside in the State full time, and (B) the full-time equivalent of the estimated number of such migratory children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, who reside in the State part time, as determined by the Commissioner in accordance with regulations. For purposes of this paragraph, the "average per pupil expenditure" in the United States shall be the aggregate current expenditures, during the second fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which the computation is made, of all local educational agencies (as defined in section 303 (6) (A)) in the United States (including only the fifty States and the District of Columbia), plus any direct current expenditures by States for operation of local educational agencies (without regard to the sources of funds from which either of such expenditures are made), divided by the aggregate number of children in average daily attendance to whom such agencies provided free public education during such preceding year.

(7) In the case of a State agency which is directly responsible for providing free public education for children in institutions for neglected or delinquent children, the maximum grant which that agency shall be eligible to receive under this title for any fiscal year shall be an amount equal to the Federal percentage of the average per pupil expenditure in that State multiplied by the number of such children in average daily attendance, as determined by the Commissioner, at schools for such children operated or supported by that State agency in the most recent fiscal year for which satisfactory data are available. Such State agency shall use payments under this title only for programs and projects (including the acquisition of equipment and where necessary the construction of school facilities) which are designed to meet the special educational needs of such children.

(b) A focal educational agency shall be eligible for a grant for a fiscal year under this title only if it meets the following requirements with respect to the number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, described in clauses (A), (B), and (C) of the first sentence of paragraph (2) of subsection (a):

(1) In any case (except as provided in paragraph (3)) in which the Commissioner determines that satisfactory data for the purpose of this subsection as to the number of such children are available on a school district basis, the number of such children in the school district of such local educational agency shall be at least ten.

(2) In any other case, except as provided in paragraph (3), the number of such children in the county which includes such local educational agency's school district shall be at least ten.

(3) In any case in which a county includes a part of the school district of the local educational agency concerned and the Commissioner has not determined that satisfactory data for the purpose of this subsection are available on a school district basis for all the local educational agencies for all the counties into which the school district of the local educational agency concerned extends, the eligibility requirement with respect to the number of such children for such local educational agency shall be deter

mined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Commissioner for the purposes of this subsection.

(c) For the purposes of this section, the "Federal percentage" shall be 50 per centum and the "low-income factor" shall be $2,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, they shall be 50 per centum and $3,000, respectively.

(d) For the purposes of this section, the Commissioner shall determine the number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, of families having an annual income of less than the low-income factor (as established pursuant to subsection (c) on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available from the Department of Commerce. At any time such data for a county are available in the Department of Commerce, such data shall be used in making calculations under this section. The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall determine the number of children of such ages from families receiving an annual income in excess of the low-income factor from payments under the program of aid to families with dependent children under a State plan approved under title IV of the Social Security Act, and the number of children of such ages living in institutions for neglected or delinquent children, or being supported in foster homes with public funds, on the basis of the latest calendar or fiscal year data, whichever is later. When requested by the Commissioner, the Secretary of Commerce shall make a special estimate of the number of children of such ages who are from families having an annual income less than the low-income factor (establish pursuant to subsection (c)) in each county or school district, and the Commissioner is authorized to pay (either in advance or by way of reimbursement) the Secretary of Commerce the cost of making this special estimate. The Secretary of Commerce shall give consideration to any request of the chief executive of a State for the collection of additional census information.

(20 U.S.C. 241c) Enacted April 11, 1965, P.L. 89-10, Title I, sec. 2, 79 Stat. 28; amended July 21, 1965, P.L. 89-77, sec. 3, 79 Stat. 243; amended Nov. 1, 1965, P.L. 89-313, sec. 6(a), 79 Stat. 1161; amended Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, secs. 102, 103(a), 104-107, 113(b), 80 Stat. 1191–1198.

SPECIAL INCENTIVE GRANTS

SEC. 204. (REPEALED)

(20 U.S.C. 241d) Enacted April 11, 1965, P.L. 89-10, Title I, sec. 2, 79 Stat. 30; repealed Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, sec. 108, 80 Stat. 1195.

APPLICATION

SEC. 205. (a) A local educational agency may receive a grant under this title for any fiscal year only upon application therefor approved by the appropriate State educational agency, upon it determination (consistent with such basic criteria as the Commissioner may establish)

(1) that payments under this title will be used for programs and projects (including the acquisition of equipment, and, where necessary, the construction of school facilities and plans made or to be made for such programs, projects, and facilities) (A) which