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20 U.S.C. § 1231a — Equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to assist the Department in implementing the Department’s mission to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the Nation, by—
(1) ensuring equal opportunities to participate for all eligible students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries in any project or activity carried out under an applicable program; and
(2) promoting the ability of such students, teachers, and beneficiaries to meet high standards.
**(b) Requirement to develop steps to ensure equity** The Secretary shall require each applicant for assistance under an applicable program (other than an individual) to develop and describe in such applicant’s application the steps such applicant proposes to take to ensure equitable access to, and equitable participation in, the project or activity to be conducted with such assistance, by addressing the special needs of students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries in order to overcome barriers to equitable participation, including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age.
**(c) Establishment of criteria** The Secretary may establish criteria and provide technical assistance for meeting the requirements of this section.
**(d) Effect on other laws** Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter in any way the rights or responsibilities established under the laws cited in [section 1221(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1221/d&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Purpose** The purpose of this section is to assist the Department in implementing the Department’s mission to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the Nation, by—
(1) ensuring equal opportunities to participate for all eligible students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries in any project or activity carried out under an applicable program; and
(2) promoting the ability of such students, teachers, and beneficiaries to meet high standards.
**(b) Requirement to develop steps to ensure equity** The Secretary shall require each applicant for assistance under an applicable program (other than an individual) to develop and describe in such applicant’s application the steps such applicant proposes to take to ensure equitable access to, and equitable participation in, the project or activity to be conducted with such assistance, by addressing the special needs of students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries in order to overcome barriers to equitable participation, including barriers based on gender, race, color, national origin, disability, and age.
**(c) Establishment of criteria** The Secretary may establish criteria and provide technical assistance for meeting the requirements of this section.
**(d) Effect on other laws** Nothing in this section shall be construed to alter in any way the rights or responsibilities established under the laws cited in [section 1221(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1221/d&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Persons aggrieved; final State educational agency actions; hearing; ruling and reasons for ruling; rescission of final actions** In the case of any applicable program under which financial assistance is provided to (or through) a State educational agency to be expended in accordance with a State plan approved by the Secretary, any applicant or recipient aggrieved by the final action of the State educational agency, and alleging a violation of State or Federal law, rules, regulations, or guidelines governing the applicable program, in (1) disapproving or failing to approve its application or program in whole or part, (2) failing to provide funds in amounts in accord with the requirements of laws and regulations, (3) ordering, in accordance with a final State audit resolution determination, the repayment of misspent or misapplied Federal funds, or (4) terminating further assistance for an approved program, may within thirty days request a hearing. Within thirty days after it receives such a request, the State educational agency shall hold a hearing on the record and shall review such final action. No later than ten days after the hearing, the State educational agency shall issue its written ruling, including reasons therefor. If it determines such final action was contrary to Federal or State law, or the rules, regulations, and guidelines governing such applicable program, it shall rescind such final action.
**(b) Appeals to Secretary; persons aggrieved; notice; orders prescribing appropriate agency actions; finality of agency fact findings; interim orders pending appeal or review** Any applicant or recipient aggrieved by the failure of a State educational agency to rescind its final action after a review under subsection (a) may appeal such action to the Secretary
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**(a) Recipients entitled to review; stay of action by Secretary** Any recipient of funds under an applicable program that would be adversely affected by a final agency action under section 1234a, 1234d, or 1234e of this title, and any State entitled to receive funds under a program described in [section 1232d(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1232d/a&num=0&edition=prelim) whose application has been disapproved by the Secretary, shall be entitled to judicial review of such action in accordance with the provisions of this section. The Secretary may not take any action on the basis of a final agency action until judicial review is completed.
**(b) Petition for review; filing of record** A recipient that desires judicial review of an action described in subsection (a) shall, within 60 days of that action, file with the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit in which that recipient is located, a petition for review of such action. A copy of the petition shall be transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Secretary. The Secretary shall file in the court the record of the proceedings on which the action was based, as provided in [section 2112 of title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section2112&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Findings of fact** The findings of fact by the Office, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive; but the court, for good cause shown, may remand the case to the Office to take further evidence, and the Office may make new or modified findings of fact and may modify its previous action, and shall certify to the court the record of the further proceedings. Such new or modified findings of fact shall likewise be conclusive if suppor
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The Secretary shall—
(1) prepare and disseminate to State and local educational agencies and institutions information concerning applicable programs, and cooperate with other Federal officials who administer programs affecting education in disseminating information concerning such programs;
(2) inform the public regarding federally supported education programs; and
(3) collect data and information on applicable programs for the purpose of obtaining objective measurements of the effectiveness of such programs in achieving the intended purposes of such programs.
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**(a) Automatic extension** The authorization of appropriations for, or duration of, an applicable program shall be automatically extended for one additional fiscal year unless Congress, in the regular session that ends prior to the beginning of the terminal fiscal year of such authorization or duration, has passed legislation that becomes law and extends or repeals the authorization or duration of such program.
**(b) Amount of appropriation** The amount authorized to be appropriated for the period of automatic extension under subsection (a) of an applicable program shall be the amount authorized to be appropriated for such program for the terminal fiscal year of the applicable program.
**(c) Acts and determinations necessary for program continuation** If the Secretary is required, in the terminal fiscal year of an applicable program, to carry out certain acts or make certain determinations that are necessary for the continuation of such program, such acts or determinations shall be required to be carried out or made during the period of automatic extension under subsection (a).
**(d) Application to commissions, councils, and committees required by law to terminate** This section shall not apply to the authorization of appropriations for a commission, council, or committee which is required by an applicable statute to terminate on a date certain.
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Subject to the limitations contained in subtitle A of this title, there are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years 1982, 1983, and 1984 such sums as may be necessary to carry out each of the following provisions of law:
(1) the Act of September 30, 1950 11 See References in Text note below. (Public Law 874, 81st Congress);
(2) the Act of September 23, 1950 1 (Public Law 815, 81st Congress);
(3) the General Education Provisions Act [[20 U.S.C. 1221](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1221&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.];
(4) the Indian Education Act;
(5) titles XI [[25 U.S.C. 2000](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section2000&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], XIV [[20 U.S.C. 921](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section921&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and XV of the Education Amendments of 1978 and part H of title XIII of the Education Amendments of 1980;
(6) the Adult Education Act; 1
(7) section 342 of the Education Amendments of 1976 [[20 U.S.C. 2532](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section2532&num=0&edition=prelim)];
(8) the Asbestos School Hazards Detection and Control Act [[20 U.S.C. 3601](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section3601&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.];
(9) the Joint Resolution of October 19, 1972 (86 Stat. 907);
(10) the Vocational Education Act of 1963; 1
(11) title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [[42 U.S.C. 2000c](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2000c&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.];
(12) the Navajo Community College Act and the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Assistance Act of 1978 [[25 U
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 1231a
Secretary and the heads of the other agencies
participating in the agreement determine that
joint funding is necessary to address a special
need consistent with the purposes and author-
ized activities of each program that provides
funding under the joint project, the Secretary
and the heads of the other participating agen-
cies may develop a single set of criteria for the
jointly funded project and require each appli-
cant for such project to submit a single applica-
tion for review by the participating agencies.
(b) Joint applications
The Secretary may develop the criteria for,
and require the submission of, joint applications
under two or more applicable programs under
which funds are awarded on a competitive basis,
and may jointly review and approve such appli-
cations
separately
from
other
applications
under such programs, when the Secretary deter-
mines that such joint awards are necessary to
address a special need consistent with the pur-
poses and authorized activities of each such pro-
gram. Any applicant for such a joint award shall
meet the eligibility requirements of each such
program.
(c) Limitations on joint funding
The Secretary may not construe the provi-
sions of this section to take precedence over a
limitation on joint funding contained in an ap-
plicable statute.
(d) Congressional notice
(1) The Secretary shall provide notice to the
Committee on Education and Labor of the House
of Representatives and to the Committee on
Labor and Human Resources of the Senate of
each joint funding agreement made with other
Federal agencies not later than 60 days after the
making of such agreements.
(2) Such notice shall include—
(A) a description of the purpose and objec-
tives of the joint funding
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