§ 16-8-1. State board for vocational education. The board of regents for elementary and secondary education is constituted and designated as the state board for vocational education to cooperate with the federal office of education and veterans administration, or their successors, in the administration of any act of congress relating to vocational education and rehabilitation […]
§ 16-8-10. Mandatory school lunch programs. All public elementary and secondary schools shall be required to make type A lunches available to students attending those schools in accordance with rules and regulations adopted from time to time by the department of elementary and secondary education. To the extent that federal, state, and other funds are […]
§ 16-8-10.1. Mandatory school breakfast programs. (a) All public schools shall make a breakfast program available to students attending the school. The breakfast meal shall meet any rules and regulations that are adopted by the commissioner. (b) The state of Rhode Island shall provide school districts a per breakfast subsidy for each breakfast served to […]
§ 16-8-10.2. Mandatory contract terms. No school board or school receiving aid under this chapter for school lunch programs shall negotiate, extend, or renew any school lunch service contract unless the contract provides for payments to school-lunch workers and aides for one hundred and eighty (180) days or the length of the contract for the […]
§ 16-8-11. Program accounts — Reports — Audits — Inspections. The department of elementary and secondary education shall prescribe regulations for the keeping of accounts and records and the making of reports by or under the supervision of school boards. These accounts and records shall be available for inspection and audit by authorized agents of […]
§ 16-8-12. Studies and appraisals of lunch programs. The department of elementary and secondary education is authorized, to the extent that funds are available for these purposes, and in cooperation with local school boards and other appropriate organizations, to conduct studies as to methods of improving and expanding school lunch programs and promoting nutritional education […]
§ 16-8-13. Annual school lunch appropriations. The general assembly shall annually appropriate some sum that it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of §§ 16-8-7 to 16-8-12; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum or so […]
§ 16-8-14. Federal aid funds — Custody — Disbursement. Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, any and all money received or that may be received by the state for the use or benefit of the state or any city or town for educational purposes from appropriations made by virtue of or under any act or […]
§ 16-8-15. Education Jobs Fund. For FY 2012 only, state general revenue appropriations to all local education agencies — including school districts, charter schools, and state schools — shall be reduced by the amount allocated to each local education agency under the terms of the federal Education Jobs Fund program. History of Section.P.L. 2011, ch. […]
§ 16-8-2. Acceptance and administration of the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act for vocational education. The state of Rhode Island having accepted the provisions of an act passed by the senate and house of representatives of the United States in congress assembled, entitled “An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for […]
§ 16-8-3. Acceptance and administration of the Vocational Education Act of 1946. The state of Rhode Island accepts the provisions of an act passed by the senate and house of representatives of the United States in congress assembled, entitled “An act to amend the act of June 8, 1936, relating to vocational education, so as […]
§ 16-8-4 — 16-8-6. Repealed. History of Section.P.L. 1952, ch. 2959, §§ 1-3; G.L. 1956, §§ 16-8-4 — 16-8-6; Repealed by P.L. 2001, ch. 86, § 34, effective July 6, 2001.
§ 16-8-7. School lunch programs — Definitions. For the purposes of §§ 16-8-7 to 16-8-13: (1) “School” is construed to mean any educational institution operated on a nonprofit basis, having a graded course of instruction with prescribed standards for the completion of each grade, with compulsory class attendance, and records of class work regularly maintained. […]
§ 16-8-8. Acceptance and use of federal school lunch funds. The department of elementary and secondary education is authorized to accept and direct the disbursement of funds appropriated by any act of congress and apportioned to the state in connection with the establishment and maintenance of school lunch programs. The department of elementary and secondary […]
§ 16-8-9. Administration of program. The department of elementary and secondary education may enter into any agreements, with any agency of the federal government, with any school board, or with any other agency or person, prescribe any regulations, employ any personnel, and take any action, that it may deem necessary to provide for the establishment, […]
