---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 5968"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "5968"
heading: "Coordination of Federal assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/5968"
units:
  - "Chapter 68 — National Education Reform"
  - "Subchapter VII — Safe Schools"
---

# §5968. Coordination of Federal assistance


The [Secretary](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-12), as a member of the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the [Department](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-3) of Justice, shall coordinate the programs and activities carried out under this subchapter with the programs and activities carried out by the [departments](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-3) and offices represented within the Council that provide assistance under other Federal law for purposes that are determined by the [Secretary](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-12) to be similar to the purpose of this subchapter, in order to avoid redundancy and coordinate Federal assistance, research, and programs for youth violence prevention.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–227, title VII, § 709, Mar. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 209.)