HR 7336 · 97th Congress · Education
A bill to make certain technical amendments to improve implementation of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981.
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EnactedLatest: Pocket Vetoed by President.(1983-01-14)
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Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 (ECIA) to revise Chapter 1 (Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Disadvantaged Children) provisions. Revises State program design provisions to include preschool migratory children as eligible participants in State programs for migratory, handicapped, and neglected and delinquent children. Revises provisions relating to local educational agency ("LEA") application assurances. Exempts any LEA with a total enrollment of less than 1,500 children from specified "targeting" requirements for the use of funds to assist low-income educationally disadvantaged children. Requires that services for educationally deprived private school children comply with requirements that programs be conducted in LEA attendance areas with high concentrations of low- income children. Requires State educational agencies (SEAs) to use Chapter 1 funds only as a supplement to the non-Federal funds for the education of students participating in programs assisted under Chapter 1. Provides that exclusions of special State and local program funds from specified non-supplanting and comparability requirements include compensatory educat…
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