2013 US Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 70 - STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS (§§ 6301 - 8962)
Subchapter VI - FLEXIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY (§§ 7301 - 7372)
Part B - Rural Education Initiative (§§ 7341 - 7355c)
Subpart 1 - small, rural school achievement program (§§ 7345 - 7345b)
Section 7345b - Accountability

Each local educational agency that uses or receives funds under this subpart for a fiscal year shall administer an assessment that is consistent with section 6311(b)(3) of this title.

Each State educational agency that receives funding under the provisions of law described in section 7345(c) of this title shall—

(1) after the third year that a local educational agency in the State participates in a program under this subpart and on the basis of the results of the assessments described in subsection (a) of this section, determine whether the local educational agency participating in the program made adequate yearly progress, as described in section 6311(b)(2) of this title;

(2) permit only those local educational agencies that participated and made adequate yearly progress, as described in section 6311(b)(2) of this title, to continue to participate; and

(3) permit those local educational agencies that participated and failed to make adequate yearly progress, as described in section 6311(b)(2) of this title, to continue to participate only if such local educational agencies use applicable funding under this subpart to carry out the requirements of section 6316 of this title.

(Pub. L. 89–10, title VI, §6213, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title VI, §601, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1893.)