The community college provides career-related learning experiences for students that do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age.

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What legislation authorizes this standard?

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ref.1) (ref. 2)
Guidelines for Vocational Education Programs (ref. 1) (ref. 2)

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  1. Are cooperative work experience, work-study, apprenticeship, and/or other career-related learning program participants recruited without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age?
  2. Does the community college have a policy that makes cooperative work experience, work-study, apprenticeship, and/or other career-related learning available to all students without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age?

  1. Does the community college have agreements with cooperative work experience, work-study, apprenticeship, and/or other career-related learning partners which contain an assurance of non-discrimination?
  2. Does the community college refrain from cooperative work experience, work-study, apprenticeship, and/or other career-related learning agreements with an entity that discriminates on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age?
  3. Does the community college require employers to provide cooperative work experience without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age?
  4. Does the community college refuse to honor any employer request for cooperative work experience, work-study, apprenticeship, and/or other career-related learning students on the basis of their freedom from disability or for students of a particular race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age?

  1. Are the students in work-study, cooperative education, and job placement programs representative of the demographics of the school or CTE program?
  2. If there is a disparity between the demographics of the school or CTE program and the students in work-study, cooperative education, and job placement programs, does the institution provide a legitimate, non-discriminatory rationale?