§ 2534. — Contracts and grants to States, educational agencies, etc.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC2534]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 45--CAREER EDUCATION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
SUBCHAPTER II--GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS
Sec. 2534. Contracts and grants to States, educational agencies,
etc.
(a) Implementation of programs
The Secretary of Education is authorized, on a competitive basis, to
enter into contracts and make grants to State and local educational
agencies, to institutions of higher education, and to private nonprofit
organizations to assist them in conducting institutes, work shops, and
seminars designed to improve the professional guidance qualifications of
teachers and counselors in State and local educational agencies and
nonpublic elementary and secondary school systems, including
opportunities for teachers and guidance counselors in such agencies and
systems to obtain experience in business and industry, the professions,
and other occupational pursuits, and including, for the purpose of such
improvement, such programs, services, or activities which bring
individuals with experience in such pursuits into schools as counselors
or advisors for students, and which bring students into the workplaces
of such pursuits to acquaint students with the nature of the work and to
provide training for supervisory and technical personnel in such
agencies and systems having responsibilities for guidance and
counseling, and to improve supervisory services in the field of guidance
and counseling.
(b) Coordination of programs of guidance and counseling
The Secretary of Education is authorized to make grants to States to
assist them in carrying out programs to coordinate new and existing
programs of guidance and counseling in the States.
(Pub. L. 94-482, title III, Sec. 344, Oct. 12, 1976, 90 Stat. 2225; Pub.
L. 96-88, title III, Sec. 301(a)(1), title V, Sec. 507, Oct. 17, 1979,
93 Stat. 677, 692.)
Transfer of Functions
``Secretary of Education'' substituted in text for ``Commissioner''
pursuant to sections 301(a)(1) and 507 of Pub. L. 96-88, which are
classified to sections 3441(a)(1) and 3507 of this title and which
transferred functions of Commissioner of Education to Secretary of
Education.
