Sec. 5. Applications
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A State educational agency seeking to receive a grant under this Act shall provide to the Secretary an application that includes the following: An assurance that the State educational agency will develop and implement a monitoring plan that will enable the State educational agency to ensure that local educational agencies in such State comply with all applicable programmatic and fiscal requirements, including with the use of funds requirements under section 4. An assurance that the State educational agency will support local educational agencies in targeting funding provided under this Act to high-need schools and to support subgroups of students, including low-income students, students with disabilities, English learners, minority children, students experiencing homelessness, children or youth in foster care, migrant children, students involved with the juvenile justice system, or children at risk for academic failure.
An assurance that the funds received under this Act will be used to supplement the level of Federal, State, and local public funds that would, in the absence of such Federal funds provided under this Act, be used to support public elementary and public secondary education and not supplant such funds. An assurance that the State educational agency and local educational agencies in such State will provide the reports required under section 7. An assurance that the State educational agency will provide the local educational agencies in such State with the technical assistance and support needed to help avoid unanticipated spending cliffs.
An assurance that the State educational agency will take action to ensure that low-income students and minority children enrolled in schools assisted under this section are not served at disproportionate rates by ineffective, out-of-field, or inexperienced teachers, as described in section 1111(g)(1)(B) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 6311(g)(1)(B) ). An assurance the State educational agency will meet the maintenance of effort and equity requirements under section 6.
The Secretary may not require information or assurances in addition to the information and assurances required under subsection
(a)and section 6 unless such information or assurance is necessary to determine compliance with this Act.
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