Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 2.djvu/881

 PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978

92 STAT. 2161

the purposes of this title) as determined on the basis of the available data which such State educational agency determines best to reflect the current distribution in the county of children aged five to seventeen, inclusive, from low-income families, except that in determining the number of such children in any local educational agency in which less than 20 per centum of the children are from low-income families, each such child shall be counted as a fraction in which the numerator is the percentage of low-income children in the school district of that agency and the denominator is 20. "(c) PAYMENTS; USE or FUNDS.— (1) The total amount to which the counties in a State are entitled under this section for any fiscal year shall be added to the amount paid to that State under section 191 for Post, p. 2195. such year. From the amount paid to it under this section, the State shall distribute to local educational agencies in each county of the State the amount (if any) to which it is entitled under this section. "(2) The amount paid to a local educational agency under this section shall be used by that agency for activities undertaken pursuant to its application submitted under section 121 and shall be subject to the other requirements in subpart 3 of this part. "(d) APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this section $400,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the four succeeding fiscal years. "Subpart 3—Program Kequirements and Applications 'LOCAL PROGRAM APPLICATION

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"SEC. 121; A local educational agency ma^ receive a grant under 20 USC 2731. this title for any fiscal year if it has on file with the State educational agency a current application, approved by the State educational agency, describing the programs and projects to be conducted with assistance provided under this title for a period of not to exceed three fiscal years, including the fiscal year for which the grant is to be made. Such an application may be amended at any time to describe changes in or additions to the activities originally set forth in the application. An application or amendment thereto shall be approved by the State educational agency upon its determination that the application provides for the use of such funds in a manner which meets the requirements of this subpart and is consistent with the assurances contained in the general application required by section 436 of the General Education Provisions Act, subject to such basic criteria as 20 USC 1232e. the Commissioner may prescribe. a DESIGNATING SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREAS

122. (a) GENERAL PROVISIONS.— (1) Except as provided in 20 USC 2732. paragraph (2) and subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this section, a local educational agency shall use funds received under this title in school attendance areas having high concentrations of children from low-income families (hereinafter referred to as 'eligible school attendance areas'), and where funds under this title are insufficent to provide programs and projects for all educationally deprived children in eligible school attendance areas, a local educational agency shall annually rank its eligible school attendance areas from highest to lowest, according to relative degree of concentration of children "SEC.

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