special service-learning programs

special service-learning programs Sec. 114. (a) Of the funds appropriated for the operation of programs under this part, up to 10 per centum may be used, notwithstanding any other provisions of this part, to encourage and enable students in secondary, secondary vocational, and post-secondary schools to participate in service-learning programs on an in- or out-of-school basis in assignments of a character and on such terms and conditions as described in subsections (a) and (c) of section 103. (b) Persons serving as volunteers under this section shall not be deemed to be Federal employees for any purpose. (c) The Director may provide volunteers serving under this section a living allowance and only such other support or allowances as he determines, pursuant to regulations which he shall prescribe, are required because of unusual or special circumstances affecting the program.