PUBLIC LAW 98-377—AUG. 11, 1984
98 STAT. 1301
(6) to provide such other assurances as the Secretary determines necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. (c) No application may be approved under this section unless the Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights determines that the assurances contained in clauses (3), (4), and (5) will be met. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION
SEC. 708. In approving applications under this title the Secretary shall give special consideration to— (1) the recentness of the implementation of the approved plan or modification thereof; (2) the proportion of minority group children involved in the approved plan; (3) the need for assistance based on the expense or difficulty of effectively carrying out an approved plan and the program or projects for which assistance is sought; and (4) the degree to which the program or project for which assistance is sought affords promise of achieving the purposes of this title.
20 USC 4058.
PROHIBITION
SEC. 709. Grants under this title may not be used for consultants, for transportation, or for any activity which does not augment academic improvement, or for the courses of instruction the substance of which is secular humanism.
20 USC 4059.
LIMITATION ON PAYMENTS
SEC. 710. (a) No local educational agency may receive a grant under this title for more than one fiscal year unless the Secretary determines that the program for which assistance was provided in the first fiscal year is making satisfactory progress in achieving the purposes of this title. (b) No local educational agency may expend more than 10 percent of the amount that the agency receives in any fiscal year for planning. (c) No State shall reduce the amount of State aid with respect to the provision of free public education or the amount of assistance received under chapter 2 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 in any school district of any local educational agency within such State because of assistance made or to be made available to such agency under this title, except that a State may reduce the amount of assistance received under such chapter 2 if the amount is attributable to clause (3) of section 577 (as in effect prior to the date of enactment of section 502 of the Education for Economic Security Act) but only to the extent the amount is so attributable. The Secretary may waive the prohibition against the reduction of assistance received under chapter 2 and permit such a reduction if the State demonstrates that the assistance under such chapter 2 is not necessary to the local education agency concerned.
20 USC 4060.
20 USC 38ii et ^^9 20 USC 3832.
20 USC 3811 et s«9
PAYMENTS
SEC. 711. (a) The Secretary shall pay to each local educational agency having an application under this title the amount set forth in the application. Payments under this title for a fiscal year shall
20 USC 4061
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