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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 16 Sec. 1542

  • Comprehensive high school: means a public or independent school other than a career technical center that provides secondary career technical education approved under section 1533 of this title. See
  • School board: means the board of school directors elected to manage the schools of a school district, the prudential committee of an incorporated school district, the supervisory union board of directors, and the supervisors of unorganized towns and gores. See
  • Sending district: means a school district paying tuition on behalf of a student to a school district that provides CTE courses. See
  • Service region: means , for each regional CTE center, a region surrounding it designated by rule of the State Board under section 1531 of this title. See
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
  • Superintendent: means the chief executive officer of a supervisory union and each school board within it. See
  • Supervisory union: means an administrative, planning, and educational service unit created by the State Board under section 261 of this title, that consists of two or more school districts; if the context clearly allows, the term also means a supervisory district. See

§ 1542. Regional advisory board

(a) Each regional advisory board shall consist of:

(1) one member from each public high school in the center’s service region, elected by and from among the members of that high school board for a term determined by that high school board; and

(2) the superintendent or his or her designee of each supervisory union within the center’s service region; and

(3) one member elected for a term of three years by and from among the school board of each sending district in the center’s service region that does not have a public high school represented on the advisory board under subdivision (1) of this section; except that, if there are more than three such districts in the center’s service area, the advisory board shall select three school boards to represent the interests of all such districts, shall rotate its selections among the districts, and shall stagger the expiration of initial terms; and

(4) one member of the board of each independent comprehensive high school within a service region, elected by the members of that board for a term determined by that board; and

(5) once constituted, the regional advisory board shall elect three additional members for terms of three years to represent the interests of employers or employees, provided that no two terms shall expire in any year.

(b) A regional advisory board, with the consent of the State Workforce Development Board, may delegate its responsibilities to the grantee that performs workforce development activities in the region pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 542. In this case, the grantee shall become the regional advisory board unless and until the school board that operates the career technical center requests that the regional advisory board be reconstituted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. (Added 1983, No. 247 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1987, No. 238 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 1993, No. 233 (Adj. Sess.), § 49e, eff. June 21, 1994; 2001, No. 33, § 2; 2013, No. 92 (Adj. Sess.), § 147, eff. Feb. 14, 2014; 2015, No. 23, § 34; 2015, No. 157 (Adj. Sess.), § K.3.)