### Question
How does Improving Academic Achievement define high-poverty local educational agency?


### Answer
Under *20 U.S.C. § 7315*, **high-poverty local educational agency** is defined as:

> a local educational agency for which 20 percent or more of the children who are age 5 through 17, and served by the local educational agency, are from families with incomes below the poverty line

#### Citation:
  - *20 U.S.C. § 7315*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 70-STRENGTHENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS > SUBCHAPTER VI-FLEXIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY > Part A-Improving Academic Achievement > subpart 3-state and local flexibility demonstration > Division A-State Flexibility Authority**

