training activities, including basic literacy instruction and necessary educational materials, that will give single parents, homemakers, or single pregnant women marketable skills;

(b) Make subgrants to eligible recipients for expanding vocational education services where this expansion directly increases the eligible recipients' capacity for providing single parents, homemakers, or single pregnant women, with marketable skills;

(c) Make subgrants to communitybased organizations for the provision of vocational education services to single parents, homemakers, or single pregnant women, if the State determines that a community-based organization has demonstrated effectiveness in providing comparable or related services to single parents, homemakers, or single pregnant women, taking into account the demonstrated performance of such an organization in terms of the cost and quality of its training and the characteristics of the participants;

(d) Make vocational education and training programs more accessible to single parents, homemakers, or single pregnant women, by assisting them with child care or transportation services or by organizing and scheduling those programs so that they are more accessible; or

(e) Provide information to single parents, homemakers, or single pregnant women to inform them of vocational education programs and related support services.

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 2331(f))

[53 FR 35259, Sept. 12, 1988]

§ 401.56 How may funds under the Vocational Education Opportunities Program be used to serve individuals who participate in programs designed to eliminate sex bias and stereotyping in vocational education?

(a) A State shall use funds reserved for individuals who participate in programs designed to eliminate sex bias and stereotyping in vocational education in accordance with § 401.92(e) for

(1) Programs, services, and activities to eliminate sex bias and stereotyping

in secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs;

(2) Vocational education programs, services, and activities for girls and women aged 14 through 25, designed to enable the participants to support themselves and their families; and

(3) Support services for individuals participating in vocational education programs, services, and activities described in paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section, including dependentcare services and transportation.

(b) A State may waive the age limitations in paragraph (a)(2) of this section if the person described in § 401.13(a) determines that the waiver is essential to meet the objectives of this section.

(Authority: Sec. 201(g); 20 U.S.C. 2331(g))

[50 FR 33235, Aug. 16, 1985; 50 FR 38802, Sept. 25, 1985]

§ 401.57 How may funds under the Vocational Education Opportunities Program be used for criminal offenders who are serving in a correctional institution?

A State shall use funds reserved for criminal offenders who are serving in a correctional institution in accordance with § 401.92(f) to provide vocational education services and activities designed to meet the special needs of, and to enhance the participation of, criminal offenders who are serving in correctional institutions.

(Authority: Sec. 201(b); 20 U.S.C. 2331(b))

§ 401.58 In what additional ways may funds under the Vocational Education Opportunities Program be used?

(a) In addition to the services and activities authorized by §§ 401.52 through 401.57, a State may use funds under the Vocational Education Opportunities Program, in accordance with those sections, for

(1) Basic skills instruction for vocational education students which is related to their instructional program, if the State board determines that the instruction is necessary to carry out the purposes of the Vocational Education Opportunities Program;

(2) Vocational education through arrangements with private vocational

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training institutions, private postsecondary educational institutions, and employers if these institutions or employers

(i)(A) Can make a significant contribution to obtaining the objectives of the state plan; and

(B) Can provide substantially equivalent training at a lesser cost; or

(ii) Can provide equipment or services not available in public institutions; and

(3) Placement services for students who have successfully completed vocational education programs.

(b) To the extent practicable, a State shall include work-site programs, such as cooperative vocational education, work-study, and apprenticeship programs, in the programs it supports with funds under the Vocational Education Opportunities Program.

(Authority: Sec. 201 (h), (i); 20 U.S.C. 2331 (h), (i))

§ 401.59 What is the Vocational Educational Improvement, Innovation, and Expansion Program?

(a) A State shall use funds allotted under its basic State grant, and reserved in accordance with § 401.90(b)(2), to meet the needs identified in the State plan to expand, improve, modernize or develop high quality vocational education projects, services, or activities that will

(1) Provide the Nation's existing and future workforce with marketable skills;

(2) Improve productivity; and

(3) Promote economic growth. (b)(1) Funds used under § 401.60(a) may not be used to maintain existing projects, services, or activities.

(2) Funds used under § 401.60 (b) or (c) may be used to maintain existing services or activities.

(c) For the purpose of paragraph (b)(1) of this section, any vocational education project, service, or activity that was not provided by the recipient during the instructional term that preceded funding under this program may be considered a new, expanded, improved, modernized, or developed project, service, or activity, and may be considered so for up to three years. (Authority: Secs. 2(1), 251(a); 20 U.S.C. 2301(1), 2341(a))

§ 401.60 How may funds under the Vocational Education Improvement, Innovation, and Expansion Program be used?

(a) A State may use funds under the Vocational Education Improvement, Innovation, and Expansion Program to accomplish the purposes described in § 401.59, by supporting

(1) The improvement of vocational education programs within the State designed to improve the quality of vocational education, including hightechnology programs involving an industry-education partnership as described in § 401.78 and apprenticeship training programs;

(2) The expansion of vocational education activities necessary to meet student needs and the introduction of new vocational education programs, particularly in economically depressed urban and rural areas of the State;

(3) The introduction of new vocational education programs, particularly in economically depressed urban and rural areas;

(4) The creation or expansion of programs to train workers in skilled occupations needed to revitalize businesses and industries or to promote the entry of new businesses and industries into a State or community;

(5) Exemplary and innovative programs which stress new and emerging technologies and which are designed to strengthen vocational education services and activities;

(6) The improvement and expansion of postsecondary and adult vocational education programs and related services for out-of-school youth and adults, which may include upgrading the skills of

(i) Employed workers;

(ii) Workers who are unemployed or threatened with unemployment as a result of technological change or industrial dislocation;

(iii) Workers with limited English proficiency; and

homemakers and

(iv) Displaced single heads of households;

(7) The improvement and expansion of career counseling and guidance projects, services, or activities authorized by §§ 401.76 and 401.105;

(8) The expansion and improvement of programs at area vocational education schools;

(9) The conduct of special courses and teaching strategies designed to teach the fundamental principles of mathematics and science through practical applications which are an integral part of the student's prevocational or vocational program;

(10) The activities of vocational student organizations that are carried out as an integral part of the secondary and postsecondary instructional program;

(11) Prevocational programs;

(12) Modern industrial arts programs and agricultural arts programs;

(13) The provision of vocational education through arrangements with private vocational education institutions, private postsecondary educational institutions, and employers if these institutions or employers

(i)(A) Can make a significant contribution to attaining the objectives of the Act; and

(B) Can provide substantially equivalent preparation at a lesser cost; or

(ii) Can provide equipment or services not available in public institutions; and

(14) The improvement or expansion of any other vocational education activities authorized under the Vocational Education Opportunities Program that would accomplish the purposes described in § 401.59.

(b) A State may also use funds to accomplish the purposes described in § 401.59, by supporting

(1) Technical assistance and research;

(2) Programs relating to curriculum development in vocational education within the State, including the application of basic skill training;

(3) The assignment of personnel to work with employers and eligible recipients in a region in order to coordinate efforts to ensure that vocational programs are responsive to the labor market and supportive of apprenticeship training programs;

(4) The acquisition of equipment and the renovation of facilities necessary to improve or expand vocational education programs within the State;

(5) The provision of stipends for students entering or already enrolled in vocational education programs and who have acute economic needs which cannot be met under work-study programs. The amount of a stipend may be the larger of either the minimum wage prescribed by State or local law, or the minimum hourly wage set under section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended;

(6) Placement services for students who have successfully completed vocational education programs, including special services for handicapped individuals and cooperative efforts with rehabilitation programs;

(7) Day care services for children of students in secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs;

(8) The construction of area vocational education school facilities in areas having a demonstrated need for those facilities;

(9) The acquisition of high-technology equipment for vocational education programs; and

(10) The acquisition and operation of communications and telecommunications equipment for vocational edu⚫cation programs.

(c) A State shall use funds under this program for subgrants to support inservice and preservice training designed to increase the competence of vocational education teachers, counselors, and administrators, with special emphasis on the integration of handicapped and disadvantaged students in regular courses of vocational education.

(Authority: Sec. 251; 20 U.S.C. 2341)

[50 FR 33235, Aug. 16, 1985; 50 FR 38802, Sept. 25, 1985]

§ 401.61 How may a State distribute funds under the Vocational Education Improvement, Innovation, and Expansion Program?

(a)(1) Subject to the requirements of §§ 401.59 and 401.60, a State may use funds under the Vocational Education Improvement, Innovation, and Expansion Program in the manner best suited to carry out the purposes of the Act as implemented through the State vocational education program in that State.

(2) Any project assisted under the Vocational Education Improvement, Innovation, and Expansion Program must be of sufficient size, scope, and quality to give reasonable promise of meeting the vocational education needs of students involved in the project.

(b) In addition to eligible recipients, a State may use funds under the Vocational Education Improvement, Innovation, and Expansion Program to make awards to community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness

(1) In areas of the State in which there is an absence of sufficient vocational education facilities;

(2) In areas of the State in which the vocational education programs do not adequately address the needs of disadvantaged students; or

(3) Wherever the community-based organization can better serve disadvantaged students.

(Authority: Sec. 252; 20 U.S.C. 2342)

Subpart F-What Kinds of Activities Does the Secretary Assist Under the Special Programs?

§ 401.70 What are the Special Programs? (a) The Special Programs authorized by Title III of the Act are the

(1) State Assistance for Vocational Education Support Programs by Community-Based Organizations;

(2) Consumer and Homemaking Education Program;

(3) Adult Training, Retraining, and Employment Development Program;

(4) Comprehensive Career Guidance and Counseling Program; and

(5) Industry-Education Partnership for Training in High-Technology Occupations Program.

(b) From the amount appropriated under section 3(b) of the Act for each program in paragraph (a) of this section, the Secretary makes a separate allotment to each State.

(Authority: Sec. 3(b), Title III; 20 U.S.C. 2302(b), 2351 et seq.)

§ 401.71 What activities does the Secretary support under the State Assistance for Vocational Education Support Programs by Community-Based Organizations?

(a) The State shall provide, in accordance with its State plan, and from its allotment for this program, financial assistance to joint projects of eligible recipients and community-based organizations within the State that provide the following special vocational education services and activities:

(1) Outreach programs that facilitate the entrance of youth into a program of transitional services and subsequent entrance into vocational education, employment, or other education and training.

(2) Transitional services such as attitudinal and motivational prevocational training programs.

(3) Prevocational educational preparation and basic skills development, conducted in cooperation with business concerns.

(4) Special prevocational preparations programs targeted to inner-city youth, non-English speaking youth, Appalachian youth, and the youth of other urban and rural areas having a high density of poverty who need special prevocational education programs. (5) Career intern programs.

(6) The assessment of students' needs in relation to vocational education and jobs.

(7) Guidance and counseling to assist students with occupational choices and with the selection of a vocational education program.

(b) Handicapped individuals who are educationally or economically disadvantaged may participate in projects under this program.

(Authority: Secs. 302, 521(5); 20 U.S.C. 2352, 2471(5))

§ 401.72 What are the application requirements for the State Assistance for Vocational Education Support Programs by Community-Based Organizations? (a) Each community-based organization and eligible recipient that desire to participate in this program shall jointly prepare and submit an application to the State board at the time and

in the manner established by the State board.

(b) The State board may also establish requirements relating to the contents of the application, except that each application must contain

(1) An agreement among the community-based organization and the eligible recipients in the area to be served, which includes the designation of one or more fiscal agents for the project;

(2) A description of how the funds will be used, together with evaluation criteria to be applied to the project;

(3) Assurances that the communitybased organization will give special consideration to the needs of severly economically and educationally disadvantaged youth, ages sixteen through twenty-one, inclusive;

(4) Assurances that business concerns will be involved, as appropriate, in services and activities for which assistance is sought;

(5) A description of the efforts the community-based organization will make to collaborate with the eligible recipients participating in the joint project;

(6) A description of the manner in which the services and activities for which assistance is sought will serve to enhance the enrollment of severely economically and educationally disadvantaged youth into the vocational education programs; and

(7) Assurances that the projects conducted by the community-based organization will conform to the applicable standards of performance and measures of effectiveness required of vocational education programs in the State.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 18300030)

(Authority: Sec. 301; 20 U.S.C. 2351)

§ 401.73 What activities does the Secretary support under the Consumer and Homemaking Education Program?

(a) The State shall conduct, in accordance with its State plan, and from its allotment for this program, consumer and homemaking education projects that may include

(1) Instructional projects, services, and activities that prepare youth and

adults for the occupation of homemaking;

(2) Instruction in the areas of(i) Food and nutrition;

(ii) Consumer education;

(iii) Family living and parenthood education;

(iv) Child development and guidance;

(v) Housing and home management, including resource management; and (vi) Clothing and textiles.

(b) The State shall use the funds described in paragraph (a) of this section to support projects, services, and activities

(1) In economically depressed areas; (2) That encourage the participation of traditionally underserved populations;

(3) That encourage the elimination of sex bias and sex stereotyping;

(4) That improve, expand, and update consumer and homemaking education programs, especially those that specifically address needs described in paragraphs (b) (1), (2), and (3) of this section; and

(5) That address priorities and emerging concerns at the local, State, and national levels.

(c) The State may use the funds described in paragraph (a) of this section for

(1) Program development and the improvement of instruction and curricula relating to

(i) Managing individual and family resources;

(ii) Making consumer choices; (iii) Managing home and work responsibilities;

(iv) Improving responses to individual and family crises;

(v) Strengthening parenting skills; (vi) Assisting aged and handicapped individuals;

(vii) Improving nutrition;

(viii) Conserving limited resources; (ix) Understanding the impact of new technology on life and work;

(x) Applying consumer and homemaking education skills to jobs and careers; and

(xi) Other needs as determined by the State; and

(2) Support services and activities designed to ensure the quality and effectiveness of programs, including—