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PUBLIC LAW 93-380-AUG. 21, 1974

" C a r e e r education."

Survey and assessment. Report to Congress.

Post,

p. 569.

Career education models, grants.

L o c a l State educational program p l a n s, grants.

National Advisory Council for Career Education. Establishment. P o s t, p. 575.

[88 STAT.

(d) For the purposes of this section, the term "career education" means an education process d e s i r e d — (1) to increase the relationship between schools and society as a whole; (2) to provide opportunities for counseling, guidance and career development for all children; (3) to relate the subject matter of the curricula of schools to the needs of persons to function in society; (4) to extend the concept of the education process beyond the school into the area of employment and the community; (5) to foster flexibility in attitudes, skills, and knowledge in order to enable persons to cope with accelerating change and obsolescence; (6) to make education more relevant to employment and functioning in society; and (7) to eliminate any distinction between education for vocational purposes and general or academic education. (e) The Commissioner shall conduct a survey and assessment of the current status of career education programs, projects, curriculums, and materials in the United States and submit to the Congress, not later than November 1, 1975, a report on such survey and assessment. Such report shall include recommendations of the Advisory Council created under subsection (g) for new legislation designed to accomplish the policies and purposes set forth in subsections (a) and (b). I n exercising his authority under clauses (ii) ( III) and ( i i)(V) of section 434(b)(1)(A) of the General Education Provisions Act, for any fiscal year, the Commissioner shall require State educational agencies and local educational agencies to report on theii- efforts to prepare students for gainful or maximum employment. (f)(1) During the period beginning with the enactment of this section and ending June 30, 1978, the Commissioner is authorized to make grants to State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other nonprofit agencies and organizations to support projects to demonstrate the most effective methods and techniques in career education and to develop exemplary career education models (including models in which handicapped children receive appropriate career education either by participation in regular or modified programs with nonhandicapped children or where necessary in specially designed programs for handicapped children whose handicaps are of such seventy that they cannot benefit from regular or modified programs). Grants made under this subsection shall be consistent with the policies set forth in subsection (a) of this subsection. (2) During the period beginning one year after the enactment of this section and ending June 30, 1977, the Commissioner is authorized to make grants to State educational agencies to enable them to develop State plans for the development and implementation of career education programs in the local educational agencies of the States. Such plans shall be designed to carry out the policies and purposes set forth in subsections (a) and (b). (g)(1) Subject to part D of the General Education Provisions Act and within ninety days after the enactment of this section, there is established a National Advisory Council for Career Education which shall be composed of— (A) the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Education, the Commissioner of Education, the Director of the Office of Career Education, the Director of the National Institute of Education, the Administrator of the National Center for

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