Section 254.310 General Application

Section 254

Section 254.310  General

Application

a)         Each eligible recipient, as a prerequisite to obtaining

vocational education funds allocated by the State Board of Education for the

support of programs of instruction in vocational education, shall submit a

general application to the State Board of Education in the form and manner

prescribed in this Subpart.

b)         The State Board of Education's policy on education for

employment is intended to ensure that vocational education and other education

for employment programs will be provided to youth and adults through a

regionally organized delivery system that makes effective and efficient use of

public schools, area vocational centers, postsecondary institutions, and the

employment sector.

c)         There will be a three-year implementation phase for

identifying regions, developing formal agreements, and submitting regional

plans.

1)         By July 1, 1986, public school districts receiving federal and

state assistance shall become participants in a regional system organized

through a cooperative agreement.  In most instances, regional systems will

coincide with educational service regions.  Public schools in Cook County will

form regional systems within the context of the community college district(s).

Public schools throughout Illinois, including Cook County, may elect to join

together in consortia outside of these educational structures (e.g.,

combination of educational service regions or community colleges and a group of

districts who have a history of cooperative vocational education programs) if

they are demographically aligned into units that can best support a regional

program.

2)         By July 1, 1987, regional secondary systems and the community

college(s) must define articulation agreements cooperative arrangements to be

addressed in the local plan for education for employment as a condition for

state approval of plans and programs pursuant to Section 254.390

tion programs) if

they are demographically aligned into units that can best support a regional

program.

2)         By July 1, 1987, regional secondary systems and the community

college(s) must define articulation agreements cooperative arrangements to be

addressed in the local plan for education for employment as a condition for

state approval of plans and programs pursuant to Section 254.390.  Agreements

will provide for:  program alignment and continuity in a given occupational

area between secondary and postsecondary institutions; transition of the

student without unnecessary delay or duplication of effort from one institution

to another in those occupational areas provided by both secondary and

postsecondary institutions; consideration of joint use of facilities,

equipment, and staff; and cooperative efforts in continuous planning,

evaluation, and improvement of programs to serve both youth and adults as well

as the area's economic needs.

3)         By April 30, 1988, each regional system and each community

college will submit a Plan for Education for Employment that includes:

descriptions of the characteristics which form the basis for high-quality

programs; identified program outcomes; staff development needs; related student

services; business, industry, and labor involvement in the regional system; program

improvement efforts; valid cooperative agreements and articulation agreements;

administrative and program staffing; provision for vocational student

organizations; and equipment-facility needs.  Information in relation to these

areas shall be provided as required in Section 254.340.  Community colleges'

participation in programs and services may be included, at their election,

through the college's existing system or, where community colleges have entered

into cooperative agreements as equal partners in an education for employment

system, the college may be included in the local system plan.