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Local education agency (LEA) definitionLocal education agency (LEA) means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within Delaware for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary or secondary schools in a school district, or for a combination of school districts.View SourceBased on 12 documents12Draft with AISplit ViewAI-Powered Contracts

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Get StartedSchedule a DemoLocal education agency (LEA) means a public board of education or other public or private nonprofit authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public or private nonprofit elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or for a combination of school districts or counties that is recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public or private nonprofit elementary schools or secondary schools. The term also includes any other public or private nonprofit institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public or private nonprofit elementary school or secondary school, including residential child care institutions, Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, and educational service agencies and consortia of those agencies, as well as the State educational agency in a State or territory in which the State educational agency is the sole educational agency for all public or private nonprofit schools.View SourceBased on 10 documents10Draft with AILocal education agency (LEA) means a local school district.View SourceBased on 9 documents9Draft with AI

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• The SPCSA as the Local Education Agency (LEA) and pass-through entity is responsible for monitoring the activities of the school (subrecipient) as necessary to ensure that the grant funds are used for authorized purposes; in compliance with applicable statutes, regulations, and terms and conditions of the subaward; and that subaward performance goals are achieved.

• A teacher assistant hired and working within a program operated by a Local Education Agency (LEA) (i.e., an TrueNorth Member District) shall have seniority only within the LEA requesting his/her services through TrueNorth.

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Local education agency (LEA) means a school district, a county office of education, a community college district, or a school district on behalf of one or more schools within the school district. EC 8205(ad). Direct fund charter schools that have been funded to operate preschool programs are also considered to be LEAs.View SourceBased on 9 documents9Draft with AILocal education agency (LEA) means a local board of education, combination of school districts, other legally constituted local school authority having administrative control and direction of free public education within the state, or other entities as designated by the Board, and includes any entity with state-wide responsibility for directly operating and maintaining facilities for providing public education.View SourceBased on 9 documents9Draft with AILocal education agency (LEA) means “local education agency” as defined in 34 CFRView SourceBased on 6 documents6Draft with AILocal education agency (LEA) means a school district, a county office of education, a community college district, or a school district on behalf of one or more schools within the school district. EC 8208 (ak)View SourceBased on 5 documents5Draft with AILocal education agency (LEA) means the local public school district.View SourceBased on 5 documents5Draft with AILocal education agency (LEA) means a reorganized traditional school district, vocational/technical school district[,] or Charter School[,] legally constituted and established[,] under Delaware law for either administrative control or direction of public elementary or secondary school(s).View SourceBased on 5 documents5Draft with AILocal education agency (LEA) means any organizational unit of the public education system existing under state law as either a traditional school district or a charter school authorized under Section 53A-1a-502.View SourceBased on 4 documents4Draft with AI

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