---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 6431"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "6431"
heading: "Eligibility"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/6431"
units:
  - "Chapter 70 — Strengthening and Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Schools"
  - "Subchapter I — Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged"
  - "Part D — Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk"
  - "Subpart 1 — state agency programs"
---

# §6431. Eligibility


A [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) agency is eligible for assistance under this subpart if such [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) agency is responsible for providing [free public education](/usc/20/7491.md?p=2) for children and youth—

- (1) in institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth;
- (2) attending [community day programs](/usc/20/6472.md?p=3) for neglected or delinquent children and youth; or
- (3) in [adult correctional institutions](/usc/20/6472.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1411, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1581.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6431, Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1411, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3592, related to eligibility, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110.