20 U.S.C. § 7845 — Consolidated local plans or applications

(a) General authority. (1) Consolidated plan. A local educational agency (school district) that gets money under more than one covered program may submit its plans or applications to the State educational agency for those programs together, as one consolidated document. (2) Availability to Governor. The State educational agency must make these consolidated local plans and applications available to the Governor. (b) Required consolidated plans or applications. If a State educational agency has an approved consolidated State plan or application under section 7842, it may require local educational agencies that get money under more than one of the programs in that consolidated State plan or application to also submit their own local plans or applications together — but the State may not require them to submit separate plans for each program. (c) Collaboration. The State educational agency, after talking with the Governor, must work together with local educational agencies in the state to set up the procedures for submitting consolidated plans or applications. (d) Necessary materials. The State educational agency may only require descriptions, information, assurances, and other materials that are truly necessary to review the local educational agency's plan or application — nothing extra. (e) Rural consolidated plan. (1) In general. Two or more eligible local educational agencies, a group (consortium) of eligible local educational service agencies, or an educational service agency acting on behalf of eligible local educational agencies may submit plans or applications for one or more covered programs to the State educational agency together, as one consolidated document — but only if every eligible local educational agency involved agrees to take part, or agrees to let the educational service agency apply on its behalf. (2) Eligible local educational agency. For this subsection, an "eligible local educational agency" is one that qualifies as an eligible local educational agency under part B of subchapter V.