---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 6452"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "6452"
heading: "Programs operated by local educational agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/6452"
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"
---

# §6452. Programs operated by local educational agencies

- (a) **Local subgrants—** With funds made available under [section 6422(b) of this title](/usc/20/6422.md?p=b), the [State educational agency](/usc/20/7801.md?p=49) shall award subgrants to [local educational agencies](/usc/20/7801.md?p=30-A) with high numbers or percentages of children and youth residing in locally operated (including [county](/usc/20/7801.md?p=10) operated) correctional facilities for children and youth (including facilities involved in [community day programs](/usc/20/6472.md?p=3)).
- (b) **Special rule—** A [local educational agency](/usc/20/7801.md?p=30-A) that serves a school operated by a correctional facility is not required to operate a program of support for children and youth returning from such school to a school that is not operated by a correctional agency but served by such [local educational agency](/usc/20/7801.md?p=30-A), if more than 30 percent of the children and youth attending the school operated by the correctional facility will reside outside the boundaries served by the [local educational agency](/usc/20/7801.md?p=30-A) after leaving such facility.
- (c) **Notification—** A [State educational agency](/usc/20/7801.md?p=49) shall notify [local educational agencies](/usc/20/7801.md?p=30-A) within the [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) of the eligibility of such agencies to receive a subgrant under this subpart.
- (d) **Transitional and academic services—** Transitional and supportive programs operated in [local educational agencies](/usc/20/7801.md?p=30-A) under this subpart shall be designed primarily to meet the transitional and academic needs of students returning to [local educational agencies](/usc/20/7801.md?p=30-A) or alternative education programs from correctional facilities. Services to students [at-risk](/usc/20/6472.md?p=2) of dropping out of school shall not have a negative impact on meeting such transitional and academic needs of the students returning from correctional facilities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1422, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1587; amended Pub. L. 114–95, title I, § 1401(9), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 1903.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6452, Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1422, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3598, related to programs operated by local educational agencies, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110.

### Amendments

2015—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 114–95 substituted “impact on meeting such transitional” for “impact on meeting the transitional”.

### 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.