KRS 158.814: Comprehensive plan on secondary career and technical education

programs -- Consultation with Career and Technical Education Advisory

Committee.

(1) In order to ensure that high -quality, relevant secondary career and technical

programs are available to students in all school districts that enable them to gain the

academic and technical skills to meet high school graduation requirements and for

successful transition to postsecondary education, work, or the military and to

support present -day and future needs of Kentucky employers, the Department of

Education shall:

(a) Review and revise as needed the equipment and facilities standards for each

career and technical education program identified and described in the career

and technical education supplemen t to the Kentucky program of studies and

published by the Department of Education; and

(b) Determine the statewide unmet needs for career and technical education

capital projects, including renovations and expansions of existing facilities

and the construc tion of new technology centers, through a needs assessment

process. This process shall be tied to specific criteria in determining if the

current programs or career pathways offered in locally and state -operated

facilities are appropriate for the students in the school districts served as well

as for determining if new programs are needed. The statewide assessment of

capital needs for career and technical education shall be incorporated into the

local school district facility plan as required by KRS 157.420 . The Kentucky

Board of Education shall incorporate criteria within the administrative

regulations relating to school facility plan requirements to prioritize need for

career and technical education programming, regardless of whether the

programs are locally or state-operated.

(2) The Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee established in KRS

156.806 shall be consulted in carrying out the requirements of this section.