The local educational agency shall meet minimum established vocational program standards to be eligible to receive reimbursement and continuation of other vocational support.
Standards are to include the utilization of state adopted curricula for each vocational program.
The Office of Vocational and Technical Education shall annually collect and monitor the enrollments, completers, and placement of all on-going vocational program students and establish and maintain a formula for rating the programs based on a statewide comparison of similar programs. Programs in the lower ranking of these performance ratings shall be monitored and notified of deobligation prior to March 1 of the following year. The Office of Vocational and Technical Education, with the approval of the State Board of Education, shall establish a cutoff for each classification of programs annually. Local agencies with programs that meet standards but do not measure up to performance criteria may be allowed to convert their vocational resources to more applicable programs to meet the needs of employers and students within the agencies' service district through the New Program Approval Process. Written notification of all deobligations shall be mailed to affected local educational agencies no later than March 1 of each year.