C.  Federal
Funding



 



Note



 



  Federal revenue maximization program for medicaid-eligible
health services to students (reports to legislature through 2010).  L 2005, c
141.



 



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



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



(2)  For the payment of salaries to teachers;



(3)  To employ additional teachers to relieve
overcrowded classes;



(4)  To adjust the salaries of teachers to meet the
increased cost of living, within such limits as may be fixed by, and pursuant
to, 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 as
shall be permitted by the Acts of Congress concerned.



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