[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 34, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 34CFR300.18]

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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION
 
              CHAPTER III--OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND
            REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
 
PART 300--ASSISTANCE TO STATES FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 300.18  Local educational agency.

    (a) As used in this part, the term local educational agency means a 
public board of education or other public authority legally constituted 
within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to 
perform a service function for, public elementary or secondary schools 
in a city, county, township, school district, or other political 
subdivision of a State, or for a combination of school districts or 
counties as are recognized in a State as an administrative agency for 
its public elementary or secondary schools.
    (b) The term includes--
    (1) An educational service agency, as defined in Sec. 300.10;
    (2) Any other public institution or agency having administrative 
control and direction of a public elementary or secondary school, 
including a public charter school that is established as an LEA under 
State law; and
    (3) An elementary or secondary school funded by the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, and not subject to the jurisdiction of any SEA other than the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, but only to the extent that the inclusion 
makes the school eligible for programs for which specific eligibility is 
not provided to the school in another provision of law and the school 
does not have a student population that is smaller than the student 
population of the LEA receiving assistance under this Act with the 
smallest student population.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1401(15))