§7823 Consolidation of funds for local administration

Summary

A local school district may, with its State education agency’s approval and under rules from the U.S. Secretary of Education, combine the amounts it is allowed to use for administration from several federal programs for any fiscal year. The district can only combine up to the percentage limit each program sets of the total it gets. The State agency must work with districts to make procedures for asking to combine funds and to set limits on how much may be used this way. If a district consolidates administrative funds for a year, it cannot also use other funds from those same programs for administration that year. The combined money can pay for running the programs and for similar school- or district-level uses allowed elsewhere in the law. If those uses match certain school-level supports, the district may add State or local money to expand them without breaking the rule that federal funds must supplement, not replace, other funding. The district does not have to keep separate records for each program’s administrative costs.