[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 34CFR280.2]



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                           TITLE 34--EDUCATION

 

              SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 

PART 280_MAGNET SCHOOLS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 280.2  Who is eligible to apply for a grant?



    (a) An LEA or consortia of LEAs is eligible to receive assistance 

under this part if the LEA or consortia of LEAs meets any of the 

following requirements:

    (1) The LEA or consortia of LEAs is implementing a plan undertaken 

pursuant to a final order of a court of the United States, or a court of 

any State, or any other State agency or official of competent 

jurisdiction, and the order requires the desegregation of minority group 

segregated children or faculty in the elementary and secondary schools 

of that agency or those agencies.

    (2) The LEA or consortia of LEAs adopted and is implementing on 

either a voluntary basis or as required under title VI of the Civil 

Rights Act of 1964--or will adopt and implement if assistance is made 

available under this part--a plan that has been approved by the 

Secretary as adequate under title VI.

    (b) The Secretary approves a voluntary plan under paragraph (a)(2) 

of this section only if he determines that for each magnet school for 

which funding is sought--

    (1) The magnet school will reduce, eliminate, or prevent minority 

group isolation within the period of the grant award, either in the 

magnet school or in a feeder school, as appropriate; and

    (2) The establishment of the magnet school will not result in an 

increase of minority enrollment, at the magnet school or at any feeder 

school, above the districtwide percentage of minority group students in 

the LEA's schools at the grade levels served by that magnet school.



(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7231c)



[50 FR 21191, May 22, 1985, as amended at 54 FR 19508, May 5, 1989; 57 

FR 61508, Dec. 24, 1992; 60 FR 14865, Mar. 20, 1995; 69 FR 4996, Feb. 2, 

2004]