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MS Code § 37-31-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Securing Benefits of Federal Social Security Act|§ 37-31-33. Utilization of appropriated funds

 For the purpose of enabling the state board of education to comply with the provisions of the federal social security act and to continue to extend and improve as far as practicable the services now maintained by said state board for locating crippled children and for providing medical, surgical, corrective, and other services, care and treatment, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and after-care for children who are crippled or who are suffering from conditions which lead to crippling, any and all funds appropriated for physical restoration of crippled children for the above purposes may be used for the purposes set forth in this section.
MS Code § 37-31-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Securing Benefits of Federal Social Security Act|§ 37-31-35. Duties of state board

 Sections 37-31-31 through 37-31-41, together with funds made available through that section of those sections of the federal social security act which relates to crippled children, together with any and all available state and federal appropriations, shall be administered by the state board of education, and shall be used in the further development of the state's program of physical restoration of crippled children. The state board of education is hereby authorized to accept donations, gifts and bequests and to expend same on approval of the executive officer of the board, for purposes approved under regulations of the state board of education.
MS Code § 37-31-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Securing Benefits of Federal Social Security Act|§ 37-31-37. Reports

 The state board of education shall make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare may from time to time require under the terms of the federal social security act, and shall comply with such provisions as the secretary may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.
MS Code § 37-31-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Securing Benefits of Federal Social Security Act|§ 37-31-39. Cooperation authorized

 The state board of education shall cooperate with medical, health, nursing and welfare groups and organizations and with any other agencies in the state charged with administering state laws providing for vocational rehabilitation of physically handicapped children. Said state board is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to cooperate with the federal government in such manner as to obtain the benefits of the provisions of the federal social security act pertaining to crippled children.
MS Code § 37-31-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Securing Benefits of Federal Social Security Act|§ 37-31-41. Payment of funds

 All funds made available for carrying out the provisions of Sections 37-31-31 through 37-31-41 shall be paid by the state treasurer on warrants drawn therefor by the state auditor on requisitions of the state superintendent of public education.
MS Code § 37-31-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Vocational and Technical Schools, Classes or Courses|§ 37-31-61. Board authorized to establish and conduct vocational and technical schools, classes or courses

 The State Board of Education is hereby authorized and empowered to establish and conduct schools, classes or courses, for preparing, equipping and training citizens of the State of Mississippi for employment in gainful vocational and technical occupations which do not terminate in a bachelors degree, in conjunction with any public school, agricultural high school or community/junior college.   The trustees of such school districts, as classified and defined by law, including those already having this authority, and the trustees of agricultural high schools and community/junior colleges may, with the consent in writing of the State Board of Education, establish and conduct such schools, classes or courses, under the provisions herein stated and under the general supervision of the board.
MS Code § 37-31-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Vocational and Technical Schools, Classes or Courses|§ 37-31-63. General powers of those establishing vocational and technical classes or courses

 The State Board of Education, the trustees of the school districts as classified and defined by law, and the trustees of agricultural high schools or community/junior colleges, are hereby authorized and empowered to accept and use any land, building or buildings, being either the property of the State of Mississippi or of any of the school districts or agricultural high schools or community/junior colleges, or being the property of private sources, which may be designated, donated or leased for the purpose expressed in Section 37-31-61, and to use such funds as may be made available, and to accept donations and contributions for supplies, equipment, and materials incident to the purpose for which any such schools, classes or courses are established.   The board, the trustees of the school districts, as classified and defined by law, and the trustees of agricultural high schools or community/junior colleges, are hereby authorized and empowered to accept and receive donations, contributions and endowments, to charge tuition and registration fees, to receive payment for services rendered or commodities produced incident to training in said schools, courses or classes, and to accept any funds which may be made available for the purpose sought to be accomplished in Section 37-31-61 from any sources.
MS Code § 37-31-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Vocational and Technical Schools, Classes or Courses|§ 37-31-65. Funds

 The funds derived from any sources for any trade school, such as the Mississippi School for the Deaf, Mississippi School for the Blind, the Oakley Youth Development Center, or Parchman Vocational School or other agencies or institutions receiving funds for the purposes of this chapter, which are not operated in connection with any public school, agricultural high school or community/junior college, or by virtue of any tuition, registration fees, or payment for services rendered or commodities produced, shall be the property of the State Board of Education. In the event any public school, agricultural high school or community/junior college establishes any trade school, classes or courses under Section 37-31-61, such funds shall be the property of such public school, agricultural high school or community/junior college, to be expended by the trustees thereof, and shall be expended solely for the expense of operating and conducting the trade school, classes or courses in connection with such public school, agricultural high school or community/junior college. None of such funds shall be commingled with the funds of any other of such schools, and none of such funds shall be commingled with any of the other funds of any of the public schools, agricultural high schools or community/junior colleges. All of such funds so created shall be and are hereby declared to be public funds, as defined by law.
MS Code § 37-31-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Vocational and Technical Schools, Classes or Courses|§ 37-31-67. Foregoing sections are supplementary

 Sections 37-31-61 through 37-31-65 are in addition to and supplementary to existing school laws, and shall not be construed to repeal any laws now in existence governing any of the public schools of this state or the operation thereof.
MS Code § 37-31-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Vocational and Technical Schools, Classes or Courses|§ 37-31-69. School boards authorized to establish vocational apprenticeship programs; participation and curriculum; successful completion and graduation

  The school board of a local school district, in its discretion, may establish and implement a vocational apprenticeship program in the high schools in that district through which students may earn high school units for vocational experience as an alternative to those high school units required by the school district in addition to the core curriculum defined by the State Board of Education. The purpose of a vocational apprenticeship program established pursuant to this section shall be to provide those students with skills and training that will lead to gainful employment in a trade or other specialized vocation.   Students who participate in the vocational apprenticeship program shall be required to complete all high school units comprising the core curriculum, as defined by the State Board of Education. In addition, a student in the vocational apprenticeship program may be awarded credit for an additional eight (8) high school units earned through the vocational apprenticeship program, which units shall apply toward, and must be recognized by the State Board of Education in fulfillment of, the local school district's graduation requirements. Units may be awarded in the vocational apprenticeship program, whereby a student gains actual work experience through employment in a job approved by the local school district. The local school district shall adopt policies governing the participation of students in the vocational apprenticeship program.   Students successfully completing a vocational apprenticeship program established pursuant to this section are entitled to a diploma evidencing graduation from a high school in Mississippi.
MS Code § 37-31-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Regional Education Centers|§ 37-31-71. "Regional education center" defined

 For the purposes of Sections 37-31-71 through 37-31-79, the term "regional education center" means all facilities utilized for the carrying out of instruction on the level of secondary or postsecondary education or both which are jointly operated by or which accept students on a contractual basis from two (2) or more school districts of this state, or for any school district which encompasses an entire county.
MS Code § 37-31-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Regional Education Centers|§ 37-31-73. Agreements for establishment of center; terms of agreement; board of trustees; fiscal agent

 The various school districts, counties, municipalities and community/junior college districts of this state are authorized to enter into agreements between each other and between the school districts and any of the boards of supervisors of any county, the governing authorities of any municipality, or the boards of trustees of any community/junior college district providing for the construction or operation of regional education centers. Any agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall be subject to the approval of the State Board of Education. The agreement shall designate the fiscal agent, among other provisions, provide for the method of financing the construction and operation of the facilities, the manner in which the facilities are to be controlled, operated and staffed, the basis upon which students are to be admitted to the regional education center and transportation provided for students in attendance at the center. The agreement or any subsequent modification to it shall be spread at large upon the minutes of each party to the agreement after having been duly adopted by the governing authorities of each party.   The agreements may provide for the establishment of regional education advisory councils to serve in an advisory capacity to regional education centers, to be made up of representatives of the board of trustees of school districts or community/junior college districts which may be parties to the agreement. Regional education advisory councils of the parties to the agreement will operate at the will of the fiscal agent for the regional education center. The fiscal agent shall have all powers designated to it in the agreement by the parties to the agreement, except for the power to request or require the levy of taxes or the power to issue or require the issuance of any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, or to call for an election on the question of the issuance of any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness.
MS Code § 37-31-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Regional Education Centers|§ 37-31-75. Expenditures

 The various counties, municipalities, school districts and junior college districts which may become parties to any agreement authorized by Sections 37-31-71 through 37-31-79 are authorized to appropriate and expend any and all funds which may be required to carry out the terms of the agreement from any funds available to any party to the agreement not otherwise appropriated without limitation as to the source of the funds, including minimum foundation program funds, sixteenth section funds, funds received from the federal government or other sources by way of grant, donation or otherwise, and funds which may be available to any such party through the Department of Education or any other agency of the state, regardless of the party to the agreement designated by the agreement to be primarily responsible for the construction or operation of the regional education center and regardless of the limitation on the expenditure of any funds imposed by any other statute. However, no funds whose use was originally limited to the construction of capital improvements shall be utilized for the purpose of defraying the administrative or operating costs of any regional education center. Any one or more of the parties to an agreement may be designated as the fiscal agent or contracting party in carrying out any of the purposes of the agreement, and any and all funds authorized to be spent by any of the parties may be paid over to the fiscal agent or contracting party for disbursement by the fiscal agent or contracting party. Disbursements shall be made and contracted for under the laws and regulations applicable to the fiscal or disbursing agent, except to the extent they may be extended or modified by the provisions of Sections 37-31-71 through 37-31-79. All of the parties to the agreement may issue bonds, negotiable notes or other evidences of indebtedness for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition of land and for the construction of buildings and permanent improvements under the terms of the agreement under any existing laws authorizing the issuance or sale of bonds, negotiable notes or other evidences of indebtedness to provide funds for any capital improvement.
MS Code § 37-31-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Regional Education Centers|§ 37-31-77. Funds not to be charged against homestead exemption reimbursements

 It is expressly provided that any payment from the funds of one (1) governmental authority into the funds of any other governmental authority made in compliance with provisions of Sections 37-31-71 through 37-31-79, shall not be charged against homestead exemption reimbursements under the provisions of Section 27-33-41, Mississippi Code of 1972, or any other similar statute.
MS Code § 37-31-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Regional Education Centers|§ 37-31-79. Construction

 Sections 37-31-71 through 37-31-79 shall be liberally construed to effectuate the provisions thereof and are hereby declared to be severable. Such sections are supplemental to the authority provided in Sections 37-7-401 through 37-7-413 and other applicable statutes, and any agreement entered into pursuant to Sections 37-31-71 through 37-31-79 shall likewise be effective to confer on the contracting parties all powers contained in the Sections 37-7-401 through 37-7-413 provided such agreement is also approved by the state educational finance commission in accordance therewith.
MS Code § 37-31-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Future Farmers of America Camps|§ 37-31-81. Future Farmers of America camps authorized

 The State Board of Education is hereby authorized and directed to establish Future Farmers of America camps. Such locations shall be finally determined by the board.   The board is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire land and to place thereon such buildings and equipment as may be deemed appropriate for the establishment and operation of Future Farmers of America camps. The board shall provide for the operation, maintenance and upkeep of said camps.
MS Code § 37-31-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Manpower Development and Training for Specific Employment Opportunities|§ 37-31-101. Title

 Sections 37-31-101 through 37-31-111 shall be called the "Mississippi Manpower Development and Training Act of 1974."
MS Code § 37-31-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Manpower Development and Training for Specific Employment Opportunities|§ 37-31-105. Allowable costs and expenditures; use of funds

 Allowable costs for public schools may include salaries of instructors, cost of equipment, supplies, supervision, rental of space and equipment, utilities, custodial services, and other costs justifiable for the specific programs. There shall be no cost to students for any training received. The necessary books, tools and supplies shall be provided. All items purchased shall remain the property of the state for future programs and shall not be given to the student. Equipment may be transferred between local public training agencies. Rental for private facilities and minor remodeling and maintenance for public facilities are allowable. There shall be no construction of facilities.   Up to One Hundred Dollars ($100) per student may be expended for medical services necessary for vocational rehabilitation if needed to render the person employable and if no other source of funds is available for this purpose.   Funds appropriated for the purpose of Sections 37-31-101 through 37-31-111, except funds received by virtue of the Fiscal Assistance to State and Local Governments Act, Public Law 92-512, 31 USCS 1221, et seq., may be used as matching funds to obtain federal funds for similar objectives whenever needed.
MS Code § 37-31-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Manpower Development and Training for Specific Employment Opportunities|§ 37-31-107. Acceptance of students; job placement and referral

 Qualified students for the classes or courses may be accepted by the schools from any source, but priority of enrollment will be given referrals from the department of public welfare, state employment service, vocational rehabilitation, and nonretired veterans. The state employment service will assist with student job placement and referral whenever possible.   For the purposes of Sections 37-31-101 through 37-31-111, a qualified student is an adult, at least eighteen (18) years old, who is under-employed or unemployed and is not enrolled in school.   Students will not be eligible if they have dropped out of regular school for the specific purpose of enrolling in the manpower programs.
MS Code § 37-31-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Manpower Development and Training for Specific Employment Opportunities|§ 37-31-111. Annual reports

 An annual report on program activities and results shall be prepared by the state department of education, vocational division, and submitted to the legislature with the overall annual vocational education report.
MS Code § 37-31-201 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Funds for Mississippi Board of Vocational and Technical Education|§ 37-31-201. Definitions

 Wherever used in this chapter, or in any other statute, rule or regulation affecting the Vocational Education Division of the State Department of Education and any of its functions or duties:   The word "board" shall mean and refer to the State Board of Education.   The word "division" shall mean and refer to the Mississippi Division of Vocational and Technical Education of the State Department of Education.
MS Code § 37-31-207 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Funds for Mississippi Board of Vocational and Technical Education|§ 37-31-207. Duties of board

 The State Board of Education shall have the following duties:   To seek the best available projections of employment and occupations for Mississippians;   To utilize these projections and other considerations to set vocational and technical education priorities;   To utilize the services of all state agencies having information regarding the purposes of this chapter;   To cooperate with the governor's office of job development and training and the board of economic development to prevent duplication and provide continuity of employment and training services;   To conduct evaluations of the success or failure of vocational-technical programs, including the extent to which training actually leads to jobs in the field in which the student was trained;   Obtain and publish data and information on program performance from those vocational-technical programs receiving state funds; and   To notify local school districts and public community/junior colleges prior to March 1 annually of any discontinuation of ongoing vocational programs which would affect the renewing of contracts with vocational personnel.
MS Code § 37-31-211 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 31 - Vocational Education|Funds for Mississippi Board of Vocational and Technical Education|§ 37-31-211. Appropriations for vocational and technical education to be made to board

 The Legislature shall appropriate to the State Board of Education those state funds to be expended by the board through the Division of Vocational and Technical Education of the State Department of Education.
MS Code § 37-33-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 33 - Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation|In General|§ 37-33-1. Federal vocational rehabilitation act accepted

 The State of Mississippi accepts all of the provisions and benefits of an act passed by the Congress of the United States entitled, "The Rehabilitation Act of 1973," as amended.
MS Code § 37-33-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 37 - Education|Chapter 33 - Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation|Vocational Rehabilitation Law|§ 37-33-11. Short title

 Sections 37-33-11 through 37-33-35 shall be known as the "Vocational Rehabilitation Law of Mississippi."