§ 1541. Responsibility of local school boards that operate career technical centers

(a) A school board that operates a CTE center has responsibility for providing secondary and adult career technical education services within its service region.

(b) A school board that operates a CTE center shall establish a regional advisory board. It shall give due regard to the policy and financial recommendations of its regional advisory board. When the school board rejects a written recommendation of a regional advisory board, or fails to adopt a recommendation after 30 days, it shall notify the advisory board and the Secretary in writing, stating its reasons. If the State Board designates a service region for two or more comprehensive high schools, the boards of the high schools shall establish a joint regional advisory board.

(c) In consultation with its regional advisory board, a school board that operates a regional CTE center shall:

(1) annually set the budget for operation of the center;

(2) establish the secondary and adult curriculum of the regional center, including courses of study offered;

(3) whenever advantageous to the service region, provide for the decentralization of its career technical programs, including the creation of rotating and satellite programs;

(4) employ and, as need requires, dismiss an assistant director for adult education and, subject to section 243 of this title, a director of career technical education;

(5) establish admission and program completion policies;

(6) periodically evaluate the success of the center in serving all parts of its service area and in offering useful adult training and education programs;

(7) periodically evaluate the quality of each course of study offered by the center;

(8) coordinate use of the center with the Vermont State Colleges; with other State programs, including licensing, job training, and apprenticeship programs; and other approved institutions, for the provision of postsecondary career technical education programs, and charge fees not exceeding actual direct and indirect costs of the use of the center;

(9) offer programs designed to acquaint prospective students with CTE programs that do not require an enrollment commitment; and

(10) after giving due consideration to efficient and cost-effective use of the center, establish fees for building and equipment use.

(d) A school board that operates a CTE center:

(1) shall establish a CTE tuition;

(2) shall make the center’s facilities and equipment available for providing CTE education to adults; and

(3) shall use and maintain all facilities designed and constructed for career technical education in a manner consistent with that purpose, except when those facilities are not needed for CTE and the Secretary consents. (Added 1983, No. 247 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1987, No. 238 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 2, 3; 1989, No. 243 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 1991, No. 204 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 4, 7; 1993, No. 233 (Adj. Sess.), § 49d, eff. June 21, 1994; 2007, No. 192 (Adj. Sess.), § 6.004, eff. June 7, 2008; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 145, eff. Feb. 14, 2014.)