C.  FederalFunding

 

Note

 

  Federal revenue maximization program for medicaid-eligiblehealth services to students (reports to legislature through 2010).  L 2005, c141.

 

[§302A-1401]  Administration and use offederal funds, including pregrade education.  (a)  The board, designated asthe administrators of such funds as may be allotted to the State under federallegislation for public educational purposes, subject to such limitations as maybe imposed by congressional action, shall use and expend the funds:

(1)  To improve the program of the public schools ofthe State, including any grades up to the fourteenth grade or such lower gradeas shall be prescribed as a maximum for such purposes by the Act of Congressconcerned, by expanding the educational offerings, particularly in the ruraldistricts;

(2)  For the payment of salaries to teachers;

(3)  To employ additional teachers to relieveovercrowded classes;

(4)  To adjust the salaries of teachers to meet theincreased cost of living, within such limits as may be fixed by, and pursuantto, state law;

(5)  To provide for the purchase of supplies,apparatus, and materials for the public schools; and

(6)  For any of such purposes and to such extent asshall be permitted by the Acts of Congress concerned.

(b)  The board shall organize and conduct aprogram of public pregrade education to the extent that funds provided thereforby the United States government are, or from time to time may become,available.  In establishing and carrying on the pregrade education, any suchfederal funds shall be expended during any school year as nearly as practicablein each of the school supervisory districts of the State in the proportion thatthe number of inhabitants of each district of less than six years of age bearsto the total number of the inhabitants of the entire State within the agelimits, as shown by the latest report of the department of health preceding theopening of the school year. [L 1996, c 89, pt of §2]