This guide contains information about academic support services available to single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women at community, junior, and technical colleges throughout Texas. Over three-fourths of the guide is devoted to program information in the form of brochures, flyers, and forms supplied by representatives of…

Significant changes in special needs provision in the Perkins Act have differing interpretations. At the heart of service delivery are two mandated assurances: vocational assessment and supplemental services. (SK)

During 1996, a total of 806 New Jersey single parents and displaced homemakers participated in 21 programs that were funded with Perkins Act set-aside funds and designed to provide participants with the educational services and occupational training needed to obtain high-wage, high-skill and nontraditional occupational education training. The…

This guide is designed to assist local programs in relating to special populations with respect to implementing provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990 and carrying out the purpose of the new act. Section 1 addresses the issue of access of special populations students to vocational education…

Activities to develop proposed performance standards and measures for programs receiving funds authorized by the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act are described in this report. Two sections of the act are considered: Section 221 authorizes programs for single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women;…