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 PUBLIC LAW 97-35—AUG. 13, 1981

95 STAT. 469

(d) EXCLUSION OP SPECIAL STATE AND LOCAL PROGRAM FUNDS.—For

the purposes of determining compliance with the requirements of subsections (b) and (c), a locm educational agency may exclude State and local funds expended for carrying out special programs to meet the educational needs of educationmly deprived children, if such programs are consistent with the purposes of this chapter. (e) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS IN CERTAIN STATES.—In any State in which a large number of local educational ^encies overlap county boundaries, the State educational agency is authorized to make allocations of basic grants and special incentive grants directly to local educational agencies without regard to counties, if such allocations were made during fiscal year 1982, except that (1) precisely the same factors are used to determine the amount of such grants to counties, and (2) a local educational agency dissatisfied with such determination is afforded an opportunity for a hearing on the matter by the State educational agency. CHAPTER 2—CONSOLIDATION OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

SEC. 561. (a) It is the purpose of this chapter to consolidate the program authorizations contained in— (1) titles II, m, IV, V, VI, Vm, and IX (except part C) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (2) the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Act; (3) part A and section 532 of title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965; (4) the Follow Through Act (on a phased basis); (5) section 3(a)(1) of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 relating to precoUege science teacher training; and (6) the Career Education Incentive Act; into a single authorization of grants to States for the same purposes set forth in the provisions of law specified in this sentence, but to be used in accordance with the educational needs and priorities of State and local educational agencies as determined by such agencies. It is the further purpose and intent of Congress to financially assist State and local educational agencies to improve elementary and secondary education (including preschool education) for children attendiag both public and private schools, and to do so in a manner designed to greatly reduce the enormous administrative and paperwork burden imposed on schools at the expense of their ability to educate children, (b) The basic responsibility for the administration of funds made available under this chapter is in the State educational agencies, but it is the intent of Congress that this responsibility be carried out with a minimum of paperwork and that the responsibility for the design and implementation of programs assisted under the chapter shall be mainly that of local educational agencies, school superintendents and principals, and classroom teachers and supporting personnel, because they have the most direct contact with students and are most directly responsible to parents.

20 USC 38ii. 20 USC 2881 2941,3081,3i4i, 334}' '^'^^' ^^^^' 21 USC 1001 note^ 20 USC 1101, Post% 568 42 u ^ 1862. 20 USC 2601 note.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS; DURATION OF ASSISTANCE

SEC. 562. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as 20 USC 3812. may be necessary for fiscal year 1982 and each of the five succeeding fiscal years to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

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