20 U.S.C. § 9409 : US Code - Section 9409: Grant administration

Search 20 U.S.C. § 9409 : US Code - Section 9409: Grant administration

(a) Federal administrative costs
The Secretary may use not more than 3 percent of the amount
appropriated under section 9404 of this title for a fiscal year to
pay for the administrative costs of carrying out this chapter,
including the monitoring and evaluation of State and local efforts.
(b) State administrative costs
A State that receives a grant under this chapter may use -
(1) not more than 2 percent of the funds made available through
the grant to carry out activities designed to coordinate early
learning programs on the State level, including programs funded
or operated by the State educational agency, health, children and
family, and human service agencies, and any State-level
collaboration or coordination council involving early learning
and education, such as the entities funded under section
9835(a)(5) of title 42;
(2) not more than 2 percent of the funds made available through
the grant for the administrative costs of carrying out the grant
program and the costs of reporting State and local efforts to the
Secretary; and
(3) not more than 3 percent of the funds made available through
the grant for training, technical assistance, and wage incentives
provided by the State to Local Councils.
(c) Lead State Agency
(1) In general
To be eligible to receive an allotment under this chapter, the
Governor of a State shall appoint, after consultation with the
leadership of the State legislature, a Lead State Agency to carry
out the functions described in paragraph (2).
(2) Lead State Agency
(A) Allocation of funds
The Lead State Agency described in paragraph (1) shall
allocate funds to Local Councils as described in section 9411
of this title.
(B) Functions of agency
In addition to allocating funds pursuant to subparagraph (A),
the Lead State Agency shall -
(i) advise and assist Local Councils in the performance of
their duties under this chapter;
(ii) develop and submit the State application;
(iii) evaluate and approve applications submitted by Local
Councils under section 9412 of this title;
(iv) ensure collaboration with respect to assistance
provided under this chapter between the State agency
responsible for education and the State agency responsible
for children and family services;
(v) prepare and submit to the Secretary, an annual report
on the activities carried out in the State under this
chapter, which shall include a statement describing how all
funds received under this chapter are expended and
documentation of the effects that resources under this
chapter have had on -
(I) parental capacity to improve learning readiness in
their young children;
(II) early childhood literacy;
(III) linkages among early learning programs;
(IV) linkages between early learning programs and health
care services for young children;
(V) access to early learning activities for young
children with special needs;
(VI) access to existing early learning programs through
expansion of the days or times that children are served;
(VII) access to existing early learning programs through
expansion of the number of young children served;
(VIII) access to and affordability of existing early
learning programs for low-income families;
(IX) the quality of early learning programs resulting
from professional development, and recruitment and
retention incentives for caregivers; and
(X) removal of ancillary barriers to early learning,
including transportation difficulties and absence of
programs during nontraditional work times; and
(vi) ensure that training and research is made available to
Local Councils and that such training and research reflects
the latest available brain development and early childhood
development research related to early learning.