Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 108 Part 5.djvu/42

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108 STAT. 3532 PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994 "(B) periodically be reviewed and revised, as necessary, to reflect changes in the local educational agency's strategies and programs. " (e) STATE APPROVAL. — "(1) IN GENERAL.— Each local educational agency plan shall be filed according to a schedule established by the State educational agency, except that a local educational agency shall have not more than one year after the date of enactment of the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 to have such plan provisionally approved by the State educational agency and not more than two years after the date of enactment of such Act to have such plan finally approved by the State educational agency. "(2) APPROVAL.— The State educational agency shall approve a local educational agency's plan only if the State educational agency determines that the local educational agency's plan will enable schools served under this part to substantially help all children served under this part meet the standards expected of all children described in section 1111(b)(1). "(3) REVIEW.— The State educational agency shall review the local educational agency's plan to determine if such agency's professional development activities are in accordance with section 1119. "(f) PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITY. — The local educational agency plan shall reflect the shared responsibility of schools, teachers, and the local educational agency in making decisions regarding activities under sections 1114 and 1115. 20 USC 6313. "SEC. 1113. ELIGIBLE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREAS. "(a) DETERMINATION.— "(1) IN GENERAL.— ^A local educational agency shall use funds received under this part only in eligible school attendance areas. "(2) ELIGIBLE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREAS. —For the purposes of this part— "(A) the term 'school attendance area' means, in relation to a particular school, the geographical area in which the children who are normally served by that school reside; and "(B) the term 'eligible school attendance area' means a school attendance area in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least as high as the percentage of children from low-income families in the local educational agency as a whole. "(3) RANKING ORDER. —If funds allocated in accordance with subsection (c) are insufficient to serve all eligible school attendance areas, a local educational agency shall— "(A) annually rank, without regard to grade spans, such agency's eligible school attendance areas in which the concentration of children from low-income families exceeds 75 percent from highest to lowest according to the percentage of children from low-income families; and "(B) serve such eligible school attendance ajeas in rank order.