---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 6437"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "6437"
heading: "Three-year programs or projects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/6437"
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"
---

# §6437. Three-year programs or projects


If a [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) agency operates a program or project under this subpart in which individual children or youth are likely to participate for more than 1 year, the [State educational agency](/usc/20/7801.md?p=49) may approve the [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) agency’s application for a subgrant under this subpart for a period of not more than 3 years.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1417, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1586.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6437, Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1417, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3597, related to three-year programs and projects, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110.