--- kind: "section" citation: "20 U.S.C. § 7711" title: "20" title_heading: "Education" number: "7711" heading: "Administrative hearings and judicial review" release: "119-102" date: "2026-07-12" url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/7711" units: - "Chapter 70 — Strengthening and Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Schools" - "Subchapter VII — Impact Aid" --- # §7711. Administrative hearings and judicial review - (a) **Administrative hearings—** A [local educational agency](/usc/20/7713.md?p=9-A) and a [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) that is adversely affected by any action of the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46) under this subchapter shall be entitled to a hearing on such action in the same manner as if such agency were a person under [chapter 5](/usc/5/chptI/ch5.md) of title 5 if the [local educational agency](/usc/20/7713.md?p=9-A) or [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6), as the case may be, submits to the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46) a request for the hearing not later than 60 days after the date of the action of the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46) under this subchapter. - (b) **Judicial review of secretarial action—** - (1) **In general—** A [local educational agency](/usc/20/7713.md?p=9-A) or a [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) aggrieved by the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46)’s final decision following an agency proceeding under [subsection (a)](#a) may, within 30 working days (as determined by the [local educational agency](/usc/20/7713.md?p=9-A) or [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6)) after receiving notice of such decision, file with the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which such agency or [State](/usc/20/7171.md?p=b-6) is located a petition for review of that action. The clerk of the court shall promptly transmit a copy of the petition to the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46). The [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46) shall then file in the court the record of the proceedings on which the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46)’s action was based, as provided in [section 2112 of title 28](/usc/28/2112.md). - (2) **Findings of fact—** The findings of fact by the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46), if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive, but the court, for good cause shown, may remand the case to the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46) to take further evidence. The [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46) may thereupon make new or modified findings of fact and may modify the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46)’s previous action, and shall file in the court the record of the further proceedings. Such new or modified findings of fact shall likewise be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence. - (3) **Review—** The court shall have exclusive jurisdiction to affirm the action of the [Secretary](/usc/20/7801.md?p=46) or to set it aside, in whole or in part. The judgment of the court shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in [section 1254 of title 28](/usc/28/1254.md). ## Source credit (Pub. L. 89–10, title VII, § 7011, formerly title VIII, § 8011, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title I, § 101, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3768; amended Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title XVIII, § 1814(a)(1), (b)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–387; renumbered title VII, § 7011, and amended Pub. L. 114–95, title VII, §§ 7001(c)(2), 7011, Dec. 10, 2015, 129 Stat. 2074, 2087.) ## Notes ### Editorial Notes ### Amendments 2015—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 114–95, § 7011, struck out “or under the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874, 81st Congress) (as such Act was in effect on the day preceding October 20, 1994)” after “any action of the Secretary under this subchapter”. 2000—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title XVIII, § 1814(a)(1)], inserted “if the local educational agency or State, as the case may be, submits to the Secretary a request for the hearing not later than 60 days after the date of the action of the Secretary under this subchapter” before period at end. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title XVIII, § 1814(b)], substituted “30 working days (as determined by the local educational agency or State)” for “60 days”. ### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries ### Effective Date of 2015 Amendment Amendment by Pub. L. 114–95 effective Dec. 10, 2015, and effective with respect to appropriations for use under this subchapter beginning fiscal year 2017, except as otherwise provided in such amendment, see section 5 of Pub. L. 114–95, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title. ### Effective Date of 2000 Amendment Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title XVIII, § 1814(a)(2)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–387, provided that: “The amendment made by paragraph (1) [amending this section] shall apply with respect to an action of the Secretary under title VIII [now VII] of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) initiated on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 2000].”