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PUBLIC LAW 109–270—AUG. 12, 2006 ‘‘(A) work-related experiences for students, such as internships, cooperative education, school-based enterprises, entrepreneurship, and job shadowing that are related to career and technical education programs; ‘‘(B) adjunct faculty arrangements for qualified industry professionals; and ‘‘(C) industry experience for teachers and faculty; ‘‘(4) to provide programs for special populations; ‘‘(5) to assist career and technical student organizations; ‘‘(6) for mentoring and support services; ‘‘(7) for leasing, purchasing, upgrading or adapting equipment, including instructional aids and publications (including support for library resources) designed to strengthen and support academic and technical skill achievement; ‘‘(8) for teacher preparation programs that address the integration of academic and career and technical education and that assist individuals who are interested in becoming career and technical education teachers and faculty, including individuals with experience in business and industry; ‘‘(9) to develop and expand postsecondary program offerings at times and in formats that are accessible for students, including working students, including through the use of distance education; ‘‘(10) to develop initiatives that facilitate the transition of subbaccalaureate career and technical education students into baccalaureate degree programs, including— ‘‘(A) articulation agreements between sub-baccalaureate degree granting career and technical education postsecondary educational institutions and baccalaureate degree granting postsecondary educational institutions; ‘‘(B) postsecondary dual and concurrent enrollment programs; ‘‘(C) academic and financial aid counseling for subbaccalaureate career and technical education students that informs the students of the opportunities for pursuing a baccalaureate degree and advises the students on how to meet any transfer requirements; and ‘‘(D) other initiatives— ‘‘(i) to encourage the pursuit of a baccalaureate degree; and ‘‘(ii) to overcome barriers to enrollment in and completion of baccalaureate degree programs, including geographic and other barriers affecting rural students and special populations; ‘‘(11) to provide activities to support entrepreneurship education and training; ‘‘(12) for improving or developing new career and technical education courses, including the development of new proposed career and technical programs of study for consideration by the eligible agency and courses that prepare individuals academically and technically for high skill, high wage, or high demand occupations and dual or concurrent enrollment opportunities by which career and technical education students at the secondary level could obtain postsecondary credit to count towards an associate or baccalaureate degree; ‘‘(13) to develop and support small, personalized careerthemed learning communities;

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