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Title 20, EducationRelease 119-110

§2534 Contracts and Grants to States, Educational Agencies, Etc.

Title 20 › CHAPTER 45 — CAREER EDUCATION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT › SUBCHAPTER II — GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMS › § 2534

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The U.S. Secretary of Education can award competitive contracts and grants to state and local school systems, colleges, and nonprofit groups to run trainings that improve teachers’ and counselors’ guidance skills in public and private K–12 schools. These grants can pay for real work experience in businesses and professions, bring working professionals into schools as advisors, send students into workplaces, and train supervisors and technical staff who run counseling services. The Secretary can also give grants to states to help them coordinate new and existing guidance and counseling programs.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §2534

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(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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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.

Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of Education” substituted in text for “Commissioner” pursuant to section 301(a)(1) and 507 of Pub. L. 96–88, which are classified to section 3441(a)(1) and 3507 of this title and which transferred functions of Commissioner of Education to Secretary of Education.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 2534

Title 20, Education

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110