---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 6451"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "6451"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/6451"
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 2 — local agency programs"
---

# §6451. Purpose


The purpose of this subpart is to support the operation of [local educational agency](/usc/20/7801.md?p=30-A) programs that involve collaboration with locally operated correctional facilities—

- (1) to carry out high quality education programs to prepare children and youth for [secondary school](/usc/20/7801.md?p=45) completion, training, employment, or further education;
- (2) to provide activities to facilitate the transition of such children and youth from the correctional program to further education or employment; and
- (3) to operate programs in local schools, including schools operated or funded by the Bureau of [Indian](/usc/20/7491.md?p=3) Education, for children and youth returning from correctional facilities, and programs which may serve [at-risk](/usc/20/6472.md?p=2) children and youth.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1421, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1587; amended Pub. L. 114–95, title I, § 1401(8), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 1903.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6451, Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1421, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3597, related to purpose of subpart, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110.

### Amendments

2015—Par. (3). Pub. L. 114–95 inserted “, including schools operated or funded by the Bureau of Indian Education,” after “local schools”.

### 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.