20 U.S.C. § 7901 — Maintenance of effort
submitted 24 years ago by Pub. L. 89-10 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 282 words · no verdicts yet
A local educational agency generally must maintain at least 90 percent of its prior-year per-student effort or aggregate spending to receive covered-program funds. The State must reduce funds for repeated shortfalls, but the Secretary may waive the rule for specified financial or uncontrollable circumstances.
(a) In general. A local educational agency may receive covered-program funds for a fiscal year only if the State educational agency finds that either the agency’s combined effort per student or its and the State’s aggregate spending for free public education in the preceding fiscal year was at least 90 percent of the corresponding amount two fiscal years earlier. Subsection (b) applies.
(b) Reduction. (1) If the local agency also failed this test, using the more favorable measure, in at least one of the five immediately preceding fiscal years, the State agency must reduce its covered-program allocation in the exact proportion by which it fell below 90 percent of both measures, using the measure more favorable to the local agency. (2) The reduced amount may not be used to calculate required effort in later years.
(c) Waiver. The Secretary may waive this section if equitable because of (1) exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances, such as a natural disaster or organizational restructuring, or (2) a sharp decline in the local agency’s financial resources.
A local educational agency may receive funds under a covered program for any fiscal year only if the State educational agency finds that either the combined fiscal effort per student or the aggregate expenditures of the agency and the State with respect to the provision of free public education by the agency for the preceding fiscal year was not less than 90 percent of the combined fiscal effort or aggregate expenditures for the second preceding fiscal year, subject to the requirements of subsection (b).
The State educational agency shall reduce the amount of the allocation of funds under a covered program in any fiscal year in the exact proportion by which a local educational agency fails to meet the requirement of subsection (a) of this section by falling below 90 percent of both the combined fiscal effort per student and aggregate expenditures (using the measure most favorable to the local agency), if such local educational agency has also failed to meet such requirement (as determined using the measure most favorable to the local agency) for 1 or more of the 5 immediately preceding fiscal years.
No such lesser amount shall be used for computing the effort required under subsection (a) of this section for subsequent years.
The Secretary may waive the requirements of this section if the Secretary determines that a waiver would be equitable due to—
exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances, such as a natural disaster or a change in the organizational structure of the local educational agency; or
a precipitous decline in the financial resources of the local educational agency.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–10, title VIII, § 8521, formerly title IX, § 9521, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title IX, § 901, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1980; renumbered title VIII, § 8521, and amended Pub. L. 114–95, title VIII, §§ 8001(a)(6), 8019, Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 2088, 2089, 2112.)
- 2002Enacted · Pub. L. 89-10 · 115 Stat. 1980
- 2015Amended · Pub. L. 114-95 · 129 Stat. 2088, 2089, 2112
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 89-10 on 2002-01-08.
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