Sec. 6. Maintenance of effort and equity
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As a condition of receiving a grant under this Act for a fiscal year, a State educational agency shall provide to the Secretary an assurance that such State educational agency will, in such fiscal year, provide support for public elementary and public secondary education, including current and capital spending, that bears the same proportion to the overall State budget for such fiscal year as the average amount of such support for school years 2017–2018 and 2018–2019 bears to the average overall State budget for the fiscal years applicable to such school years.
As a condition of receiving a grant under this Act for a fiscal year, a State educational agency shall provide to the Secretary an assurance that if any per-pupil reduction in State funding occurs in such fiscal year for any high-need local educational agency in the State, it shall not be more than the overall per-pupil reduction in State funds. As a condition of receiving a grant under this Act for a fiscal year, a State educational agency shall provide to the Secretary an assurance that the State educational agency will not reduce State funding below fiscal year 2019 levels for the 20 percent of local educational agencies in the State with the highest share of economically disadvantaged students.
As a condition of receiving a subgrant under this Act for a fiscal year, a local educational agency shall provide to the State educational agency an assurance that— if any per-pupil reduction in local educational agency funding occurs in such fiscal year for any high-poverty school served by the local educational agency, it shall not be more than the overall per-pupil reduction in local educational agency funds; and the local educational agency will not reduce staffing in any high-poverty school in an amount that is greater than— the total reduction in staffing in all schools served by the local educational agency, divided by the total enrollment in such local educational agency.