---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 C.F.R. § 694.5"
title: "34"
number: "694.5"
heading: "What requirements must be met by a Partnership or State that chooses to provide services to private school students under the program's early intervention component?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/34/694.5"
---

# §694.5. What requirements must be met by a Partnership or State that chooses to provide services to private school students under the program's early intervention component?

- (a) **Secular, neutral, and nonideological services or benefits.** Educational services or other benefits, including materials and equipment, provided under GEAR UP by a Partnership or State that chooses to provide those services or benefits to students attending private schools, must be secular, neutral, and nonideological.
- (b) **Control of funds.** In the case of a Partnership or State that chooses to provide services under GEAR UP to students attending private schools, the fiscal agent (in the case of a Partnership) or a State agency (in the case of a State) must—
  - (1) Control the funds used to provide services under GEAR UP to those students;
  - (2) Hold title to materials, equipment, and property purchased with GEAR UP funds for GEAR UP program uses and purposes related to those students; and
  - (3) **Administer those GEAR UP funds and property.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1070a-21 to 1070a-28.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 24760, Apr. 27, 2000, unless otherwise noted.