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20 U.S.C. § 7906a — Prohibition against Federal mandates, direction, or control
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**(a) In general** No officer or employee of the Federal Government shall, through grants, contracts, or other cooperative agreements, mandate, direct, or control a State, local educational agency, or school’s specific instructional content, academic standards and assessments, curricula, or program of instruction developed and implemented to meet the requirements of this chapter (including any requirement, direction, or mandate to adopt the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, any other academic standards common to a significant number of States, or any assessment, instructional content, or curriculum aligned to such standards), nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to authorize such officer or employee to do so.
**(b) Financial support** No officer or employee of the Federal Government shall condition or incentivize the receipt of any grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, the receipt of any priority or preference under such grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, or the receipt of a waiver under [section 7861 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section7861&num=0&edition=prelim) upon a State, local educational agency, or school’s adoption or implementation of specific instructional content, academic standards and assessments, curricula, or program of instruction developed and implemented to meet the requirements of this chapter (including any condition, priority, or preference to adopt the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, any other academic standards common to a significant number of States, or any assessment, instructional content, or curriculum aligned to such standards).
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**(a) In general** No officer or employee of the Federal Government shall, through grants, contracts, or other cooperative agreements, mandate, direct, or control a State, local educational agency, or school’s specific instructional content, academic standards and assessments, curricula, or program of instruction developed and implemented to meet the requirements of this chapter (including any requirement, direction, or mandate to adopt the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, any other academic standards common to a significant number of States, or any assessment, instructional content, or curriculum aligned to such standards), nor shall anything in this chapter be construed to authorize such officer or employee to do so.
**(b) Financial support** No officer or employee of the Federal Government shall condition or incentivize the receipt of any grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, the receipt of any priority or preference under such grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, or the receipt of a waiver under [section 7861 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section7861&num=0&edition=prelim) upon a State, local educational agency, or school’s adoption or implementation of specific instructional content, academic standards and assessments, curricula, or program of instruction developed and implemented to meet the requirements of this chapter (including any condition, priority, or preference to adopt the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative, any other academic standards common to a significant number of States, or any assessment, instructional content, or curriculum aligned to such standards).
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**(a) Agreements** In any case in which a negotiated rulemaking process is established under [section 6571(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6571/b&num=0&edition=prelim), all published proposed regulations shall conform to agreements that result from the rulemaking described in [section 6571 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section6571&num=0&edition=prelim) unless the Secretary reopens the negotiated rulemaking process.
**(b) Records** The Secretary shall ensure that an accurate and reliable record of agreements reached during the negotiations process is maintained.
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**(a) In general**
(1) **Request for waiver by State or Indian tribe** — A State educational agency or Indian tribe that receives funds under a program authorized under this chapter may submit a request to the Secretary to waive any statutory or regulatory requirement of this chapter.
(2) **Local educational agency and school requests submitted through the State**
(A) *Request for waiver by local educational agency* — A local educational agency that receives funds under a program authorized under this chapter and desires a waiver of any statutory or regulatory requirement of this chapter shall submit a request containing the information described in subsection (b)(1) to the appropriate State educational agency. The State educational agency may then submit the request to the Secretary if the State educational agency determines the waiver appropriate.
(B) *Request for waiver by school* — An elementary school or secondary school that desires a waiver of any statutory or regulatory requirement of this chapter shall submit a request containing the information described in subsection (b)(1) to the local educational agency serving the school. The local educational agency may then submit the request to the State educational agency in accordance with subparagraph (A) if the local educational agency determines the waiver appropriate.
(3) **Receipt of waiver** — Except as provided in subsection (b)(4) or (c), the Secretary may waive any statutory or regulatory requirement of this chapter for which a waiver request is submitted to the Secretary pursuant to this subsection.
**(b) Request for waiver**
(1) **In general** — A State educational agency, acting on its own behalf or on behalf of a local educational agency in accordance with subsection (a)(2), or Indian tribe tha
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No provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, or to require the assignment or transportation of students or teachers in order to overcome racial imbalance.
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 7906a
ties before or after the hours during which at-
tendance at the school is compulsory.
(Pub. L. 89–10, title VIII, § 8525, formerly title IX,
§ 9525, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title IX, § 901,
Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1981; renumbered title VIII,
§ 8525, Pub. L. 114–95, title VIII, § 8001(a)(6), Dec.
10, 2015, 129 Stat. 2088, 2089.)
Editorial Notes
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 7905, Pub. L. 89–10, title IX, § 9205, as
added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat.
3800, related to Native Hawaiian Family-Based Edu-
cation Centers, prior to the general amendment of
former subchapter IX of this chapter by Pub. L. 107–110.
§ 7906. Prohibited uses of funds
No funds under this chapter may be used—
(1) for construction, renovation, or repair of
any school facility, except as authorized under
this chapter;
(2) for transportation unless otherwise au-
thorized under this chapter;
(3) to develop or distribute materials, or op-
erate programs or courses of instruction di-
rected at youth, that are designed to promote
or encourage sexual activity, whether homo-
sexual or heterosexual;
(4) to distribute or to aid in the distribution
by any organization of legally obscene mate-
rials to minors on school grounds;
(5) to provide sex education or HIV-preven-
tion education in schools unless that instruc-
tion is age appropriate and includes the health
benefits of abstinence;
(6) to operate a program of contraceptive
distribution in schools; or
(7) for the provision to any person of a dan-
gerous weapon, as defined in section 930(g)(2)
of title 18, or training in the use of a dan-
gerous weapon, except that this paragraph
shall not apply to the use of funds under this
chapter for activities carried out und
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