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79 Stat. 56; 81 Stat. 816. 20 USC 881.

PUBLIC LAW 91-230-APR. 13, 1970

[84 STAT.

"(e) The term 'local educational agency' means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or such combination of school districts or counties as are recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary or secondary schools, except that, if there is a separate board or other legally constituted local authority having administrative control and direction of adult education in public schools therein, such term means such other board or authority. "(f) The term 'State' includes the District of Columbia, and (except for the purposes of section 305(a)) the Commonwealth of Puerto Hico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific islands, and the Virgin Islands. " (g) The term 'State educational agency' means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or if there is a separate State agency or officer primarily responsible for supervision of adult education in public schools then such agency or officer may be designated for the purpose of this title by the Governor or by State law. If no agency or officer qualifies under the preceding sentence, such term shall mean an appropriate agency or officer designated for the purposes of this title by the Governor. " (h) The term 'academic education' means the theoretical, the liberal, the speculative, and classical subject matter found to compose the curriculum of the public secondary school. "(i) The term 'institution of higher education' means any such institution as defined by section 801(e) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. "GRANTS TO STATJ:S FOR ADULT EDUCATION

"SEC. 304. (a) From the sums appropriated pursuant to section 312, not less than 10 per centum nor more than 20 per centum shall be reserved for the purposes of section 309. "(b) From the remainder of such sums, the Commissioner is authorized to make grants to States, which have State plans approved by him under section 306 for the purposes of this section, to pay the Federal share of the cost of (1) the establishment or expansion of adult basic education programs to be carried out by local educational agencies and private nonprofit agencies, and (2) the estaliishment or expansion of adult education programs to be carried out by local educational agencies and private nonprofit agencies. ii

ALLOTMENT

FOR ADULT

EDUCATION

"SEC. 305. (a) From the sums available for purposes of section 304(b) for any fiscal year, the Commissioner shall allot (1) not more than 2 per centum thereof among Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands according to their respective needs for assistance under such section, and (2) $150,000 to each State. From the remainder of such sums he shall allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to such remainder as the number of adults who do not have a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education (or its equivalent) and who are not currently required to be enrolled in schools in such State bears to the number of such adults in all States. " (b) The portion of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for a fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required, for the period such allotment is available, for carrying out the State

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