Vermont § 1531 - Responsibility of State Board

§ 1531. Responsibility of State Board

• (a) The State Board has overall responsibility for the effectiveness of career technical
  education. This requires the Board to collect suitable information and to take appropriate
  steps within its legal, financial, and personnel resources to ensure that: (1) Career technical education is equally available to students and is of consistent quality
  in all parts of the State, including areas remote from career technical centers. (2) The timing and content of career technical education is properly and flexibly coordinated
  with academic instruction. (3) Career technical education is available to adult students, particularly in areas where
  unemployment is high or occupational retraining needs are great. This includes entering
  into contracts with postsecondary educational institutions or with any resource supplier
  to provide adult programs at career technical centers. (4) Career technical education programs and courses of study are demonstrably useful to
  their graduates in obtaining employment or improving the quality of their employment. (5) Career technical education programs are well coordinated with related State programs
  in education and training. This includes ensuring that career technical education
  graduates receive appropriate credit toward requirements in apprenticeship programs
  and professional licensing programs. (b) In order to provide regional career technical education services efficiently, the
  State Board shall designate a service region for each career technical center. However,
  the Board may designate a service region for two or more comprehensive high schools
  if that region is not served by a career technical center. (c) For a school district that is geographically isolated from a Vermont career technical
  center, the State Board may approve a career technical center in another state as
  the career technical center that district students may attend. In this case, the school
  district shall receive transportation assistance pursuant to section 1563 of this title and tuition assistance pursuant to subsection 1561(c) of this title. Any student
  who is a resident in the Windham Southwest Supervisory Union and who is enrolled at
  public expense in the Charles H. McCann Technical School or the Franklin County Technical
  School shall be considered to be attending an approved career technical center in
  another state pursuant to this subsection, and, if the student is from a school district
  eligible for a merger support grant pursuant to section 4015 of this title or a small school weight pursuant to section 4010 of this title, the student’s full-time equivalency shall be computed according to time attending
  the school. (Added 1983, No. 247 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1987, No. 238 (Adj. Sess.), § 14; 1991, No. 204 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 1993, No. 233 (Adj. Sess.), § 49c, eff. June 21, 1994; 1999, No. 10, § 1; 1999, No. 29, § 49, eff. May 19, 1999; 2001, No. 142 (Adj. Sess.), § 188a; 2003, No. 66, § 183a; 2013, No. 56, § 28; 2021, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.), § 22, eff. July 1, 2024.)