---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 5964"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "5964"
heading: "Applications and plans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/5964"
units:
  - "Chapter 68 — National Education Reform"
  - "Subchapter VII — Safe Schools"
---

# §5964. Applications and plans

- (a) **Application—** In order to receive a grant under this subchapter, an eligible [local educational agency](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-6) shall submit to the [Secretary](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-12) an application that includes—
  - (1) an assessment of the current violence and crime problems in the [schools](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) to be served by the grant and in the [community](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-3) to be served by the applicant;
  - (2) an assurance that the applicant has written policies regarding [school](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) safety, student discipline, and the appropriate handling of violent or disruptive acts;
  - (3) a description of the [schools](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) and [communities](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-3) to be served by the grant, the activities and projects to be carried out with grant funds, and how these activities and projects will help to reduce the current violence and crime problems in the [schools](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) and [communities](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-3) served;
  - (4) a description of educational materials to be developed in the first most predominate non-English language of the [schools](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) and [communities](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-3) to be served by the grant, if applicable;
  - (5) if the [local educational agency](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-6) receives Federal education funds, an explanation of how activities assisted under this subchapter will be coordinated with and support any systemic education improvement plan prepared with such funds;
  - (6) the applicant’s plan to establish [school](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11)-level advisory committees, which include faculty, parents, staff, and students, for each [school](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) to be served by the grant and a description of how each committee will assist in assessing that [school](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11)’s violence and discipline problems as well as in designing appropriate programs, policies, and practices to combat such problems;
  - (7) the applicant’s plan for collecting baseline and future data, by individual [schools](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11), to monitor violence and discipline problems and to measure the applicant’s progress in achieving the purpose of this subchapter;
  - (8) a description of how, in subsequent fiscal years, the grantee will integrate the violence prevention activities the grantee carries out with funds under this subchapter with activities carried out under the grantee’s comprehensive plan for drug and violence prevention adopted under the Drug-Free [Schools](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) and Communities Act of 1986;
  - (9) a description of how the grantee will coordinate the grantee’s [school](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) crime and violence prevention efforts with education, law enforcement, judicial, health, and social service programs supported under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 [[34 U.S.C. 11101](/usc/34/11101.md) et seq.], and other appropriate agencies and organizations serving the [community](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-3);
  - (10) a description of how the grantee will inform parents about the extent of crime and violence in their [children](/usc/20/6082.md?p=1)’s [schools](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) and maximize the participation of parents in the grantee’s violence prevention activities;
  - (11) an assurance that grant funds under this subchapter will be used to supplement and not supplant [State](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-13) and local funds that would, in the absence of funds under this subchapter, be made available by the applicant for the purposes of the grant;
  - (12) an assurance that the applicant will cooperate with, and provide assistance to, the [Secretary](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-12) in gathering statistics and other data the [Secretary](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-12) determines are necessary to determine the effectiveness of projects and activities assisted under this subchapter or the extent of [school](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) violence and discipline problems throughout the Nation; and
  - (13) such other information as the [Secretary](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-12) may require.
- (b) **Plan—** In order to receive funds under this subchapter for a second year, a grantee shall submit to the [Secretary](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-12) a comprehensive, long-term, [school](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) safety plan for reducing and preventing [school](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) violence and discipline problems. Such plan shall contain a description of how the grantee will coordinate the grantee’s [school](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) crime and violence prevention efforts with education, law-enforcement, judicial, health, social service, and other appropriate agencies and organizations serving the [community](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–227, title VII, § 704, Mar. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 205.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986, referred to in subsec. (a)(8), is title V of Pub. L. 89–10 as added by Pub. L. 100–297, title I, § 1001, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 252, which was classified generally to subchapter V (§ 3171 et seq.) of chapter 47 of this title, prior to the general amendment of Pub. L. 89–10 by Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3519.

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, referred to in subsec. (a)(9), is Pub. L. 93–415, Sept. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 1109, which is classified principally to chapter 111 (§ 11101 et seq.) of Title 34, Crime Control and Law Enforcement. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title of 1974 Act note set out under section 10101 of Title 34 and Tables.