Code of Vermont Rules › Agency 22 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Sub-Agency 000 - GENERAL › Chapter 007 - CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION STATE BOARD REGULATIONS › Section 22 000 007 - CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION STATE BOARD REGULATIONS

Current through June, 2024
Section 2370
				Definitions
1. Adult technical education -
				means technical education provided to an adult student that is not part of a
				course of study leading to a diploma or degree.
2. Adult student - means a resident of
				Vermont, of any age, who has received a high school diploma.
3. Career Academy - means a small learning
				community that serves a full range of students; that entails a college
				preparatory curriculum developed in the context of a career cluster; that
				integrates academic and technical instruction with work-based learning; that
				involves partnerships with employers, the community and higher education to
				create multiple opportunities and options for students to pursue careers; and
				that students can attend for two years.
4. Career Cluster - is a broad career area as
				defined by the U.S. Department of Education that includes occupations that
				share a common a common set of foundation skills.
5. Commissioner - means the Commissioner of
				the Vermont Department of Education or his/her designee.
6. Collaborative Program - means a technical
				education program, a number of technical education programs or programs at a
				technical education center offered pursuant to an agreement between two or more
				supervisory districts or unions in accordance with
				16 V.S.A.
				§
											267, for the purpose of cooperatively
				providing programs and services at a previously negotiated cost.
7. Comprehensive high school - is a high
				school other than a high school with a technical center that offers state
				approved technical education course(s) of study.
8. Course of study - means the units of
				academic, workplace, and occupational skill instruction of a career and
				technical education program that teach to the approved competency list and an
				appropriate student organization that supports the program and teaches
				citizenship and leadership skills.
9. Full-time equivalent student (FTE) - means
				a student who is enrolled an average of at least two an hundred forty minutes
				per day for a school year in a career and technical education program's course
				of study.
10. Governance Board -
				means the school board that is legally responsible for operating a technical
				center or comprehensive high school.
11. Net costs - means the actual costs of
				providing technical education programs less federal and state sources of
				revenue.
12. Overhead Costs - means
				the costs in a technical center associated with governance, financial services,
				student services shared with the home school, and plant maintenance and
				operation.
13. Postsecondary
				Technical Education Program - means a program offered by a state-approved
				postsecondary institution that leads to a certificate or an associate degree
				and that prepares students for employment in specific occupations.
14. Pre-tech programs - means state-approved
				programs that provide students with preparatory services such as career
				counseling, academic assessment, applied academic instruction, and introductory
				career content knowledge and skills to better prepare them to choose and pursue
				a technical education program.
15.
				Receiving district - means a school district or a regional technical center
				school district receiving tuition on behalf of pupils to whom it furnishes
				technical education. The classification of a school district as a receiving
				district is not altered by reason of the participation of that district in a
				contract for management of the technical center under a collaborative
				agreement.
16. Regional board -
				refers to a board that represents all high schools in a region and is
				responsible for oversight of career and technical education in the region. The
				regional board can be a regional advisory board or a regional governance
				board.
17. Satellite program - is a
				technical education program that is offered by a technical center at a site
				outside the technical center facilities.
18. Sending district - means a school
				district paying tuition on behalf of pupils to a school district which
				furnishes technical education courses.
19. Service region - means the geographical
				area assigned by the state board to a technical center for which it is the
				provider of technical education.
20. Special Populations - means those
				individuals who are defined as having special needs in the Americans with
				Disabilities Act,
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				C.F.R. §
											35.104, including:
Individuals with Disabilities - means individuals with a
				  physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the
				  major life activities, a record of such an impairment, or being regarded as
				  having an impairment.
(1) The phrase
				physical or mental impairment means--
(A) Any
				physiological disorder or condition, cosmetic disfigurement, or anatomical loss
				affecting one or more of the following body systems: neurological,
				musculoskeletal, special sense organs, respiratory (including speech organs),
				cardiovascular, reproductive, digestive, genitourinary, hemic and lymphatic,
				skin, and endocrine;
(B) Any mental
				or psychological disorder such as mental retardation, organic brain syndrome,
				emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities.
(2) The phrase physical or mental
				impairment includes, but is not limited to, such contagious and non-contagious
				diseases and conditions as orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing impairments,
				cerebral palsy, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart
				disease, diabetes, mental retardation, emotional illness, specific learning
				disabilities, HIV disease (whether symptomatic or asymptomatic), tuberculosis,
				drug addiction, and alcoholism.
(3)
				The phrase physical or mental impairment does not include homosexuality or
				bisexuality.
(4) The phrase, "Major
				Life Activities" means functions such as caring for one's self, performing
				manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and
				working.
(5) The phrase, "has a
				record of such an impairment" means has a history of, or has been misclassified
				as having, a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or
				more major life activities.
(6) The
				phrase, "is regarded as having an impairment" means--
(A) Has a physical or mental impairment that
				does not substantially limit major life activities but that is treated by a
				public entity as constituting such limitation:
(B) Has a physical or mental impairment that
				substantially limits major life activities only as a result of the attitudes of
				others toward such an impairment; or
(C) Has one of the impairments defined in
				paragraph (1) of this definition but is treated by a public entity as having
				such an impairment.
(7)
				The term, "Disability" does not include--
(A)
				Transvestism, transsexualism, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, gender
				identity disorders not resulting from physical impairments, or other sexual
				behavior disorders;
(B) Compulsive
				gambling, kleptomania, or pyromania; or
(C) Psychoactive substance used disorder
				resulting from current illegal use of drugs.
Individuals from economically disadvantaged families,
				  including foster children - means individuals who are in families that are
				  determined to be low-income according to the latest available data from the
				  Department of Commerce.
Individual preparing for non-traditional training and
				  employment - means individuals enrolled in programs that lead to occupations in
				  which one gender constitutes less than 25% of their workforce and are declared
				  "Non-traditional" by the Crosswalk of 1998 Nontraditional Occupations with
				  Classification of Instructional Program Codes.
Single parents - means individuals who are single heads of
				  households that include children who are minors and unmarried pregnant
				  women.
Displaced homemakers - means individuals who are re-entering
				  the workforce after being a full-time parent.
Educationally Disadvantaged Individuals - means individuals
				  who are dropouts or potential dropouts, individuals who are migrants,
				  individuals who score below the 25th percentile on a standardized achievement
				  or aptitude test, individuals whose secondary school grades are below 2.0 on a
				  4.0 scale, or who fails to attain minimum academic competencies. This
				  definition does not include individuals with learning disabilities.
Individuals with Limited English Proficiency - means
				  individuals whose native language is other than English and for whom English is
				  a second language.
21. State Board - means the Vermont State
				Board of Education.
22. Student -
				when it appears without a qualifier (such as adult, postsecondary, etc.) means
				a Vermont resident of any age who has not been awarded a high school diploma.
				The holder of a GED (General Educational Development) Certificate is not
				considered to have been awarded a diploma.
23. Student Apprenticeship - means a
				skill-based education program that coordinates and integrates classroom
				instruction with a structured work-based learning experience. Competencies for
				the program shall be approved by the state board and a student apprentice shall
				receive academic instruction and training in a skilled occupation which will
				prepare the student for postsecondary education, advanced training, or direct
				employment in a position higher than entry level.
24. Student Organization - means an
				organization of secondary students relating to, complementing, and enriching a
				particular technical education program in which they are enrolled and that is
				designed to offer such students experience in leadership, citizenship, and
				occupational skills.
25. Technical
				center - means any of the 15 regional technical centers operating with state
				support on January 1, 2000 and any others so designated thereafter by rule of
				the State Board.
26. Technical
				Education - means any career and technical education programming designed to
				teach the academic, workplace, and occupational skills necessary for
				employment.
28. Tech prep - means a
				curriculum that (a) includes a secondary and postsecondary or apprenticeship
				curriculum, (b) involves up to two years of secondary programming and two years
				of postsecondary programming, (c) blends high level academic and technical
				courses, (d) culminates with an associate degree or a certificate after the
				completion of the postsecondary portion of the curriculum, and (e) emphasizes
				career planning and development that leads to employment.
29. Tuition - means an amount assessed to
				school districts based on the six semester average FTE enrollment from those
				towns to cover the costs of providing technical education that is not covered
				by federal, state or other sources of funds.