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Thiis legislation marked the first federal investment in secondary vocational education, providing funding to the states for agriculture, home- making, and trade and industrial education.
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The George Deen Act allotted $12 million for agriculture, home economics, and trade and industrial education.
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appropriated $14 million per year
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Student population based funding. Included in this funding was money for economically disadvantaged and disabled students.
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Equal opportunities for women and girls enacted.
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appropriated $950 million dollars to support vocational education for four years.
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The Perkins II reauthorized the Perkins I for five years and increased funding by $600 million. It provided a new federal definition of vocational education.
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linked work- based and school- based learning, supported by partnerships with industry. It expired in 2001.
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Education Amendment Act amended the 1990 Perkins Act.
It provided a finely detailed definition of vocational education, and received funding separate from Tech-Prep. -
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006. Perkins IV introduced programs of study as a new unifying concept for CTE, with $1.3 billion supporting two funding streams— the Basic State Grant and Tech Prep.
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