5.5. Provisions for coordination of guidance and counseling pro-
gram with other related services available to students.
5.6. Special needs of students or unusual community circum-
stances.
6.0. Certification of plan...
6.1 Certificate of officer authorized by State educational agency to submit the State plan:
Indicate in general the procedures, that will be used in initial and continuing or
succeeding approval or reapproval of local programs.
The standards called for in this regulation have been modified to require the
identification of guidance and counseling activities by educational level-i.e.,
elementary and secondary or public junior college and technical institutes-
the duties as well as qualifications for local guidance positions; counselor-
student ratio in terms of qualified, full-time equivalent counselors. Where the
recommended standards are not immediately put into effect by a local educa-
tional agency, the measures to be employed by such agency in achieving the
recommended standards must be stated (143.34(3)).
It is not necessary to give detailed information in this paragraph. The intent of
regulation 143.34(a) (4) is to encourage adequate supervision of the local reim-
bursed programs. If the State would find it advantageous for this purpose to
make use of regional supervisors for groups of those local programs in which a
full-time local supervisor would not be justified, either by employing such
supervisors on the State staff or by having local educational agencies pool
resources to employ such supervisors, such provisions should be spelled out in
this section.
Changes in the regulation 143.35(a) (5) require that local agencies make provi-
sions to insure coordination methods and procedures with other related serv-
ices, both within and outside the local school or community setting. This
would include not only other student services within the school, such as
psychological, attendance, health, and social work services, but also the
services of community agencies.
Regulation 143.35(b) dealing with the establishment of guidance and counseling
programs designed to meet special needs of students or unique circumstances
in the community may also be reflected in the State plan under the conditions
specified in this regulation. However, such programs as are approved under
the provisions in this section must be approved in accordance with the mini-
mum standards set forth in subsec. 5.31 for local programs and compatible
with the scope and purposes of regulation 143.33. To the extent that such
programs are related to the purposes of regulation 143.26, the programs would
be related to carrying out activities conducted by the State agency super-
visory staff under the plan. Such programs as are approved should be limited
in number by virtue of their being unusual or unique. Federal funds for such
types of special projects are available under other Federal programs and also
may be directly related to the purposes of such programs contemplated.
The certificates required by regulation 143.2 (e) and (f) should be inserted at
this point or written on separate sheets of paper attached as part of the plan.
Sample forms of certificates are shown in pars. 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3.
It may be necessary to modify the sample certificate forms to conform to the
situation in the State. If an official, other than the Attorney General of the
State, is designated by State law to advise the State educational agency on
legal matters and if the rulings of such official have the same legal effect with
respect to the agency as rulings of the Attorney General have with respect
to agencies advised by him, this certificate may be made by such official.