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Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 84 - Vocational, General Administration (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-84.8 - Evaluation and Improvement of Career and Technical Education Programs

Current through June 25, 2024
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall monitor
				  each local educational agency receiving career education funding to ensure that
				  annual self-evaluations are being conducted.
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall maintain
				  file copies of the local educational agencies' self-evaluation and improvement
				  plan and shall conduct desk audits of each of the plans. The Office of Career
				  and Technical Education is to conduct spot reviews on selected local
				  educational agency programs for compliance and quality as per the local
				  educational agencies' evaluation and self-improvement plan.
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall assist
				  the local educational agencies in a joint planning effort when the local
				  educational agencies are not complying and/or need technical assistance for
				  compliance and program improvement.
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall provide
				  technical assistance to the Office of Educational Accountability for conducting
				  the career component of the accreditation evaluation for secondary
				  schools.
Public Law
				  105-332, Sec. 123 (b), Sec. 135(b)(5). (Revised
				  10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 84 - Vocational, General Administration (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-84.9 - Career and Technical Education Live Work Projects

Current through June 25, 2024
All live work shall be directly related to the instructional
				  model presently in progress unless prior approval is obtained from the career
				  administrator. Live work must be scheduled in advance to allow the instructor
				  to incorporate the project into his/her instructional plan. All live work
				  performed in a career lab must be performed by students enrolled in the program
				  and must be related to the instructional program itself.
Under no circumstances shall any work performed or service
				  rendered in a career facility be in direct competition with the commercial
				  market.
Completed projects resulting from lab construction which
				  utilizes supplies and materials purchased with public funds, such as: storage
				  houses, trailers, portable buildings, cabinetry, etc., shall be inventoried and
				  shall become the property of the state or the local school, or shall be
				  disposed of in a manner consistent with state law.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										37-31-103(2)(3)(Revised
				  10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 84 - Vocational, General Administration (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-84.10 - Local Advisory Councils and Crafts Committees

Current through June 25, 2024
Each local school district receiving assistance from the
				  Office of Career and Technical Education to operate career and technical
				  education programs shall establish a local advisory council and individual
				  program craft committees. The council and craft committees shall provide the
				  school district with advice on current job needs and on the relevancy of
				  courses being offered by the district in meeting such needs. The local advisory
				  council shall be composed of members of the general public, especially of
				  representatives of business, industry and labor. The program craft committee
				  shall consist of member's representative of the program service
				  area.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										37-1-3
				  (Revised 10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 84 - Vocational, General Administration (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-84.11 - Local Plan for Career and Technical Education

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board of Education shall require participating
				  local public schools, public community/junior colleges and special state
				  schools to prepare and submit a local plan/application covering the same period
				  as the state plan for career and technical education in order to be eligible
				  for state and federal support in the funding of local career and technical
				  education programs. Local educational agencies shall be notified in writing of
				  the action taken on their plans. Reasons for disapproval in whole or in part
				  must be specified. A local educational agency shall have the opportunity to
				  submit a revised plan or part of a plan after notification of
				  disapproval.
Reimbursement shall not be made to any local public school
				  or community/junior college until their local plan for career and technical
				  education is in an approvable form.
Public Law
				  105-332, Sec. 134 <Note:
				  20USC
				  2354 (Revised
				  10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 84 - Vocational, General Administration (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-84.13 - Non-State Plan Programs for Career and Technical Education

Current through June 25, 2024
Non-State Plan funded programs, not under the Federal Career
				  and Technical Education State Plan, are to be governed by policies, rules and
				  regulations for Career and Technical Education except in instances where
				  special funded programs have been excluded or not allowed by funding
				  regulations. Employment and training funds and/or other non-plan funds are not
				  included in the state career and technical plan.
Miss Code Ann. §
										37-31-13(1)(Revised
				  11/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 84 - Vocational, General Administration (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-84.14 - Career Program Standards

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board of Education shall set and publish minimum
				  program standards and outcome Indicators of Performance for each major program
				  category. The Office of Career and Technical Education shall monitor the career
				  programs based on the set Performance Indicators.
Non-State Plan funded programs administered through the
				  Office of Career and Technical Education are to be monitored and evaluated
				  according to requirements of the funding regulations.
Public Law
				  105-332, Sec. 113 (Revised
				  11/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 84 - Vocational, General Administration (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-84.15 - Public Hearings - Career and Technical Education

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board Education, during the years in which it
				  formulates a state plan for career and technical education, shall conduct a
				  series of public hearings, after giving sufficient public notice throughout all
				  regions of the state. Sufficient public notice shall consist of the
				  following:
1. Legal notices shall be
				published beginning at least 30 days prior to the public hearings in the major
				newspapers serving the area of the state in which the hearing is to be held,
				and shall be run three times.
2.
				Organizations or individuals having an interest in career and technical
				education shall, upon their request, be notified as to the dates and times of
				the public hearings.
3.
				Announcements of public hearings on career and technical education shall be
				sent to major television and radio stations serving the area in which the
				hearings are to be held. These hearings shall be held in order to permit all
				segments of the population to give their views on the goals which should be
				adopted in the state plan, including the courses to be offered and allocations
				of responsibility for these courses among the various institutions of the
				state. Also, these public hearings shall give all segments of the population an
				opportunity to give input to allocations of local, state and federal sources to
				meet the goals as set forth in the state plan. The views of the public
				expressed at the hearings shall be included in the final state plan, with a
				description of how such views are not reflected then the documents shall set
				out reasons for rejecting them.
Public Law
				  105-332, Sec. 122 (a),(1),(2),(3) (Revised
				  10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 84 - Vocational, General Administration (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-84.16 - State Plan for Career and Technical Education

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board of Education shall develop, in consultation
				  with the Advisory Council or Planning Committee, a state plan for career and
				  technical education which provides for an assessment of current and projected
				  needs for career and technical education, program budgets reflecting annual and
				  long-range fiscal requirements, career education staff development activities,
				  and regulations and procedures for the administration of career and technical
				  education.
Before approving the state plan, the State Board shall
				  conduct public hearings which have been preceded by proper public notification.
				  The State Board shall, when necessary, amend the State Plan in consultation
				  with the Advisory Council or Planning Committee.
Public Law
				  105-332, Sec. 122 (a)(3), Sec. 122 (b)(1)(2)
				  (Revised 10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 84 - Vocational, General Administration (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-84.17 - Statistical Data

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board of Education shall require the local school
				  districts to collect and maintain a data base on student and financial
				  information and to submit enrollment, follow-up and other pertinent data on
				  reimbursed programs and activities. This data may include, but not limited to,
				  the following:
1. student data
				(including information concerning race, sex, and disability)
2. programs
3. program completers and leavers
4. placement and follow-up
5. staff
6. facilities
7. expenditures
8. performance indicators
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall modify the
				  data system and collection items with prior notice to the local educational
				  agencies when necessary to meet federal, state, and /or management
				  needs.
Public Law
				  116-16,
				  Sec.
				  113(Revised
				  12/2023)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 85 - Vocational, Annual Operating Budget (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-85.1 - Allocation of Career and Technical Education Non-State Plan Funds

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board of Education shall allocate state training
				  funds on a limited project agreement between the local educational agency and
				  the Office of Career and Technical Education.
Non-State Plan training funds shall be allocated on a
				  project agreement between the local educational agency and the Office of Career
				  and Technical Education contingent upon approval of funds from the funding
				  source.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										37-31-205(b)(Revised
				  11/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 85 - Vocational, Annual Operating Budget (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-85.2 - Allocation of Career and Technical Education Plan Funds

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board of Education shall not allow any vocational
				  plan funds to be distributed to a local educational agency unless that district
				  has an approved or approvable local plan for career and technical education on
				  file with the Office of Career and Technical Education for the fiscal year in
				  which funds are being requested.
The State Board shall use a formula in allocating federal
				  vocational funds (85% Carl Perkins) to local educational agencies as required
				  by federal statutes. The Office of Career and Technical Education shall be
				  responsible for updating the formula each year to ensure a fair and equitable
				  allocation of funds to the eligible recipient. The State Board shall determine
				  at the beginning of each plan period of the counties that are classified as
				  economically depressed based on either of the following two factors:
1. Counties that have over one and half times
				the national unemployment rate for the past three (3) years.
2. Counties that have 20% or more of their
				families below the poverty level.
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall be
				  responsible for making this determination for the State Board and for the
				  allocation of Carl Perkins funds and for targeting Carl Perkins funds.
Funds (85% Carl Perkins) allocated to local educational
				  agencies shall be allocated by the distribution formula and will be
				  administered by the local plan/application.
Funds (Carl Perkins) allocated to local educational agencies
				  for nontraditional services shall be awarded on an RFP project basis.
Funds (1% Carl Perkins) for correctional institutional
				  services shall be awarded to the Department of Corrections for vocational
				  support services and shall be limited to salaries and equipment.
Funds (state and federal) allocated to local educational
				  agencies for vocational adult short-term programs shall be distributed on a
				  class request basis.
Funds (state vocational) allocated to local educational
				  agencies for support of ongoing programs shall be continuous unless
				  notification is given prior to the start of the next fiscal year and shall be
				  distributed through the ongoing program process.
Funds distributed to Mississippi State University/Research
				  and Curriculum Unit shall be allocated by grant agreement.
Public Law
				  116-6,
				  Sec.
				  112, Sec134 (Revised
				  12/2023)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 85 - Vocational, Annual Operating Budget (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-85.3 - Hearings on Plans

Current through June 25, 2024
When a plan submitted by a local educational agency is not
				  approved by the Office of Career and Technical Education, the Office of Career
				  and Technical Education shall notify the local educational agency of the
				  deficiencies in the plan and allow thirty (30) days from the date of the
				  notification letter to correct those deficiencies. However, upon good cause
				  shown, the State Board of Education may extend this thirty (30) day period by
				  written notification.
If at the end of thirty (30) days or the end of the extended
				  period, whichever is applicable, the local educational agency has not corrected
				  the deficiencies, the plan will be denied. The Associate State Superintendent
				  for the Office of Career and Technical Education shall notify the local
				  educational agency of this denial by certified mail and include in that letter
				  the following:
1. The reasons for
				denial;
2. The right to request a
				hearing at which time the local educational agency is entitled to:
a. The right to be represented by legal
				counsel at its own expense;
b. The
				right to cross-examine witnesses from the Office of Career and Technical
				Education; and
c. The right to call
				witnesses in its own behalf (who must appear by agreement with the local
				educational agency because the State Board has no subpoena power) and to
				introduce documentary evidence in its own behalf;
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 85 - Vocational, Annual Operating Budget (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-85.4 - Maximum Reimbursement Salary Schedule

Current through June 25, 2024
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall establish
				  annually a maximum reimbursement secondary vocational salary schedule and a
				  maximum reimbursement community/junior college vocational salary schedule. The
				  maximum reimbursement secondary vocational salary schedule shall be based on
				  the minimum program salary schedule extended to 10 months. The Office of Career
				  and Technical Education may adjust this schedule downward when sufficient funds
				  are not appropriated for this expense item.
The maximum reimbursement community/junior college vocational
				  salary schedule shall be based on the past year's established schedule expanded
				  by appropriations for this purpose for the current year.
Miss Code
				  Ann. 37-31-13 (Revised
				  12/2023)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 85 - Vocational, Annual Operating Budget (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-85.5 - Other State Funds for Career and Technical Education Support

Current through June 25, 2024
Local public secondary school districts shall receive MS
				  Adequate Education Program (MAEP) support funds through the Office of
				  Educational Accountability. One-half (1/2) teacher unit will be added for each
				  career and technical program approved by the Office of Career and Technical
				  Education. Less than one hundred percent (100%) vocational teachers will
				  receive a prorated amount. MEAP funds are not to be requested when one hundred
				  percent (100%) federal career and technical funds are available through an RFP
				  (Request for Proposal) process to carry out the national career and technical
				  priorities.
MAEP funds are not to be approved when no state or federal
				  career and technical funds are to be expended through the Office of Career and
				  Technical Education.
Miss Code Ann.
				  37-19-43; MS Code 37-31-1 to 37-31-15 (Revised
				  12/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 85 - Vocational, Annual Operating Budget (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-85.6 - Reimbursement of Local Personnel Career and Technical Education Salaries

Current through June 25, 2024
The Office of Career and Technical Education, prior to
				  August 1st of each year, shall make an initial determination as to the
				  estimated total reimbursement to be made to each local school district for
				  approved vocational position salaries.
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall reimburse
				  to each local school district 8% of the approved reimbursed estimated total
				  amount immediately after the close of the months of July, August, and
				  September.
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall,
				  immediately at the close of the months of October, November, December, January,
				  February, March, April, and May, reimburse to the local school districts the
				  calculated approved and cleared budgeted reimbursement amount for the 4th, 5th,
				  6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th months less all previous reimbursements for
				  the year.
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall, at the
				  close of the fiscal year, make final calculations on the total approved
				  reimbursements to the local school districts and reimburse to the districts all
				  approved funds less previous reimbursements for the year.
This cash flow policy does not dissolve the Office of Career
				  and Technical Education's right to hold funds pending until local school
				  districts meet their agreed obligations, nor does it dissolve the Office of
				  Career and Technical Education's right to recover funds that the districts owe
				  the Office of Career and Technical Education.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										37-1-3
				  (Revised 11/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 85 - Vocational, Annual Operating Budget (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-85.7 - Career and Technical Education Funding Sources

Current through June 25, 2024
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall subdivide
				  the subsidies, loans, and grants section of the 206 and 201 budgets for Board
				  review and approval.
1. Subdivisions
				(lines) for 206 budget are:
a.
Lease Purchases/Indirect Cost/Other State Support
i. Salaries
ii. Equipment
iii. Adult Vocational
iv. Other
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 86 - Vocational, Assignment (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-86.1 - Local Career Counselor

Current through June 25, 2024
The local career counselor shall be utilized for specific
				  guidance purposes.
1. This position
				shall be referred to as career counselor.
2. This position shall be concerned with
				helping students make the occupational choices, educational choices, and career
				evaluations that will lead them to meaningful, successful, and rewarding work.
3. Career counselors shall be
				housed and function within the organizational structure of the Career and
				Technical Education CTE Center, with the advice and counsel of the Career
				Dean/Director. In the absence of a CTE Center, the counselor shall function
				within the appropriate organizational structure of the local educational agency
				while providing career counseling.
4. Primary responsibilities of this position
				will be identified by the local educational agency to support career programs
				and generally include but are not limited to the following:
a. Provide individual and group vocational
				CTE of students.
b. Disseminate
				information regarding CTE opportunities.
c. Remain up-to-date on changing job-entry
				skill requirements and changing technologies in business and industry.
d. Inform local business and
				industry of vocational education programs in the schools, and seek information
				regarding their job requirements.
e. Arrange for business and industrial
				representatives to interview graduates/completers as prospective employees.
f. Select, administer, and
				interpret aptitude tests to assist students in making appropriate career
				choices.
g. Provide a placement
				program for students completing career and technical programs.
h. Gather and publicize information from the
				community regarding jobs available to all students.
i. Prepare follow-up studies of students
				completing CTE programs for the purpose of improving services and evaluating
				the effectiveness of career education.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 87 - Certification of Basic Skills Training and/or Retraining for Tax Credit › Rule 7-3-87.1 - Certification of Basic Skills Training and/or Retraining for Tax Credit

Current through June 25, 2024
The local community or junior college that serves the
				  employer will certify employers as eligible for tax credit if they provide for
				  their employees basic skills training or retraining as prescribed by this
				  law.
Administration procedures for the certification program will
				  be developed by the appropriate community or junior college to ensure proper
				  training is accomplished. These procedures will be in accordance with the
				  requirements of the law and the policies of such community or junior college
				  that serves the employer.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										57-73-25
				  (Revised 11/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 88 - Postsecondary Licensure Guidelines › Rule 7-3-88.1 - Postsecondary Licensure Guidelines

Current through June 25, 2024
The regulations governing the licensure of postsecondary
				  educators in Mississippi are specified in the document entitled "Competency
				  Based Licensure for Postsecondary Career and Technical Personnel." An
				  up-to-date copy of that document shall be kept on file in the appropriate
				  office in the Mississippi Department of Education. Upon approval of amendments
				  to that document by the Mississippi Board of Education, staff will disseminate
				  it to the appropriate personnel in the Mississippi educational community.
Miss. Code Ann.
				  37-31-205(q) (Revised 11/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 89 - Development of Curriculum Materials and Research Activities › Rule 7-3-89.1 - Development of Curriculum Materials and Research Activities

Current through June 25, 2024
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall be
				  responsible for approving and monitoring the use of research activities and
				  curriculum materials that impact on reimbursed programs and activities of
				  career and technical education throughout the state. The development and
				  dissemination of research products and curriculum materials for use in the
				  reimbursed programs and activities in career and technical education throughout
				  the state shall be accomplished through a joint agreement between the Office of
				  Career and Technical Education and the Research and Curriculum Unit for Career
				  and Technical Education at Mississippi State University. Priorities shall be
				  determined through state- wide needs assessments and those identified by the
				  Office of Career and Technical Education.
Technical committees shall be established by the Associate
				  Superintendent for the Office of Career and Technical Education for advising
				  the development and implementation of state curriculum framework for use in
				  reimbursed programs. The Associate Superintendent shall approve the technical
				  committees. All technical committees' appointees' terms of service shall expire
				  on June 30 of each fiscal year. The Associate Superintendent may reappoint
				  committees or members at its discretion.
MS Code 37-31-103
				  (Revised 10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 89 - Development of Curriculum Materials and Research Activities › Rule 7-3-89.2 - Career and Technical Education Curriculum Guides

Current through June 25, 2024
The Mississippi Department of Education will provide
				  curriculum frameworks to set forth expectations of students by specifying
				  course titles and content. A schedule for revision of the frameworks will be
				  established. As subject areas are revised and approved by the State Board of
				  Education, the modifications will be disseminated to the appropriate
				  individuals in the educational community. A schedule for revision shall be kept
				  on file in the Mississippi Department of Education.
1. For copies of the Career and Technical
				Education Curriculum Guides, Career Pathway, please visit the Mississippi
				Secretary of State's website at Regulations and Enforcement in the
				Administrative Code, Title 7: Education K-12; Part # 38 thru Part #70 and Part
				# 97 thru Part # 102 and Part #117-Part #132.
a. Part # 46 - Architecture and Construction
				-Career Pathway - Construction: Carpentry
b. Concentration - REPEALED 4/2013
c. Part # 48 - Architecture and Construction
				-Career Pathway-Installation and Service: HVAC- REPEALED 11/2013
d. Part 51: Arts Audio-Video Technology and
				Communications - Career Pathway -Digital
e. Media Technology -REVISED 3/2014
f. Part 55: Education and Training
				- Career Pathway - Teacher Academy REVISED 3/2014
g. Part 57: Health Science - Career Pathway -
				Health Sciences REVISED 3/2014
h.
				Part # 58 - Hospitality and Tourism - Career Pathway - Culinary Arts
i. REPEALED 4/2013
j. Part # 60- Information Technology -Career
				Pathway-Information Technology
k.
				REPEALED 11/2013
l. Part # 61 -
				Manufacturing-Career Pathway-Industrial Maintenance -REPEALED
m. 11/2013
n. Part # 64 - Manufacturing-Career
				Pathway-Welding - REPEALED 11/2013
o. Part # 66 - Science Technology Engineering
				and Mathematics - Career Pathway - Engineering - REPEALED 11/2013
p. Part # 68 - Transportation Distribution
				and Logistics - Career Pathway - Automotive
q. Service Technician - REPEALED 11/2013
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 89 - Development of Curriculum Materials and Research Activities › Rule 7-3-89.3 - Approved Courses for the Secondary

Current through June 25, 2024
The Mississippi Department of Education will provide a list
				  of the Approved Courses for the Secondary Schools of Mississippi Career and
				  Technical Education Programs to each school district. This list contains all
				  approved courses that can be offered in the Mississippi secondary schools. As
				  new courses are revised and approved by the State Board of Education, the
				  modifications will be disseminated to the appropriate individuals in the
				  educational community. A schedule for revision shall be kept on file in the
				  Mississippi Department of Education.
Sec 122c(2)(A)-(G)
				  (Revised 11/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 90 - Vocational, Equipment (Career and Technical Education) › Rule 7-3-90.2 - Equipment Sales

Current through June 25, 2024
Districts that have accumulated obsolete equipment purchased
				  with State Funds with a combined value of more than $25,000, may petition the
				  Office of Vocational and Technical Education for permission to sell this
				  equipment at an auction. Prior to such a sale, the district must have an
				  appraisal conducted by a certified organization to determine the fair market
				  value of the equipment. The district must then file proposal with the Office of
				  Vocational and Technical Education detailing how the district will reinvest the
				  monies gained from the auction back into the Vocational Programs. The Director
				  of the Office of Instructional Development must approve this plan.
Once the auction has been completed, the district may deduct
				  any expenses related to the appraisal and auctioning of the equipment. The
				  district shall submit records to the Office of Vocational and Technical
				  Education detailing the amounts of money raised at the auction, minus any
				  related expenses.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										37-1-3(Adopted
				  5/2001)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 91 - Vocational, Facilities › Rule 7-3-91.1 - Construction or Remodeling of Career Technical Centers

Current through June 25, 2024
Any educational agency desiring to construct, expand, alter,
				  or remodel an area CTE center, facilities housing CTE programs including
				  comprehensive high schools and others, shall develop a local construction plan.
				  The construction plan shall be preceded by a needs assessment study of the area
				  to be served and shall also follow procedures as identified by the Office of
				  Career and Technical Education. The application for approval for building
				  construction and renovation shall be completed with all appropriate and
				  necessary documents and submitted through the Office of Career and Technical
				  Education to the State Board for final approval or disapproval.
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall develop
				  and maintain a management and control system for facilities that shall include
				  guidelines and procedures in the areas of facilities, standards and
				  specifications, remodeling, construction, acquisition, usage, disposition, and
				  inspection.
Public Law 98-524,
				  Section 251 (a)(10) and (20) (Revised
				  11/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 91 - Vocational, Facilities › Rule 7-3-91.2 - Use, Transfer of Title & Disposition of Local Physical Facilities

Current through June 25, 2024
1. Use
All local physical facilities funded through the State Board
				  of Education shall be utilized for the support and conduct of career and
				  technical education programs approved by the State Board of Education. This
				  includes, but is not limited to, the following career and technical education
				  programs: agriculture, trade and industry, family and consumer science ,
				  distributive education, business and office, health occupations, guidance
				  services, technical education, cooperative education, customized industrial
				  training and all other specialized occupational and support training not
				  requiring a bachelor's degree, with the exception of programs of nursing
				  education regulated under the provisions of section
				  37-129-1,
				  Mississippi Code of 1972. Any other use or alteration of the facility other
				  than previously specified shall require prior approval by the State Board of
				  Education.
The facility shall be used for the originally authorized
				  purpose as long as needed for that purpose. When no longer so needed, approval
				  may be requested from the State Board of Education for other purposes. Use for
				  other purposes shall be limited to:
a.
				Projects or programs supported by other federal grants assistance
				agreements.
b. Activities not
				supported by other federal grants or assistance agreements but having purposes
				consistent with those of the legislation under which the original grant was
				made.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 92 - Career and Technical Education (CTE) Licensure › Rule 7-3-92.1 - Career and Technical Education (CTE) Licensure

Current through June 25, 2024
All local career and technical personnel shall be licensed
				  in accordance with established requirements. Secondary CTE licensure shall be
				  established through a secondary licensure process and administered through the
				  Office of Educator Licensure. Postsecondary requirements shall be established
				  through a postsecondary process and administered by the MS Community College
				  Board.
Miss Code Ann.
				  37-31-205 (1)(e) (Revised 11/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 93 - Career-Technical Education Professional Development › Rule 7-3-93.1 - Career-Technical Education Professional Development

Current through June 25, 2024
Career and Technical personnel shall be encouraged to
				  improve their occupational and teaching competencies. The Office of Career and
				  Technical Education shall implement procedures for improving qualifications for
				  personnel through:
1. Long-term or
				special (short-term) arrangement with institutions of higher learning for
				graduate courses, both technical and professional, and non-credit workshops for
				teacher improvement;
2. Workshops,
				conferences, individual visits and other means by members of the Office of
				Career and Technical Education staff;
3. Exchange of teaching personnel with
				industries, etc.; and
4. Organized
				and planned tours and visits to various businesses, industries, etc., and by
				solicitation of the services of occupational people to serve on committees for
				teacher improvement.
Sec122c
				  (1)(A)-(G)(Revised 10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 94 - Vocational Revenues › Rule 7-3-94.1 - Local Reimbursable Expense Items

Current through June 25, 2024
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall reimburse
				  local public secondary and community/junior college school districts and
				  certain state institutions for specific approved equipment, supplies, and other
				  expenses necessary for the provisions of career and technical education.
1.
Equipment
a. CTE Funds
Local program equipment necessary for the operation of a CTE
				  complex/program may be considered as a 100% reimbursable expense.
b. Other Special Funds
Equipment necessary for the conduct of Special approved
				  instructional programs may be 100% reimbursed subject to the approved project
				  funding limitations.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 94 - Vocational Revenues › Rule 7-3-94.2 - Local Reimbursable Expense Items - Construction

Current through June 25, 2024
1.
				CTE
Funds
The Office of Career and Technical Education may reimburse
				  up to fifty percent (50%) of the cost from federal funds for construction
				  and/or remodeling under State Board of Education approved plans for a complex
				  designated as a CTE center (a minimum of five 5 programs or more) if funds are
				  available
2.
Other Special Funds
The Office of Career and Technical Education may reimburse
				  up to the allowable fund limits for construction and/or remodeling under State
				  Board of Education approved plans for a complex designated as a vocational
				  center. Other facilities may be remodeled or renovated to house special
				  programs provided prior written approval is obtained and not restricted by
				  funding regulation. This funding is limited to availability of funds.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										37-31-7
				  (Revised 5/2001)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 94 - Vocational Revenues › Rule 7-3-94.3 - Local Reimbursable Expense Items - Travel

Current through June 25, 2024
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall reimburse
				  local public secondary and community/junior college school districts and
				  certain state institutions for specific approved travel expenses necessary for
				  the provisions of career and technical education.
1.
Local Travel
a.
Vocational Project Funds &
				85% Funds
Travel reimbursement for career-technical education (CTE)
				  personnel funded by CTE project funds may be reimbursed for local travel not to
				  exceed the state set mileage rate, provided this expense is approved in the
				  project.
b.
Other Special Funds
Special project personnel approved and funded by funds
				  administered by the Office of Career and Technical Education may be reimbursed
				  for official travel from the special funds not to exceed the state's maximum
				  rates and the project approved amount.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 94 - Vocational Revenues › Rule 7-3-94.4 - Maintenance of Local Effort

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board of Education shall not allow any payment to
				  be made to any local educational agency unless the State Board finds the
				  following to exist:
1. In the case of
				a local educational agency, the combined fiscal effort per student, or the
				aggregate expenditures of that agency with respect to the provisions of career
				and technical education for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which
				the determination is made, shall not be less than such combined fiscal effort
				per student or the aggregate expenditures for that purpose for the second
				preceding fiscal year.
2. The
				Maintenance of Effort for secondary school programs will be collected through
				the Annual Financial Report submitted to the Mississippi Department of
				Education. The Office shall notify the local educational agency of its approval
				or of any noted discrepancies. If any noted discrepancies are not alleviated,
				funds shall be withheld on the basis of failure to provide/prove maintenance of
				effort.
3. Postsecondary
				institutions shall file a Maintenance of Effort of Expenditure Form with the
				Office of Career and Technical education on or before November 15 of each year.
				The Office shall notify the local educational agency of its approval or of any
				noted discrepancies. If any noted discrepancies are alleviated, funds shall be
				withheld on the basis of failure to provide/prove maintenance of effort.
4. Programs funded with non-plan
				funds are not required to file a Maintenance of Effort Expenditure form with
				the Office of Career and Technical Education.
Public Law
				  101-392,
				  Section
				  502 (Revised
				  10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 94 - Vocational Revenues › Rule 7-3-94.5 - CTE Revenues

Current through June 25, 2024
The Office of Career and Technical Education shall reimburse
				  local public secondary and community/junior college school districts and
				  certain state institutions for specific approved salary expenses necessary for
				  the provisions of career and technical education according to the following,
				  unless limited by law, appropriations language or insufficient funds.
1.
Vocational Non-Project
				Funds
The Office of Career and Technical Education will
				  participate in the reimbursement of salaries of approved ongoing career and
				  technical instructors, counselors, and administrators who are employed by a
				  local public secondary or community/junior college and special state
				  institutions in a State Board of Education approved program and/or
				  complex.
2.
Public Secondary Institutions
a. Forty-nine percent (49%) of the actual
				salary or of the secondary CTE salary schedule (whichever is the least) for
				9.25 to 10 months' employment (187 to 200 Duty Days) for skill program
				instructors, diversified technology instructors, and CTE center counselors as
				approved by the Office of Career and Technical Education.
b. Forty percent (40%) of the actual salary
				or of the secondary CTE salary schedule (whichever is least) for 9.25 to 10
				months' employment (187 to 200 Duty Days) for discovery program instructors,
				and Family & Consumer Sciences program instructors and Other Programs as
				approved by the Office of Career and Technical Education.
c. Twenty percent (20%) of the actual salary
				or of the secondary CTE salary schedule (whichever is the least) for 9.25 to 10
				months' employment (187 to 200 Duty Days) for enrichment program instructors as
				approved by the Office of Career and Technical Education.
d. One hundred percent (100%) of the actual
				salary or of the secondary CTE salary schedule (whichever is the least) for 10
				months' employment (200 Duty Days) for CTE directors and assistant directors
				that oversee a minimum of five occupational skills program as approved by the
				Office of Career and Technical Education.
e. Forty-nine percent (49%) of the actual
				salary or of the secondary CTE salary schedule extended forty (40) days in
				compliance with MS Code 37-31-13 for secondary CTE programs that contribute to
				economic development.
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 95 - CTE Collaborative Efforts › Rule 7-3-95.1 - CTE Collaborative Efforts

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board of Education shall approve all career and
				  technical education programs in the public school system and community/junior
				  colleges or other agencies or institutions which receive state and federal
				  funds for career and technical education programs as prescribed by the
				  Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated, Section
				  37-31-205.
The State Board of Education will accept written requests
				  for the use of vocational resources for vocational programs not to be operated
				  through the Office of Career and Technical Education from local school boards
				  which receive state and federal funds under the authority of the State Board of
				  Education.
The State Board of Education will approve or disapprove
				  these written requests and any associated utilization costs of resources and
				  other necessary items pertaining to the utilization of these
				  resources.
MS Code
				  37-31-205(Revised 10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 95 - CTE Collaborative Efforts › Rule 7-3-95.2 - Mississippi Learn to Earn Act

Current through June 25, 2024
1. The State Board
				of Education authorizes local school boards, in their discretion, to develop an
				Extended Learning Opportunity policy that provides alternative learning
				opportunities to students in grades 9 through 12 for elective course credit.
				These alternative learning opportunities may include pre-apprenticeships,
				apprenticeships, internships, or other experiences approved by the Office of
				Career and Technical Education.
2.
				The Mississippi Department of Education and The Office of Career and Technical
				Education shall provide oversight to the alternative learning opportunities
				through the secondary Work-Based Learning program that is available to all
				districts and is maintained through partnership with The Mississippi Community
				College Board, The State Workforce Investment Board, and The Mississippi
				Department of Employment Security. These entities shall collaborate to
				establish procedures for apprenticeships and internships that may be exempt
				from federal state and labor laws.
3. If the local school board approves an
				application, it shall submit the application to The Office of Career and
				Technical Education prior to implementation for review and final approval by
				February 1. The Office of Career and Technical Education shall have 90 days to
				review and respond to all applications submitted. Once a local district
				receives final approval, the alternative learning opportunities may be
				implemented the following school year through the Work-Based Learning program.
				High-school-to-work programs aligned to The Mississippi Learn to Act and the
				Work-Based Learning curriculum will be evaluated through the consolidated
				monitoring audit performed by the Office of Career and Technical
				Education.
Miss. Code
				  Ann. §
										37-1-3
				  and §
										37-71-1,
				  et seq. (Adopted 2/2021)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 96 - Career and Technical Education Student Organizations › Rule 7-3-96.1 - Career and Technical Education Student Organizations

Current through June 25, 2024
All students enrolled in career programs operated by
				  postsecondary and secondary institutions shall have the opportunity to become
				  members and participate in student organizational activities related to their
				  instructional programs. Student organizations shall be conducted as an integral
				  part of the program offering and shall extend the student activities in the
				  area in which the program is providing training.
Public Law
				  105-332,
				  Sec.
				  3 (29)(30)(Revised
				  10/2011)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 97 - Weapons › Rule 7-3-97.1 - Weapons

Current through June 25, 2024
Each local school district shall have a policy concerning
				  weapons on school premises.
Miss. Code
				  Ann. §
										37-1-3; 45-9-101 Revised
				  9/2022)
Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 3 - Board Policies › Chapter 99 - State Schools › Rule 7-3-99.2 - School Calendar Approval and Modification

Current through June 25, 2024
The State Board of Education shall approve the academic
				  calendars for state schools.
In order to facilitate response to natural disasters or other
				  emergencies, adjustments to SBE-approved calendars may be made with the
				  approval of the State Superintendent of Education or his/her designee, with
				  subsequent ratification by the State Board of Education at its next regularly
				  scheduled meeting.
Miss. Code Ann. §
										37-1-3