In order to provide local educational agencies with maximum flexibility to secure and utilize all federal funds available to enable those entities to meet the career and vocational needs of individuals with exceptional needs more effectively and efficiently, and to provide maximum federal funding to those agencies for the provision of that education, the Superintendent shall do all of the following:

(a) Provide necessary technical assistance to local educational agencies.

(b)  Establish procedures for these entities to obtain available federal funds.

(c) Apply for necessary waivers of federal statutes and regulations including, but not limited to, those governing federal career and vocational education programs.

(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 56, Sec. 75. Effective January 1, 2008.)