Sec. 6. Upon review of the applications received under section 5 of this chapter, the department may award grants to school corporations subject to available money and in accordance with the following priorities:

(1) To the extent possible, to achieve geographic balance throughout Indiana and to include urban, suburban, and rural school corporations.

(2) To address a documented need for new or expanded programs, including consideration of the percentage of students within the school corporation who are designated as at risk students.

(3) To lower:

(A) student/school counselor ratios;

(B) student/social worker ratios; and

(C) student/school psychologist ratios;

where the ratios are excessively high.

[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-10.1-31-6.]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.4.