ACTE recently hosted a Webcast designed to familiarize career and technical educators with the new Perkins Act.VIEW WEBCAST. ACTE has also posted the PowerPoint presentation . For additional Perkins resources vist ACTE
AACC Summary of Key Points of Perkins IV (pdf)
"After years of effort by Women Work! The National Network for Women's Employment and other advocates for career education, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act was signed into law by President Bush on August 12, 2006. The new law takes positive steps to ensure that women in transition have greater access to the career and technical education system."
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The new law, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006, which was passed almost unanimously by Congress in late July, was officially signed into law Saturday by President Bush. For more information on the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act click here
AACC Summary of Key Points of Perkins IV (pdf)