---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 226.21"
title: "34"
number: "226.21"
heading: "How may charter schools use these funds?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/226.21"
---

# §226.21. How may charter schools use these funds?

- (a) Charter schools that receive grant funds through their State must use the funds for facilities. Except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, allowable expenditures include:
  - (1) **Rent.**
  - (2) **Purchase of building or land.**
  - (3) **Construction.**
  - (4) **Renovation of an existing school facility.**
  - (5) **Leasehold improvements.**
  - (6) **Debt service on a school facility.**
- (b) Charter schools may not use these grant funds for purchasing land when they have no immediate plans to construct a building on that land.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1221e-3; 7221d(b), unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 75909, Dec. 21, 2005, unless otherwise noted.