[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 34, Volume 2]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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))