PUBLIC LAW 107-110—JAN. 8, 2002 115 STAT. 1777 "(2) To provide funding to enable State educational agencies and local educational agencies to implement promising educational reform programs and school improvement programs based on scientifically based research. "(3) To provide a continuing source of innovation and educational improvement, including support programs to provide library services and instructional and media materials. "(4) To meet the educational needs of all students, including at-risk youth. "(5) To develop and implement education programs to improve school, student, and teacher performance, including professional development activities and class size reduction programs. "(b) STATE AND LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY. —The State educational agency shall bear the basic responsibility for the administration of funds made available under this part, but it is the intent of Congress that the responsibility be carried out with a minimum of paperwork and that the responsibility for the design and implementation of programs assisted under this part be mainly that of local educational agencies, school superintendents and principals, and classroom teachers and supporting personnel, because local educational agencies and individuals have the most direct contact with students and are most likely to be able to design programs to meet the educational needs of students in their own school districts.
"Subpart 1—State and Local Programs "SEC. 5111. ALLOTMENT TO STATES. 20 USC 721L "(a) IN GENERAL.— From the sums appropriated to carry out this part for each fiscal year and not reserved under subsection (b), the Secretary shall allot, and make available in accordance with this part, to each State educational agency an amount that bears the same ratio to such sums as the school-age population of the State bears to the school-age population of all States, except that no State shall receive less than an amount equal to onehalf of 1 percent of such sums. "(b) RESERVATION.— From the sums appropriated to carry out this part for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 1 percent for payments to the outlying areas, to be allotted in accordance with their respective needs for assistance under this part. "SEC. 5112. ALLOCATION TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES. 20 USC 7211a. "(a) DISTRIBUTION RULE. — "(1) ALLOCATION OF BASE AMOUNTS. — From the amount made available to a State educational agency under this part for a fiscal year, the State educational agency shall distribute, to local educational agencies within the State, an amount that is not less than 85 percent of the amount made available to the State educational agency under this part for fiscal year 2002, according to the relative enrollments in public and in private nonprofit schools within the jurisdictions of such local educational agencies, adjusted, in accordamce with criteria
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