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LAWS & REGULATIONS
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Carl Perkins Act of 1998
This legislation is designed to develop more fully the academic, vocational, and technical skills of secondary students and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in vocational and technical education programs, by

  • Building on the efforts of states and localities to develop challenging academic standards;
  • Promoting the development of services and activities that integrate academic, vocational, and technical instruction, and that link secondary and postsecondary education for participating vocational and technical education students;
  • Increasing state and local flexibility in providing services and activities designed to develop, implement, and improve vocational and technical education, including tech-prep education; and
  • Disseminating national research, and providing professional development and technical assistance, that will improve vocational and technical education programs, services, and activities.
   
  Vermont School Construction Planning Guide and Standards for Technical Education Centers Clicking this link will open a PDF document
This guide is designed to help school boards, administrators and governing boards through the process of planning and pursuing a technical education construction project. It is to be used in conjunction with applicable construction standards governing technical center construction and State Board of Education Rules for Capital Construction. It is not intended to be used in isolation or to supersede any other agency rules for school construction. Specific rules of state agencies that apply to school construction are beyond the scope of this document.
   
POLICIES
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  Program Approval 
In order for the programs to be offered for students at Vermont's regional technical centers and comprehensive high schools, approval must be granted. A description of the process and and checklists are available.
   
 

FY 2008 Local Plan GuideClicking this link will open a PDF document
The Local Plan Guide has been developed to assist Career and Technical Education Center directors and faculty to appropriately address all required components of their local plan proposals for the upcoming (FY08) academic year. Local Plans are reviewed to determine approval for disbursement of Perkins funds for the upcoming school year. Local Plans are due June 1st and monies can be disbursed July 1, after plans are approved.

   
  Principles of Program DesignClicking this link will open a PDF document
This document provides information about how local plan proposals will be evaluated and may be used to assist in development of the local plan/sub-grants to the local plan.
   
 

Service Regions
Career and technical education is provided statewide through sixteen service regions. Each service region is served by a technical center(s) and/or comprehensive high school(s). School districts and independent high schools are assigned to a technical education service region.

The following lists have been prepared based on information contained in the Vermont State Board Manual of Rules and Practices,
Rule series 2370.

   
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
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Staff Assignments
Career and technical education staff have both work and cluster assignments. In addition, some staff members are assigned to provide technical assistance to specific technical centers and comprehensive high schools.

   
   

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