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§2531 Congressional Findings

Title 20 › Chapter 45— CAREER EDUCATION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter II— GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS › § 2531

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Declare guidance and counseling activities essential for helping education programs meet their goals. Note that poor coordination between Federal, State, and local counseling efforts has caused available resources to be underused. Require better training for educators in guidance and counseling, including management of these programs at State and local levels. Emphasize inservice training that sends educators into businesses and professions, brings people from those workplaces into schools, and takes students into workplaces so they can watch and try real job tasks.

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Title 20, §2531

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The Congress finds that—
(1)guidance and counseling activities are an essential component to assure success in achieving the goals of many education programs: 11 So in original. The colon probably should be a semicolon.
(2)lack of coordination among guidance and counseling activities supported jointly or separately by Federal programs and by State and local programs has resulted in an underutilization of resources available for such activities; and
(3)increased and improved preparation of education professionals is needed in guidance and counseling, including administration of guidance and counseling programs at the State and local levels, with special emphasis on inservice training which takes educational professionals into the workplaces of business and industry, the professions, and other occupational pursuits, and that increased and improved use of individuals employed in such pursuits are needed for effective guidance and counseling programs, including (A) bringing persons employed in such pursuits into schools, and (B) bringing students into such workplaces for observation of, and participation in, such pursuits, in order to acquaint the students with the nature of the work.

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Effective Date

Section effective 30 days after Oct. 12, 1976, except either as specifically otherwise provided or, if not so specifically otherwise provided, effective July 1, 1976, where section provides for authorization of appropriations, see section 532 of Pub. L. 94–482, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1976 Amendment note under section 1001 of this title.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 2531

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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