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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§12645f Restrictions on Federal Government and use of Federal funds

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 129— - NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE STATE GRANT PROGRAM › § 12645f

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Federal officials may not force a state, school district, or school to use a specific curriculum, change how it teaches, or make it spend local money for things that this law does not pay for. A state does not have to get the federal government to approve or certify its academic content or student achievement standards to get help under this law. Any money given to the Corporation under this law cannot be used to endorse, approve, or officially back any curriculum for elementary or secondary schools.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §12645f

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Nothing in the national service laws shall be construed to authorize an officer or employee of the Federal Government to mandate, direct, or control a State, local educational agency, or school’s curriculum, program of instruction, or allocation of State or local resources, or mandate a State or any subdivision thereof to spend any funds or incur any costs not paid for under this chapter.
(b)Notwithstanding any other prohibition of Federal law, no funds provided to the Corporation under this chapter may be used by the Corporation to endorse, approve, or sanction any curriculum designed to be used in an elementary school or secondary school.
(c)Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law, not 11 So in original. Probably should be “no”. State shall be required to have academic content or student academic achievement standards approved or certified by the Federal Government, in order to receive assistance under this chapter.

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References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 101–610, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3127, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 12501 of this title and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2009, see section 6101(a) of Pub. L. 111–13, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2009 Amendment note under section 4950 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 12645f

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73