Sec. 304. Maintenance of effort
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A local educational agency may receive a grant under this Act for any fiscal year only if either the combined fiscal effort per student or the aggregate expenditures of the agency and the State involved with respect to the provision of free public education by the agency for the preceding fiscal year was not less than 90 percent of the combined fiscal effort or aggregate expenditures for the second preceding fiscal year. The State educational agency shall reduce the amount of a local educational agency’s grant in any fiscal year in the exact proportion by which a local educational agency fails to meet the requirement of subsection
(a)of this section by falling below 90 percent of both the combined fiscal effort per student and aggregate expenditures (using the measure most favorable to the local agency). No such lesser amount shall be used for computing the effort required under subsection
(a)of this section for subsequent years. The Secretary shall waive the requirements of this section if the Secretary determines that a waiver would be equitable due to— exceptional or uncontrollable circumstances, such as a natural disaster; or a precipitous decline in the financial resources of the local educational agency.