20 U.S.C. § 7823: Consolidation of funds for…

Summary

A local school district, with its state education agency’s OK and under the Secretary’s rules, may combine administrative money from one or more of the programs covered by this law (or other programs the Secretary allows) for any fiscal year. The amount used can’t be more than the percentage limit set by each program. The state must work with local districts to create the steps for asking to combine funds and to set limits on how much can be used for administration. If a district combines funds for a year, it cannot use other money from those same programs for administration that year. The combined funds can pay for running the programs and for district or school activities like those in section 7821(b)(2). If funds are used as in section 7821(b)(2)(I), the district may add state or local money to expand that support without breaking supplement-not-supplant rules. A district that combines funds does not have to keep separate records for each program’s administrative costs.

Title 20, §7823

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(a)General authority

In accordance with regulations of the Secretary and for any fiscal year, a local educational agency, with the approval of its State educational agency, may consolidate and use for the administration of one or more programs under this chapter (or such other programs as the Secretary shall designate) not more than the percentage, established in each program, of the total available for the local educational agency under those programs.

(b)State procedures

A State educational agency shall, in collaboration with local educational agencies in the State, establish procedures for responding to requests from local educational agencies to consolidate administrative funds under subsection (a) and for establishing limitations on the amount of funds under those programs that may be used for administration on a consolidated basis.

(c)Conditions

A local educational agency that consolidates administrative funds under this section for any fiscal year shall not use any other funds under the programs included in the consolidation for administration for that fiscal year.

(d)Uses of administrative funds

(1)In general

A local educational agency that consolidates administrative funds under this section may use the consolidated funds for the administration of the programs and for uses, at the school district and school levels, comparable to those described in section 7821(b)(2) of this title.

(2)Fiscal support teams

A local educational agency that uses funds as described in section 7821(b)(2)(I) of this title may contribute State or local funds to expand the reach of such support without violating any supplement, not supplant requirement of any program contributing administrative funds.

(e)Records

A local educational agency that consolidates administrative funds under this section shall not be required to keep separate records, by individual program, to account for costs relating to the administration of the programs included in the consolidation.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2015—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–95, § 8006(1), substituted “A State” for “Within 1 year after January 8, 2002, a State”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 114–95, § 8006(2), added subsec. (d) and struck out former subsec. (d). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “A local educational agency that consolidates administrative funds under this section may use the consolidated funds for the administration of the programs and for uses, at the school district and school levels, comparable to those described in section 7821(b)(2) of this title.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2015 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 114–95 effective Dec. 10, 2015, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 114–95, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.

§7823 Consolidation of Funds for Local Administration