[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 34, Volume 3] [Revised as of July 1, 2005] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 34CFR403.1] [Page 25-27] TITLE 34--EDUCATION CHAPTER IV--OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PART 403_STATE VOCATIONAL AND APPLIED TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM --Table of Contents Subpart A_General Sec. 403.1 What is the State Vocational and Applied Technology Education Program? Subpart A_General Sec. 403.1 What is the State Vocational and Applied Technology Education Program? 403.2 Who is eligible for an award? 403.3 What regulations apply? 403.4 What definitions apply? Subpart B_What Are the State's Organizational and Planning Responsibilities? 403.10 What is the State board? 403.11 What are the principal responsibilities of the State board? 403.12 What are the additional responsibilities of the State board? 403.13 What are the personnel requirements regarding the elimination of sex discrimination and sex stereotyping? 403.14 What are the personnel requirements regarding coordination with services for individuals with disabilities? 403.15 What are the personnel requirements regarding coordination with services under chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act? 403.16 What are the personnel requirements regarding coordination with programs for individuals of limited English proficiency? 403.17 What are the State's responsibilities regarding a State council on vocational education? 403.18 What are the membership requirements of a State council on vocational education? 403.19 What are the responsibilities of a State council on vocational education? Subpart C_How Does a State Apply for a Grant? 403.30 What documents must a State submit to receive a grant? 403.31 How is the State plan developed? 403.32 What must the State plan contain? 403.33 What procedures does a State use to submit its State plan? 403.34 When are amendments to the State plan required? Subpart D_How Does the Secretary Make a Grant to a State? 403.50 How does the Secretary make allotments? 403.51 How does the Secretary make reallotments? 403.52 When does the Secretary approve State plans and amendments? Subpart E_What Kinds of Activities Does the Secretary Assist Under the Basic Programs? General 403.60 What are the basic programs? 403.61 What projects, services, and activities are permissible under the basic programs? 403.62 What administrative provisions apply? 403.63 How does a State carry out the State Vocational and Applied Technology Education Program? State Programs and State Leadership Activities 403.70 How must funds be used under the State Programs and State Leadership Activities? [[Page 26]] 403.71 In what additional ways may funds be used under the State Programs and State Leadership Activities? Single Parents, Displaced Homemakers, and Single Pregnant Women Program 403.80 Who is eligible for a subgrant or contract? 403.81 How must funds be used under the Single Parents, Displaced Homemakers, and Single Pregnant Women Program? 403.82 In what settings may the Single Parents, Displaced Homemakers, and Single Pregnant Women Program be offered? Sex Equity Program 403.90 Who is eligible for a subgrant or contract? 403.91 How must funds be used under the Sex Equity Program? 403.92 Under what circumstances may the age limit under the Sex Equity Program be waived? Programs for Criminal Offenders 403.100 What are the requirements for designating a State corrections educational agency to administer the Programs for Criminal Offenders? 403.101 How must funds be used under the Programs for Criminal Offenders? 403.102 What other requirements apply to the Program for Criminal Offenders? Secondary, Postsecondary, and Adult Vocational Education Programs 403.110 Who is eligible for a subgrant or contract? 403.111 How must funds be used under the Secondary School Vocational Education Program and the Postsecondary and Adult Vocational Education Programs? 403.112 How does a State allocate funds under the Secondary School Vocational Education Program to local educational agencies? 403.113 How does a State allocate funds under the Secondary School Vocational Education Program to area vocational education schools and intermediate educational agencies? 403.114 How does a State determine the number of economically disadvantaged students attending vocational education programs under the Secondary School Vocational Education Program? 403.115 What appeal procedures must be established under the Secondary School Vocational Education Program? 403.116 How does a State allocate funds under the Postsecondary and Adult Vocational Education Programs? 403.117 What definitions apply to the Postsecondary and Adult Vocational Education Programs? 403.118 Under what circumstances may the Secretary waive the distribution requirements for the Postsecondary and Adult Vocational Education Programs? 403.119 Under what circumstances may the State waive the distribution requirements for Secondary School Vocational Education Program or the Postsecondary and Adult Vocational Education Programs? 403.120 How does a State reallocate funds under the Secondary School Vocational Education Program and the Postsecondary and Adult Vocational Education Programs? Subpart F_What Kinds of Activities Does the Secretary Assist Under the Special Programs? General 403.130 What are the Special Programs? 403.131 Who is eligible for an award under the Special Programs? Vocational Education Support Programs by Community-Based Organizations 403.140 What activities does the Secretary support under the State Assistance for Vocational Education Support Programs by Community-Based Organizations? 403.141 What are the application requirements for the State Assistance for Vocational Education Support Programs by Community-Based Organizations? Consumer and Homemaking Education Programs 403.150 What activities does the Secretary support under the Consumer and Homemaking Education Programs? 403.151 How must funds be used under the Consumer and Homemaking Education Programs? Comprehensive Career Guidance and Counseling Programs 403.160 What activities does the Secretary support under the Comprehensive Career Guidance and Counseling Programs? 403.161 How must funds be used under the Comprehensive Career Guidance and Counseling Programs? Business-Labor-Education Partnership for Training Program 403.170 What activities does the Secretary support under the Business- Labor-Education Partnership for Training Program? 403.171 Who is eligible to apply to a State board for an award? 403.172 What special considerations must the State board give in approving projects, services, and activities? [[Page 27]] 403.173 What expenses are allowable? 403.174 What additional fiscal requirements apply to the Business-Labor- Education Partnership for Training Program? Subpart G_What Financial Conditions Must Be Met by a State? 403.180 How must a State reserve funds for the basic programs? 403.181 What are the cost-sharing requirements applicable to the basic programs? 403.182 What is the maintenance of fiscal effort requirement? 403.183 Under what circumstances may the Secretary waive the maintenance of effort requirement? 403.184 How does a State request a waiver of the maintenance of effort requirement? 403.185 How does the Secretary compute maintenance of effort in the event of a waiver? 403.186 What are the administrative cost requirements applicable to a State? 403.187 How may a State provide technical assistance? 403.188 What is a State's responsibility for the cost of services and activities for members of special populations? Subpart H_What Conditions Must Be Met by Local Recipients? 403.190 What are the requirements for receiving a subgrant or contract? 403.191 What are the requirements for program evaluation? 403.192 What are the requirements for program improvement? 403.193 What are the information requirements regarding special populations? 403.194 What are the comparability requirements? 403.195 What are the administrative cost requirements applicable to local recipients? 403.196 What are the requirements regarding supplanting? 403.197 What are the requirements for the use of equipment? Subpart I_What Are the Administrative Responsibilities of a State Under the State Vocational and Applied Technology Education Program? 403.200 What are the State's responsibilities for ensuring compliance with the comparability requirements? 403.201 What are the State's responsibilities for developing and implementing a statewide system of core standards and measures of performance? 403.202 What must each State's system of core standards and measures of performance include? 403.203 What are the State's responsibilities for a State assessment? 403.204 What are the State's responsibilities for program evaluation and improvement? 403.205 What are the State's responsibilities for members of special populations? 403.206 What are the State's responsibilities regarding a State occupational information coordinating committee? 403.207 What are the State's responsibilities to the National Center or Centers for Research in Vocational Education? 403.208 What are the requirements regarding supplanting? Appendix A to Part 403--Examples for 34 CFR 403.111(a) and 403.111(c)(3) Appendix B to Part 403--Examples for 34 CFR 403.194--Comparability Requirements Authority: 20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq., unless otherwise noted. Source: 57 FR 36735, Aug. 14, 1992, unless otherwise noted. (a) Under the State Vocational and Applied Technology Education Program, the Secretary makes grants to States, to assist them, local educational agencies, postsecondary educational institutions, and other agencies and institutions to administer and conduct vocational education programs that are authorized by the Act. (b) The State Vocational and Applied Technology Education Program consists of the programs under the basic programs for vocational education authorized by title II of the Act and listed in Sec. 403.60, and the special programs authorized by title III of the Act that are covered by the State plan and listed in Sec. 403.130. (Authority: 20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.)