2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 16 Education
Chapter 37 TECHNICAL TRAINING
§ 1531 Responsibility of state board

1531. Responsibility of state board

(a) The State Board has overall responsibility for the effectiveness of 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) technical education is equally available to students and is of consistent quality in all parts of the State, including areas remote from technical centers;

(2) the timing and content of technical education is properly and flexibly coordinated with academic instruction;

(3) 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 technical centers;

(4) technical education programs and courses of study are demonstrably useful to their graduates in obtaining employment or improving the quality of their employment;

(5) technical education programs are well coordinated with related state programs in education and training. This includes ensuring that technical education graduates receive appropriate credit toward requirements in apprenticeship programs and professional licensing programs.

(b) In order to provide regional technical education services efficiently, the State Board shall designate a service region for each 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 technical center.

Subsection (c) shall apply to enrollments prior to the 2013-2014 academic year and before.

(c) For a school district which is geographically isolated from a Vermont technical center, the State Board may approve a technical center in another state as the technical center which 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 in the Charles H. McCann Technical School at public expense shall be considered to be attending an approved technical center in another state pursuant to this subsection, and, if the student is from a school district eligible for a small schools support grant pursuant to section 4015 of this title, the student's full-time equivalency shall be computed according to time attending the school.

(c) For a school district that is geographically isolated from a Vermont technical center, the State Board may approve a technical center in another state as the 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 section 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 technical center in another state pursuant to this subsection, and, if the student is from a school district eligible for a small schools support grant pursuant to section 4015 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.)