258.16 - REGIONAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PLANNING BOARDS ESTABLISHED -- DUTIES.
258.16 REGIONAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PLANNING BOARDS
ESTABLISHED -- DUTIES.
1. Regional planning boards are established to assist school
corporations in providing an effective, efficient, and economical
means of delivering sequential vocational educational programs for
students in grades seven through fourteen, which use both local
school district services and community college services.
2. A regional planning board shall be established in each merged
area, as determined by the state board for vocational education.
Each regional planning board shall have as members persons who are
representatives from the community college board of directors, the
area education agency board of directors, the local councils on
vocational education, the local school districts' boards of
directors, and vocational education certificated instructional
personnel.
3. The regional planning boards shall do all of the following:
a. Provide for the participation of community colleges and
the local school districts in the delivery of vocational education in
the region, as well as for the participation of representatives of
the business and industry community.
b. Determine the occupational needs of students based on
labor-market, entrepreneurial, and self-employment opportunities and
demand within the region, the state, the nation, and in other
countries.
c. Provide for development of a five-year plan addressing the
delivery of quality vocational education instructional programs
pursuant to section 256.11, subsection 4, and subsection 5, paragraph
"h", and section 260C.14, subsection 1. The plan shall be
updated annually.
d. Implement the procedures and contract, at the request of
the director of the board of vocational education, for the delivery
of vocational education programs and services pursuant to section
256.11, subsection 4, and subsection 5, paragraph "h", and
section 260C.14, subsection 1. Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 278, §5; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, § 108
Referred to in § 282.7