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PUBLIC LAW 93-380_AUG. 21, 1974 it

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P A Y M E N T S TO STATES

"SEC. 405. From the amounts allotted to each State under section ^o use isos. 402 for carrying out the programs authorized by parts B and C, Poft^ pp "42, respectively, the Commissioner shall pay to that State an amount 543. ' equal to the amount expended by the State in carrying out its State plan (after withholding any amount necessary pursuant to section In fra. 406(f)). a PARTICIPATION OF C H I L D R E N ENROLLED I N PRIVATE SCHOOLS

"SEC. 406. (a) To the extent consistent with the number of children in the school district of a local educational agency (which is a recipient of funds under this title or which serves the area in which a program or project assisted under this title is located) who are enrolled in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools, such agency, after consultation with the appropriate private school officials, shall provide for the benefit of such children in such schools secular, neutral, and nonideological services, materials, and equipment including the repair, minor remodeling, or construction of public school facilities as may be necessary for their provision (consistent with subsection (c) of this section), or, if such services, materials, and equipment are not feasible or necessary in one or more such private schools as determined by the local educational agency after consultation with the appropriate private school officials, shall provide such other arrangements as will assure equitable participation of such children in the purposes and benefits of this title. "(b) Expenditures for programs pursuant to subjection (a) shall be equal (consistent with the number of children to be served) to expenditures for programs for children enrolled in the public schools of the local educational agency, taking into account the needs of the individual children and other factors (pursuant to criteria supplied by the Commissioner) which relate to such expenditures, and when funds available to a local educational agency under this title are used to concentrate programs or projects on a particular group, attendance area, or grade or age level, children enrolled in private schools who are included within the group, attendance areas, or grade or age level selected for such concentration shall, after consultation with the appropriate private school officials, be assured equitable participation in the purposes and benefits of such programs or projects. "(c)(1) The control of funds provided under this title and title to materials, equipment, and property repaired, remodeled, or constructed therewith shall be in a public agency for the uses and purposes provided in this title, and a public agency shall administer such funds and property. "(2) The provision of services pursuant to this section shall be provided by employees of a public agency or through contract by such public agency with a person, an association, agency, or corporation who or which in the provision of such services is independent of such private school and of any religious organization, and such employment or contract shall be under the control and supervision of such public agency, and the funds provided under this title shall not be commingled with State or local funds. " (d) If a State is prohibited by law from providing for the participation in programs of children enrolled in private elementary and secondary schools, as required by this section, the Commissioner may waive such requirement and shall arrange for the provision of services to such children through arrangements which shall be subject to the requirements of this section.

20 USC 1806,

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