---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 7355a"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "7355a"
heading: "Supplement, not supplant"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/7355a"
units:
  - "Chapter 70 — Strengthening and Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Schools"
  - "Subchapter V — Flexibility and Accountability"
  - "Part B — Rural Education Initiative"
  - "Subpart 3 — general provisions"
---

# §7355a. Supplement, not supplant


Funds made available under subpart 1 or subpart 2 of this part shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, any other Federal, [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6), or local education funds.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–10, title V, § 5232, formerly title VI, § 6232, as added Pub. L. 107–110, title VI, § 601, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1897; renumbered title V, § 5232, Pub. L. 114–95, title V, § 5001(a)(5), Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 2039, 2040.)