Current through Vol. 25-4, March 15, 2025
Rule 14.
(1)
Instruction shall meet the following criteria:
(a) It is organized and operated under the
direction of the department, intermediate school district, or a local
educational agency responsible for expenditure of public education agency funds
for career and technical education in the state or community.
(b) The teachers are appropriately certified
and are employed as public school teachers under the conditions generally
applicable to the employment of other public school teachers employed by the
department, intermediate school district, or local educational agency
responsible for career and technical education.
(2) Instruction under contract shall meet the
following criteria:
(a) Whenever any portion
of the career and technical education program is being administered by a public
or nonpublic agency or institution other than the department, intermediate
school district, or local educational agency pursuant to an arrangement made
with it by the department, intermediate school district, or local educational
agency, there shall be a written agreement between the parties of such
agreement. The agreement shall describe the portion of the career and technical
education program to be administered by the agency or institution and
incorporate those standards and requirements in these rules and prescribed by
the department which are applicable to the portion. The agreement shall be
reviewed annually by the parties concerned.
(b) All written agreements shall include an
assurance that federal, state, and local funds allocated to an agency or
institution shall be used only to cover those additional costs which are
necessary to administer that portion of the career and technical education
program which the parties have agreed would be administered by an agency or
institution, or to lower the rate of or eliminate tuition, fees, and other
charges collected from persons benefiting from the portion of the program or
both; and that federal, state, and local funds shall not be used to cover those
costs which would otherwise be covered by the institution's own resources,
thereby diverting those resources to other purposes.
(c) The department, intermediate school
district, or local educational agency may not enter into any agreement with an
agency or institution which collects tuition, fees, and other charges, and
which is able to cover with its own resources substantially all the necessary
costs of administering that portion of the career and technical education
program which the department, intermediate school district, or local
educational agency desires to have carried out by an agency or institution,
unless the agency or institution agrees to use federal, state, and local funds
allocated to it to cover the cost of reducing the rate or eliminating tuition,
fees, and other charges collected from those benefiting from such
portion.
(3) Instruction
shall prepare students for occupations that lead to high skill, high wage and
high demand careers and prepare students for postsecondary education. These
occupations shall be identified by the department based on available employment
and workforce data.
(4) Instruction
shall meet all of the following:
(a) Contain a
coherent and complete sequence of instruction, as determined by the department
for the United States department of education classification of instruction
(CIP) code area.
(b) Be part of a
high school program of study that includes a post high school
component.
(c) Teach content
standards approved by the state board of education.
(d) Use required assessments.
(e) Contain criteria for state-approved
career and technical education programs under subrule (9) of this
rule.
(5) Reimbursement
for instruction costs shall comply with Part 4 of these rules.
(6) Access to career and technical education
instruction shall comply with the pupil accounting rules pursuant to
R
340.1 to
R 340.18.
(a) All individuals residing in the state who
are available and qualified to receive instruction will have access to programs
being offered. If it is not economically or administratively feasible to
provide each type of program in all areas and communities served by a local
educational agency, individuals residing in an area served by 1 local
educational agency will be permitted to enroll, in accordance with policies and
procedures established by the department or by the local educational agencies
involved, in a program of instruction offered by another local educational
agency so long as the local educational agency serving the area in which the
individual resides does not offer a reasonably comparable type of program, the
student is otherwise available and qualified to receive such instruction, and
facilities are reasonably available for additional enrollees in the program
offered by the receiving local educational agency.
(b) Access to career and technical education
instruction offered within the area served by the department or local
educational agency shall be provided to the extent that facilities are
available so that each type of program of career and technical education
instruction offered by the department will be made available to all individuals
residing in the state, and each program of instruction offered by a local
educational agency will be made available to all individuals residing in the
district or community served by the local educational agency offering such
instruction, if such individual is otherwise available and qualified to receive
such instruction in accordance with the standards and requirements of the state
plan. The fact that an individual resides in a certain attendance area within
such district or community shall not preclude his access to a program of
instruction available to other individuals residing in other attendance areas
within the district or community, if access to a reasonably comparable program
is not otherwise available to him. If a school district is the local
educational agency offering career and technical education instruction, it must
agree in writing to accept nonresident individuals if such career and technical
education instruction is not available to such pupils and if such school has
facilities available.
(7) Students shall be admitted for enrollment
in career and technical education programs and be provided career and technical
education instruction for each type of occupation or occupational field on the
basis of the individual being qualified and the facilities being reasonably
available.
(8) The criteria for
continued state approval or development of a new state-approved career and
technical education program shall include, but is not limited to, all of the
following:
(a) Teacher certification. A career
and technical education teacher shall comply with the teacher certification
code pursuant to
R
390.1101 or
R 390.1216.
(b) Professional development.
(d) Use of advisory committees.
(g) Implementation of program standards and
course content.
(i) Elimination of
barriers to access.
(k) Accuracy of program
and student data.
(l) Alignment of
programs of study to postsecondary education.
(m) Opportunities for student leadership
activities.
(n) Administration of
the required assessments.
(9) Related career and technical education
instruction may be appropriate for students prior to participation in an
apprenticeship program. The term "apprentice" means a worker who is learning a
recognized apprenticeable occupation in accordance with a written apprentice
training agreement between the apprentice and an individual employer or group
of employers which either provides for or makes reference to a document which
provides for a given length of planned work experience through employment on
the job, supplemented by appropriate related instruction, and other recognized
standards and requirements of apprenticeship. Apprenticeship program oversight
is provided by the United States department of labor.
(10) Less-than-class-size programs are work
based learning experiences that are contracted through a business or industry.
These programs provide additional options for students to receive a career and
technical education program using a business as the instructional site.
Less-than-class-size programs shall comply with
R 340.16.
(11) Guidelines for facilities, equipment,
and materials shall be determined by the department based on instructional
safety and enrollment needs.
(12)
The program of instruction shall be conducted by qualified teachers meeting
certification requirements.
(13)
When the activities of career and technical student organizations complement
the career and technical education instruction offered, such activities shall
be conducted by persons who are qualified as career and technical education
teachers in the respective career and technical fields within the state or
school personnel supervised by qualified career and technical education
teachers.
(14) A local school
district shall comply with work-based learning experience requirements under
R 340.16 when placing students into
paid (capstone), unpaid, in-district, or less-than-class-size work-based
learning experiences. Students who participate in these work-based learning
experiences may generate added cost funding and may be counted in membership if
the requirements are met.