study of allocation of funds

study of allocation of funds Sec. 102. (a) The Commissioner of Education shall make a study of the allocation of sums appropriated for the purposes of title I of 84 Stat. 122the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 11)65 and of the effectiveness of the various provisions of such title in making funds available to State and local educational agencies in order to meet the purposes of such title 1. Such study shall make special reference to the distribution of funds to local educational agencies within counties, the means by which such funds may be concentrated in school attendance areas with the highest concentrations of children from low-income families, the appropriateness of the Federal percentage and the low-income factor provided for in subsection (c) of section 103 of such title I when considered in the light of the extra cost of providing compensatory education for educationally deprived children (including the means of providing services authorized by such title to such children residing in rural areas), and the use of special incentive grants to increase State and local effort for education. (b) Not later than March 31, 11172, the Commissioner shall submit to the Congress a report on the study required by subsection (a), together with such recommendations as he may deem appropriate with respect to modification of programs under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Notwithstanding the first sentence of section 103(d) of such title I, the Commissioner shall not use data for the purposes of section 103 of such title I from the 1970 census of the United States prior to July 1, 1972.