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 PUBLIC LAW 98-524—OCT. 19, 1984

98 STAT. 2489

(2) Section 318(a)(4) of such Act is amended by striking out "the Vocational Education Act of 1963" and inserting in lieu thereof "the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act". (e)(1) Section 113(a) of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 (40 U.S.C. App.) is amended by striking out "the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (77 Stat. 403)" and inserting in lieu thereof "the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act". (2) Section 114(c) of such Act is amended by striking out "the Vocational Education Act of 1963" and inserting in lieu thereof "the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act". (f) Section lOl(a)(ll) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 721(a)(ll)) is amended by striking out "the Vocational Education Act" and inserting in lieu thereof "the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act". (h) Section 104 of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 is amended by striking out "section 102(a) of this Act (as such Act will be in effect on October 1, 1977)" and inserting in lieu thereof "section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational BJducation Act".

20 USC I2iic.

40 USC app. 113. 40 USC app. 114.

20 USC il note,

NATIONAL SUMMIT CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION

SEC. 5. (a) This section may be cited as the "National Summit Conference on Education Act of 1984". (b)(1) The Congress finds that— (A) increased economic competition requires the development of a better trained and educated workforce which our educational institutions must provide; (B) problems and deficiencies in American elementary and secondary education require consideration of possible new directions in setting national education policy; and (C) there should be a National Summit Conference on Education authorized by law by Congress to provide directions for such policy, and any conference established by the Department of Education should be complementary to the National Summit Conference on Education. (2) For the purpose of this section, the term "Conference" means the National Summit Conference on Education established by this title. (c) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Education $500,000 for the purpose of conducting a National Summit Conference on Education, in accordance with the provisions of this section. (d) The participants in the Conference shall consist of not more than two hundred individuals. The participants in the Conference shall be representative of teachers, parents, school administrators, school board members. State education officials. State legislators, Governors, students, business, labor, and special populations, including females, racial and ethnic minorities, and the disabled. The participants in the Conference shall be selected so as to provide racial, political, and geographic balance. (e) The participants in the Conference shall be chosen from among nominees submitted to the Executive Committee (established pursuant to section 605) by organizations representing public and private elementary and secondary education, vocational education, adult education, teacher training, women, racial and ethnic minorities, and the handicapped, as well as from among nominees supplied by

National Summit eonference on Education Act of 1984.

Appropriation authorization.

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