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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Vocational and Technical Entrepreneurship Development Act of 2005 - Amends the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a program under which the Administrator shall make grants to, or may enter into cooperative agreements with, State small business development centers to provide, on a statewide basis, technical assistance to secondary schools, or to post-secondary vocational or technical schools, for the development and implementation of curricula designed to promote vocational and technical entrepreneurship. </p> <p>Provides for the minimum amount of a grant to not be less than $200,000.<p>Directs the association of small business development centers to act as an information clearinghouse regarding vocational and technical entrepreneurship education programs.]]></text>
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