Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 2.djvu/882

 92 STAT. 2162

PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978

from low-income families. A local educational agency may carry on a program or project assisted under this title in an eligible school attendance area only if it also carries on such program or project in all other eligible school attendance areas which are ranked higher under the first sentence. A local educational agency may designate any school attendance area in which at least 25 per centum of the children are from low-income families as an eligible school attendance area if the aggregate amount expended under this title and under a State program meeting the requirements of section 131(c) in that fiscal year in each school attendance area of that agency in which projects assisted under this title were carried out in the preceding
 * 5;.; ' fiscal year equals or exceeds the amount expended from those sources

in that area in such preceding fiscal year. The same measure of low income, which shall be chosen by the local educational agency and which may be a composite of several indicators, shall be used with respect to all such areas, both to identify the areas having high concentrations of children from low-income families and to determine the ranking of each area. "(2)(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), in the selection of eligible school attendance areas, a local educational agency may, subject to the requirements of subparagraph (B), choose to rank all its school attendance areas as provided in paragraph (1) and also rank all its school attendance areas according to educational deprivation, and then serve all its school attendance areas ranked according to paragraph (1) in the order of their ranking under such paragraph unless another school attendance area ranked according to education deprivation has a substantially greater number or a substantially greater percentage of educationally deprived children, in which case such school attendance area may be served before service is provided to other school attendance areas ranked pursuant to paragraph (1) which have a substantially smaller number or substantially smaller percentage of educationally deprived children. In the event that a local educational agency chooses to exercise the option provided under this paragraph, it shall not serve any more school attendance areas than the number identified pursuant to paragraph (1). "(B) Any local educational agency desiring to use the alternative ranking system described in subparagraph (A) shall, with the consent of the districtwide parent advisory council of that agency, apply for permission to use such system to the State educational agency of the State wherein such local educational agency is located. Such application shall be approved by such State educational agency only if such State educational agency finds that the use of such alternative ranking system will not substantially impair the delivery of compensatory education services to educationally deprived children from low-income families in project areas served by such local educational agency. Whenever a school district exercises the option •'*''* under this paragraph and actually serves one or more school attendance areas ranked under this paragraph, none of the areas so ranked but not served shall be considered to be eligible school attendance areas under this title. "(b) USE or ENROLLMENT DATA IN CERTAIN SCHOOLS.—^A local educational agency may use funds received under this title for educationally deprived children who are in a school of such agency which is not located in an eligible school attendance area, but at which the proportion of children in actual average daily attendance who are

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