PUBLIC LAW 95-207—DEC. 13, 1977 ..:*..;..;-.
91 STAT. 1467
STATE PLAN'S
SEC. 7. Every State desiring to receive funds appropriated pursuant Contents, to section 4 shall submit to the Commissioner by July 1, 1979, a State 20 USC 2606. plan which shall— (1) set out explicitly the objectives the State will seek to achieve by the end of each of the fiscal years for which funds are made available under this Act in implementing the goal of providing career education for students in elementary and secondary schools within the State, with special emphasis on overcoming sex bias and stereotyping, and set out the methods by which the State will seek each year to achieve such objectives with all resources available; (2) describe the methods by which the funds received under this Act will be used, in accordance with section 8, to implement the overall objectives in each of the fiscal years for which funds are made available under this Act; (3) set forth policies and procedures which the State will follow to assure equal access of all students (including the handicapped and members of both sexes) to career education programs carried out under the State plan; (4) provide adequate assurance that the requirements of section 6 will be met in each fiscal year after fiscal year 1979; and (5) provide proposed criteria to the Commissioner for the evaluation of the extent to which the State will achieve the objectives set out in the State plan. USE OF FUNDS
SEC. 8. (a) Subject to the provisions of sections 9(b) and 10, funds Federal share received under this Act may be used only to pay the Federal share payments, of the total costs of— 20 USC 2607. (1) employing such additional State educational agency personnel as may be required for the administration and coordination of programs assisted under this Act; (2) providing State leadership for career education, either directly or through arrangements with public agencies and private organizations (including institutions of higher education), m(A) conducting inservice institutes for educational personnel; (B) training local career education coordinators;, (C) collecting, evaluating, and disseminating career education materials on an intrastate and interstate basis with special emphasis on overcoming sex bias and stereotyping; (D) conducting statewide needs assessment and evaluation studies; (E) conducting statewide career education leadership conferences; (F) engaging in collaborative relationships with other agencies of State government and with public agencies and private organizations representing business, labor, industry and the professions and organizations representing the handicapped, minority groups, women, and older Americans; and (G) promoting the adaptation of teacher-training curric-
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