---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 6439"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "6439"
heading: "Technical assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/6439"
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"
---

# §6439. Technical assistance


The [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46) may reserve not more than 2.5 percent of the amount made available to carry out this subpart for a fiscal year to provide technical assistance to and support the capacity building of [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) agency programs assisted under this subpart.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1419, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1587; amended Pub. L. 114–95, title I, § 1401(7), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 1903.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2015—Pub. L. 114–95, in section catchline, substituted “Technical assistance” for “Evaluation; technical assistance; annual model program” and, in text, substituted “for a fiscal year” for “for a fiscal year—”, struck out par. (2) designation before “to provide”, and struck out par. (1) which read as follows: “to develop a uniform model to evaluate the effectiveness of programs assisted under this subpart; and”.

### 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.