Section 18-1801 - DefinitionsThe following words and phrases as used in this article shall, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, have the following meanings:
(1) "State Board of Career and Technical Education" shall mean the State Board of Education, herein invested with powers to administer this article of this act under the designation of the State Board of Career and Technical Education.(2) " Career and technical education" shall mean any form of education of less than college grade, given in school or elsewhere, the purpose of which is to fit an individual to pursue effectively a recognized profitable employment, whether pursued for wages or otherwise.(3) " Career and technical industrial education" shall mean those forms of career and technical education that fit for industrial pursuits. It includes occupational training for nontraditional employment. It includes also public and other service occupations.(4) " Career and technical agricultural education" shall mean that form of career and technical education which develops student potential for success in entering and advancing through careers in the food, agriculture and natural resources sciences, such as production agriculture, animal science, agribusiness management and marketing, agricultural research, energy systems, agricultural mechanics and engineering, biotechnology, food science, processing and retailing, banking, agricultural education, forestry, horticulture, landscape contracting, nursery and floriculture production, retail garden center management, leadership and career development, management, economics and marketing, natural resource management, plant and soil science, power and systems technology, rural-urban interfacing and other related fields.(5) " Career and technical marketing and distributive occupational education" shall mean those forms of career and technical education which develops student potential for success in entering and advancing through careers in distribution, financing, marketing, storing and warehousing, pricing, product and service management and sales promotion and small business.(6) " Career and technical family and consumer sciences education" shall mean that form of career and technical education which develops student potential for success in entering and advancing through careers involving parenting and child development, human development, nutrition, wellness and food science, along with hospitality and tourism, independent living, interpersonal relationships, home management, fashion marketing, resource management, consumer rights and financial literacy and career and family connections and useful programs that are designed to help individuals and families manage the multiple roles necessary to balance family, career and community responsibilities.(7) " Career and technical industrial, career and technical agricultural, career and technical marketing and distributive occupational education, or career and technical family and consumer sciences school or department," or " Career and technical school or department," shall mean a distinctive organization of courses, pupils, and teachers approved by the state board of career and technical education, designed to give either career and technical industrial, career and technical agricultural, career and technical marketing and distributive occupational, or career and technical family and consumer sciences education, as herein defined.(8) " Career and technical evening class" shall mean a class providing such instruction for persons sixteen years of age or over, who have left full-time school. These classes may be conducted in the evening, or at hours when workers are able to attend, and shall include instruction that will either increase the skill or knowledge of the worker in the occupation in which he is employed, or include instruction for those who are unemployed or about to become unemployed because of changing conditions in industry, and whose previous experience, as a background, prepares them for employment in related fields within a limited time.(9) " Career and technical evening class" in career and technical family and consumer sciences shall mean a class giving training as indicated in clause (6) for students during the evening.(10) " Career and technical family and consumer sciences school or department" shall mean a career and technical school or department designed to develop, on a career and technical basis, the capacity for useful employment as indicated in clause (6).(11) "Part-time schools or classes" shall mean those schools or classes which provide instruction in subjects given to enlarge the civic or career and technical knowledge or skill of workers over fourteen years of age who have entered upon employment. Such schools must be so organized as to permit workers, who are qualified for admission, to spend part of their time during the day, week, month, or year in employment, and part of the time in school.(12) "Part-time cooperative career and technical education" refers to that form of career and technical instruction that involves attendance on alternate, equal periods of school and work at the career during the school year, given in accordance with an agreement by which the school and industry cooperate and coordinate in making available the combined educational and training facilities of both.(13) "Practical" refers to manipulative or "Practice-of-the-trade" aspects of a career. It includes such work given in shops, laboratories, mines, drafting rooms, and other places, and is to distinguish such work from "Academic" or "Noncareer and nontechnical" education.(14) "Public service-school" refers to schools, departments, classes, and conferences for the in-service training of public and other service occupations, including police officers, firefighters, finance officers, school board officials, and others.(15) " Technical education" shall mean a subject, or combination of subjects, of less than college grade designed to prepare an individual to enter or advance in an occupational field wherein success is largely dependent upon knowledge or techniques and applied sciences, the practice of which involves aspects of planning, managing, controlling, processing or distributing products, sales and services.(16) " Career and technical business , computer and information technology" shall mean a subject or combination of subjects of less than college grade designed to prepare an individual to enter or advance in an occupational field wherein success is largely dependent upon skill and knowledge necessary to obtain competency in the areas of accounting and information technologies, clerical, data processing, computer applications, programming and operating systems, including hardware and software applications, entrepreneurship, international business, business math, finance, management concepts, consumer economics, budgeting, investing and taxes, personal finance, electronic commerce, business and consumer law or business communications occupations, and similar business pursuits.Amended by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 76, 42 , eff. 12/30/2019.1949, March 10, P.L. 30, art. XVIII, § 1801. Amended 1949, May 9, P.L. 939, § 9; 1951, Sept. 28, P.L. 1551, § 5; 1957, July 13, P.L. 898, § 2; 1965, Oct. 21, P.L. 601, § 45; 1965, Dec. 22, P.L. 1150, § 1; 1978, Oct. 4, P.L. 943, No. 184, § 2, effective in 60 days; 2011, Oct. 27, P.L. 340, No. 83, §1, effective in 60 days [ 12/27/2011].