2006 Kansas Code - 72-4413

      72-4413.   State plan for vocational education. (a) The state plan for vocational education may include such matters as are required to be included in state plans by federal law and rules and regulations. The state plan shall not include any provision which is in conflict with the provisions of this act or any other law of this state. The state plan, in addition to other matters which it may contain, may include the items authorized by this section and may contain such additional items as are permitted to be included by this act. The state plan, or changes, supplements or revisions of any part or all thereof, shall not be approved by the state board until a proposal therefor has been issued by the state board and such proposal has been distributed to each board and to other interested persons, and until reasonable public notice has been given, and all boards as well as other interested persons have been given a reasonable opportunity for public hearing. Rules and regulations adopted by the state board shall be adopted in accordance with law.

      (b)   The state plan for vocational education may make provision for work-study programs for vocational education students in accordance with the Carl D. Perkins vocational and technical education act of 1998, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

      (c)   The state plan for vocational education may provide for the planning of residential vocational education programs and schools in accordance with the Carl D. Perkins vocational and technical education act of 1998, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, but no residential vocational education school shall be established unless and until the same is authorized by the legislature.

      (d)   The state plan for vocational education may make provision for exemplary programs of vocational education in accordance with the Carl D. Perkins vocational and technical education act of 1998, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

      (e)   The state plan for vocational education may make provision for cooperative vocational education programs in accordance with the Carl D. Perkins vocational and technical education act of 1998, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. Such provision shall be specific in providing safeguards against the commingling of public and nonpublic funds or moneys, but provision may be made to pay a part of the cost of private employers to the extent authorized by the federal law.

      (f)   The state plan for vocational education may make provision for consumer and homemaking education programs in accordance with the Carl D. Perkins vocational and technical education act of 1998, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

      (g)   The state plan for vocational education may make provisions for research and training in vocational education in accordance with the Carl D. Perkins vocational and technical education act of 1998, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

      (h)   The state plan for vocational education may make provision for curriculum development in vocational and technical education in accordance with the Carl D. Perkins vocational and technical education act of 1998, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

      (i)   The state plan for vocational education may provide for offerings of vocational education in private vocational training institutions and nonpublic nonprofit institutions to the extent authorized in the Carl D. Perkins vocational and technical education act of 1998, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. Such provisions shall include specific safeguards against the commingling of public and private funds or moneys, but may authorize any board to enter into contracts for vocational education to be conducted in and by any private vocational training institution or nonpublic nonprofit institution.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 318, § 3; L. 1977, ch. 245, § 5; L. 1986, ch. 267, § 4; L. 1991, ch. 222, § 4; L. 1999, ch. 40, § 3; July 1.