---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 10013"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "10013"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/10013"
units:
  - "Chapter 80 — State Fiscal Stabilization Fund"
---

# §10013. Definitions


Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, as used in this chapter—

- (1) the terms “elementary education” and “secondary education” have the meaning given such terms under [State](#5) law;
- (2) the term “high-need local educational agency” means a local educational agency—
  - (A) that serves not fewer than 10,000 children from families with incomes below the poverty line; or
  - (B) for which not less than 20 percent of the children served by the agency are from families with incomes below the poverty line;
- (3) the term “institution of higher education” has the meaning given such term in [section 1001 of this title](/usc/20/1001.md);
- (4) the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Education;
- (5) the term “State” means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and
- (6) any other term used that is defined in [section 7801](/usc/20/7801.md)[^1] of this title shall have the meaning given the term in such section.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–5, div. A, title XIV, § 14013, Feb. 17, 2009, 123 Stat. 286.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 7801 of this title, referred to in par. (6), was in the original a reference to section 9101 of Pub. L. 89–10, which was renumbered section 8101 by Pub. L. 114–95, title VIII, § 8001(a)(1), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 2089.