§ 272. Duties and responsibilities
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Council shall include but not necessarily be limited to: (1) advising the Board of Vocational Education in the development of the five-year State Plan for Vocational-Technical Education and in the development of the Annual Program Plan and Accountability Report for Vocational-Technical Education, both of which plans are required […]
§ 273. Miscellaneous
Funds necessary to accomplish the mandates of the Federal Act shall be provided from Federal and/or territorial sources through appropriation. Members, employees and other authorized persons shall be entitled to reimbursement of all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred while attending to the official business of the Council. Such reimbursement will be according to the rules […]
§ 281. Finding and purpose
It is the policy of this Territory to provide, as an integral part of the free public education, special education sufficient to meet the needs and maximize the capabilities of children with disabilities. The timely implementation of this policy to the end that all children with disabilities actually receive the special education necessary to their […]
§ 244. Adult Education Scholarship Program
(a) (1) There is established the Adult Education Diploma Scholarship Fund within the Department of Education which shall be available exclusively to students enrolled in the Adult Education Program. (2) The scholarship shall be awarded on a semester basis to residents of the Virgin Islands who are enrolled in the Adult Education Program and who […]
§ 245. Coalition for the Advancement of Adult Education
(a) There is hereby created the Virgin Islands Coalition for the Advancement of Adult Education. The Coalition shall consist of the memberships of its two committees, one committee for the District of St. Croix and one committee for the District of St. Thomas/St. John. Each of the committees shall have the Commissioner of Education, or […]
§ 261. Acceptance of Federal benefits
The Government of the Virgin Islands accepts the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved March 18, 1950, entitled “An Act to Extend the Benefits of the Vocational Education Act of 1946 to the Virgin Islands,” and the Act of Congress, approved August 1, 1946, entitled “An Act To Amend the Act of June 8, […]
§ 262. Powers and duties of Board
The Virgin Islands Board for Career and Technical Education shall be the sole agency for the administration of the career and technical programs in the Virgin Islands under this subchapter and the Acts of Congress referred to in section 261 of this title, and shall— (1) cooperate with the Office of Education, within the United […]
§ 263. Career-Technical Education Training Fund
(a) There is hereby created and established as a separate and distinct fund within the Treasury of the Virgin Islands a special fund to be designated and known as the “Vocational-Technical Education Training Fund”. No funds shall be available for expenditure from the Vocational-Technical Education Training Fund except as provided herein. (b) All funds received […]
§ 241. Evening courses for adults
The Commissioner of Education shall establish evening courses in commercial, vocational and academic subjects as the needs of the Virgin Islands may require for adults who have been domiciled in the Virgin Islands for a period of at least one year.
§ 242. Use of Department facilities; fees; rules and regulations
The Commissioner shall use the facilities of the Department of Education for teaching the courses authorized in this chapter, and he may employ instructors in the public school system at such additional compensation as he shall fix to teach such courses. The Commissioner may, with the approval of the Virgin Islands Board of Education, charge […]