---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 6435"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "6435"
heading: "Use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/6435"
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"
---

# §6435. Use of funds

- (a) **Uses—**
  - (1) **In general—** A [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) agency shall use funds received under this subpart only for programs and projects that—
    - (A) are consistent with the [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) plan under [section 6434(a) of this title](/usc/20/6434.md?p=a); and
    - (B) concentrate on providing participants with the knowledge and skills needed to make a successful transition to [secondary school](/usc/20/7801.md?p=45) completion, career and technical education, further education, or employment.
  - (2) **Programs and projects—** Such programs and projects—
    - (A) may include—
      - (i) the acquisition of equipment;
      - (ii) pay-for-success initiatives; or
      - (iii) providing targeted services for youth who have come in contact with both the [child](/usc/20/7801.md?p=3) welfare system and juvenile justice system;
    - (B) shall be designed to support educational services that—
      - (i) except for institution-wide projects under [section 6436 of this title](/usc/20/6436.md), are provided to children and youth identified by the [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) agency as failing, or most [at-risk](/usc/20/6472.md?p=2) of failing, to meet the challenging [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) academic standards;
      - (ii) respond to the educational needs of such children and youth, including by supplementing and improving the quality of the educational services provided to such children and youth by the [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) agency; and
      - (iii) afford such children and youth an opportunity to meet challenging [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) academic standards; and
    - (C) shall be carried out in a manner consistent with [section 6321 of this title](/usc/20/6321.md) and part F (as applied to programs and projects under this part).
- (b) **Supplement, not supplant—** A program under this subpart that supplements the number of hours of instruction students receive from [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) and local sources shall be considered to comply with the supplement, not supplant requirement of [section 6321 of this title](/usc/20/6321.md) (as applied to this part) without regard to the subject areas in which instruction is given during those hours.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1415, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1585; amended Pub. L. 114–95, title I, § 1401(4), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 1902.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6435, Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1415, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3596, related to use of funds, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110.

### Amendments

2015—Subsec. (a)(1)(B). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(4)(A)(i), substituted “career and technical education” for “vocational or technical training”.

Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(4)(A)(ii)(I), added subpar. (A) and struck out former subpar (A) which read as follows: “may include the acquisition of equipment;”.

Subsec. (a)(2)(B)(i). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(4)(A)(ii)(II)(aa), substituted “the challenging State academic standards” for “the State’s challenging academic content standards and student academic achievement standards”.

Subsec. (a)(2)(B)(ii). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(4)(A)(ii)(II)(bb), substituted “respond to the educational needs of such children and youth, including by supplementing and improving the quality” for “supplement and improve the quality”.

Subsec. (a)(2)(B)(iii). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(4)(A)(ii)(II)(cc), substituted “challenging State academic standards” for “challenging State academic achievement standards” and inserted “and” after semicolon at end.

Subsec. (a)(2)(C). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(4)(A)(ii)(III), made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 6321 of this title and substituted “part F” for “part I” and period for “; and” at end.

Subsec. (a)(2)(D). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(4)(A)(ii)(IV), struck out subpar. (D) which read as follows: “may include the costs of meeting the evaluation requirements of section 7941 of this title.”

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(4)(B), made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 6321 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2015 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 114–95 effective Dec. 10, 2015, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 114–95, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.