Vocational teachers in vocational classes must use all equipment and materials purchased with these categorical funds. If equipment becomes outdated or not needed in the class for which it was purchased, other vocational classes are first in line to receive it. If the materials are not needed in any vocational class in the district, they may be surplused and then put into basic education courses. Basic education does. Once the material is not in the vocational program it is removed from the vocational inventory and is the property and responsibility of basic education.
Vocational funds pay to maintain vocational equipment only.
It is illegal to use vocational funds to build, repair, or remodel classrooms or buildings. However, some projects fall into an arguably vague area. An example would be a small project specifically for a vocational area, i.e., a greenhouse for a horticulture course or a load study to upgrade computers in a computer lab. However, if some of the materials and tools to do this are embedded into the curriculum of a class all year and students are using class time to build the greenhouse as part of the curriculum, some level of flexibility may exist. The junior high schools are not funded differently.