P6176



ST. LOUIS BOARD OF EDUCATION POLICY

INSTRUCTION

ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND SECONDARY

Curriculum Extensions

Vocational-Technical Education

Vocational education programs shall be an integral part of the comprehensive high school concept in the St. Louis Public Schools. Efforts will be made to keep vocational programs relevant to job requirements, reflective of area needs, and geared to current and future technological and economic conditions. These programs shall provide students with the basic skills to enter the world of work, to get additional vocational skills and to continue their formal education. Vocational education, as a major component of comprehensive education, will share with other aspects of the high school curriculum in the development of character, attitudes, work skills and academic competencies.

District vocational programs shall meet all federal and state guidelines and requirements. Advisory councils will be utilized in all vocational programs.

Following the concept of area vocational-technical schools as established by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Metropolitan Coordinating Committee, students from the St. Louis Public Schools may attend vocational-technical training programs at the O’Fallon Technical Centers or any of
the Special School District area vocational-technical schools.


Policy adopted: June 26, 1990

R6176
ST. LOUIS BOARD OF EDUCATION REGULATION
INSTRUCTION
ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND SECONDARY

Curriculum Extensions

Vocational-Technical Education

It shall be the function of the division of career and vocational education to provide direction for vocational education programs at the following sites: the St. Louis Career Academy, Gateway Institute of Technology, comprehensive high schools and work-study programs. Program offerings will include business/technology, family and consumer science, marketing and distributive education, trade and industrial, agriculture, health occupations, and prevocational education. All decisions will be made in accordance with the terms of the Desegregation Settlement Agreement.

The responsibility for staffing vocational education programs will be shared with the executive director for secondary education, the director of career and vocational education and the school principal.

Fiscal responsibility for vocational programs will reside with the office of the director of career vocational education. The duties will include the development of applications for financing and proposals for personnel reimbursement, equipment maintenance and acquisition; new and innovative programs; disadvantaged and handicapped services; and other approved activities or services. Appropriate inventory and budget monitoring procedures will be developed as required by district, state or federal policies and statutes.

Services to disadvantaged and handicapped students will be coordinated with the executive director of special education.

The director of career vocational education will serve as the primary liaison with the division of vocational and adult education of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

The superintendent and a vocational technical educator/specialist selected by the Board will represent the district on the Metropolitan Vocational Technical Cooperative as delineated in the Desegregation Settlement Agreement.

Regulation approved: June 26, 1990

Revised: December 07, 1999