Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 74 - Vocational Education
Section 56 - Program for Expansion of Not-for-Credit Vocationally-Oriented Instruction

Section 56. The district trustees shall establish a program, in collaboration with the advisory committee, the director of the department of career services and a representative of the local workforce investment board, to expand not-for-credit vocationally-oriented instruction provided through contracts with commonwealth employers. The program shall allow interested business partners to sponsor a prospective or current employee for training provided by the vocational school at the expense of the employer. Each vocational school shall report not later than December 31 annually to the commissioner of education on the level of not-for-credit vocationally-oriented instruction provided in the preceding fiscal year and the anticipated level of such instruction in the current fiscal year. The report shall detail enrollment levels, revenues received, sources of revenues, recruitment tools, the number of service contracts established with commonwealth employers and such other information as the commissioner may require. The commissioner shall prepare a comprehensive report of the information and present copies of the report to the board of higher education and the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on labor and workforce development not later than March 31 annually.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

Massachusetts General Laws

Part I - Administration of the Government

Title XII - Education

Chapter 74 - Vocational Education

Section 1 - Definitions

Section 2 - Commissioner of Education; Powers and Duties Regarding Vocational-Technical Education

Section 2a - Outside Work Projects of Students; Rules and Regulations

Section 2b - Construction Program Students; Low Income Housing

Section 3 - Establishment in Towns; Management

Section 4 - Establishment by Districts

Section 5 - District Trustees; Powers and Duties

Section 5a - Establishment of Vocational-Technical Schools by Regional School Districts

Section 5b - Vocational-Technical Education Collaboratives

Section 6 - Advisory Committees

Section 7 - Admission of Non-Resident Pupils

Section 7a - Pupils Placed in Schools by Department of Children and Families; Tuition

Section 7b - Apprenticeship Program

Section 7c - Persons Admitted to School in Town Other Than Resident Town; Payment of Tuition

Section 8a - Transportation of Students

Section 13 - Time for Holding Classes; Required Age of Students

Section 14 - Practical Arts Classes; Required Age of Students

Section 14a - Practical Art Classes; Receipt and Use of Federal Funds

Section 14b - Culinary Arts; Revolving Fund

Section 15 - Instructions in Agriculture and Horticulture; Establishment

Section 16 - Establishment of Agricultural or Horticultural Classes; Advertising Requirement

Section 17 - Acquisition of Land for Use of Agricultural Classes

Section 18 - Competency-Based Vocational-Technical Teacher Training Standards

Section 20 - Custodian of Federal Funds

Section 21 - Expenditure of Federal Funds

Section 22 - Use of Federal Funds

Section 22d - Cooperation With Federal Authorities for Rehabilitation of Veterans

Section 22e - Employment of Teachers; Conditions

Section 23 - Independent Industrial Shoemaking School of the City of Lynn

Section 24 - Smith Agricultural School; Maintenance; Superintendents

Section 24b - Public Secondary Vocational-Technical School Districts and Public Institutions of Higher Education; Coordination of Programs

Section 25 - County Agricultural Schools; State Aid for Maintenance; Conditions

Section 26 - Management; Appointment of Trustees

Section 27 - Compensation of Trustees

Section 28 - Duties of Trustees; Preparation of Budget

Section 29 - Funds Raised by Taxation

Section 30 - Disposition of Income

Section 31 - Receipt and Use of Gift

Section 31a - Transportation of Pupils

Section 31b - Supervision of Athletic and Other Organizations

Section 32 - Admission of Non-Residents

Section 33 - Tuition

Section 34 - Bristol School; Special Courses of Instruction

Section 35 - Courses of Instruction

Section 36 - Short Unit Courses

Section 37 - Duties of School Staffs

Section 37a - Technical Institutes

Section 37b - Nondegree Granting Post-Secondary Vocational Education Programs

Section 37c - Admission of Nonresidents to Nondegree Granting Post-Secondary Vocational Education Programs

Section 37f - Receipts From Tuition and Fees From Nondegree Granting Post-Secondary Vocational Education Programs Held in Separate Account

Section 41 - Lease of State Facilities for Re-Education and Rehabilitation in Industry of Soldiers and Sailors

Section 42a - Bradford Durfee College of Technology and New Bedford Institute of Technology; Honorary Master of Science Degree

Section 42b - Bradford Durfee College of Technology and New Bedford Institute of Technology; Honorary Doctorates

Section 42c - Professors and Teachers; Removal; Hearing

Section 42d - Board of Trustees, Powers and Duties

Section 42e - Standards; Courses of Instructions; Powers of Trustees

Section 42f - Rules and Regulations; Meetings of Trustees; Quorum

Section 42g - Delegation of Powers by Trustees

Section 42h - Audit of Accounts

Section 42i - Budget

Section 42j - Appropriations

Section 42k - Receipts and Expenditures; Annual Report; Monthly Statements; Accounting System

Section 42l - Special Trusts, etc.; Management

Section 42m - College and Institute Property; Management and Administration

Section 42n - Purchases

Section 42o - Election of Officers; Salaries of Officers and Professional Staff; Employment, Status and Benefits of Personnel

Section 42p - Travel Policy

Section 42q - Control, Movement and Parking of Motor Vehicles

Section 43 - Acceptance of Gifts

Section 44 - Reports

Section 45 - Insurance

Section 46 - Tuition

Section 46a - Functions; Testing of New and Useful Improvements in Textile Machinery and Apparatus

Section 46b - Research Foundations; Patents

Section 52 - Nautical Schools

Section 54 - Establishment and Maintenance of Schools for Institutional On-Farm Training for World War II and Korean Emergency Veterans

Section 56 - Program for Expansion of Not-for-Credit Vocationally-Oriented Instruction

Section 57 - Program to Support Training and Education Programs That Address Workforce Shortages of Advanced Automotive and Diesel Technician Industry

Section 58 - Use of Tobacco Products Within School Buildings or Facilities or on School Grounds