LEA Permissive Use of Funds
Flexibility in use of Part B funds
Services that benefit nondisabled (same as IDEA 97)
Early intervening services (up to 15% - priority on K-3)
High cost students
Administrative Case Management Technology
Adjustment to local fiscal effort
If in compliance, LEA may use up to 50% of amounts in excess from prior fiscal year to carry out ESEA activities.
Speaker Notes:
Section 613(a)(4)
IDEA permits LEAs to use up to 15% of their IDEA Part B funds (less any amount a LEA reduces from its maintenance of effort, if any) for early intervening services for children who have not been identified as having disabilities "but who need additional academic and behavioral support to succeed in the general education environment."
IDEA also permits LEAs to use its Part B funds to establish and implement cost or risk sharing funds, consortia or cooperatives for the LEA itself, or for LEAs working in a consortium to pay for high costs special education services.
IDEA permits a LEA to use its Part B funds to purchase appropriate technology for recordkeeping, data collection and related case management activities of teachers and related service personnel providing services as indicated in students' IEPS, that is needed for the implementation of such case management activities.
IDEA also allows LEAs to adjust their local fiscal effort in certain fiscal year. In those years in which the allocation received by a LEA exceeds the amount the LEA received the year before, it may reduce its level of expenditures (local effort) by not more than 50% of the amount of the excess, provided that the LEA uses those local funds to carry out activities authorized under ESEA. In order to exercise this authority, the LEA must have first used the 15% for early intervening services.