(a) The State Board of Education shall prepare an evaluation of the priority school district grant program not later than December 15, 1990, and triennially thereafter.

(b) Each school district participating in the project shall prepare an annual project evaluation, which shall include a description of program activities and documentation of program improvement and student achievement. Each such evaluation shall be submitted to the commissioner on or before August fifteenth of the fiscal year following each fiscal year in which the school district participated in the priority school district program.

(c) Within sixty days after the close of the school year, each local board of education which received a priority school district grant shall file with the commissioner a financial statement of expenditures in such form as the commissioner shall prescribe. The State Board of Education shall periodically review grant payments made pursuant to this section in order to determine that such state funds received are being used for the purposes specified in the application. On or before December thirty-first of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which payment was received, each local board which received a priority school district grant shall file with the commissioner a financial audit in such form as prescribed by the commissioner.

(P.A. 84-265, S. 3, 4; P.A. 87-499, S. 20, 34; P.A. 91-401, S. 15, 20; P.A. 92-170, S. 12, 13, 26; 92-262, S. 32, 33, 42; P.A. 93-263, S. 13, 14; P.A. 95-226, S. 29, 30.)

History: P.A. 87-499 in Subsec. (a) inserted “December 15, 1990, and triennially thereafter” for February 15, 1987, and deleted the reference to the program as a “pilot”; P.A. 91-401 repealed requirement in Subsec. (c) that state board of education periodically audit grant payments, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 92-170 amended Subsec. (a) to remove a requirement that the evaluation be submitted to the general assembly; P.A. 92-262 removed references to regional boards of education; P.A. 93-263 repealed section, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-226 repealed P.A. 93-263, S. 13 which had repealed the section, effective July 1, 1995.

Cited. 195 C. 24; 228 C. 699.