Sec 15-391. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Joint board" means a joint technical education district governing board.

2. "Joint district" means a joint technical education district.

3. "Joint technical education course" means a course that is offered by a joint technical education district as part of a joint technical education district program, that is approved by the career and technical education division of the department of education and that meets each of the following requirements:

(a) Is taught by an instructor who is certified to teach career and technical education by the state board of education or by a postsecondary educational institution.

(b) Is part of a program that requires students to obtain a passing score on an examination that demonstrates a level of skill or competency for that program of study that is accepted by a vocation or an industry.

(c) Is part of an approved joint technical education district program.

4. "Joint technical education district" means a district that is formed pursuant to this article and that offers joint technical education courses.

5. "Joint technical education district program" means a sequence of courses that is offered by a joint technical education district and that meets all of the following requirements:

(a) Is taught by an instructor who is certified to teach career and technical education by the state board of education or by a postsecondary educational institution.

(b) Requires an assessment that demonstrates a level of skill or competency in a vocation or industry or that leads to certification in and acceptance by that vocation or industry.

(c) Requires specialized equipment or instructional materials that exceed the scope and cost of a standard educational course.

(d) Requires work-based learning components, career and technical student organization participation and laboratory experience as determined by the career and technical education division of the department of education.

(e) Meets the standards of a career and technical education preparatory program as determined by the career and technical education division of the department of education.

(f) Had a defined pathway to career and postsecondary education.

(g) Is approved by the career and technical education division of the department of education based on the requirements prescribed in this paragraph within one hundred twenty days after the submission of all required documentation.

(h) Is certified by the joint technical education district governing board to have met all the requirements prescribed in this article.

(i) Is offered only to students in grades nine, ten, eleven and twelve.

6. "State board" means the state board of education.