Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 5 - DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Division 20 - Division of Learning Services › Chapter 200 - Office of College and Career Readiness › Section 5 CSR 20-200.250 - Standards for Innovative and Experimental Programs

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule provides specific policies
				  governing off-campus programs and teacher aide programs.
(1) Off-Campus Instruction and Work
				Experience Programs.
(A) The Department of
				Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) recognizes and will approve four (4)
				types of off-campus programs for students who are sixteen (16) years old or
				older and juniors or seniors in high school, except that handicapped students
				must be only sixteen (16) years old or older: academic programs, cooperative
				vocational education programs, work experience programs for special education
				students and career exploration programs. School districts may offer other
				types of off-campus programs without departmental approval but the students
				enrolled in them may not be counted in membership and attendance for state aid
				purposes, and the students enrolled in unapproved programs may not be granted
				high school credit for the off-campus experience.
1. Off-campus academic programs are programs
				for students who are enrolled in advanced academic or fine arts classes and
				which have as their goals the acquisition of specialized knowledge and the
				ability to apply the knowledge to situations which cannot be replicated in a
				school classroom.
2. Cooperative
				vocational education programs are programs developed and implemented in
				accordance with the
Handbook for Vocational Education,
which
				is filed as an administrative rule of the Division of Career and Adult
				Education at 5 CSR 60-120.020.
3.
				Work experience programs for special education students are programs developed
				and implemented in accordance with State Plan for Part B of the Education of
				the Handicapped Act, which is filed as an administrative rule of the Division
				of Special Education at 5 CSR 70-742.140.
4. Career exploration programs are programs
				designed to provide students exposure to a variety of occupations as practices
				on the job site so they may develop their own occupational objectives from
				direct experience. Students in career exploration programs may spend no more
				than nine (9) weeks at a particular job site, and then must be rotated through
				other job sites of interest at least every nine (9) weeks for the duration of
				the program.
5. Students in
				cooperative vocational education programs and work experience programs for
				special education students may be paid for work performed at off-campus
				locations and will normally be covered by the cooperating sponsors' Workers'
				Compensation insurance and general liability insurance. Students in off-campus
				academic programs and in career exploration programs are not expected to
				perform productive work at off-campus assignments and may not receive pay for
				their experience in the programs. School districts must arrange for liability
				insurance to cover accidental injury and job-related illness insurance for
				students and liability insurance to cover any injuries or damages caused by
				students on the sponsor's premises. The school district should also provide
				liability insurance to protect the supervising teacher and any other school
				district employees who might be exposed to liability risk due to the placement
				of students in off-campus programs.