20 U.S.C. § 6471 — Program evaluations

(a) Scope of evaluation. Every State agency or local educational agency running a program under subpart 1 or 2 must evaluate it at least once every 3 years. It must break participation data down by gender, race, ethnicity, and age while protecting student privacy. The evaluation must measure the program's effect on participants' ability to improve achievement and graduate within the State's four-year or, when applicable, extended-year adjusted cohort rate; earn credits meeting State promotion and graduation requirements; move to a regular or other education program run by a local agency or a Bureau of Indian Education school; finish high school or high-school-equivalency requirements and get work after leaving a correctional facility or an institution for neglected or delinquent children and youth^*; and, when appropriate, join postsecondary education and job-training programs. (b) Exception. Data need not be broken down when a category has too few students for statistically reliable information or the breakdown would reveal a student's identity. (c) Evaluation measures. Each evaluation must use multiple appropriate measures of student progress. (d) Evaluation results. Each State agency and local educational agency must send the results to the State educational agency and the Secretary, and must use them to plan and improve later programs for participating children and youth.