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 112 STAT. 1814 PUBLIC LAW 105-244—OCT. 7, 1998 States under subsection (i), to assist and encourage incarcerated youths to acquire functional literacy, life, and job skills, through the pursuit of a postsecondary education certificate, or an associate of arts or bachelor's degree while in prison, and employment counseling and other related services which start during incarceration and continue through prerelease and while on parole. (d) APPLICATION. —To be eligible for a grant under this section, a State correctional education agency shall submit to the Secretary a proposal for a youth offender program that— (1) identifies the scope of the problem, including the number of incarcerated youths in need of postsecondary education and vocational training; (2) lists the accredited public or private educational institution or institutions that will provide postsecondary educational services; (3) lists the cooperating agencies, public and private, or businesses that will provide related services, such as counseling in the areas of career development, substance abuse, health, and parenting skills; (4) describes the evaluation methods and performance measures that the State correctional education agency will employ, which methods and measures— (A) shall be appropriate to meet the goals and objectives of the proposal; and (B) shall include measures of— (i) program completion; (ii) student academic and vocational skill attainment; (iii) success in job placement and retention; and (iv) recidivism; (5) describes how the proposed programs are to be integrated with existing State correctional education programs (such as adult education, graduate education degree programs, and vocational training) and State industry programs; (6) addresses the educational needs of youth offenders who are in alternative programs (such as boot camps); and (7) describes how students will be selected so that only youth offenders eligible under subsection (f) will be enrolled in postsecondary programs. (e) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. —Each State correctional education agency receiving a grant under this section shall— (1) integrate activities carried out under the grant with the objectives and activities of the school-to-work programs of such State, including— (A) work experience or apprenticeship programs; (B) transitional worksite job training for vocational education students that is related to the occupational goals of such students and closely linked to classroom and laboratory instruction; (C) placement services in occupations that the students are preparing to enter; (D) emplo3ment-based learning programs; and (E) programs that address State and local labor shortages; Reports. (2) annually report to the Secretary and the Attorney General on the results of the evaluations conducted using the

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