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The State's Plan for the Provision of Work-Study Programs Under the 1963 Act

The primary consideration here would be to raise the question as to the validity of a state's plan regarding work-study if there is to be no money to support such a plan. As reflected in previous projected program reports, it had been the intention of the State administration to give considerable emphasis to this significant area with a full-time supervisor and with an over-all plan development that would, insofar as possible, relate actual work-study situations to vocational education goals. However, the experience this year is one in which the interest was high to expand the program but the availability of money was severely restricted. Since it is not at this time at all clear as to what capabilities we might have in the area of work-study during the coming year, precise planning has been left until a more appropriate time. We should add, however, that the rather high interest we have had in this program during this past year is beginning to wane because of our inability to indicate to cooperating districts the extent to which they will have money for this activity.

Names of Members of the State Board and/or Advisory Council

On April 3, 1967, new legislation became effective in the matter of the over-all administrative structure of education in the State of Washington. That part of the legislation which pertains to the vocational education program and creates a new agency for the administration of the program is quoted as follows:

"In order to facilitate the greatest possible coordination and
cooperation between the agencies of the state and the federal
government, and to carry out the purposes and intent of this
act and the acts of Congress relating to distribution of federal
funds for the support of vocational education and vocational
rehabilitation, there is hereby created the coordinating council
for occupational education to serve as the sole agency of the
state for the receipt of federal funds made available by acts of
Congress for vocational education and for vocational rehabilita-
tion within this state....... The coordinating council for occupa-
tional education shall consist of nine members, who shall be chosen
by July 1, 1967. Three of the members shall be selected by the
state board of education from its membership; and they shall
serve at the pleasure of the state board of education. Three
members shall be selected by the community college state board
from its membership; and they shall serve at the pleasure of the
state board for community college education. Three members
shall be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall represent
the field of labor, and one of whom shall represent the field of
management, both of whom shall have had recent actual experience
in or association with the fields of management and labor within the
state to assure their familiarity with the vocational education needs
of management and labor within the state. The governor's appointees
shall serve at his pleasure. No member appointed by the governor
shall, during the time he serves on the council, be a member of any