§9408 Reservations and Allotments

Summary

Each fiscal year the Secretary must set aside 1 percent of the program’s money for Indian tribes, Regional Corporations, and Native Hawaiian entities—0.5 percent for Indian tribes and 0.5 percent for Regional Corporations and Native Hawaiian entities. From the remaining funds, half is given to States based on each State’s share of children age 4 and under, and half is given based on each State’s share of children age 4 and under who live in families below the poverty line. No State may get less than 0.40 percent of the yearly total. State funds not spent that year remain available for two more years; after that they return to the Secretary to fund research-based early learning demonstration grants. All allotments use the most recent data the Secretary has.