HB 237 - AS INTRODUCED
2015 SESSION
04/06
HOUSE BILL 237
AN ACT requiring vocational education centers to prioritize science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula as a condition for funding.
SPONSORS: Rep. Schroadter, Rock 17
This bill requires the state board of education to include criteria in its rules that would give funding preference to those vocational education centers that offer students an option to enroll in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
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15-0110
04/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen
AN ACT requiring vocational education centers to prioritize science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula as a condition for funding.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Regional Education Centers; Construction or Renovation. Amend RSA 188-E:3, I to read as follows:
I. The commissioner, department of education, shall make grants available to designated regional centers for construction of vocational education facilities or renovation of existing regional vocational centers. The state board shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A and RSA 21-N:9, II, which the commissioner shall carry out, relative to requirements for approval of regional vocational education centers to receive funds for construction or renovation of such facilities. The rules shall include criteria which guarantee potential sending districts an opportunity to enroll students in the regional vocational program, and basic criteria for planning such facilities through cooperative development of plans by the vocational education staff of the state department of education and the local school district's staff. In addition, the rules shall contain criteria giving funding preference to those vocational education centers that offer students an option to enroll in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum. When such plans appear to be both educationally and financially acceptable, the department's vocational staff shall recommend to the commissioner that they be approved for funding.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.