An Act To Enhance the Development of Innovative Career and Technical Education Programs

Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §8403-A, sub-§2,  as amended by PL 2017, c. 420, §2, is further amended to read:

SUMMARY

This bill streamlines the procedure for authorizing career and technical education satellite programs. Current law requires any affiliated unit that wishes to operate a career and technical education satellite program to submit a written request to operate a satellite program to the governing body of the center or region with which the unit is affiliated. The governing body of the center or region considers the request and then forwards its recommendation to the Commissioner of Education. Instead, the bill provides that the written request be submitted directly to the Commissioner of Education for approval.