requirements in subsections (d) through (f), respec-
tively. 
(c) STATE ACTIVITIES.—From funds reserved under 
section 101(b)(3), a State educational agency— 
(1) shall— 
(A) provide technical assistance to local 
educational agencies receiving an allotment 
under section 101(c), with a priority for such 
local educational agencies that serve— 
(i) high percentages of low-income 
children; and 
(ii) high concentrations of students 
who have been negatively or disproportion-
ately affected (academically, socially, and 
emotionally) by the pandemic and school 
closures; 
(B) support local educational agencies in 
coordinating with a designated regional edu-
cational laboratory (as described in section 174 
of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 
(20 U.S.C. 9564)) to effectively use data and 
evidence-based strategies to address learning re-
covery needs for students with disabilities, mi-
nority children, English learners, and low-in-
come students; 
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(C) monitor the use of funds received by 
local educational agencies receiving allocations 
under section 101(c); and 
(D) collect and analyze the data described 
under section 104 from such local educational 
agencies; and 
(2) may support existing activities to combat 
learning loss due to COVID–19 as long as such ac-
tivities meet the applicable requirements of this title. 
(d) STATE MAINTENANCE
OF EFFORT.—A State 
educational agency receiving a grant under this title shall 
maintain support for elementary and secondary education 
for the fiscal year for which such grant is received at least 
at the proportional levels of such State’s support for ele-
mentary and secondary education relative to such State’s 
overall spending, averaged over fiscal years 2017, 2018, 
and 2019. 
(e) STATE MAINTENANCE OF EQUITY.— 
(1) HIGH-POVERTY LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGEN-
CIES.—For a fiscal year in which a State edu-
cational agency receives a grant under section 
101(b), in a case in which a per-pupil reduction in 
State funding occurs for any high-poverty local edu-
cational agency in the State, such reduction may not 
exceed the overall per-pupil reduction in State funds, 
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if any, across all local educational agencies in such 
State in such fiscal year. 
(2) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES WITH THE 
HIGHEST
SHARE
OF
ECONOMICALLY
DISADVAN-
TAGED STUDENTS.—For the fiscal year in which a 
State educational agency receives a grant under sec-
tion 101(b), the State educational agency may not 
reduce State funding for the 20 percent of local edu-
cational agencies in the State with the highest per-
centage of economically disadvantaged students 
(based on the percentages of economically disadvan-
taged students served by all local educational agen-
cies in the State) below the level of funding provided 
to such local educational agencies in fiscal year 
2019. 
(f) SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT.—Funds made 
available to State educational agencies under this title 
shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, other Fed-
eral and non-Federal funds that would otherwise be used 
for activities authorized under this title. 
SEC. 103. LOCAL APPLICATION AND ACTIVITIES. 
(a) LOCAL APPLICATION.—To receive an allocation 
under section 101(c), a local educational agency shall sub-
mit an application to the applicable State educational 
agency at such time, in such manner, and requiring such 
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