View all text of Subchapter IV [§ 1234 - § 1234i]
§ 1234f. Compliance agreements
(a) Discretionary authority; purposes of agreement
(b) Procedures applicable
(1) Before entering into a compliance agreement with a recipient, the Secretary shall hold a hearing at which the recipient, affected students and parents or their representatives, and other interested parties are invited to participate. The recipient shall have the burden of persuading the Secretary that full compliance with the applicable requirements of law is not feasible until a future date.
(2) If the Secretary determines, on the basis of all the evidence presented, that full compliance is genuinely not feasible until a future date, the Secretary shall make written findings to that effect and shall publish those findings, along with the substance of any compliance agreement, in the Federal Register.
(c) Contents
A compliance agreement under this section shall contain—
(1) an expiration date not later than 3 years from the date of the written findings under subsection (b)(2), by which the recipient shall be in full compliance with the applicable requirements of law, and
(2) those terms and conditions with which the recipient must comply until it is in full compliance.
(d) Failure of recipient to comply with terms and conditions
(Pub. L. 90–247, title IV, § 457, as added Pub. L. 100–297, title III, § 3501(a), Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 355.)