Sec. 1113. Eligible school attendance areas
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Section 1113 (20 U.S.C. 6313) is amended— in subsection (a)— by striking paragraph
(3)and inserting the following: Except as provided in subparagraph (B), if funds allocated in accordance with subsection
(c)are insufficient to serve all eligible school attendance areas, a local educational agency shall— 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, or exceeds 50 percent in the case of the high schools served by such agency, from highest to lowest according to the percentage of children from low-income families; and serve such eligible school attendance areas in rank order. A local educational agency shall not be required to reduce, in order to comply with subparagraph (A), the amount of funding provided under this part to elementary schools and middle schools from the amount of funding provided under this part to such schools for the fiscal year preceding the data of enactment of the Strengthening America's Schools Act of 2013 in order to provide funding under this part to high schools pursuant to subparagraph (A). ; by striking paragraph
(5)and inserting the following: Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the local educational agency shall use the same measure of poverty, which measure shall be the number of children ages 5 through 17 in poverty counted in the most recent census data approved by the Secretary, the number of children eligible for free and reduced priced lunches under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, the number of children in families receiving assistance under the State program funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, or the number of children eligible to receive medical assistance under the Medicaid program, or a composite of such indicators, with respect to all school attendance areas in the local educational agency— to identify eligible school attendance areas; to determine the ranking of each area; and to determine allocations under subsection (c). For measuring the number of students in low-income families in secondary schools, the local educational agency shall use the same measure of poverty, which shall be the calculation producing the greater of the results from among the following 2 calculations: The calculation described under subparagraph (A). A feeder pattern described in subparagraph (C). In this part, the term feeder pattern means an accurate estimate of the number of students in low-income families in a secondary school that is calculated by applying the average percentage of students in low-income families of the elementary school attendance areas as calculated under subparagraph
(A)that feed into the secondary school to the number of students enrolled in such school. ; and by adding at the end the following: A local educational agency may reserve funds made available to carry out this section for early childhood education in eligible school attendance areas before making allocations to high schools in eligible school attendance areas pursuant to this section. ; and in subsection (c)— by striking paragraph
(3)and inserting the following: A local educational agency shall reserve such funds as are necessary under this part to serve— homeless children who are attending any public school served by the local educational agency, including providing educationally related support services to children in shelters and other locations where children may live; children in local institutions for neglected children; if appropriate, children in local institutions for delinquent children, and neglected or delinquent children in community day programs; and children in foster care (as defined in section 1502), including providing points of contact (as described in section 1501(d)) in local educational agencies for child welfare agencies and children in foster care. Notwithstanding the requirements of subsections
(b)and
(c)of section 1120A, funds reserved under subparagraph
(A)may be used to provide homeless children and youths with services not ordinarily provided to other students under this part, including— providing funding for the liaison designated pursuant to section 722(g)(1)(J)(ii) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act; providing transportation pursuant to section 722(g)(1)(J)(iii) of such Act; providing services to preschool-aged homeless children and homeless secondary school students; providing support services to homeless children and youths in shelters and other locations where they may live; and removing barriers to homeless children and youths’ enrollment, attendance, retention, and success in school. The amount of funds reserved in accordance with subparagraph (A)(i) shall be determined by an assessment of the needs of homeless children and youths in the local educational agency. Such needs assessment shall include the following: Information related to child, youth, and family homelessness in the local educational agency obtained through the coordination and collaboration required under subsections (f)(4) and (g)(5) of section 722 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. The number of homeless children and youths reported by the local educational agency to the State educational agency under section 722(f)(3) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act for the previous school year. ; and in paragraph (4), by striking eligible under this section and identified for school improvement, corrective action, and restructuring under section 1116(b) and inserting identified as a priority school under section 1116(d) .
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