Amendment to Executive Order 11155, Awards for Special Capability in Career and Technical Education
Signed June 22, 2015·Barack Obama·80 FR 36691
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Amends Executive Order 11155, which established the Presidential Scholars program, by adding a provision allowing the Commission on Presidential Scholars to select up to twenty additional scholars each year beyond those already provided for. These additional scholars would be chosen from the same jurisdictions as other Presidential Scholars, based on outstanding scholarship and demonstrated ability and achievement specifically in career and technical education fields.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Amends: EO 11155, May 23, 1964
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Executive Order 13697 of June 22, 2015
Amendment to Executive Order 11155, Awards for
Special Capability in Career and Technical Education
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered that section 2 of
Executive Order 11155 of May 23, 1964, as amended by
Executive Order 12158 of September 18, 1979, is further
amended by adding a new paragraph (6) to read as
follows:
“(6) In addition to the Presidential Scholars
provided for in paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of this
section, the Commission may choose other Presidential
Scholars not exceeding twenty in any one year. These
Scholars shall be chosen at large, from the
jurisdictions referred to in paragraph (3), on the
basis of outstanding scholarship and demonstrated
ability and accomplishment in career and technical
education fields.”
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 22, 2015.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed June 22, 2015. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.