17 fields to persons who are available for study in preparation for entering employment, or (C) a vocational or technical school and exclusively or principally 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 employment, or (D) the department or division of a junior college or community college or university which provides vocational education in no less than five different occupational fields, operating under the policies of the State board, leading to immediate employment or to homemaking 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 clauses (C) or (D) of this paragraph, it admits as regular students both persons who have completed high school and persons who have left high school; (2) the term "Commissioner" means the United States Commissioner of Education, and the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; H.R. 6251-3 18 (3) the term "community college" means any junior college, postsecondary vocational school, technical institute, or any other educational institution (which may include a four-year institution of higher education or a branch thereof) in any State which— (A) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education beyond secondary education; (B) admits as regular students persons who are high school graduates or the equivalent, or who are beyond compulsory school age; (C) provides a two-year postsecondary educational program leading to an associate degree, or acceptable for credit toward a bachelor's degree, and also provides programs of postsecondary vocational, technical, occupational, and specialized education; (D) is a public or other nonprofit private institution; (E) is accredited as an institution by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or associa tion, or if not so accredited (i) is an institution that has obtained rec ognized preaccreditation status from a nation ally recognized accrediting body, (ii) is an institution whose credits are 52-945 O 75 vol. 2 - 45 5 67 19 accepted on transfer, by not less than three accredited institutions, for credit on the same basis as if transferred from an institution so ac credited, or (iii) is approved by the State board; (4) the term "industrial arts education programs' means those education programs (A) which pertain to 8 the body of related subject matter, or related courses, organized for the development of understanding about 9 10 11 12 the technical, consumer, occupational, recreational, organizational, managerial, social, historical, and cultural aspects of industry and technology including learning experiences involving activities such as experimenting, 14 designing, constructing, evaluating, and using tools, machines, materials, and processes which provide oppor 2 3 4 13 15 16 17 tunities for creativity and problem solving and assisting individuals in the making of informed and meaningful 18 occupational choices, and (B) which the State board determines will accomplish or facilitate one or more of the purposes of the Act; (5) the term "local educational agency" means a board of education or other legally constituted local school authority having administrative control and direction of public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or political sub 20 division in a State, or any other public educational institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a vocational education program; (6) the term "nonpublic school" or "nonprofit private school" means a school established by an individual, institution, or agency other than the State, subdivisions of the State, or the Federal Government, which is supported primarily by other than public funds, and the responsibility for the operation of whose program rests with other than publicly elected or appointed officials; (7) the term "operation" used for the purpose of a residential school facility includes maintenance costs, 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; (8) the term "persons with special needs" means persons who are or have been adversely affected by physical, mental, academic, socioeconomic, geographic or other factors and conditions and who require special supportive, educational, or guidance assistance in order to benefit from vocational education programs and services; (9) the term "private vocational training institu 1 2 3 4 21 tion" 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 per sons who have completed or left elementary or secondary 5 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 vocational or technical education designed to fit individuals for useful employment in recognized occupations, including homemaking; (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 or 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 |