§ 168 - Authority of state board of education to utilize federal funds to aid education - Vermont Statutes

§ 168. Authority of state board of education to utilize federal funds to aid education

(a) The state board is designated as the sole state agency to establish and administer through the department of education any statewide plan which is now or hereafter may be required as a condition for receipt of funds as may be made available to the state of Vermont by the Congress of the United States, or administrative ruling pursuant thereto, for any educational purposes including technical education and adult education and literacy. It shall also be the agency to accept and administer federal funds which federal legislation requires a state education agency having jurisdiction of elementary and secondary education to administer.

(b) Subject to the approval of the governor, the board may accept and utilize such funds. It may establish criteria and procedures to conform with any requirements established for the use of such funds and may take such other action as may be required to comply with any condition for receipt of such federal aid. (Added 1969, No. 298 (Adj. Sess.), § 19; amended 1975, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1983, No. 247 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1991, No. 204 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2009, No. 44, § 29, eff. May 21, 2009.)