§6335 Targeted grants to local educational agencies

Summary

Local school districts can get a targeted grant if they have at least 10 of the counted children and those counted children make up at least 5% of the district’s population aged 5 to 17. If the Department of Education gives money by county, the State must reassign the county money to eligible districts in the State in the same share as other program funds. For most States, a district’s grant equals its weighted child count (see below) times the dollar amount in section 6333(a)(1)(B). For the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the grant equals the number of children from the count times the dollar amount in section 6333(a)(4). The weighted child count is picked as the larger of two methods. One method uses percent ranges of the 5–17 population with multipliers of 1.0, 1.75, 2.5, 3.25, and 4.0. The other method uses number ranges of children with multipliers of 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, and 3.0. The same two-method choice applies whether grants are based on counties or on local districts, and Puerto Rico’s weight cannot exceed 1.82 times its counted children. Grants are totaled the same way as in section 6333(a)(2) and (3). Each State is guaranteed at least the smaller of 0.35% of the total program funds or the average of 0.35% and 150% of the national average grant per counted child times the State’s counted children.