The department shall ensure that not less than 15% of money appropriated or made available to the department for grants under this article are allocated to school entities that rank in the lowest 5% of school entities based on combined mathematics and reading scores from annual state assessments administered in the previous school year and, to the greatest extent possible, the department shall ensure that all money appropriated or made available to the department for grants under this article is distributed geographically throughout this commonwealth.
24 P.S. § 15-1510-I