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      "date": "2006-08-23",
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      "title": "Career and Technical Education: Selected Changes Made by P.L. 109-270",
      "summary": "The federal government currently provides support for career and technical education through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 (Perkins III; P.L. 105-332). The act authorized funding for vocational and technical education through FY2003, although the Congress continued to provide funding under the act through FY2006. The 109th Congress has reauthorized the Perkins Act. On August 12, 2006, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 was signed into law (Perkins IV; P.L. 109-270).\nWhile many aspects of the Perkins Act remain intact, Perkins IV made several key changes to the act:\nrefers to career and technical education rather than vocational and technical education;\nretains the basic state grant formula for allocating funds to states if appropriations are level funded or decreasing, but implements a modified formula if appropriations increase;\nestablishes separate core indicators of performance for the secondary and postsecondary levels;\nmodifies the required contents of state and local plans, including adding linkages between the Perkins Act and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as modified by the No Child Left Behind Act;\nrequires eligible agencies and eligible recipients to meet at least 90% of their adjusted levels of performance on each of their core indicators of performance or be required to develop and implement an improvement plan;\nallows the Secretary of Education to withhold only state leadership and administrative funds from eligible agencies that fail to make progress or show improvement, but no longer allows funds withheld to be redistributed to other eligible agencies;\npermits eligible agencies to withhold funds from eligible recipients failing to make progress or show improvement;\nmodifies the required and allowable uses of state leadership funds;\nmodifies the required and allowable uses of local funds; and\nmaintains the tech-prep program as a separate program, but permits eligible agencies to consolidate their funding under the basic state grants program and the tech-prep program.\nThis report will not be updated.",
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