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 PUBLIC LAW 100-297—APR. 28, 1988

102 STAT. 295

(c) SPECIAL RULES.—(1) Section 3(d)(2)(B)(i) of the Act is amended to 20 USC 238. read as follows: "(i) the amount of payment resulting from paragraph (1), as is otherwise provided in this subsection with respect to any local educational agency for any fiscal year, together with the funds available to such agency from State and local sources and from other sections of this title, determined in accordance with subparagraph (E), is less than the amount necessary to enable such agency to provide a level of education equivalent to the State average during the preceding fiscal year or to the average of that maintained during the preceding fiscal year in three or more of the school districts of the State which are generally comparable to the school district of such agency, whichever is higher, increased or decreased, as the case may be, in the same percentage as the cost of such level of education increased or decreased from the second preceding fiscal year to the prior fiscal year;". (2) Section 3(d)(2)(B) of the Act is amended by inserting after the first sentence the following new sentences: "The increase computed Taxes, under this subparagraph shall be sufficient to allow the school district of the local educational agency to provide a level of education (calculated in accordance with this subparagraph) equal to the average of the three comparable districts in the State or the State average, whichever is greater, as described in clause (i). For the purpose of clause (ii), the Secretary shall determine that a reasonable tax effort has been made if the tax rate of the agency in the year for which the determination is made is an amount that is at least equal to 80 percent of the average tax rate for general fund purposes of comparable school districts for such fiscal year. Coterminous military districts shall be deemed to meet the requirement of such reasonable tax effort. Except for coterminous military districts, payments made to any agency under this subparagraph in any fiscal year shall be reduced by the percentage that the average tax rate for operational purposes of the comparable school districts or, if none, the State average tax rate, exceeds the tax rate of such agency.". (3) Section 3(d)(2)(E) of the Act is amended to read as follows: "(E) For the purpose of subparagraph (B)(i) of this paragraph— "(i) available funds may not include any cash balance at the end of a year allowed under State law; or "(ii) whenever no State law governing cash balance exists, available funds may not include 30 percent of the local educational agency's operating costs.". (d) DISTRICTS WITH UNUSUAL GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS.—(1) Section 3(d)(3)(B)(ii) of the Act is amended by striking out "is authorized to" and inserting in lieu thereof "shall". (2) Section 3(d)(3KB)(ii) of the Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "The amount of any such supplementary payment may not exceed the per pupil share (computed with regard to all children in average daily attendance), as determined by the Secretary, of the increased current expenditures necessitated by such unusual geographical factors.". (e) COTERMINOUS AGENCY RULE.—Section 3(h)

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