| Purpose
The Board shall provide programs of vocational education:
- to prepare students for gainful employment as semi-skilled workers
or technicians or semi-professionals in recognized occupations and
in new or emerging occupations.
- to prepare students for enrollment in advanced or skilled vocational
and technical education programs.
- to assist students in making informed and meaningful occupation
choices.
Definition
For purposes of this policy, "vocational education" shall
be defined as programs under public supervision and control which provide
an organized process of learning experiences designed to develop integrated
academic and occupational skills, knowledge, attitudes, work habits
and leadership ability for entry into and advancement within various
levels of employment in occupational areas of agriculture, business,
marketing and distribution, health, home economics, and trade and industry
for participation in postsecondary education and training.
Authority
The Board will support a program of vocational education that shall
include:
- vocational planned courses of study as part of the regular curriculum
of the school.
- a work-study program for the employment of qualified students in
public agencies and institutions.
- a work release program to offer students experience in private employment.
- attendance at the Eastern Center for Arts and Technology (ECAT)
and participation in a cooperative program of vocational development.
- a transition program developed through an Individualized Education
Plan of an eligible special education student.
Responsibility
In order to maintain these programs, the Board shall apply the same level
of supervision as for all other courses in the high school and, in cooperation
with the ECAT, establish the number of credits to be awarded towards graduation
for vocational education courses of study and for cooperative education
programs. Delegation
of Responsibility
The Superintendent shall be responsible for developing procedures which
shall insure that all in-school programs shall be operated in conformity
with the current State Plan for vocational education and shall work
cooperatively with the Superintendent's Advisory Council and the Joint
Committee of the Eastern Center for Arts and Technology.
- All teachers shall be properly certified for their specific teaching
assignments.
- Admission to vocational education programs is open to such regularly
enrolled students as are qualified by their interest, motivation,
potential for achieving occupational or other goals of the program.
These will be open to eleventh and twelfth grade students who meet
state credit requirements.
- Upon recommendation, special education students may apply for vocational
education programs consistent with the admissions policy of the ECAT.
Eligible students may enter the ECAT in the year that they would be
chronologically eleventh graders and shall be registered in the ECAT
as "ungraded" students. The IEP for these students
shall be developed in consultation with an appropriate ECAT staff
member.
- All students participating in approved vocational education programs
supervised by the Board or in shared-time programs are considered
to be regularly enrolled in the schools of this district, subject
to the policies and rules of this Board, and jointly established policies
and rules of this district and the ECAT, including rules regarding
attendance and discipline for those periods when they are not assigned
to outside work projects.
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