An Act to amend the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and for other purposes
PL 90-576 (H.R.18366), enacted 10/16/1968

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Public Law 90-576 
October 16, 1968 
A N 
A C T 
[H.R. 18366] 
rjy^ aiiieiid the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and for other purposes. 
Vocational Edu-
cation Amendments 
of 1968. 
Be It enaeted hy the Senate and House of RepTesentatlceH of the 
United States of America in Congress asserribled^ 
SHORT TITLE 
SECTION. 1. This Act may be cited as the "Vocational Education 
Amendments of 1968". 
TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO T H E VOCATIONAL 
EDUCATION ACT OF 1963 
ACT AMENDMENTS 
SEC. 101. (a) The Act of December 18, 1963, Public Law 88-210 
20 use 35 note. (77 ^^^^ 403 et seq.), is amended— 
(1) by redesignating parts B and C thereof as titles I I and I I I 
and redesignating sections 21 through 28 and 31 through 33, and 
all references thereto, as sections 201 through 208 and 301 through 
303, respectively; 
(2) redesignating part A thereof as title I; and 
(3) adding after the enacting clause, the following: "That title 
Citation o
f 
J Qf ^]^jg ^^^ jjjj^y l3g cited as the 'Vocational Education Act of 
1963'.". 
(b) Title I of such Act (as redesignated by subsection (a)) is 
amended to read as follows: 
" T I T L E I—VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 
"PART A—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
'DECLARATION OF PURPOSE 
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"SEC. 101. It is the purpose of this title to authorize Federal grants 
to States to assist them to maintain, extend, and improve existing pro-
grams of vocational education, to develop new programs of vocational 
education, and to provide part-time employment for youths who need 
the earnings from such employment to continue their vocational train-
ing on a full-time basis, so that persons of all ages in all communities 
of the State—those in high school, those who have completed or dis-
continued their formal education and are preparing to enter the labor 
market, those who have already entered the labor market but need to 
upgrade their skills or learn new ones, those with special educational 
handicaps, and those in postsecondary schools—will have ready access 
to vocational training or retraining which is of high quality, which is 
realistic in the light of actual or anticipated opportunities for gainful 
employment, and which is suited to their needs, interests, and ability 
to benefit from such training. 
"AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
"SEC. 102. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated $355,000,000 
for the fiscal year ending June 30,1969, $565,000,000 for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1970, $675,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1971, $675,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, and 
$565,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30,1973, and each succeed-
ing fiscal year for the purposes of parts B and C of this title. From the 
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amount appropriated pursuant to thepreceding sentence and allotted 
to each State under section 103, 90 per centum shall be available for the 
purposes of part B and 10 per centum shall be available for the pur-
poses of part C. 
"(b) There are also authorized to be appropriated $40,000,000 each 
for the fiscal years and ending June 30, 1969, and June 30, 1970, for 
the purposes of section 122(a) (4) (A). Nothing in this subsection shall 
be construed to affect the availability for such purposes, of appropria-
tions made pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. 
"(c) There are further authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal 
year such sums as may be necessary to pay the cost of the administra-
tion and development of State plans, the activities of advisory councils 
created under this title, and the evaluation and dissemination activi-
ties required pursuant to this title. 
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ALLOTMENTS AMONG STATES 
"SEC, 103. (a) (1) From the sums appropriated pursuant to section 
102(a) the Commissioner shall first reserve an amount, not to exceed 
$5,000,000 in any fiscal year, for transfer to the Secretary of Labor to 
finance (upon terms and conditions mutually satisfactory to tlie Com-
missioner and the Secretary of Labor) national, regional. State, and 
local studies and projections of manpower needs for the use and 
guidance of Federal, State, and local officials, and of advisory councils 
charged with responsibilities under this title. 
"(2) The remainder of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 
102(a) and all of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 102(b) 
shall be allotted among the States on the basis of the number of per-
sons in the various age groups needing vocational education and the 
per capita income in the respective States as follows: The Commis-
sioner shall allot to each State for each fiscal year— 
"(A) An amount which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum 
of the sums being allotted, as the product of the population aged 
fifteen to nineteen, inclusive, in the State in the preceding fiscal 
year and the State's allotment ratio bears to the sum of the 
corresponding products for all the States; plus 
'•(B) An amount which bears the same ratio to 20 per centum 
of the sums being allotted, as the product of the population 
aged twenty to twenty-four, inclusive, in the State in the preced-
ing fiscal year and the State's allotment ratio bears to the sum 
of the corresponding products for all the States; plus 
"(C) An amount which bears the same ratio to 15 per centum 
of the sums being allotted, as the product of the population 
aged twenty-five to sixty-five, inclusive, in the State in the pre-
ceding fiscal year and the State's allotment ratio bears to the 
sum of the corresponding products for all the States; plus 
"(D) An amount which bears the same ratio to 5 per centum 
of the sums being allotted, as the sum of the amounts allotted 
to the State under subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) for such 
years bears to the sum of the amounts allotted to all the States 
under paragraphs (A), (B), and (C) for such year. 
"(b) The amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for 
any fiscal year which is less than $10,000 shall be increased to that 
amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by 
proportionately reducing the allotments to each of the remaining 
States under such subsection, but with such adjustments as may be 
necessary to prevent the allotment of any of such remaining States 
from being thereby reduced to less than that amount. 
"(c) The amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for 
any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be re-
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"Allotment 
ratio." 
" P e r capita in-
come." 
quired for such fiscal year for carrying out the program for which such 
amount has been allotted shall be available, from time to time, for 
reallotment, on such dates during such year as the Commissioner shall 
fix, on the basis of criteria established by regulation, first among pro-
grams authorized by other parts of this title within that State and 
then among other States, except that funds appropriated under section 
102(b) may only be reallotted for the uses set forth in section 122 
(a)(4)(A). Any amount reallotted to a State under this subsec-
tion for any fiscal year shall remain available for obligation during 
the next succeeding fiscal year and shall be deemed to be part of its 
allotment for the year in which it is obligated, 
"(d)(1) The 'allotment ratio' for any State shall be 1.00 less the 
product of— 
"(A) 0.50, and 
"(B) the quotient obtained by dividing the per capita income 
for the State by the per capita income for all the States (exclusive 
of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and 
the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands), except that (i) the 
allotment ratio in no case shall be more than 0.60 or less than 0.40, 
and (ii) the allotment ratio for Puerto RicOj Guam, American 
Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands shall be 0.60. 
"(2) The allotment ratios shall be promulgated by the Commis-
sioner for each fiscal year between July 1 and September 30 of the pre-
ceding fiscal year. Allotment ratios shall be computed on the basis of 
the average of the appropriate jDer capita incomes for the three most 
recent consecutive fiscal years for which satisfactory data are available. 
"(3) The term 'per capita income' means, with respect to a fiscal 
year, the total personal income in the calendar year ending in such 
year, divided by the population of the area concerned in such year. 
" (4) For the purposes of this section population shall be determined 
by the Commissioner on the basis of the latest estimates available to 
him. 
National Ad-
visory Council on 
Vocational Educa-
tion. 
Establishment; 
membership. 
il NATIONAL AND STATE ADVISORY 
COUNCILS 
"SEC. 104. (a) (1) There is hereby created a National Advisory 
Council on Vocational Education (hereinafter referred to as the 
'National Council') consisting of twenty-one members appointed by 
the President, without regard to the civil service laws, for terms of 
three years, except that (i) in the case of the initial members, seven 
shall be appointed for terms of one year each and seven shall be 
appointed for terms of two years each, and (ii) appointments to fill 
vacancies shall be only for such terms as remain unexpired. The Coun-
cil shall include persons— 
"(A) representative of labor and management, including per-
sons who have knowledge of the semiskilled, skilled, and technical 
employment in such occupational fields as agriculture, home eco-
nomics, distribution and marketing, health, trades, manufactur-
ing, office and service industries, and persons representative of 
new and emerging occupational fields, 
"(B) familiar with manpower problems and administration of 
manpower programs, 
"(C) knowledgeable about the administration of State and 
local vocational education programs, including members of local 
school boards. 
"(D) experienced in the education and training of handicapped 
persons, 
"(E) familiar with the special problems and needs of indi-
viduals disadvantaged by their socioeconomic backgrounds, 
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"(F) having special knowledge of postsecondary and adult 
vocational education programs, and 
"(G) representative of the general public who are not Federal 
employees, including parents and students, except that they may 
not be representative of categories (A) through (F), and who 
shall constitute no less than one-third of the total membership. 
Tlie National Council shall meet at the call of the Chairman, who 
shall be selected by the President, but not less than four times a year. 
"(2) The National Council shall— 
Duties. 
"(A) advise the Commissioner concerning the administration 
of, preparation of general regulations for, and operation of, 
vocational education programs supported with assistance under 
this title; 
"(B) review the administration and operation of vocational ^.^^*P°''^'^'^^"*'" 
education programs under this title, including the effectiveness of gress. 
such programs in meeting the purposes for which they are estab-
lished and operated, make recommendations with respect thereto, 
and make annual reports of its findings and recommendations 
(including recommendations for changes in the provisions of this 
title) to the Secretary for transmittal to the Congress; and 
"(C) conduct independent evaluations of programs carried out 
under this title and publish and distribute the results thereof. 
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"(3) Members of the National Council who are not regular fwll-^^^^""^P^^g^'.'""; 
time employees of the United States shall, while serving on business 
of the National Council, be entitled to receive compensation at rates 
fixed by the President, but not in excess of $100 per day, including 
traveltime; and, while so serving away from their homes or regular 
places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per 
diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5 of 
the United States Code for persons in Government service employed 
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intermittently. 
"(4) The Council is authorized, without regard to the civil service .technical as-
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sistance, appro-
laws, to engage such technical assistance as may be required to carry priation. 
out its functions, and to this end there are hereby authorized to be 
appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, $100,000, and 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and each of the two succeed-
ing fiscal years, $150,000. 
"(5) The National Council shall review the possible duplication of J^^^*'""^^ ^''°' 
vocational education programs at the postsecondary and adult levels 
Review, reports. 
Mdthin geographic areas, and shall make annual reports of the extent 
to which such duplication exists, together with its findings and recom-
mendations, to the Secretary. In making these reports, the Council 
shall seek the opinions of persons familiar with postsecondary and 
adult vocational education in each State from schools, junior colleges, 
technical institutes, and other institutions of higher education, as well 
as from State boards of education, State junior college boards, and 
State boards of higher education, and persons familiar with area 
schools, labor, business and industry, accrediting commissions, pro-
prietary institutions, and manpower programs. 
"(b) (1) Any State which desires to receive a grant under this title 
^^^^e advisory 
for any fiscal year shall establish a State advisory council, which shall '"'""''' 
be appointed by the Governor or, in the case of States in which the 
members of the State board are elected, by such board, and which 
shall— 
"(A) include as members a person or persons— 
Membership, 
"(i) familiar with the vocational needs and the problems 
of management and labor in the State, and a person or 
persons representing State industrial and economic develop-
ment agencies. 
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"(ii) representative of community and junior colleges and 
other institutions of higher education, area vocational schools, 
technical institutes, and jx)stsecondary or adult education 
agencies or institutions, which may provide programs of voca-
tional or technical education and training, 
"(iii) familiar with the administration of State and local 
vocational education programs, and a person or persons hav-
ing special knowledge, experience, or qualifications with re-
spect to vocational education and who are not involved in the 
administration of State or local vocational education pro-
grams, 
"(iv) familiar with programs of technical and vocational 
education, including programs in comprehensive secondary 
schools, 
"(v) representative of local educational agencies, and a 
person or jjersons who are representative of school boards, 
"(vi) representative of manpower and vocational educa-
tion agencies in the State, including a person or persons from 
the Comprehensive Area Manpower Planning System of the 
State, 
"(vii) representing school systems with large concentra-
tions of academically, socially, economically, and culturally 
disadvantaged students, 
"(viii) having special knowledge, experience, or qualifica-
tions, with respect to the special educational needs of physi-
cally or mentally handicapped persons, and 
" (ix) representative of the general public, including a per-
son or persons representative of and knowledgeable about the 
poor and disadvantaged, who are not qualified for membership 
under any of the preceding clauses of this paragraph; 
"(B) advise the State board on the development of and policy 
matters arising in the administration of the State plan submitted 
pursuant to part B of this title, including the preparation of long-
range and annual program plans pursuant to paragraphs (4) and 
(5) of section 123(a); 
"(C) evaluate vocational education programs, services, and 
activities Eissisted under this title, and publish and distribute the 
results thereof; and 
"(D) prepare and submit through the State board to the Com-
missioner and to the National Council an annual evaluation report, 
accompanied by such additional comments of the Stat© board as 
the State board deems appropriate, which (i) evaluates the effec-
tiveness of vocational education programs, services, and activities 
carried out in the year under review m meeting the program objec-
tives set forth in the long-range program plan and the annual 
program plan provided for in paragraphs (4) and (5) of section 
123 (a), and (ii) recommends such changes in such pro-ams, serv-
ices, and activities as may be warranted by the evaluations. 
"(2) Not less than ninety days prior to the beginning of any fiscal 
year ending after June 30, 1969, in which a State desires to receive a 
grant under this title, that State shall certify the establishment of, and 
membership of, its State Advisory Council to the Commissioner. 
"(3) Each State Advisory Council shall meet within thirty days 
after certification has been accepted by the Commissioner and select 
from among its membership a chairman. The time, place, and manner 
of meeting shall be as provided by the rules of the State Advisory 
Council, except that such rules must provide for not less than one pub-
lic meeting each year at which the public is given opportunity to 
express views concerning vocational education. 
Duties. 
Report. 
Certification. 
Meetings. 
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Consultants. 
" (4) State Advisory Councils are authorized to obtain the services 
of such professional, technical, and clerical personnel as may be nec-
essary to enable them to carry out their functions under this title and 
to contract for such services as may be necessary to enable them to 
carry out their evaluation functions. 
"(c) From the sums appropriated pursuant to section 102(c) for 
compensation, 
any fiscal year, the Commissioner is authorized (in accordance with ""^ ^ ^°"" 
regulations) to pay to each State Advisory Council an amount equal 
to the reasonable amounts expended by it in carrying out its functions 
under this title in such fiscal year, except that the amount available for 
such purpose shall be equal to 1 per centum of the State's allotment 
under section 103, but such amount shall not exceed $150,000 and shall 
not be less than $50,000. 
a FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION 
"SEC. 105. Nothing contained in this title shall be construed to 
authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United 
States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the cur-
riculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any 
educational institution or school system. 
"LABOR STANDARDS 
"SEC. 106. All laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or 
subcontractors on all construction projects assisted under this title shall 
be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing as determined 
by the Secretary of Labor in accordfuice with the Davis-Bacon Act, 
as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a—276a-5). The Secretary of Labor shall ^ ^g^stat. loii; 
have with respect to the labor standards specified in this section the 
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authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 
14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176) and section 2 of the Act of June 13,1934, as 
64 stat. 1267. 
amended (40 U.S.C. 276c). 
63 stat. los. 
"LIMITATION ON PAYMENTS UNDER THIS TITLE 
"SEC. 107. (a) Nothing contained in this title shall be construed to 
authorize the making of any payment under this title for religious 
worship or instruction, or for the construction, operation, or mainte-
nance of so much of any facility as is used or to be used for sectarian 
instruction or as a place for religious worship. 
"(b) Funds appropriated pursuant to this title may be used for 
residential vocational education schools only to the extent that the 
operation of such schools is consistent with general regulations of the 
( ommissioner concerning the operation of such schools, but in no case 
may juveniles be assigned to such schools as the result of their delin-
quent conduct, and such facilities may not be used in such a manner 
as to result in racial segregation. 
"DEFINITIONS 
"SEC. 108. For the purposes of this title— 
" (1) The term 'vocational education' means vocational or technical 
training or retraining which is given in schools or classes (including 
field or laboratory work and remedial or related academic and technical 
instruction incident thereto) under public supervision and control or 
under contract with a State board or local educational agency and is 
conducted as part of a program designed to prepare individuals for 
gainful employment as semiskilled or skilled workers or technicians 
or subprofessionals in recognized occupations and in new and emerging 
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occupations or to prepare individuals for enrollment in advanced tech-
nical education programs, but excluding any program to prepare indi-
viduals for employment in occupations which the Commissioner deter-
mines, and specifies by regulation, to be generally considered pro-
fessional or which requires a baccalaureate or higher degree; and 
such term includes vocational guidance and counselmg (individually 
or through group instruction) in connection with such training or for 
the purpose of facilitating occupational choices; instruction related to 
the occupation or occupations for which the students are in train-
ing or instruction necessary for students to benefit from such.train-
ing; job placement; the training of persons engaged as, or preparing 
to become, teachers in a vocational education program or preparing 
such teachers to meet special education needs of handicapped stu-
dents; teachers, supervisors, or directors of such teachers while in 
such a training program; travel of students and vocational educa-
tion personnel while engaged in a training program; and the acqui-
sition, maintenance, and repair of instructional supplies, teaching 
aids, and equipment, but such term does not include the construction, 
acquisition, or initial equipment of buildings or the acquisition or 
rental of land. 
"(2) The term 'area vocational education school' means— 
"(A) a specialized high school used exclusively or principally 
for the provision of vocational education to persons who are 
available for study in preparation for entering the labor market, 
or 
"(B) the department of a high school exclusively or prin-
cipally used for providing vocational education in no less than 
five different occupational fields to persons who are available for 
study in preparation for entering the labor market, or 
"(C) a technical or vocational school used exclusively or prin-
cipally for the provision of vocational education to persons who 
have completed or left high school and who are available for study 
in preparation for entering the labor market, or 
"(D) the department or division of a junior college or com-
munity college or university which provides vocational education 
in no less than five different occupational fields, under the super-
vision of the State Board, leading to immediate employment but 
not necessarily leading to a baccalaureate degree, 
if it is available to all residents of the State or an area of the State 
designated and approved by the State Board, and if, in the case of 
a school, department, or division described in (C) or (D), it admits 
as regular students both persons who have completed high school and 
persons who have left high school. 
"(3) "^hp term 'sr>>ool facilities' means classrooms and related facili-
ties (including initial equipment) and interests in lands on which such 
facilities are constructed. Such term shall not include any facility 
intended primarily for events for which admission is to be charged to 
the general public. 
"(4) The term 'construction' includes construction of new buildings 
and acquisition, expansion, remodeling, and alteration of existing 
buildings, and includes site grading and improvement and architect 
fees. 
"(5) The term 'Commissioner' means the Commissioner of Educa-
tion, and the term 'Secretary' means the Secretary of Health, Educa-
tion, and Welfare. 
"(6) The term 'handicapped', when applied to persons, means per-
sons who are mentally retarded, hard of hearing, deaf, speech im-
paired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, crip-
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pled or other health impaired persons who by reason thereof require 
special education and related services. 
"(7) The term 'State' includes, in addition to the several States, 
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Vir-
gin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the 
Pacific Islands. 
"(8) The term 'State board' means a State board designated or 
created by State law as the sole State agency responsible for the ad-
ministration of vocational education, or for supervision of the admin-
istration thereof by local educational agencies, in the State. 
"(9) The term 'local educational agency' means a board of educa-
tion or other legally constituted local school authority having admin-
istrative control and direction of public elementary or secondary 
schools in a city, county, township, school district, or political sub-
division in a State, or any other public educational institution or 
agency having administrative control and direction of a vocational 
education program. 
"(10) The term 'high school' does not include any grade beyond 
grade 12. 
"(11) The term 'private vocational training institution* means a 
business or trade school, or technical institution or other technical or 
vocational school, in any State, which (A) admits as regular students 
only persons who have completed or left elementary or secondary 
school and who have the ability to benefit from the training offered by 
such institution; (B) is legally authorized to provide, and provides 
within that State, a program of postsecondary vocational or technical 
education designed to fit individuals for useful employment in recog-
nized occupations; (C) has been in existence for two years or has been 
specially accredited by the Commissioner as an institution meeting 
the other requirements of this subsection; and (D) is accredited (i) by 
a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association listed by the 
Commissioner pursuant to this clause, or (ii) if the Commissioner 
determines that there is no nationally recognized accrediting agency 
or association qualified to accredit schools of a particular category, 
by a State agency listed by the Commissioner pursuant to this clause, 
or (iii) if the Commissioner determines that there is no nationally 
recognized or State agency or association qualified to accredit schools 
of a particular category, by an advisory committee appointed by 
him and composed of persons specially qualified to evaluate training 
provided by schools of that category, which committee shall prescribe 
the standards of content, scope, and quality which must be met by 
those schools and shall also determine whether particular schools 
meet those standards. For the purpose of this subsection, the Commis-
sioner shall publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies 
or associations and State agencies which he determines to be reliable 
authority as to the quality of education or training afforded. 
"(12) The term 'Vocational Education Act of 1946' meajis titles I, 
II, and I I I of the Act of June 9,1936, as amended (20 U.S.C. 15i-15m, 
15o-15q, 15aa-15jj,15aaa-15ggg). 
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"(13) The term 'supplementary vocational education Acts' means 72 stat. 1598. 
section 1 of the Act of IkLarch 3, 1931 (20 U.S.C. 30) (relating to 
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vocational education in Puerto Rico), the Act of March 18, 1950 (20 
U.S.C. 31-33) (relating to vocational education ill the Virgin Islands), 
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and section 9 to the Act of August 1, 1956 (20 U.S.C. 34) (relating 
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to vocational education in Guam). 
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"PART B—STATE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS 
"AUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS 
"SEC. 121. From the sums made available for grants under this part 
pursuant to sections 102 and 103, the Commissioner is authorized to 
make grants to States to assist them in conducting vocational education 
programs for persons of all ages in all communities of the States, 
which are designed to insure that education and training programs 
for career vocations are available to all individuals who desire and 
need such education and training. 
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USES OF FEDERAL 
FUNDS 
"SEC. 122. (a) Grants to States under this part may be used, in 
accordance with State plans approved pursuant to section 123, for the 
following purposes: 
"(1) vocational education programs for high school students, 
including such programs which are designed to prepare them for 
advanced or highly skilled postsecondary vocational and technical 
education; 
"(2) vocational education for persons who have completed or 
left high school and who are available for study in preparation for 
entering the labor market; 
"(3) vocational education for persons (other than persons who 
are receiving training allowances under the Manpower Develop-
ment and Training Act of 1962 (Public Law 87-115), the Area 
note.' 
Redevelopment Act (Public Law 87-27), or the Trade Expansion 
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labor market and who need training or retraining to achieve sta-
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"(^) i-^) vocational education for persons (other than handi-
capped persons defined in section 108(6)) who have academic, 
socioeconomic, or other handicaps that prevent them from suc-
ceeding in the regular vocational education program; 
"(B) vocational education for handicapped persons who be-
cause of their handicapping condition cannot succeed in the regu-
lar vocational education program without special educational 
assistance or who require a modified vocational education 
program; 
"(5) construction of area vocational education school facilities; 
"(6) vocational guidance and counseling designed to aid per-
sons enumerated in paragraphs (1) through (4) of this subsection 
in the selection of, and preparation for, employment in all voca-
tional areas; 
"(7) provision of vocational training through arrangements 
with private vocational training institutions where such private 
institutions can make a significant contribution to attaining the 
objectives of the State plan, and can provide substantially equiva-
lent training at a lesser cost, or can provide equipment or services 
not available in public institutions; and 
"(8) ancillary services and activities to assure quality in all 
vocational education programs, such as teacher training and 
supervision, program evaluation, special demonstration 
and 
experimental programs, development of instructional materials, 
and improved State administration and leadership, including 
periodic evaluation of State and local vocational education pro-
grams and services in light of information regarding current 
and projected manpower needs and job opportunities. 
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"(b) In addition to the uses of funds specified in subsection (a), 
funds appropriated pursuant to section 102(c) and paid to a State for 
the following purpose by the Commissioner may be used for— 
" (1) the development of the State plan; 
"(2) State administration of the State plan, including obtain-
ing information regarding current and projected manpower needs 
and job opportunities; and 
"(3) the evaluations required under this title and the dissemi-
nation of the results thereof. 
"(c) (1) At least 25 per centum of that portion of each State's allot-
ment of funds appropriated under section 102(a) for any fiscal year 
beginning after June 80, 1969, which is in excess of its base allotment 
shall be used only for the purpose set forth in paragraph (4) (A) of 
subsection (a): Provided^ That for anj'^ such fiscal year the amount 
used for such purpose shall not be less than 15 per centum of the total 
allotment of such funds for each State, except as any requirement 
under this paragraph may be waived for any State by the Commis-
sioner for any fiscal year upon his finding that the requirement imposes 
a hardship or is impractical in its application. 
" (2) At least 25 per centum of that portion of each State's allotment 
of funds appropriated under section 102(a) for any fiscal year begin-
ning after June 30, 1969, which is in excess of its base allotment shall 
be used only for the purpose set forth in paragraph (2) of subsection 
(a) : Provided, That for any such fiscal year the amount used for such 
purpose shall not be less than 15 per centum of the total allotment of 
such funds for each State, except as any requirement under this para-
graph may be waived for any State by the Commissioner for any fiscal 
year upon his finding that the requirement imposes a hardship or is 
impractical in its application. 
"(3) At least 10 per centum of each State's allotment of funds 
appropriated under section 102(a) for any fiscal year beginning after 
June 30,1969, shall be used only for the purpose set forth in paragraph 
4(B) of subsection (a). 
"(4) As used in this subsection, the term 'base allotment' means 
"Base aiiot-
the sum of the allotments to a State for the fiscal year ending June 30, '"^"*" 
1969, from (1) sums appropriated under section 102(a) of this Act, 
(2) the Smith-Hughes Act (that is, the Act approv^ February 23, 
1917 (39 Stat. 929; 20 U.S.C. 11-15,16-28)), (3) the Vocational Edu-
cation Act of 1946, and (4) any of the supplementary vocational edu- 
^"'e- P- IO7I. 
rational Acts (including, in the case of American Samoa, section 2 of 
the Act of September 25,1962,48 U.S.C. 1667). 
^6 stat. sse. 
"STATE PLANS 
"SEC. 123. (a) Any State desiring to receive the amount for which 
it is eligible for any fiscal year pursuant to this title shall submit a 
State plan at such time, in such detail, and containing such information 
as the Commissioner deems necessary, which meets the requirements set 
forth in this title. The Commissioner shall approve a plan submitted 
by a State if he determines that the plan submitted for that year— 
"(1) has been prepared in consultation with the State advisory 
council for that State; 
"(2) designates the State board as the sole agency for adminis-
tration of the State plan, or for supervision of the administration 
thereof by local educational agencies; 
"(3) has been submitted only after the State board (A) has 
given reasonable notice, and afforded a reasonable opportunity for 
a public hearing, and (B) has implemented policies and proce-
dures to insure that copies of the State plan and all statements of 
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general policies, rules, reffulations, and procedures issued by the 
State board concerning the administration of such plan will be 
made reasonably available to the public; 
"(4) sets forth a long-range program plan (or, as is appro-
priate, a supplement to, or revision of, a previously submitted 
long-range plan) for vocational education in the State, which pro-
gram plan (A) has been prepared in consultation with the State 
advisory council, (B) extends over such period of time, (but not 
more than five years or less than three years), beginning with the 
fiscal year for which the State plan is submitted, as the Commis-
sioner deems necessary and appropriate for the purposes of this 
title, (C) describes the present and projected vocational education 
needs of the State in terms of the purposes of this title, and (D) 
sets forth a program of vocational education objectives which 
affords satisfactory assurance of substantial progress toward meet-
ing the vocational education needs of the potential students in 
the State; 
"(5) sets forth an annual program plan, which (A) has been 
prepared in consultation with the State advisory council, (B) 
describes the content of, and allocation of Federal and State voca-
tional education funds to programs, services, and activities to be 
carried out under the State plan during the year for which Fed-
eral funds are sought (whether or not supported with Federal 
funds under this title), (C) indicates how and to what extent, such 
programs, services, and activities will carry out the program objec-
tives set forth in the long-range program plan provided for in 
paragraph (4), and (D) indicates how, and to what extent, alloca-
tions of Federal funds allotted to the State will take into consid-
eration the criteria set forth in the State plan pursuant to para-
graph (6), and (E) indicates the extent to which consideration 
was given to the findings and recommendations of the State ad-
visory council in its most recent evaluation report submitted pur-
suant to section 104; 
"(6) sets forth in detail the policies and procedures to be fol-
lowed by the State in the distribution of funds to local educational 
agencies in the State and for the uses of such funds, specified in 
paragraphs (1) through (8) of section 122(a), for the programs, 
services, and activities set forth in the program plans submitted 
pursuant to paragraphs (4) and (5), which policies and proce-
dures assure that— 
"(A) due consideration will be given to the results of 
periodic evaluations of State and local vocational education 
programs, services, and activities in the light of information 
regarding current and projected manpower needs and job 
opportunities, particularly new and emerging needs and op-
portunities on the local, State, and national levels, 
"(B) due consideration will be given to the relative voca-. 
tional education needs of all population groups in all geo-
graphic areas and communities in the State, particularly 
Eersons with academic, socioeconomic, mental, and physical 
andicaps that prevent them from succeeding in regular voca-
tional education programs, 
"(C) due consideration will be given to the relative ability 
of particular local educational agencies within the State, 
particularly those in economically depressed areas and those 
with high rates of unemployment, to provide the resources 
necessary to meet the vocational education needs in the areas 
or communities served by such agencies, 
"(D) due consideration will be given to the cost of the 
programs, services, and activities,provided by local educa-
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1075 
. tional agencies which is in excess of the cost which may be 
normally attributed to the cost of education in such local 
educational agencies, 
"(E) funds made available under this title will not be 
allocated to local educational agencies in a manner, such as 
the matching of local expenditures at a percentage ratio uni-
form throughout the State, which fails to take into con-
sideration the criteria set forth in paragraphs (A), (B), 
( C ) , a n d ( D ) , . 
^ 
"(F) applications from local educational agencies for 
funds— 
"(i) have been developed in consultation with repre-
sentatives of the educational and training resources 
available to the area to be served by the applicant, 
" (ii) are designed to provide the persons to be served 
with education programs which will make substantial 
progress toward preparing such persons for a career, 
"(iii) include assurances of adequate planning to me^t 
the vocational education needs of potential students in 
the area or community served by such agency, and, 
"(iv) include a plan, related to the appropriate com-
prehensive area manpow^er plan (if any), for meeting 
the vocational education needs in the area or community 
served by such agency; and 
"(v) indicate how, and to what extent the vocational 
education programs, services, and activities proposed in 
the application will meet the needs set forth pursuant 
to clause (iii); and 
"(G) no local educational agency wiiich is making a 
reasonable tax effort, as defined by regulations, will be denied 
funds for the establishment of new vocational education 
/ 
programs solely because the local educational agency is 
unable to pay the non-Federal share of the cost of such new 
programs ; 
"(7) provides minimum qualification for teachers, teacher-
trainees, supervisors, directors, and other personnel having respon-
sibilities for vocational education in the State and the policies 
and procedures developed to improve the qualifications of such 
personnel and to insure that such qualifications continue to reflect 
a direct relationship with the need for personnel in vocational 
education programs carried out under the State plan; 
"(8) provides for entering into cooperative arrangements with 
the system of public employment offices in the State approved by 
the State board and by the State head of such system, looking 
tow^ard such offices making available to the State board aiid local 
educational agencies occupational information regarding reason-
able prospects of employment in the community and elsewhere, 
and toward consideration of such information by such board and 
agencies in providing vocational guidance and counseling to stu-
dents and prospective students and in determining the occupa-
tions for which persons are to be trained; and looking toward 
guidance and counseling personnel of the State board and local 
educational agencies making available to public employment of-
fices information regarding the occupational qualifications of per-
sons leaving or completing vocational education courses or schools, 
,and toward consideration of such information by such offices in 
the occupational guidance and placement of such persons; 
"(9) provides that in the development of vocational education 
programs, services and activities under this title, there may be, 
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in addition to the cooperative arrangements provided for in para-
graph (8), cooperative arrangements with other agencies, organi-
zations, and institutions concerned with manpower needs and job 
opportunities, such as institutions of higher education, and model 
city, business, labor, and community action organizations; 
'• (10) provides that effective use will be made of the results and 
experience of programs and projects assisted under other parts of 
this title; 
"(11) provides assurance that Federal funds made available 
under this part will be so used as to supplement, and to the extent 
practical, increase the amount of State and local funds that would 
in the absence of such Federal funds be made available for the 
uses set forth in section 122(a), so that all persons in all com-
munities of the State will as soon as possible have ready access 
to vocational training suited to their needs, interests, and ability 
to benefit therefrom, and in no case supplant such State or local 
funds; 
"(12) sets forth such fiscal control and fund accounting pro-
cedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, 
and accounting for. Federal funds paid to the State (including 
such funds paid by the State to local educational agencies) under 
this title; 
"(13) provides that any local educational agency dissatisfied 
with final action with respect to any apj)lication for funds under 
this title shall be given reasonable notice and opportunity for 
a hearing; 
"(14) provides assurance that the req[uirements of section 106 
will be complied with on all construction projects in the State 
ass'sted under this title; 
"(15) provides for compliance with the requirements with re-
spect to the use of funds set forth in section 122(c); 
" (^16) provides that grants made from sums appropriated under 
section 102(b) shall (A) be allocated within the State to areas of 
high concentration of youth unemployment and school dropouts, 
and (B) be made only if (i) to the extent consistent with the num-
ber of students enrolled in nonprofit private schools in the area to 
be served whose educational needs are of the type which the pro-
gram or project involved is to meet, provision has been made for 
the participation of such students, and (ii) effective policies and 
procedures will be adopted which assure that Federal funds made 
available under this section to accommodate students in nonprofit 
private schools will not be commingled with State or local funds; 
Reports; record- 
"(17) provides for making such reports in such form and con-
^^^"^^^ 
taining such information as the Commissioner may reasonably 
require to carry out his functions under this title, and for keeping 
such records and for affording such access thereto as the Commis-
sioner may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification 
of such reports; and 
"(18) includes provisions which shall assure that funds author-
ized bj^ this title will not be used for any program of vocational 
education (except homemaking programs under part F) which 
cannot be demonstrated to (A) prepare students for employment 
or (B) be necessary to prepare individuals for successful comple-
tion of such a program, or (C) be of significant assistance to indi-
viduals enrolled in making an infoi-med and meaningful occupa-
tional choice. 
"(b) The Commissioner shall not approve a State plan under this 
section until he has made specific findings as to the compliance of such 
plan with the requirements of this part and he is satisfied that adequate 
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procedures are set forth to insure that the assurances and provisions of 
such plan will be carried out. 
"(c)(1) The Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any plan 
submitted under subsection (a), or any modification thereof, without 
first affording the State board submitting the plan reasonable notice 
and opportunity for a hearing. 
"(2) Whenever the Commissioner, after reasonable notice and 
opportunity for hearing to the State board administering a State plan 
approved under subsection (a), finds that— 
"(A) the State plan has been so changed that it no long-er com-
plies with the provisions of subsection (a), or 
"(B) in the administration of the plan there is a failure to 
comply substantially with any such provision, 
the Commissioner shall notify such State board that no further pay-
ments will be made to the State under this title (or, in his discretion, 
further payments to the State will be limited to programs under or 
portions of the State plan not affected bj^ such failure) until he is 
satisfied that there will no longer be any failure to comply. LTntil he is 
so satisfied, the Commissioner shall make no further payments to such 
State under this title (or shall limit payments to programs under or 
portions of the State plan not affected by such failure). 
"(3) A State board which is dissatisfied with a final action of the du'^^.^^^di^Ja"' 
Commissioner under this subsection or subsection (b) may appeal to review. 
the L^^nited States court of appeals for the circuit in which the State 
is located, by filing a petition with such court within sixty days after 
such final action. A copy of the petition shall be forthwith transmitted 
by the clerk of the court to the Commissioner, or any officer designated 
by him for that purpose. The Commissioner thereupon shall file in 
the court the record of the proceedings on which he based his action, 
as provided in section 2112 of title 28, United States Code. Upon the ^Jl^^^^^\^\\^' 
filing of such petition, the court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the 
action of the Commissioner or to set it aside, in whole or in part, tem-
porarily or permanently, but until the filing of the record the Commis-
sioner may modify or set aside his action. The findings of the Commis-
sioner as to the facts, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be 
conclusive, but the court, for good cause shown, may remand the case 
to the Commissioner to take further evidence, and the Commissioner 
may thereupon make new or modified findings of fact and may modify 
his previous action, and shall file in the court the record of the further 
proceedings. Such new or modified findings of fact shall likewise be 
conclusive if supported by substantial evidence. The judgment of the 
court affirming or setting aside, in whole or in part, any action of the 
Commissioner shall be final, subject to review by the Supreme Court 
of the United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in 
section 1254 of title 28, United States Code. The commencement of 
" stat. 928. 
proceedings under this subsection shall not, unless so specifically or-
dered by the court, operate as a stay of the Commissioner's action. 
"(d)(1) If any local educational agency is dissatisfied with the 
final action of the State board with respect to approval of an applica-
tion by such local agency for a grant pursuant to this title, such local 
agency may, within sixty days after such final action or notice thereof, 
whichever is later, file with the United States court of appeals for the 
circuit in which the State is located a petition for review of that action. 
A copy of the petition shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of 
the court to the State board. The State board thereupon shall file in 
the court the record of the proceedings on which the State board based 
its action as provided in section 2112 of title 28, United States Code. 
"(2) The findings of fact by the State board, if supported by sub-
stantial evidence shall be conclusive; but the court, for good cause 
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[82 STAT. 
shown, may remand the case to the State board to take further evi-
dence, and the State board may thereupon make new or modified find-
ings of fact and may modify its previous action, and shall certify to 
the court the record of the further proceedings. 
"(3) The court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the 
State board or to set it aside, in whole or in part. The judgment of the 
court shall be subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United 
States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 1254 of 
62 Stat. 928. 
title 28, United States Code. 
"PAYMENTS TO STATES 
"SEC. 124. (a) The Commissioner shall pay, from the amount avail-
able to the State for grants under this part, to each State an amount 
equal to 50 per centum of the State and local expenditures in carrying 
out its State plan as approved pursuant to section 123, except that— 
"(1) allotments of States under section 103 from sums appro-
priated under section 102(b) may be used, at the discretion of 
the Commissioner, for paying all or part of the expenditures 
of the States from such allotments; and 
" (2) in the case of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and 
American Samoa, such amount shall be equal to 100 per centum of 
such expenditures. 
"(b) Payments under this title may be made in installments and 
in advance or by w ay of reimbursement, with necessary adjustments on 
account of overpayments or underpayments. 
" (c) No payments shall be made in any fiscal year under this title to 
any local educational agency or to any State unless the Commissioner 
finds, in the case of a local educational agency, that the combined fiscal 
effort of that agency and the State with respect to the provision of 
A^ocational education by that agency for the preceding fiscal year w^as 
not less than such combined fiscal effort for that purpose for the 
second preceding fiscal year or, in the case of a State, that the fiscal 
effort of that State for vocational education in that State for the pre-
ceding fiscal year was not le^ than such fiscal effort for vocational 
education for the second preceding fiscal year. 
"PART C—RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 
"AUTHORIZATION or GRANTS AND CONTRACTS 
"SEC. 131. (a) From 50 per centum of the sums available to each 
State for the purposes of this part the Commissioner is authorized to 
make grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education, 
public and private agencies and institutions. State boards, and, with 
the approval of the appropriate State board, to local educational agen-
cies in that State for the purposes set forth in section 132, except that 
no grant may be made other than to a nonprofit agency or institution. 
"(b) The remaining 50 per (^entum of the sums available to each 
State for the purposes of this part shall lie used by its State board, 
in accordance with its State plan, (1) for paying up to 75 per centum 
of the costs of the State research coordination unit, and (2) for grants 
to colleges and universities, and other public or nonprofit private 
agencies and institutions, and local educational agencies and contracts 
with private agencies, organizations, and institutions to pay 90 per 
centum of the costs of programs and projects for (i) research and 
training programs, (ii) experimental, developmental, or pilot pro-
grams developed by such institutions and agencies and designed to 
meet the special vocational needs of youths, particularly youths in eco-
nomically depressed communities who have academic, socioeconomic, 
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or other handicaps that prevent them from succeeding in the regular 
vocational education programs, and (iii) the dissemination of informa-
tion derived from the foregoing programs or from research and demon-
strations in the field of vocational education, which programs and 
projects have been recommended Ijy the State research coordination 
unit or by the State advisory council. 
"USES OF FEDERAL FUNDS 
"SEC. Ifi2. The funds available for grants and contracts under sec-
tion 131 (a) may be used for— 
" (1) research in vocational education; 
"(2) training 
programs 
designed 
to familiarize 
persons 
involved in vocational education with research findings and suc-
cessful pilot and demonstration projects in vocational education; 
"(3) experimental, developmental, and pilot programs and 
projects designed to test the effectiveness of research findings; 
" (4) demonstration and dissemination projects; 
"(5) the development of new vocational education curricula; 
and 
"(6) projects in the development of new careers and occupa-
tions, such as— 
"(A) research and experimental projects designed to iden-
tify new careers in such fields as mental and physical health, 
crime prevention and correction, welfare, education, munici-
pal services, child care, and recreation rec^uiring less training 
than professional positions and to delineate within such 
careers roles with the potential for advancement from one 
level to another; 
"(B) training and development projects designed to dem-
onstrate improved methods of securing the involvement, 
cooperation, and commitment of both the public and private 
sectors toward the end of achieving greater coordination and 
more effective implementation of programs for the employ-
ment of persons in the fields described in subparagraph (A), 
including programs to prepare professionals (including ad-
ministrators) to work effectively with aides; and 
"(C) projects to evaluate the operation of programs for 
the training, development, and utilization of public service 
aides, particularly their effectiveness in providing satisfac-
tory work experiences and in meeting public needs. 
"APPLICATIONS 
"SEC. 133. (a) A grant or contract under section 131(a) may be 
made upon application to the Commissioner at such time or times, in 
such manner, and containing, or accompanied by, such information as 
the Commissioner deems necessary. Such application shall contain— 
"(1) a description of the nature, duration, purpose, and plan 
of the project; 
" (2) the qualifications of the principal staff who will be respon-
sible for the project; 
"(3) a justification of the amount of grant funds requested; 
"(4) the portion of the cost to be borne by the applicant; and 
"(5) such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as 
may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and account-
ing for Federal funds paid to the applicant. 
"(b) The Commissioner may not approve an application until such 
application has been reviewed by a panel of experts who are not 
employees of the Federal Government. 
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[82 STAT. 
"PAYMENTS 
"SEC. 134. From the amount available for grants or contracts under 
section 131(a), the Commissioner shall pay to each applicant part of 
the amount expended by such applicant in accordance with the appli-
cation approved pursuant to section 133. 
"PART D—EXEMPLARY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS 
"FINDINGS AND PURPOSE 
"SEC. 141. The Congress finds that it is necessary to reduce the con-
tinuing seriously high level of youth unemployment by developing 
means for giving the same kind of attention as is now given to the 
college preparation needs of those young persons who go on to college, 
to the job preparation needs of the two out of three young persons who 
end their education at or before completion of the secondary level, too 
many of whom face long and bitter months of job hunting or marginal 
Avork after leaving school. The purposes of this part, therefore, are to 
stimulate, through Federal financial support, new ways to create a 
bridge between school and earning a living for young people, who 
are still in school, who have left school either by graduation or by 
dropping out, or who are in postsecondary programs of vocational 
preparation, and to promote cooperation between public education 
and manpower agencies. 
"AUTHORIZATION OF GRANTS AND CONTRACTS 
Appropriations. 
"SEC. 142. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
$15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30,1969, $57,500,000 for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and $75,000,000 for each of the two 
succeeding fiscal years to enable the Commissioner to carry out the 
provisions of this part. 
"(b)(1) From the sums appropriated pursuant to this part the 
Commissioner shall reserve such amount, but not in excess of 3 per 
centum thereof, as he may determine and shall allot such amount 
among Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, 
and the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands according to their 
respective needs for assistance under this part. 
" (2) From the remainder of such sums the Commissioner shall allo-
cate $200,000 to each State (except for those provided for in paragraph 
(1)), and he shall in addition allocate to each such State an amount 
which bears the same ratio to any residue of such remainder as the 
population aged fifteen to nineteen, both inclusive, in the State bears to 
the population of such ages in all such States. 
"(c) From 50 per centum of the sums allotted to each State for the 
purposes of this part, the Commissioner is authorized to make grants 
to or contracts with State boards or local educational agencies for the 
purpose of stimulating and assisting in the development, establish-
ment, and operation of programs or projects designed to carry out the 
purposes of this part. The Commissioner also may make, in such State 
from such sums, grants to other public or nonprofit private agencies, 
organizations, or institutions, or contracts with public or private agen-
cies, organizations, or institutions, when such grants or contracts will 
make an especially significant contribution to attaining the objectives 
of this part. 
"(d) The State board may use the remaining 50 per centum of such 
sums for making grants to local educational agencies or other public 
or nonprofit private agencies, organizations, or institutions, or con-
tracts with public or private agencies, organizations, or institutions 
State allot-
ments. 
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including business and industrial concerns, upon such terms and condi-
tions consistent with the provisions of this part and with its State plan 
approved pursuant to section 123, as it determines will most effectively 
carry out the development, establishment, and operation of exemplary 
and innovative occupational education programs or projects designed 
to serve as models for use in vocational education programs. 
"USES or FUNDS 
"SEC, 143. (a) Grants or contracts pursuant to this part may be 
made, upon terms and conditions consistent with the provisions of this 
part, to pay all or part of the cost of— 
"(1) planning and developing exemplary programs or projects 
such as those described in paragraph (2), or 
" (2) establishing, operating, or evaluating exemplary programs 
or projects designed to carry out the purposes set forth in section 
141, and to broaden occupational aspirations and opportunities 
for youths, with special emphasis given to youths who have aca-
demic, socioeconomic, or other handicaps, which programs or 
projects may, among others, include— 
" (A) those designed to familiarize elementary and second-
ary school students with the broad range of occupations for 
which special skills are required and the requisites for careers 
in such occupations; 
"(B) pro-ams or projects for students providing educa-
tional experiences through work during the school year or 
in the summer; 
"(C) programs or projects for intensive occupational 
guidance and counseling during the last years of school and 
for initial job placement; 
"(D) programs or projects designed to broaden or improve 
vocational education curriculums; 
"(E) exchanges of personnel between schools and other 
agencies, institutions, or organizations participating in activ-
ities to achieve the purposes of this part, including man-
power agencies and industry; 
"(F) programs or projects for young workers released 
from their jobs on a part-time basis for the purpose of increas-
ing their educational attainment; and 
"(G) programs or projects at the secondary level to moti-
vate and provide preprofessional preparation for potential 
teachers for vocational education. 
"(b) (1) A grant or contract pursuant to this part may be made 
only if the Commissioner is in the case of grants or contracts made 
by him, or the State board, in the case of grants or contracts made by 
it, determines— 
"(A) that effective procedures will be adopted by grantees and 
contractors to coordinate the development and operation of other 
programs and projects carried out under grants or contracts pur-
suant to this part, with the appropriate State plan, and with other 
public and private programs having the same or similar purposes; 
"(B) that to the extent consistent with the number of students 
enrolled in nonprofit private schools in the area to be served whose 
educational needs are of the type which the program or project 
involved is to meet, provision has been made for the participation 
of such students; and 
"(C) that effective policies and procedures will be adopted 
which assure that Federal funds made available under this part 
will not be commingled with State or local funds. 
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[82 STAT. 
"(2) The amount available to a State pursuant to section 142(d) 
shall be available for obligation for grants or contracts pursuant to the 
State plan approved under section 123, for paying all of the cost of 
programs described in section 142(d) and section 143(a) during that 
year and the succeeding fiscal year. 
"(3) No grant or contract (other than a grant or contract with a 
State board) shall be made by the Commissioner under section 142(c) 
with respect to any program or project unless such program or proj-
ect has been submitted to the State board in the State in which it is to 
be conducted and has not been disapproved by the State board within 
sixty days of such submission or within such longer period of time as 
the Commissioner may determine pursuant to regulations. 
"(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless hereafter 
enacted expressly in limitation of the provisions of this paragraph, 
funds available to Commissioner pursuant to section 142(c) shall 
remain available until expended. 
"PAYMENTS 
"SEC. 144. From the amount available for grants and contracts, 
under this part pursuant to section 142(c), in the appropriate State, 
the Commissioner shall pay to each applicant an amount equal to the 
amount expended by such applicant in accordance with the approved 
application. Such payment may be made on such terms as are ap-
proved in such application. Payment pursuant to grants under this part 
may be made in installments, and in advance or by way of reimburse-
ment, with necessary adjustments on account of overpayments or un-
derpayments, as the Commissioner may determine, 
"LIMITATION ON DURATION OF ASSISTANCE 
"SEC. 145. Financial assistance may not be given under this part to 
any program or project for a period exceeding three years. 
"PART E—RESIDENTIAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 
a 
Urban areas. 
Appropriation. 
DEMONSTRATION SCHOOLS 
"SEC. 151. (a) For the purpose of demonstrating the feasibility 
and desirability of residential vocational education schools for certain 
3'ouths of high school age, the Commissioner is authorized to make 
grants, out of sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (b) to State 
boards, to colleges and universities, and with the approval of the ap-
propriate State board, to public educational agencies, organizations 
or institutions for the construction, equipment, and operation of resi-
dential schools to provide vocational education (including room, board, 
and other necessities) for youths, at least fifteen years of age and less 
than twenty-one years of age at the time of enrollment, who need full-
time study on a residential basis in order to benefit fully from such 
education. In making such grants, the Commissioner shall give special 
consideration to the needs of large urban areas having substantial num-
bers of youths who have dropped out of school or are unemployed and 
shall seek to attain, as nearly as practicable in the li^ht of the pur-
poses of this section, an equitable geographical distribution of such 
schools. 
"(b) There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this 
section $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30,1969, $30,000,000 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and $35,000,000 each for the 
fiscal year ending June 30,1971, and for the succeeding fiscal year. 
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"STATE PROGRAMS 
"SEC. 152. (a) (1) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
Appropriation. 
$15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $15,000,000 
for the fiscal year ending June 30,1970, for grants to the States to pro-
vide residential vocational education facilities in accordance with the 
provisions of this section. 
"(2) From the sums appropriated under paragraph (1), the Com- 
^*^*^ allotments. 
niissioner shall allot to each State an amount Avhich bears the same 
ratio to such sums as the population of each State bears to the popula-
tion of all the States. 
" (3) For purposes of this section— 
" (A) the term 'State* does not include Guam, American Samoa, 
"State." 
the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; 
"(B) the amount allotted under this subsection to any State for 
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, shall be available for pay-
ments to applicants with approved applications in that State dur-
ing that year and the next fiscal year; and 
"(C) the amount of any State's allotment under subsection 
(a) (2) for any fiscal year, which the Commissioner determines 
will not be required for such fiscal year for carrying out the State's 
plan approved under subsection (b), shall be available for reallot-
ment from time to time, on such dates during such year as the 
(\)mmissioner may 
fix, 
and on the basis of such factors as he deter-
mines to be equitable and reasonable, to other States which as 
determined by the Commissioner are able to use without delay any 
amounts so reallotted for the purposes set forth in subsection (b). 
Any amount reallotted to a State under this paragraph during 
such year Shall be deemed part of its allotment for such year. 
"(b) (1) Funds allotted to the States under subsection (a) shall be 
used by the State, or, with the approval of the State boards, by public 
educational agencies, organizations, or institutions within such State, 
to pay the Federal share of the cost of planning, constructing, and 
operating residential vocational education facilities to provide voca-
tional education (including room, board, and other necessities) for 
youths, at least age fourteen but who have not attained age twenty-one 
at the time of admission to the training program, who need full-time 
study on a residential basis and who can profit from vocational educa-
tion instruction. In the administration of the program conducted under 
this section, special consideration shall be given to needs in geographi-
cal areas having substantial or disproportionate numbers of youths 
who have dropped out of school or are unemployed, and to serving 
persons from such areas. 
"(2) For purposes of this section, the Federal share of the cost of share^*^'^*"^^"^ 
planning, constructing, and operating residential vocational educa-
tion facilities shall not exceed 90 per centum of the costs incurred in 
anv fiscal year. 
"(c) For purposes of this section the State plan approved under 
section 123 shall set forth the policies and procedures to be used by 
the State in determining the size and location of such residential voca-
tional facilities, taking into account the use of existing vocational 
education facilities. Such policies and procedures must give assurance 
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that— 
" (1) adequate provision will be made for the appropriate selec-
tion without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin or 
place of residence within the State of students needing education 
and training at such school: 
"(2) the residential school facility will be operated and main-
tained for the purpose of conducting a residential vocational 
education school program; 
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"Residential 
school facility." 
"Operation." 
"(3) vocational course offerings at such school will include 
fields for which available labor market analyses indicate a present 
or continuing need for trained manpower, and that the courses 
offered will be appropriately designed to prepare enrollees for 
entry into employment or advancement in such fields; and 
"(4) no fees, tuition, or other charges will be required of stu-
dents who occupy the residential vocational education facility. 
"(d) For purposes of this section— 
" (1) the term 'residential school facility' means a school facility 
(as defined in section 108(3)), used for residential vocational edu-
cation purposes. Such term also includes dormitory, cafeteria, and 
recreational facilities, and such other facilities as the Commis-
sioner determines are appropriate for a residential vocational edu-
cation school, 
" (2) the term 'operation' means maintenance and operation, and 
includes the cost of salaries, equipment, supplies, and materials, 
and may include but is not limited to other reasonable costs of 
services and supplies needed by residential students, such as cloth-
ing and transportation. 
Appropriation 
authorization. 
Limitation. 
GRANTS TO REDUCE BORROWING COSTS FOR SCHOOLS AND DORMITORIES 
"SEC. 153. (a) The Commissioner is authorized to make annual 
grants to State boards, to colleges and universities, and with the ap-
proval of the appropriate State board, to public educational agencies, 
organizations, or institutions to reduce the cost of borrowing funds for 
the construction of residential schools and dormitories to provide voca-
tional education for youths, at least fourteen years of age and less than 
twenty-one years of age at the time of enrollment, who need full-time 
study on a residential basis in order to benefit fully from such educa-
tion. In making contracts for such grants, the Commissioner shall give 
special consideration to the needs of urban and rural areas having sub-
stantial numbers of youths who have dropped out of school or are un-
employed and shall seek to attain an equitable geographical distribu-
tion of such schools. 
"(b) Annual grants with respect to the construction of any such 
residential school shall be made over a fixed period not exceeding forty 
years, and provision for such grants shall be embodied in a contract 
guaranteeing their payment over such period. Each such grant shall 
be in an amount equal to the difference between (1) the average annual 
debt service required to be paid, during the life of the loan, on the 
amount borrowed for the construction of such facilities, and (2) the 
average annual debt service which the institution would be required to 
pay, during the life of the loan, with respect to such amounts if the 
applicable interest rate were 3 per centum per annum. 
"(c) The Commissioner shall not enter into a contract for grants 
under this section unless he determines that the amount borrowed does 
not exceed the total cost of construction of the facilities, and that 
such construction will be undertaken in an economical manner and 
will not be of elaborate or extravagant design or materials. 
"(d) (1) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary for the payment of annual grants in accordance 
with this section. 
"(2) Contracts for annual grants under this section shall not be 
entered into for an aggregate amount greater than is authorized in 
appropriation Acts; and in any event the total amount of annual grants 
which may be paid in any year pursuant to contracts entered into under 
this section shall not exceed $5,000,000, which amount shall be 
increased by $5,000,000 on July 1,1969. 
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"PART F—CONSUMER AND HOMEMAKING EDUCATION 
'AUTHORIZATION 
'(< 
"SEC. 161. (a) (1) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
Appropriation. 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, $25,000,000, for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1971, $35,000,000, and for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1972, $50,000,000, for the purposes of this part. From the 
state aii^otment 
sums appropriated pursuant to this paragraph for each fiscal year, '=°"'P"tation. 
the Commissioner shall allot to each State an amount which shall 
be computed in the same manner as allotments to States under section 
103 except that, for the purposes of this section, there shall be no 
reservation of 10 per centum of such sums for research and training 
programs and 100 per centum of the amount appropriated pursuant 
to this section shall be allotted among the States. 
"(2) The amount of any State's allotment under paragraph (1) 
for any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be 
required for such fiscal year for carrying out the part of the State's 
plan approved under subsection (b) shall be available for reallotment 
from time to time, on such dates during such year as the Commis-
sioner may fix, and on the basis of such factors as he determines to be 
equitable and reasonable, to other States which, as determined by the 
Commissioner, are able to use without delay any amounts so reallotted 
for the purposes set forth in subsection (b). Any amount reallotted 
to a State under this paragraph during such year shall be deemed 
part of its allotment for such year. 
"(b) For purposes of this part the State plan approved under sec- 
Purposes. 
tion 123 shall set forth a program under which Federal funds paid to 
a State from its allotment under subsection (a) will be expended 
solely for (1) educational programs which (A) encourage home eco-
nomics to give greater consideration to social and cultural conditions 
and needs, especially in economically depressed areas, (B) encourage 
preparation for professional leadership, (C) are designed to prepare 
youths and adults for the role of homemaker, or to contribute to the 
employability of such youths and adults in the dual role of home-
maker and wage earner, (D) include consumer education programs, 
and (E) are designed for persons who have entered, or are preparing 
to enter, the work of the home, and (2) ancillary services, activities 
and other means of assuring quality in all homemaking education 
programs, such as teacher training and supervision, curriculum devel-
opment research, program evaluation, special demonstration and exper-
imental programs, development of instructional materials, provision 
of equipment, and State administration and leadership. 
"(c) From a State's allotment under this section for the fiscal year 
ending June 30,1970, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the Commis-
sioner shall pay to such State an amount equal to 50 per centum of the 
amount expended for the purposes set forth in subsection (b), except 
that, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and the two succeeding 
fiscal years, the Commissioner shall pay an amount equal to 90 per 
centum of the amount used in areas described in subsection (d). No 
State shall receive payments under this section for any fiscal year in 
excess of its allotment under subsection (a) for such fiscal year. 
"(d) At least one-third of the Federal funds made available under 
Programs for 
this section shall be used in economically depressed areas or areas with 
high rates of unemployment for programs designed to assist consum-
ers and to help improve home environments and the quality of family 
life. 
economically de-
pressed areas. 
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Appropriation. 
State and terri-
torial allotments. 
"PART G—COOPERATIVE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS 
"FINDINGS AND PURPOSE 
"SEC. 171. The Congress finds that cooperative work-study programs 
offer many advantages in preparing young people for employment. 
Through such programs, a meaningful work experience is combined 
vrith formal education enabling students to acquire knowledge, skills, 
and appropriate attitudes. Such programs remove the artificial barriers 
which separate work and education and, by involving educators with 
employers, create interaction whereby the needs and problems of both 
are made known. Such interaction makes it possible for occupational 
curricula to be revised to reflect current needs in various occupations. 
It is the purpose of this part to assist the State to expand cooperative 
work-study programs by providing financial assistance for personnel 
to coordinate such programs, and to provide instruction related to the 
work experience; to reimburse employers when necessarv for certain 
added costs incurred in providing on-the-job training tnrough work 
experience; and to pay costs for certain services, such as transportation 
of students or other unusual costs that the individual students may not 
reasonably be expected to assume while pursuing a cooperative work-
study program. 
" A U T H O R I Z A T I O N S 
A N D 
A L I X ) T M E N T S 
"SEC. 172. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1969, $20,000,000, for the fiscal year ending 
June 80, 1970, $35,000,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, 
$50,000,000, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, $75,000,000, 
for making grants to the States for programs of vocational education 
designed to prepare students for employment through cooperative 
work-study arrangements. 
"(b) (1) From the sums appropriated pursuant to this section for 
each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall reserve such amount, but not in 
excess of 3 per centum thereof, as he may determine, and shall appor-
tion such amount among Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, Amer-
ican Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, according 
to their respective needs for assistance under this section. From the 
remainder of such sums the Commissioner shall allocate $200,000 to 
each State, and he shall in addition allocate to each State an amount 
which bears the same ratio to any residue of such remainder as the pop-
ulation aged fifteen to nineteen, both inclusive, in the State bears to the 
population of such ages in all the States. For purposes of the preceding 
sentence, the term 'State' does not include the areas referred to in the 
first sentence of this paragraph. 
" (2) The amount of any State's allotment under this section for any 
fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required for 
such fiscal year for carrying out the part of the State's plan approved 
under section 173 shall be available for reallotment from time to time, 
on such dates during such year as the Commissioner may fix, and on the 
basis of such factors as he determines to be equitable and reasonable, to 
other States which as determined by the Commissioner are able to use 
without delay any amounts so realtotted for the purposes set forth in 
section 173. Any amount reallotted to a State under this paragraph 
during such year shall be deemed part of its allotment for such year. 
" (3) The population of particular age groups of a State or of all the 
States shall be determined by the Commissioner on the basis of the 
latest available estimates furnished by the Department of Commerce. 
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"PLAN REQUIREMENT 
"SEC. 173. (a) A State, in order to participate in the program author-
ized by this part, shall submit, as part of its State plan, to the Com-
missioner, through its State board, a plan which shall set forth policies 
and procedures to be used by the State board in establishing cooperative 
work-study programs through local educational agencies with partici-
pation of public and private employers. Such policies and procedures 
must give assurance that— 
"(1) funds will be used only for developing and, operating 
cooperative work-study programs as defined m section 175 which 
provide training opportunities that may not otherwise be avail-
able and which are designed to serve persons who can benefit 
from such programs; 
"(2) necessary procedures are established for cooperation with 
employment agencies, labor groups, employers, and other com-
munity agencies in identifying suitable jobs for persons who 
enroll in cooperative work-study programs ; 
"(3) provision is made for reimbursement of added costs to 
employers for on-the-job training of students enrolled in co-
operative programs, provided such on-the-job training is related 
to existing carrier opportunities susceptible of promotion and ad-
vancement and does not displace other workers who perform such 
work; 
"(4) ancillary services and activities to assure quality in co-
operative work-study programs are provided for, such as pre-
service and inservice training for teacher coordinators, super-
vision, curriculum materials, and evaluation; 
"(5) priority for funding cooperative work-study programs 
through local educational agencies, is given to areas that have 
high rates of school dropouts and youth unemployment; 
"(6) to the extent consistent with the number of students 
enrolled in nonprofit private schools in the area to )3e served, whose 
educational needs are of the type which the program or project 
involved is to meet, provision has been made for the participation 
of such students; 
"(7) Federal funds made available under this part will not be 
commingled with State or local funds; and 
"(8) such accounting, evaluation, and follow-up procedures 
as the Commissioner deems necessary will be provided. 
"(b) The Commissioner shall approve such part of its State plan 
which fulfills the conditions specified above, and the provisions of part 
B (relating to the disapproval of State plans) shall apply to this 
section. 
USE OF FUNDS 
"SEC. 174. Funds allocated under this part for cooperative work-
study programs shall be available for paying all or part of the State's 
expenditures under its State plan for this part for any fiscal year, but 
not in excess of its allotment under section 172. 
"DEFINITION 
"SEC. 175. For purposes of this part, the term 'cooperative work-
study program' means a program of vocational education for persons 
who, through a cooperative arrangement between the school and 
employers, receive instruction, including required academic courses and 
related vocational instruction by alternation of study in school with 
a job in any occupational field, but these two experiences must be 
planned and supervised by the school and employers so that each con-
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tributes to the student's education and to his employability. Work 
periods and school attendance may be on alternate half-days, full-days, 
weeks, or other periods of time in fulfilling the cooperative work-
study program. 
"PART H—^WORK-STUDY PROGRAMS FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 
STUDENTS 
"AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS AND ALLOTMENT 
"SEC. 181. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
$35,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1969 and 
June 30,1970 for the purposes of this part. 
"(b) (1) From the sums appropriated pursuant to this section for 
each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall allot to each State an amount 
which bears the same ratio to such sums for such year as the population 
aged fifteen to twenty, inclusive, of the State, in the preceding fiscal 
year bears to the population aged fifteen to twenty, inclusive, of all the 
States in such preceding year. 
"(2) The amount of any State's allotment under paragraph (1) for 
any fiscal year which the Commissioner determines will not be required 
for such fiscal year for carrying out the part of the State's plan ap-
proved pursuant to section 182 shall be available for reallotment from 
time to time, on such dates during such year as the Commissioner may 
fix, to other States in proportion to the original allotments to such 
States under paragraph (1) for such year, but with such proportion-
ate amount for any such other States being reduced to the extent it 
exceeds the sum the Commissioner estimates such State needs and will 
be able to use for such year and the total of such reductions shall be 
similarly reallotted among the States not suffering such a reduction. 
Any amount reallotted to a State under this paragraph during such 
year shall be deemed part of its allotment for such year. 
"PLAN REQUIREMENT 
"SEC. 182. (a) To be eligible to participate in the program author-
ized by this part, a State shall submit as a part of its State plan 
through its State board to the Commissioner a plan, in such detail as 
the Commissioner determines necessary, which— 
" (1) designates the State board as the sole agency for adminis-
tration of the plan, or for supervision of the administration there-
of by local educational agencies; 
"(2) sets forth the policies and procedures to be followed by 
the State in approving work-study programs, under which poli-
cies and procedures funds paid to the State from its allotment 
under section 181 will be expended solely for the payment of 
compensation of students employed pursuant to work-study pro-
grams which meet the requirements of subsection (b), except 
that not to exceed 1 per centum of any such allotment, or $10,000, 
whichever is the greater, may be used to pay the cost of develop-
ing the plan required by this section and the cost of administer-
ing such plan after its approval under this section; 
"(3) sets forth principles for determining the priority to be 
accorded applications from local educational agencies for work-
study programs, which principles shall give preference to applica-
tions submitted by local educational agencies serving communities 
having substantial numbers of youths who have dropped out of 
school or who are unemployed, and provides for undertaking such 
programs, insofar as financial resources available therefor make 
possible in the order determined by the application of such 
principles; 
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" (4) sets forth such fiscal control and fund accounting proce-
dures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and 
accounting for, Federal funds paid to the State (including such 
funds paid by the State to local educational agencies) under this 
part; and 
"(5) provides for making such reports in such form and con- 
Reports; record-
tainmg such information as the Commissioner may reasonably 
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require to carry out his functions under this part, and for keeping 
such records and for affording such access thereto as the Commis-
sioner may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification 
of such reports. 
" (b) For the purposes of this section, a work-study program shall— 
"(1) be administered by the local educational agency and made 
reasonably available (to the extent of available funds) to all 
youths in the area served by such agency who are able to meet 
the requirements of paragraph (2) ; 
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shall be furnished only to a student who (A) has been accepted 
for enrollment as a full-time student in a vocational education 
program which meets the standards prescribed by the State board 
and the local educational agency for vocational education pro-
grams assisted under this title, or in the case of a student already 
enrolled in such a program, is in good standing and in full-time 
attendance, (B) is in need of the earnings from such employment 
to commence or continue his vocational education program, and 
(C) is at least fifteen years of age and less than twenty-one years 
of age at the commencement of his employment, and is capable, in 
the opinion of the appropriate school authorities, of maintaining 
good standing in his vocational education program while em-
ployed under the work-study program; 
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work-study program tor more than fifteen hours m any week m limitations. 
which classes in which he is enrolled are in session, or for com-
pensation which exceeds $45 in any month or $350 in any academic 
year or its equivalent, unless the student is attending a school 
which is not within reasonable commuting distance from his 
home, in which case his compensation may not exceed $60 in any 
month or $500 in any academic year or its equivalent; 
" (4) provide that employment under such work-study program 
shall be for the local educational agency or for some other public 
agency or institution; and 
"(5) provide that, in each fiscal year during which such pro-
gram remains in effect, such agency shall expend (from sources 
other than payments from Federal funds under this section) for 
the employment of its students (whether or not in employment 
eligible for assistance under this section) an amount that is not 
less than its average annual expenditure for work-study programs 
of a similar character during the three fiscal years preceding the 
fiscal year in which its work-study program under this section is 
approved, 
"(c) The provisions of part B shall be applicable to the Commis-
sioner's actions with respect to plans submitted under this section. 
"PAYMENTS 
"SEC. 183. (a) From a State's allotment under this section for the 
fiscal year ending June 30,1969, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1970, the Commissioner shall pay to such State an amount equal to 80 
per centum of (1) the amount expended for compensation of students 
employed pursuant to work-study programs under the part of the 
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State's plan approved under section 182, plus (2) an amount, not to 
exceed 1 per centum of such allotment, or $10,000, whichever is the 
greater, expended for the development of such plan and for the admin-
istration of such plan after its approval by the Commissioner. No State 
shall receive payments under this section for any fiscal year in excess 
of its allotment under section 181 for such fiscal year. 
"(b) Such payments (adjusted on account of overpayments or un-
derpayments previously made) shall be made by the Commissioner in 
advance on the basis of such estimates, in such installments, and at such 
times, as may be reasonably required for expenditures by the States of 
the funds allotted under section 181. 
Appropriation. 
Funds, use. 
"STATUS OF PARTICIPANTS 
"SEC. 184. Students employed in work-study progi-ams under this 
part shall not by reason of such employment be deemed employees of 
the United States, or their service Federal service, for any purpose. 
"PART I—CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN VOCATIONAL AND 
TECHNICAL EDUCATION 
"AUTHORIZATION 
"SEC. 191. (a) The Congress finds that curriculum development in 
vocational education is complicated by the diversity of occupational 
objectives; variations due to geography; differences in educational 
levels and types of programs; and by the wide range of occupations 
which includes, but is not limited to, agriculture, food processing and 
preparation, trades and industry, distribution and marketing, tech-
nical, public service, health services, business, and office occupations. It 
is therefore the purpose of this section to enable the Commissioner to 
provide appropriate assistance to State and local educational agencies 
in the development of curriculums for new and changing occupations, 
and to coordinate improvements in, and dissemination of, existing cur-
riculum materials. 
"(b) There are authorized to be appropriated $7,000,000 for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $10,000,000 for the fiscal year 
ending June 30,1970, for the purposes set forth in this section. 
"(c)(1) Sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (b) shall be 
used by the Commissioner, after consultation with the appropriate 
State agencies and the National Council, to make grants to or contracts 
with colleges or universities. State boards, and other public or nonprofit 
private agencies and institutions, or contracts with public or private 
agencies, organizations, or institutions— 
"(A) to promote the development and dissemination of voca-
tional education curriculum materials for use in teaching occupa-
tional subjects, including curriculums for new and changing 
occupational fields; 
"(B) to develop standards for curriculum development in all 
occupational fields; 
"(C) to coordinate efforts of the States in the preparation of 
curriculum materials and prepare current lists of curriculum ma-
terials available in all occupational fields; 
"(D) to survey curriculum materials produced by other agen-
cies of Government, including the Department of Defense; 
"(E) to evaluate vocational-technical education curriculum ma-
terials and their uses; and 
"(F) to train personnel in curriculum development. 
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occupational field in vocational education which are designed to pre-
pare persons for employment at the entry level or to upgrade occupa-
tional competencies of those previously or presently employed in any 
occupational field." 
EFFECTIVE DATE 
SEC. 102. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the amend-
ments made by section 101 shall become effective upon enactment. 
(b) The amendments made by this Act to the Vocational Education 
Act of 1968 shall not, during the fiscal year ending June 30,1969, apply 
with respect to programs which are continuations of programs (includ-
ing programs under part H) carried on under any State's plan during 
the preceding fiscal year. 
REPEAL OF EARLIER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACTS 
SEC. 103. Effective July 1, 1969, the Vocational Education Act of 
1946 (the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended, 20 U.S.C. 15i-15m, 15o-
15q, 15aa-15jj, 15aaa-15ggg)j section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1931, ^ ^o^^tat. 775; 
relating to vocational education in Puerto Rico (20 U.S.C. 30), the 72 stat! isls. 
Act of March 18, 1950, relating to vocational education in the Virgin 
46 stat. i489. 
Islands (20 U.S.C. 31-33), section 9 of the Act of August 1, 1956, re- 
^^ stat. 27. 
lating to vocational education in Guam (20 U.S.C. 34), and section 2 
^o stat. 909. 
of the Act of September 25, 1962, relating to vocational education in 
American Samoa (48 U.S.C. 1667) are repealed. 
76 stat. 586. 
USE OF FUNDS AVAILABLE UNDER THE SMITH-HUGHES ACT 
SEC. 104. Funds appropriated by the first section of the Smith-
Hughes Act (that is the Act approved February 23, 1917, 39 Stat. 
929, as amended (20 U.S.C. 11-15, 16-28)), shall be considered as 
funds appropriated pursuant to section 102(a) of this Act. 
TITLE II—VOCATIONAL EDUCATION L E A D E E S H I P AND 
PROFESSIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT 
AMENDMENT 
OF 
HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 
SEC. 201. The Higher Education Act of 1965 is amended by insert-
ing the following new part at the end of title V (the Education Pro-
fessions Development Act): 
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"PART F—TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGR^VMS FOR VOCATIONAL iii9b-2. 
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"SEC. 551. It is the purpose of this part to provide opportunities for 
experienced vocational educators to spend full-time in advanced study 
of vocational education for a period not to exceed three years in 
length; to provide opportunities to up-date the occupational com-
petencies of vocational education teachers through exchanges of per-
sonnel between vocational education programs and commercial, 
industrial, or other public or private employment related to the subject 
matter of vocational education; and to provide programs of inservice 
teacher education and short-term institutes for vocational education 
personnel. 
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(( 
Eligibility. 
Pay to indi-
viduals. 
Pay to educa-
tional institution. 
Approval pro-
Apportionment. 
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AWARDS 
"SEC. 552. (a) In order to meet the needs in all the States for quali-
fied vocational education personnel (such as administrators, super-
visors, teacher educators, researchers, and instructors in vocational 
education programs) the Commissioner shall make available leader-
ship development awards in accordance with the provisions of this part 
only upon his determination that— 
"(A) persons selected for awards have had not less than two 
years of experience in vocational education or in industrial train-
ing, or military technical training; or, in the case of researchers, 
experience in social science research which is applicable to voca-
tional education; or 
"(B) persons receiving such awards are currently employed 
or are reasonably assured of employment in vocational education 
and have successfully completed, as a minimum, a baccalaureate 
degree program; or 
"(C) persons selected are recommended by their employer, or 
others, as having leadership potential in the field of vocational 
education and are eligible for admission as a graduate student to 
a program of higher education approved by the Commissioner 
under subsection (c). 
"(b)(1) The Commissioner shall pay to persons selected for leader-
ship development awards such stipends (including such allowances 
for subsistence and other expenses for such persons and their depend-
ents) as he mav determine to be consistent with prevailing practices 
under comparable federally supported programs. 
"(2) The Commissioner shall (in addition to the stipends paid to 
persons under paragraph (1)) pay to the institution of higher educa-
tion at which such person is pursuing his course of study such amount 
as the Commissioner may determine to be consistent with the prevail-
ing practices under comparable federally supported programs not to 
exceed the equivalent of $3,500 per academic year, but any amount 
charged such person for tuition and nonrefundable fees and deposits 
shall be deducted from the amount payable to the institution of higher 
education under this subsection. 
"(c) The Commissioner shall approve the vocational education lead-
ership development program of an institution of higher education by 
the institution only upon finding that— 
"(1) the institution offers a comprehensive program in voca-
tional education with adequate supporting services and disciplines 
such as education administration, guidance and counseling, re-
search, and curriculum development; 
"(2) such program is designed to further substantially the ob-
jective of improving vocational education through providing op-
portunities for graduate training of vocational education teadiers, 
supervisors, and administrators, and of university level vocational 
education teacher educators and researchers; 
"(3) such programs are conducted by a school of graduate 
study in the institution of higher education; and 
" (4) such program is also approved by the State board for voca-
tional education in the State where the institution is located. 
"(d) In order to meet the needs for qualified vocational education 
personnel such as teachers, administrators, supervisors, and teacher 
educators, in vocational education programs in all the States, the 
Commissioner in carrying out this section shall apportion leadership 
development awards equitably among the States, taking into account 
such factors as the State's vocational education enrollments, and the 
incidence of youth unemployment and school dropouts in the State. 
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"(e) Persons receiving leudership awards under the provisions of 
this section shall continue to receive the payments provided in sub-
section (b) only during such periods as the Commissioner finds that 
they are maintaining satisfactory proficiency in, and devoting essen-
tially full-time to, study or research in the field of vocational educa-
tion in an institution of higher education, and are not engaging in 
gainful employment, other than part-time employment by such insti-
tution in teaching, research, or similar activities, approved by the 
Commissioner. 
"EXCHANGE 
PROGRAMS, 
INSTITUTES, 
AND 
INSERVICE 
EDUCATION FOR 
VOCATIONAL-EDUCATION TEACHERS, SUPERVISORS, COORDINATORS, AND 
ADMINISTRATORS 
"SEC. 553. (a) The Commissioner is authorized to make grants to 
State boards, as defined in the Vocational Education Act of 1963, to 
^"'«' P- lo^i. 
pay the cost of carrying out cooperative arrangements for the train-
ing or retraining of experienced vociitional education personnel such 
as teachers, teacher educators, administrators, supervisors, and coordi-
nators, and other personnel, in order to strengthen education programs 
supported by this part and the administration of schools offering voca-
tional education. Such cooperative arrangements may be between 
schools offering vocational education and private business or industry, 
commercial enterprises, or with other educational institutions (includ-
ing those for the handicapped and delinquent). 
"(b) Grants under this section may be used for projects and activi- ^f^l°i^il^^ ^"'^ 
ties such as— 
"(1) exchange of vocational education teachers and other staff 
members with skilled technicians or supervisors in industry (in-
cluding mutual arrangements for preserving employment and re-
tirement status, and other employment benefits durmg the period 
of exchange), and the development and operation of cooperative 
programs involving periods of teaching in schools providing voca-
tional education and of experience in commercial, industrial, or 
other public or private employment related to the subject matter 
taught in such school; 
"(2) inservice training programs for vocational education 
teachers and other staff members to improve the quality of instruc-
tion, supervision, and administration of vocational education pro-
grams; and 
" (3) short-term or regular-session institutes, or other preservice 
and inservice training programs or projects designed to improve 
the qualifications of persons entering and reentering the field of 
vocational educationj except that funds may not be used for semi-
nars, symposia, workshops or conferences unless these are part of 
a continuing prograE|i of inservice or preservice training. 
" (c) A grant may be iri|ade under this section only upon application 
to the Commissioner at such time or times and containing such infor-
mation as he deems necessary. The Commissioner shall not approve an ^ ^r°^ai'°"^ ^°'' 
application unless it— 
" (1) sets forth a program for carrying out one or more projects 
or activities which meet the requirements of subsection (b), and 
provides for such methods of administration as are necessary for 
the proper and efficient operation of the program; 
keeping 
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[82 STAT. 
"(2) sets forth policies and procedures which assure that Fed-
eral funds made available under this section for any fiscal year 
will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practicable, 
increase the level of funds that would, in the absence of such Fed-
eral funds, be made available for purposes which meet the require-
ments of subsection (b), and in no case supplant such funds; 
"(3) provides for such fiscal control and fund accounting pro-
cedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and 
accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant under this 
section; and 
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"(4) provides for making such reports, in such form and con-
taining such information, as the Commissioner may require to 
carry out his functions under this section, and for keeping such 
records and for affording such access thereto as the Commissioner 
may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of 
such reports. 
"FAMILIARIZING TEACHERS WITH XEW CURRICUI^AR MATERIALS 
"SEC. 554. In approving training and development programs for 
vocational education personnel, the Commissioner shall give special 
consideration to programs which are designed to familiarize teachers 
with new curricular materials in vocational education. 
"APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED 
"SEC. 555. There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
part, the^um of $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, 
and the sum of $35,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30,1970." 
TITI^E III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
ADEQUA^ L.EADTIME, PLANNING, AND EVALUATION 
SEC. 301. (a) Section 401 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
81 Stat. 814. 
cation Amendments of 1967 (Public Law 90-247) is amended to read 
20 u s e 1221. 
^ n 
^ 
' 
as follows: 
"PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO THIS TITLE 
"SEC. 401. The provisions of this title shall apply to any program 
for which the Commissioner of Education has responsibility for ad-
ministration, either as provided by statute or by delegation pursuant 
to statute. Amendments to Acts authorizing such programs shall not 
affect the applicability of this title unless so specified by such amend-
ments." 
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^ij^ Title IV of such Act is amended by inserting after section 405 
the following new section: 
"AVAILABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS 
"SEC. 406. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless ex-
pressly in limitation of the provisions of this title, funds appropri-
ated for any fiscal year to carry out any of the programs to which this 
title is applicable shall remain available for obligation until the end 
of such fiscal year." 
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REDUCING AGE LIMIT IN ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM 
SEC. 302. Effective with respect to appropriations for fiscal years 
beginning after June 30, 1969, section 303(a) of the Adult Education 
Act of 1966 (title I I I of Public Law 89-750, 80 Stat. 1216) is amended 
by striking out "eighteen" and inserting in lieu thereof "sixteen". 
20 u s e 1202. 
COLLECTION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION 
SEC. 303. (a) For the purpose of carrying out more effectively the 
provisions of the progi-ams administered by him (including those 
administered by him by delegation), the Commissioner of Education— 
(1) shall prepare and disseminate to all appropriate State and 
local agencies and institutions and others concerned with educa-
tion, complete information on programs of Federal assistance; 
(2) shall inform the public on federally supported programs 
for education by providing information to communications media; 
such dissemination activity shall include the development and 
issuance of materials which inform teachers, students, the disad-
vantaged, and dropouts of new and expanding opportunities for 
education, together with materials specifically directed to institu-
tions or individuals vested with responsibility for one or more 
programs administered by the Commissioner; 
(3) shall develop, on both formal and informal bases, a close 
liaison for interchange of ideas and information with representa-
tives of American business and with service, labor, or other orga-
nizations, both public and private, to advance American education; 
(4) shall collect data and information on programs qualifying 
for assistance under programs administered by him for the pur-
pose of obtaining objective measurements of the effectiveness 
achieved in carrying out the purposes of such programs; 
(5) may upon request provide advice, counsel, technical assist-
ance, and demonstrations to State educational agencies, local 
educational agencies, or institutions of higher education under-
taking to initiate or expand programs in order to increase the 
quality or depth or broaden the scope of such programs, and shall 
inform such agencies and institutions of the availability of assist-
ance pursuant to this clause; 
(6) shall prepare and disseminate to State educational agencies, 
local educational agencies, and other appropriate agencies and 
institutions an annual report setting forth developments in the 
utilization and adaptation of programs administered by him; and 
(7) may enter into contracts with public or private agencies, 
organizations, groups, or individuals to carry out the provisions 
of this section. 
(b) (1) For such purpose and also for the purpose of carrying out 
more effectively other provisions of Federal law, the Commissioner, 
upon request from a State educational agency, shall provide coun- ^nce. 
seling and technical assistance to elementary and secondary schools 
in rural areas, as defined by the Commissioner, of such State (A) in 
determining benefits available to such agencies and schools under Fed-
eral laws, and (B) in preparing applications and meeting other re-
quirements for such benefits. Assistance pursuant to this subsection 
may, in accordance with such request, be provided by personnel from 
the Office of Education or be provided in the form of grants in such 
Annual report. 
Rural areas. 
Counseling and 
technical assist-
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[82 STAT. 
Catalog of 
Federal educa-
tion assistance 
programs. 
Report to 
Congress. 
Appropriation 
authorization. 
80 Stat. 1209; 
!1 Stat. 805, 816. 
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amounts as may be necessary for such State educational agency to 
employ such personnel as may be necessary to provide such assistance. 
(2) The Commissioner is further authorized to provide the types of 
assistance available to elementary and secondary schools under para-
graph (1) to institutions of higher education. 
(c) Tne Commissioner shall prepare and make available in such 
form as he deems appropriate a catalog of all Federal education as-
sistance programs whether or not such programs are administered by 
him. The catalog shall— 
(1) identify each such program, and include the name of the 
program, the authorizing statute, the specific Federal administer-
ing officials and a brief description of such program; 
(2) set forth the availability of benefits and eligibility re-
strictions in each such program; 
(3) set forth the budget requests for each such program, past 
appropriations, obligations incurred, the average assistance pro-
vided under each such program, and pertinent financial informa-
tion indicating (A) the size of each such program for selected 
fiscal years, and (B) any funds remaining available; 
(4) set forth the prerequisites, including the cost to the recipient 
of receiving assistance under each such program, and any duties 
required of the recipient after receivhi^ benefits; 
(5) identify appropriate officials, in Washington, District of 
Columbia, as well as in each State and locality (if applicable), to 
whom application or reference for information for each such pro-
gram may be made; 
(6) set forth the application procedures; 
(7) contain a detailed index designed to assist the potential 
beneficiary to identify all education assistance programs related 
to a particular need or category of ]X)tential beneficiaries; 
(8) contain such other program information and data as the 
Commissioner deems necessary or desirable in order to assist the 
potential program beneficiary to understand and take advantage 
of each Federal education assistance program; and 
(9) be transmitted to Congress within the first month of each 
regular session, together with a report setting forth the specific 
measures taken in the past year to simplify the various application 
forms and program guidelines a potential beneficiary would use 
to benefit from each Federal education assistance program, and to 
coordinate, simplify application forms and program guidelines. 
(d) There are authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1970, and each succeeding fiscal year ending prior to 
July 1,1972, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions 
of this section. 
(e) Section 806 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 shall become ineffective the first fiscal year for which funds are 
appropriated to carry out the provisions of this section. 
72 Stat. 1777; 
77 Stat. 294. 
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TRAINING TEACHERS OF THE HANDICAPPED 
SEC. 304. Section 1 of Public Law 85-926 (grants for teaching in 
the education of handicapped children) is amended by inserting "and 
other appropriate non-profit institutions or agencies" after the words 
"non-profit institutions of higher learning" wherever such words 
occur. 
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PREVENTION OF REDUCTION OF STATE AID ON ACCOUNT OF PAYMENTS UNDER 
PUBLIC LAW 
8 7 4 
80 Stat. 1212. 
20 u s e 240. 
SEC. 305. (a) Subsection (d) of section 5 of the Act of September 
30, 1950 (Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress), is amended (1) by 
inserting "(1)" after "(d)", and (2) by adding the following new 
paragraph: 
"(2) No payments may be made during any fiscal year to any 
local educational agency in any State whi.ch has taken into consider-
ation payments under this title in determining the eligibility of any 
local educational agency in that State for State aid (as defined by 
regulation), or the amount of that aid, with resj)ect to free public 
education during that year or the preceding fiscal year, or which 
makes such aid available to local educational agencies in such a manner 
as to result in less State aid to any local educational agency which 
is eligible for payments under this title than such local educational 
agency would receive if it were not so eligible.'" 
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall become effec- 
Effective date. 
tive with respect to each State on the first day of the first fiscal year 
which begins after the adjournment of the first complete legislative 
session (at which State aid may be considered) of such State's legis-
lature held after the date of enactment of this Act. 
PROGRAM CONSOLIDATION 
STUDY 
SEC. 306. The Commissioner of Education shall make a study of the 
feasibility of consolidation of education programs in order to provide 
for more efficient use of Federal funds at the local level and to simplify 
application procedures for such funds and shall, within one year of 
the date of enactment of this Act, submit to the Congress a report on c^^resV° 
the results of the study and any recommendations for legislation which 
would facilitate consolidation of education programs. 
S T A T E 
SCHOOLS FOR HANDICAPPED 
I N 
TERRITORIES 
SEC. 307. Section 103(a)(4) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (title I I of Public Law 874, 81st Congress, as 
amended) is amended by inserting "except paragraph (5)," after "this 
^^ stat. 28; 
1 
1 • 
n^ 
81 otat. 787. 
subsection,". 
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JOB C
O
R
P
S STUDY 
79 Stat. 1161. 
SEC. 308. (a) The Commissioner of Education is authorized and 
directed to make a special study of the means by which the existing 
Job Corps facilities and programs established under the Economic 
Opportunity Act of 1964 most effectively might, if determined feasible, 
^i stat. 672. 
be transferred to State or joint Federal-State operation in conjunction 2729 ^^^ ^^^^ 
with the program of Residential Vocational Education authorized by 
part E of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. 
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(b) The Commissioner shall consult with other Federal officers, 
Statte boards of vocational education, and such other individuals and 
organizations as he may deem necessary for this study, and shall make gresf""^* *° *
" °" 
a report of his findings and recommendations to the appropriate com-
mittees of the Congress not later than March 1,1969. 
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[82 STAT. 
HEAD START STUDY 
SEC. 309. The President shall make a special study of whether the 
responsibility for administering the Head Start program established 
under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 should continue to be 
vested in the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, should 
be transferred to another agency of the Government, or should be dele-
gated to another such agency pursuant to the provisions of section 
8o^stat^\468^' 
602(d) of tlic aforemeutioned Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and 
42 use 2942. 
shall submit the findings of this study to the Congress not later than 
Report to Con- 
M a T C h 1 , 1 9 6 9 . 
Approved October 16, 1968. 
81 Stat. 698. 
42 u s e 2809. 
gress. 
Public Law 90-577 
October 16, 1968 
A N A C T 
^^- ^^^^ 
To achieve the fullest cooperation and coordination of activities among the 
levels of government in order to improve the operation of our federal system 
in an increasingly complex society, to imjprove the administration of grants-in-
aid to the States, to permit provision of reimbursable technical services to 
State and local government, to establish coordinated intergovernmental policy 
and administration of development assistance programs, to provide for the 
acquisition, use, and disposition of land within urban areas by Federal agencies 
in conformity with local government programs, to provide for periodic congres-
sional review of Federal grants-in-aid, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
mintai^cooTra- 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act be 
tion Act o
f 1968. citcd as the "Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968". 
TITLE I—DEFINITIONS 
When used in this Act—