Section 1401 (19)
(19) Local educational agency
- The term “local educational agency” means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or for such combination of school districts or counties as are recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools.
- The term includes—
- (i) an educational service agency; and
- (ii) any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public elementary school or secondary school.
- The term includes an elementary school or secondary school funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, but only to the extent that such inclusion makes the school eligible for programs for which specific eligibility is not provided to the school in another provision of law and the school does not have a student population that is smaller than the student population of the local educational agency receiving assistance under this chapter with the smallest student population, except that the school shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of any State educational agency other than the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(A) In general
(B) Educational service agencies and other public institutions or agencies
(C) BIA funded schools
Last modified on November 7, 2019