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 with the Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior
 (subsequently renamed the Department of Health, Education, and
 Welfare) in the administration of all acts of congress relating to voca-
 tional education and vocational rehabilitation; to have all necessary
 authority to cooperate with the Office of Education in the administration
 of these acts; to administer any legislation pursuant thereto enacted by
 the State, and to administer the funds provided by the federal govern-
 ment and the State for the promotion of vocational education in agri-
 cultural subjects, trade and industrial subjects, distributive education,
 home economics subjects, and in vocational rehabilitation; to approve
 plans for the promotion of vocational education in such subjects as an
 essential and integral part of the public school system of the State
 and to provide for the preparation of teachers in such subjects; to
 fix the compensation of such officials and assistants as may be
 necessary to administer the provisions of any federal acts relating
 to these subjects in the State, and to pay such compensation and other
 necessary expenses of the administration from funds appropriated for
 these purposes; to provide for the making of studies and investigations
 relating to vocational education in such subjects, to promote and aid in
 the establishment by local communities of schools, departments, or
 classes; to prescribe qualifications for the teachers and supervisors
 of such subjects, and to have full authority to provide for the certifi-
 cation of such teachers and supervisors; to cooperate with local
 communities in the maintenance of schools, departments, or classes
 or to establish such schools, departments, or classes under its own
 direction and control; to establish anc determine by general regula-
 tions the qualifications to be possessed by persons engaged in the
 training of vocational teachers; and to provide otherwise for the proper
 conduct of the vocational education and vocational rehabilitation pro-
 gram and for the articulation of this work with other phases of the state
 program. (Section 229. 08 (9) F. S.)


2.0 Legal Provisions Dealing Specifically with Vocational Education.

 2. 1 Florida Acceptance Act. The State Board is authorized, in its
 discretion, to accept the provisions of any act of congress
 appropriating and apportioning funds to the State for use in
 connection with any phase of the state system of public educa-
 tion. (Section 220.082 F. S.)

 2.2 Other Laws Relating to Cooperation with the Federal Government.
 The State Board shall... (a) approve plans for cooperating with
 the federal government in carrying out any or all phases of the
 educational program in which it may find cooperation to be
 desirable, and to provide for the proper administration of funds
 which may be appropriated by congress and apportioned to the
 State for any or all educational purposes; (b) the State Board