 
           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.
