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rect services to handicapped persons; the develop-
ment of a Statewide plan to provide rehabilitation
services to all the State's handicapped citizens;
and the implementation of plans for establishing,
staffing, and supervising workshops and rehabili-
tation facilities.

The Division offers services at regional and local
offices located strategically throughout the State.
The primary purpose is to provide diagnostic coun-
seling, physical restoration, training, and place-
ment services for every Maryland resident with a
vocational handicap resulting from disability.

The Division is also directly responsible for the
administration and operation of the Maryland
Rehabilitation Center, a multi-million dollar facil-
ity in which eligible handicapped persons may
undergo a comprehensive program of evaluation,
counseling, and training while residing on the
premises.

Consultative services are available to work-
shops and facilities that may be used for federal-
ly-funded programs.

The Division's professional personnel also work
with community organizations in developing re-
search and demonstration projects designed to
improve services to handicapped persons.

The Governor's Committee on Employment of
the Handicapped, created by Executive Order
01.01.1979.23 and housed within the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation, is charged with the re-
sponsibility of promoting meaningful employment
opportunities for the handicapped. Its twenty-sev-
en members are appointed to three-year terms by
the Governor, who also appoints the chairman.

DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL-
TECHNICAL EDUCATION

The Division of Vocational Technical Educa-
tion is responsible for the administration, supervi-
sion, and evaluation of Vocational-Technical Edu-
cation in the State. In carrying out this re-
sponsibility, the Division provides leadership and
assistance to educational and related agencies, in-
stitutions, organizations, business, industry, and
commerce in the planning, development, improve-
ment, evaluation, and expansion of educational
and training programs.

Programs administered by the Division are of-
fered in both public and private institutions and
are available to both school age and adult citizens
of Maryland.

MARYLAND EDUCATIONAL
COUNCIL MEMBERS:

Harry Hughes, Governor; Clarence W. Blount;
Howard P. Rawlings; Joseph H. MeLain; Mary
L. Nock; David W. Hornbeck, State Superin-
tendent of Schools; Sheldon H. Knorr, Commis-
sioner for Higher Education

OFFICERS OF THE COMMISSION:

Chairperson: D. Robert Graham, Governor of
Florida

Vice-Chairperson: Jim Chrest, State Representative,
Oregon

Chairperson-Elect: Robert Ray, Governor of Iowa

Treasurer: E. T. Dunlap, Chancellor, State Re-
gents for Higher Education, Oklahoma

Robert Andringa, Executive Director

1860 Lincoln Street
Suite 300
Denver, Colorado 80295
Telephone: (303) 830-3600

The Education Commission of the States oper-
ates under the provisions of the Compact for Ed-
ucation, which Maryland ratified by Chapter 128,
Acts of 1966. The Commission was created to es-
tablish and maintain close cooperation and un-
derstanding among executive, legislative, profes-
sional educational, and lay leadership on a
nationwide basis at the State and local levels. It
also informs political and educational leaders of
current trends and ideas in education, as well as
provides a forum for the discussion, development,
crystallization, and recommendation of public
policy alternatives in the field of education. In ad-
dition, the Commission provides a clearinghouse
of information on matters relating to educational
problems and how they are being met in different
places throughout .the United States, which is
made available to executive and legislative
branches of State government, local communities,
and lay and professional groups in the field of ed-
ucation. Maryland pays an annual fee of $25,875
for its State membership assessment.

The same Act also created the Maryland Edu-
cational Council, which consists of seven mem-
bers, of whom two are ex officio members and