Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 2.djvu/880

 92 STAT. 2160

PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978 especially high concentrations of children from low-income families to enable local educational agencies in such counties to provide more effective programs of instruction, especially in the basic skills of reading, writing, and mathematics, to meet the special educational needs of educationally deprived children. "(b)

ELIGIBILITY FOR AND A M O U N T OF SPKCIAL G R A N T S. — (1)

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county, in a State other than Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which is eligible for a g r a n t under this title for any fiscal year shall be entitled to an additional g r a n t under this section for that fiscal year if— " (A) the number of children counted under section 111(c) of this title for local educational agemnos in such county for the pre; ceding fiscal year exceeds five thousand, or " (B) the number of children counted under section 111(c) exceeds 20 per centum of the total number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, in the school districts of local educational agencies in such county in that fiscal year, except that no such State shall receive less than one-quarter of 1 per centum of the sums appropriated under subsection (d) for such section for such fiscal year. " (2) For each county in which there are local educational agencies eligible to receive an additional grant under this section for any fiscal year the Commissioner shall determine the product of— " (A) the number of children in excess of five thousand counted under section 111(c) for the preceding fiscal year or the number of children counted under that section in excess of 20 per centum of the total number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, in the school districts of local educational agencies in such county for that preceding fiscal year, whichever is greater, and " (B) the quotient resulting from the division of the amount determined for those agencies under section 1 1 1 (a)(2) of this title for the fiscal year for which the determination is being made divided by the total number of children counted under section 111 (c) for that agency for the preceding fiscal year. " (3) The amount of the additional grant to which an eligible county is entitled under this section for any fiscal year shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount appropriated under subsection (d) for that fiscal year as the product determined under paragraph (2) for such county for that fiscal year bears to the sum of such products for all counties in the United States for that fiscal year. " (4) For the purposes of this section, the Commissioner shall determine the number of children counted under section 111(c) for any county, and the total number of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, in school districts of local educational agencies in such county, on the basis of the most recent satisfactory data available at the time the entitlement for such county is determined under section 111. " (5) Funds allocated to counties under this part shall be allocated by the State educational agency, pursuant to regulations established by the Commissioner, among the several local educational agencies whose school districts lie (in whole or in part) within the county on the basis of the current distribution in the county of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, from low-income families (using a poverty level selected by the State educational agency consistent with

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