Perkins Special Populations (SP)

• Students who are unable to communicate fluently or learn effectively in English, who often come from non-English-speaking homes and backgrounds, and who typically require specialized or modified instruction in both the English language and in their academic courses.

• an individual who is under-employed or unemployed and is experiencing difficulty in obtaining employment or upgrading employment
  AND
• has worked primarily without remuneration to care for a home and family, and for that reason has diminished marketable skills;
  OR
• has been dependent upon the income of another family member but is no longer supported by that income;
  OR
• is a parent whose youngest dependent child will become ineligible to receive assistance under Part A of Title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) not later than 2 years after the date on which the parent applies for assistance under this Title.

• a person having any of the disabilities as defined in Section 3 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

• an individual from economically disadvantaged families, including foster children.
• this individual must be either a Pell grant recipient or recipient of some other form of financial assistance, and/or a migrant.

• an individual enrolled in an occupational program that is considered nontraditional for his/her gender as determined by National Labor Statistics and State year-end Program enrollment data.
• these occupations or fields of work generally include careers in computer science, technology, and other emerging high skill occupations, for which individuals from one gender comprise less than 25 percent of the individuals employed in each occupation or field of work.

• an individual who is unmarried or separated from a spouse,
  AND
• has a minor child or children for which the parent has either custody or joint custody,
  OR
• is unmarried or separated from a spouse and is pregnant.

• Individuals who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence.

• placements in foster family homes;
• foster homes of relatives;
• group homes,
• emergency shelters;
• residential facilities;
• child care institutions; and
• preadoptive homes.

• Army;
• Navy;
• Air Force;
• Marine Corps, and
• Coastal Guard
• National Guard

(1) The term ‘active duty’ means full-time duty in the active military service of the United States. Such term includes full-time training duty, annual training duty, and attendance, while in the active military service, at a school designated as a service school by law or by the Secretary of the military department concerned.

(2) The term “active duty for a period of more than 30 days” means active duty under a call or order that does not specify a period of 30 days or less.

• An individual going to or from employment in agriculture
• A person who is required to be absent from a permanent place or residence for the purpose of seeking remunerated employment in agricultural work