2006 Kansas Code - 72-4416

      72-4416.   Area vocational schools; plans for establishment; required information; limitation on approval of. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), any board may present a plan to the state board for the establishment and operation of an area vocational school. The plan may specify that the area vocational school is to be a department or a division of a school district or a community college or a state educational institution or a municipal university. The plan shall be prepared in such form as is prescribed by the state board.

      Information included in support of the plan shall include, but not be limited to the following:

      (1)   Concentration of population within a reasonable service area;

      (2)   total enrollments in the elementary and secondary schools within the area, separately;

      (3)   number of persons graduating from high school within the area;

      (4)   probability of growth in elementary and secondary school enrollments within the area;

      (5)   identification of vocational education services needed within the area;

      (6)   local interest and attitudes toward the program;

      (7)   ability to contribute to the financial support of the program; and

      (8)   consideration of the area in relation to other programs or requests for programs of vocational education to prevent, as nearly as is practicable, overlapping or duplication of educational services.

      Upon receipt and examination of a plan, the state board shall conduct such public hearings and make such investigations related to the plan as it deems appropriate. If the plan submitted is approved, or approved after amendment, the state board shall issue an order authorizing the establishment of an area vocational school.

      (b)   The state board shall not approve any plan submitted to it under subsection (a) after the effective date of this act until this subsection is amended by or repealed from law.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 318, § 6; L. 1984, ch. 265, § 3; L. 1988, ch. 356, § 273; L. 1989, ch. 283, § 11; L. 1999, ch. 147, § 102; July 1.