PUBLIC LAW 107-110-^AN. 8, 2002 115 STAT. 1469 education program on the basis of a surname or languageminority status. "SEC. 1113. ELIGIBLE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREAS. 20 USC 6313. "(a) DETERMINATION.— "(1) IN GENERAL.— ^A local educational agency shall use funds received under this part only in eligible school attendance areas. "(2) ELIGIBLE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AREAS.— For the purposes of this part— "(A) the term 'school attendance area' means, in relation to a particular school, the geographical area in which the children who are normally served by that school reside; and "(B) the term 'eligible school attendance area' means a school attendance area in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least as high as the percentage of children from low-income families served by the local educational agency as a whole. "(3) RANKING ORDER. —If funds allocated in accordance with subsection (c) are insufficient to serve all eligible school attendance areas, a local educational agency shall— "(A) annually rank, without regard to grade spans, such agency's eligible school attendance areas in which the concentration of children from low-income families exceeds 75 percent from highest to lowest according to the percentage of children from low-income families; and "(B) serve such eligible school attendance areas in rank order. "(4) REMAINING FUNDS.—I f funds remain after serving all eligible school attendance areas under paragraph (3), a local educational agency shall— "(A) annually rank such agency's remaining eligible school attendance areas from highest to lowest either by grade span or for the entire local educational agency according to the percentage of children from low-income families; and "(B) serve such eligible school attendance areas in rank order either within each grade-span grouping or within the local educational agency as a whole. "(5) MEASURES. —The local educational agency shall use the same measure of poverty, which measure shall be the number of children ages 5 through 17 in poverty counted in the most recent census data approved by the Secretary, the number of children eligible for free and reduced priced lunches under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, the number of children in families receiving assistance under the State program funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, or the number of children eligible to receive medical assistance under the Medicaid program, or a composite of such indicators, with respect to all school attendance areas in the local educational agency— " (A) to identify eligible school attendance areas; "(B) to determine the ranking of each area; and "(C) to determine allocations under subsection (c).
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