3. The Commissioner and other Office of Education officials met in March 1964 with a group representing business, industry, organized labor and with State directors of vocational education, executive officers of State Boards for Vocational Education, representatives of higher education, and other government representatives to review regulations and policy statements with regard to the Vocational Education Act of 1963.

4. In April 1964, a select group from the Office of Education and representatives from the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare met for one week to draft the regulations, incorporating the suggestions and recommendations received.

5. At the annual spring conference of State directors of vocational education held in Washington in May 1964, the draft of regulations was again reviewed and refined.

6. The outline of regulations was further refined in August, 1964 at a meeting of State directors of vocational education in Chicago.

7. This draft was presented to the Commissioner of Education and then presented by him to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for approval.

8. The revised regulations were published in the Federal Register of August 28, 1964, and superseded the policy statements and recommendations in the 1958 edition of "Vocational Education Bulletin No. 1."

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This Bulletin is intended for the use of all persons interested in vocational education programs administered by the State Boards for Vocational Education. Such persons include school administrators, members of State Boards for Vocational Education, members of the State advisory councils, State directors of vocational education, State supervisors, teacher-educators, local administrators and supervisory personnel, and teachers. Although regulations are necessary in administering program of vocational education, effective planning requires that persons responsible for vocational education consider factors other than these regulations. Some factors significant in operating an effective program of vocational education are (1) employing highly qualified and efficient personnel; (2) relating the program directly to employment opportunities and needs of youth and adults for opportunities in vocational education; (3) analyzing occupations as the bases of specific course content; (4) providing needed facilities and equipment; (5) allowing sufficient time for instruction to

develop skills and judgment for the accepted levels of performance in the student's chosen occupation; and (6) evaluating and continual revising of the program; as well as (7) engaging in needed research, and (8) cooperating with interested groups.

GRANT VENN

Associate Commissioner for
Adult and Vocational Education

SUMMARIES OF FEDERAL LEGISLATION FOR
VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION

APPENDIX PAGE

VOCATIONAL P.L. 88-210 To maintain, extend, and improve exist- A 61

EDUCATION

1963

ACT OF 1963

VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION

1917

ing programs of vocational education,
to develop new programs, and to pro-
vide part-time employment for youths
who need earnings to continue their
vocational education on a full-time
basis. For persons of all ages in all
communities: those preparing to enter
the labor market, those in the labor
market who need to upgrade their skills
or to learn new ones, and those with
special educational handicaps. For con-
struction of area vocational school
facilities. For ancillary services and
activities to assure quality in all voca-
tional education programs. Makes per-
manent the provisions of the Vocational
Education Act of 1946 for practical
nurse training and area vocational edu-
cation programs. Provides work-study
programs for vocational education stu-
dents and residential vocational educa-
tion schools.

P.L. 64-347 To provide for the promotion of voca- B 75
tional education and cooperation with
States in paying salaries of teachers,
supervisors, and directors of voca-
tional education in agriculture, and of
teachers of trade and industrial and
home economics subjects. For the prep-
aration of teachers of all these subjects
and for making studies, investigations,
and reports to aid in the organization
and conduct of vocational education.

P.L. 79-586
1946
(amended
by P.L. 84

1027, 1956)

To assist the States and Territories in B 82
vocational education: in agricultural,
home economics, trade and industrial,
distributive, and fishery trades educa-
tion. For administration, supervision,
and teacher-training programs; for sal-
aries and travel; for securing data and
information; for programs for out-of-
school youths and apprentices; and for
equipment and supplies.

APPALACHIAN P.L. 89-4
REGIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

ACT

TITLE II-B

TITLE III

TITLE IV

(Puerto Rico)

(the Virgin Islands)

(Guam)

(American Samoa)

1965

1932

To authorize grants to States according B 93
to provisions of the Vocational Educa-
tion Act of 1963 for construction and
equipment of area vocational school
facilities needed in the training of those
who need employment.

To require applications for grants un-
der the Act and annual reports.

To provide that laborers and mechanics B 96
employed by contractors in construc-
tion, alteration, and repair of vocational
and other facilities authorized by P.L.
89-4 shall be paid rates not less than
those prevailing on similar construc-
tion.

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P.L. 71-791 To provide that Puerto Rico be entitled C-a 99 to a share in the benefits of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education."

1950

P.L. 81-462 To provide that the Virgin Islands be C-b entitled to share in the benefits of the Vocational Education Act of 1946.

1956

P.L. 84-896 To provide that Guam be entitled to C-c 100 share in the benefits of the Vocational Education Act of 1946.

1962

P.L. 87-688 To provide that American Samoa be en- C-d 101 titled to share in the benefits of the Vocational Education Act of 1946.

THE FITZGERALD

ACT OF 1937

(50 STAT.

663, 665;

To authorize the Secretary of Labor to D 102

promote labor standards for the welfare
of apprentices, and to cooperate with
the Office of Education.

29 U.S.C.

$50, 50a

and 50b)

projected program activities

estimate,

fiscal, statistical, descriptive, 88-210, S.5 (a) (7) 104.55 (b)

Appalachian Regional Develop-

88-210, S.5(a) (7)

104.55

41

88-210, S.5(a) (7) 104.55 (a)

41

41

89-4, Title III

authorization of appropria-

tions and miscellaneous

provisions,

commission,

definition of region,

findings and statement

purpose,

labor standards,

maintenance of effort,

supplements to Federal

89-4, S.221

grant-in-aid programs,

Applications of Federal re-

Vocational education facilities, 89-4, S.211

89-4, S.214

Audit, fiscal,

quirements,

Apprenticeship programs,

Areas, metropolitan and special, 88-210, S.1

Area vocational education

schools,

88-210, S.5

88-210, S.4 (a)

88-210, S.8 (2)

f local expenditures,

88-210, S.5 (a) (5)

104.36

88-210, S.5(a) (5)

104.32 (b)

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