repeal of mandatory group rate provisions

repeal of mandatory group rate provisions Sec. 206. Effective for fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1967, subsection (d) of section 3 of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress), as amended, is amended as follows: (1) The first sentence is amended by inserting “and the local educational agency” following “the State educational agency”. (2) Clauses (1) and (2) of the first sentence are amended to read as follows: “(1) he. shall determine which school districts within the State are in his judgment generally comparable to the school districts of the agency for which the computation is being made; and “(2) he shall then divide (A) the aggregate current expenditures, during the second fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which he is making the computation, which the local educational agencies of such comparable school districts made from revenues derived from local sources, by (B) the aggregate number of children in average daily attendance to whom such agencies provided free public education during such second preceding fiscal year.” (3) The third sentence is amended by striking out “If, in the judgment of the Commissioner, the current expenditures in the school districts within the generally comparable group as determined under clause (1)” and inserting in lieu thereof “If, in the judgment of the Commissioner, the current expenditures in those school districts which he has selected under clause (1)”.