Title 20, EducationRelease 119-102
§6303a Whole-school Reform Strategy
Title 20 › CHAPTER 70 — STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS › SUBCHAPTER I — IMPROVING THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE DISADVANTAGED › § 6303a
Summary
From fiscal year 2014, districts may use grants for whole-school reform if they partner with a developer and it has moderate evidence, including one well-designed, well-implemented experimental/quasi-experimental study with statistically significant student outcomes.
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Title 20, §6303a
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Funds available for school improvement grants for fiscal year 2014 and thereafter may be used by a local educational agency to implement a whole-school reform strategy for a school using an evidence-based strategy that ensures whole-school reform is undertaken in partnership with a strategy developer offering a whole-school reform program that is based on at least a moderate level of evidence that the program will have a statistically significant effect on student outcomes, including at least one well-designed and well-implemented experimental or quasi-experimental study.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2016, and also as part of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016, and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, and not as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Similar ProvisionsSimilar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation act: Pub. L. 113–235, div. G, title III, Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2493.
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20 U.S.C. § 6303a
Title 20, Education
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102