Title III uses the terms “supplement” and “supplant.” What do they mean?
Title III, Section 3115(g), requires that funds available under a subgrant be used “to supplement the level of federal, state, and local public funds that, in the absence of such availability, would have been expended for programs for LEP students and immigrant students and in no case to supplant such Federal, State, and local public funds.” For example, if a particular activity last year was paid with nonfederal funds, the same activity this year cannot be paid with federal funds. State-mandated activities must be paid with state funds first.
