Sec. 306. Evaluation by Government Accountability Office

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Not later than 2 years after the end of the 5th fiscal year for which funds are appropriated to carry out the Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs Act of 2002, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct an evaluation of a sample of subgrantees selected by the Comptroller General in accordance with subsection (b)) that received funds under section 504(e) of such Act and shall submit a report of such evaluation to the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the United States House of Representatives.

For purposes of subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall— ensure that the sample to be evaluated is made up of subgrantees in States that are diverse geographically and economically; and include in such sample subgrantees that proposed different delinquency prevention programs. In conducting the evaluation required by subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall take into consideration whether— the delinquency prevention programs for which subgrantees received funds under section 504(e) of Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs Act of 2002 achieved the outcomes and results anticipated by the particular State involved; in the case of outcomes and results of delinquency prevention programs defined by the State or a local entity, unanticipated improved outcomes or results for juveniles occurred; the number of subgrantees that continue after the expenditure of such funds to provide such delinquency prevention programs; such delinquency prevention programs replaced existing or planned programs or activities in the State; and the evidence-base information used to justify such delinquency prevention programs was used with fidelity by local entities in accordance with the approach used to find the evidence;