Section 1413 (a)
(a) In general
A local educational agency is eligible for assistance under this subchapter for a fiscal year if such agency submits a plan that provides assurances to the State educational agency that the local educational agency meets each of the following conditions:
- The local educational agency, in providing for the education of children with disabilities within its jurisdiction, has in effect policies, procedures, and programs that are consistent with the State policies and procedures established under section 1412 of this title.
- Amounts provided to the local educational agency under this subchapter shall be expended in accordance with the applicable provisions of this subchapter and—
- (i) shall be used only to pay the excess costs of providing special education and related services to children with disabilities;
- (ii) shall be used to supplement State, local, and other Federal funds and not to supplant such funds; and
- (iii) shall not be used, except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C), to reduce the level of expenditures for the education of children with disabilities made by the local educational agency from local funds below the level of those expenditures for the preceding fiscal year.
- Notwithstanding the restriction in subparagraph (A)(iii), a local educational agency may reduce the level of expenditures where such reduction is attributable to—
- (i) the voluntary departure, by retirement or otherwise, or departure for just cause, of special education personnel;
- (ii) a decrease in the enrollment of children with disabilities;
- (iii) the termination of the obligation of the agency, consistent with this subchapter, to provide a program of special education to a particular child with a disability that is an exceptionally costly program, as determined by the State educational agency, because the child—
- (I) has left the jurisdiction of the agency;
- (II) has reached the age at which the obligation of the agency to provide a free appropriate public education to the child has terminated; or
- (III) no longer needs such program of special education; or
- (iv) the termination of costly expenditures for long-term purchases, such as the acquisition of equipment or the construction of school facilities.
- Notwithstanding clauses (ii) and (iii) of subparagraph (A), for any fiscal year for which the allocation received by a local educational agency under section 1411(f) of this title exceeds the amount the local educational agency received for the previous fiscal year, the local educational agency may reduce the level of expenditures otherwise required by subparagraph (A)(iii) by not more than 50 percent of the amount of such excess.
- If a local educational agency exercises the authority under clause (i), the agency shall use an amount of local funds equal to the reduction in expenditures under clause (i) to carry out activities authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 [20 U.S.C. 6301 et seq.].
- Notwithstanding clause (i), if a State educational agency determines that a local educational agency is unable to establish and maintain programs of free appropriate public education that meet the requirements of subsection (a) or the State educational agency has taken action against the local educational agency under section 1416 of this title, the State educational agency shall prohibit the local educational agency from reducing the level of expenditures under clause (i) for that fiscal year.
- The amount of funds expended by a local educational agency under subsection (f) shall count toward the maximum amount of expenditures such local educational agency may reduce under clause (i).
- Notwithstanding subparagraph (A) or any other provision of this subchapter, a local educational agency may use funds received under this subchapter for any fiscal year to carry out a schoolwide program under section 1114 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 [20 U.S.C. 6314], except that the amount so used in any such program shall not exceed—
- (i) the number of children with disabilities participating in the schoolwide program; multiplied by
- (ii)
- (I) the amount received by the local educational agency under this subchapter for that fiscal year; divided by
- (II) the number of children with disabilities in the jurisdiction of that agency.
(1) Consistency with State policies
(2) Use of amounts
(A) In general
(B) Exception
(C) Adjustment to local fiscal effort in certain fiscal years
(i) Amounts in excess
(ii) Use of amounts to carry out activities under ESEA
(iii) State prohibition
(iv) Special rule
(D) Schoolwide programs under title I of the ESEA
(3) Personnel development
(4) Permissive use of funds
- Notwithstanding paragraph (2)(A) or section 1412(a)(17)(B) of this title (relating to commingled funds), funds provided to the local educational agency under this subchapter may be used for the following activities:
- For the costs of special education and related services, and supplementary aids and services, provided in a regular class or other education-related setting to a child with a disability in accordance with the individualized education program of the child, even if 1 or more nondisabled children benefit from such services.
- To develop and implement coordinated, early intervening educational services in accordance with subsection (f).
- To establish and implement cost or risk sharing funds, consortia, or cooperatives for the local educational agency itself, or for local educational agencies working in a consortium of which the local educational agency is a part, to pay for high cost special education and related services.
- A local educational agency may use funds received under this subchapter to purchase appropriate technology for recordkeeping, data collection, and related case management activities of teachers and related services personnel providing services described in the individualized education program of children with disabilities, that is needed for the implementation of such case management activities.
(A) Uses
(i) Services and aids that also benefit nondisabled children
(ii) Early intervening services
(iii) High cost education and related services
(B) Administrative case management
(5) Treatment of charter schools and their students
- (A) serves children with disabilities attending those charter schools in the same manner as the local educational agency serves children with disabilities in its other schools, including providing supplementary and related services on site at the charter school to the same extent to which the local educational agency has a policy or practice of providing such services on the site to its other public schools; and
- (B) provides funds under this subchapter to those charter schools—
- (i) on the same basis as the local educational agency provides funds to the local educational agency’s other public schools, including proportional distribution based on relative enrollment of children with disabilities; and
- (ii) at the same time as the agency distributes other Federal funds to the agency’s other public schools, consistent with the State’s charter school law.
(6) Purchase of instructional materials
- Not later than 2 years after December 3, 2004, a local educational agency that chooses to coordinate with the National Instructional Materials Access Center, when purchasing print instructional materials, shall acquire the print instructional materials in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as a State educational agency acquires print instructional materials under section 1412(a)(23) of this title.
- Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to require a local educational agency to coordinate with the National Instructional Materials Access Center. If a local educational agency chooses not to coordinate with the National Instructional Materials Access Center, the local educational agency shall provide an assurance to the State educational agency that the local educational agency will provide instructional materials to blind persons or other persons with print disabilities in a timely manner.
(A) In general
(B) Rights of local educational agency
(7) Information for State educational agency
(8) Public information
(9) Records regarding migratory children with disabilities
Last modified on November 7, 2019