State Educational Agencies

The Administrator shall, not later than 30 days after November 28, 1990, publish and distribute to all local education agencies and State Governors information or an advisory to-... 

A local educational agency may request a deferral, to May 9, 1989, of the deadline under subsection (a) of this section. Upon approval of such a request, the deadline under subsection (a) of this section is deferred until May 9,1989, for the local educational agency which submitted the request. Such a request may cover one or more schools under the authority of the agency and shall include a list of all the schools covered by the request. A local educational agency shall file any such request with the State Governor by October 12, 1988, and shall include with the request either of the following statements ... 

B) As soon as practicable, but in no event later than 30 days, after July 18, 1988, the Administrator shall mail a notice describing the opportunity to file a request for deferral under this subsection to each local educational agency and to each State office in the list published under subparagraph (A). 

Not later than December 31, 1988, the Governor of each State shall submit to the Administrator a written statement on the status of management plan submissions and deferral requests by local educational agencies in the State. The statement shall be made available to local educational agencies in the State and shall contain the following ... 

B) the local educational agency is not taking sufficient action (as determined by the Administrator or the Governor) to respond to the airborne asbestos or friable asbestos-containing material, the Administrator or the Governor of a State is authorized to act to protect human health or the environment. 

B) In the case ofthe Administrator taking the action, the Administrator shall notify both the local educational agency concerned and the Governor of the State in which such agency is located. 

The Administrator or the Governor of a State may seek reimbursement for all costs of an emergency action taken under this subsection in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or for the district in which the emergency action occurred. In any action seeking reimbursement from a local educational agency, the action shall be brought in the United States District Court for the district in which the local educational agency is located. 

On the basis of the interim report or the final report of the study required by subsection (a) of this section, a State may enact or amend State law to establish or modify a standard of liability for local educational agencies or asbestos contractors with respect to actions required under this subchapter. 

No State or local educational agency may discriminate against a person in any way, including firing a person who is an employee, because the person provided information relating to a potential violation of this subchapter to any other person, including a State or the Federal Government. 

Until the local educational agency with authority over a school has submitted a management plan (for the school) which the State Governor has not disapproved as of the end of the period for review and revision of the plan under... 

Such diagnostic and remedial efforts shall be carried out with a view to developing technology and expertise for the purpose of making such technology and expertise available to any local educational agency and the several States. 

IN GENERAL—The term local educational agency means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary schools or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or of or for a combination of school districts or connties that is recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary schools or secondary schools. 

We have also written for politicians at local, state, and national levels. And for senior staff—the information gatekeepers—in agencies whose activities have a bearing on traffic safety but for whom it is not their primary accountability—for example, in road and transport agencies, in injury compensation agencies, and in police, public health, and education agencies. Finally, we have written for road, traffic, and vehicle... 

Cheung, O., Clements, B., Pechman, E. (1997). Protecting the privacy of student records Guidelines for education agencies. Washington, DC Council of Chief State Officers. 

The Agency s mission is to control and abate pollution in the areas of air, water, solid waste, pesticides, radiation, and toxic substances. The EPA coordinates and supports research and anti-pollution activities by state and local governments, private and public groups, individuals, and educational institutions. 

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