Sweetwater County School District #1

Sweetwater County School District #1 is currently a participant in the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, also known as the Perkins Grant V.

The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins V) is a principal source of federal funding to states and discretionary grantees for the improvement of secondary and post-secondary career and technical education programs across the nation. The purpose of the Act is to develop more fully the academic, career, and technical skills of secondary and post-secondary students who elect to enroll in career and technical education programs.

History of the Act

The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 was the first authorization for the Federal funding of vocational education. Subsequent legislation for vocational education (now termed career and technical education) included the Vocational Act or 1973 and the Carl D. Perkins Act of 1984 (Perkins). Perkins was reauthorized as the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act (Perkins II) in 1990, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 1998 (Perkins III), the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV) and the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 was reauthorized in 2018 under the 2006 name (Perkins V).