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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 2218

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure

that students are counted by using data from local educational agencies

when available.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 20, 1993

Mr. GOODLING (for himself, Mr. FORD of Michigan, Mr. KILDEE, and Mr.

GUNDERSON) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Committee on Education and Labor

A BILL

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

of 1965 to ensure that students are counted by using

data from local educational agencies when available.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as ‘‘Concentration Grant

5 Targeting and Improvements Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES WITH

2 ESPECIALLY HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF

3 CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES.

4 Section 1006 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu5 cation Act of 1965 is amended—

6 (1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘IN

7 COUNTIES’’;

8 (2) in subsection (a)(1)(A)—

9 (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by

10 striking ‘‘county’’ and inserting ‘‘local edu11 cational agency’’;

12 (B) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘in such

13 county’’; and

14 (C) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘of local edu15 cational agencies in such county’’ and inserting

16 ‘‘of such local educational agencies’’;

17 (3) in subsection (a)(2)—

18 (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph

19 (A), by striking ‘‘county in which there are local

20 educational agencies’’ and inserting ‘‘local edu21 cational agency’’;

22 (B) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ‘‘of

23 a county which qualifies’’ and inserting ‘‘which

24 qualify’’; and
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1 (C) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking

2 ‘‘in a county which qualifies’’ and inserting

3 ‘‘which qualify’’;

4 (4) in subsection (a)(3)—

5 (A) by striking ‘‘county’’ each place it ap6 pears and inserting ‘‘local educational agency’’;

7 and

8 (B) by striking ‘‘counties’’ and inserting

9 ‘‘local educational agencies’’;

10 (5) in subsection (a)(4)—

11 (A) by striking ‘‘any county’’ and inserting

12 ‘‘any local educational agency’’;

13 (B) by striking ‘‘of local educational agen14 cies in such county’’ and inserting ‘‘of such

15 local educational agencies’’; and

16 (C) by striking ‘‘for such county’’ and in17 serting ‘‘for such local educational agency’’;

18 (6) in subsection (a)(5), to read as follows:

19 ‘‘(5) In States which receive the minimum

20 grant amount under paragraph (1), the State edu21 cational agency shall allocate such funds among the

22 local educational agencies in such State in rank

23 order of their respective concentration and numbers

24 of children from low-income families and in amounts

25 which are consistent with the degree of concentra-
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1 tion of poverty, except that only those local edu2 cational agencies with concentrations of poverty that

3 exceed the statewide average of poverty shall receive

4 any funds pursuant to the provisions of this para5 graph.’’; and

6 (7) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘in each

7 county’’ after ‘‘agencies’’.

8 SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF DATA.

9 (a) DATA.—If satisfactory data regarding local edu10 cational agencies is not available to calculate grant

11 amounts, the Secretary may use data regarding counties

12 or the equivalent units of local government.

13 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—If the data for local edu14 cational agencies is available, the amendments made by

15 section 2 of this Act shall take effect on July 1, 1994.

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