---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 6456"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "6456"
heading: "Accountability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/6456"
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"
---

# §6456. Accountability


The [State educational agency](/usc/20/7801.md?p=49) may—

- (1) reduce or terminate funding for projects under this subpart if a [local educational agency](/usc/20/7801.md?p=30-A) does not show progress in the number of children and youth attaining a [regular high school diploma](/usc/20/7801.md?p=43) or its recognized equivalent; and
- (2) require correctional facilities or institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth to demonstrate, after receiving assistance under this subpart for 3 years, that there has been an increase in the number of children and youth returning to school, attaining a [regular high school diploma](/usc/20/7801.md?p=43) or its recognized equivalent, or attaining employment after such children and youth are released.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1426, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title I, § 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1590; amended Pub. L. 114–95, title I, § 1401(13), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 1905.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6456, Pub. L. 89–10, title I, § 1426, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3600, related to accountability, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 107–110.

### Amendments

2015—Par. (1). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(13)(A), substituted “the number of children and youth attaining a regular high school diploma or its recognized equivalent” for “reducing dropout rates for male students and for female students over a 3-year period”.

Par. (2). Pub. L. 114–95, § 1401(13)(B), substituted “attaining a regular high school diploma” for “obtaining a secondary school diploma” and “attaining employment” for “obtaining employment”.

### 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.