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Career Education
| Service or Program | Agricultural Education |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
Agricultural education is comprised of a
group of related courses designed to prepare students for one of several types of
agricultural occupations. These typically include agricultural production, agribusiness
supplies and services, agricultural mechanics, agricultural products, ornamental
horticulture, forestry, and other agricultural resources. Programs may be designed to: (a)
prepare individuals for original entry into an occupation or (b) provide supplemental
educational experiences to adults so that they become better performers in an occupation. Partial financial support is provided for instructional salaries and equipment for approved programs. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Public educational institutions serving secondary (Grades 9-12), postsecondary, and adult students. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Partial financial support through a non-uniform allocation and/or a non-uniform reimbursement formula. |
| Access Procedures | Proposals for new and/or expanding programs are due March 1. A guideline for developing proposals is available from the Department. |
| Contact | Director, Agricultural Education and Natural
Resources MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-3544 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | Business Education |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
Vocational funds are available for operating
business education training programs in comprehensive high schools, area vocational
schools, community colleges, and universities. Course offerings must be designed to equip
students with entry-level business education skills upon completion of a training program.
Examples of business education programs are: office technology, accounting, computer
applications, etc. Partial financial support is provided for instructional salaries and equipment for approved programs. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Public educational institutions serving secondary (Grades 9-12), postsecondary, and adult students. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Partial financial support through a non-uniform allocation and/or a non-uniform reimbursement formula. |
| Access Procedures | Proposals for new and/or expanding programs are due March 1. A guideline for developing proposals is available from the Department. |
| Contact | Director, Business Education, Management and
Technology MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-3484 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4. Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | Employment Training/Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) |
| Authority | Federal: Job Training Partnership Act (Public Law 97-300) |
| Service or
Program Description |
Funds are available for programs that provide basic skills, remedial education, vocational education, work experience, and other support services such as guidance and counseling. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Economically disadvantaged, unemployed, underemployed, or academically deficient persons. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Funds are allocated two ways: (1) by formula to Service Delivery Areas (SDAs) and (2) by proposal to eligible entities and agencies. Eligible entities and agencies include: public schools, junior colleges, and area vocational-technical schools. Within limits established by regulations, JTPA funds may be used to pay for all costs directly attributable to the program, except where funds from other sources are available for the same or similar purpose. |
| Access Procedures | Application information of funding may be obtained from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. |
| Contact | Director, Employment Training MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-7563 or (573) 751-7563 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation; 17.1 Educational Persistence. |
| Service or Program | Family and Consumer Sciences and Human Services |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
Family and Consumer Sciences Education is a group of related courses that generally prepare youth and adults for family life, emphasizing the acquisition of knowledge and the development of attitudes, standards, values, and skills relevant to individual and family life and nurturing. Prepares individuals for balancing work and family roles and enhancing employability skills. Includes instruction in consumer education, food and nutrition, family living and parenthood education, child growth and development, housing and home management (including resource management), and clothing and textiles. Programs may also be designed to help students acquire competencies (including skills and job attitudes) needed for securing and holding paid employment at the entry and advanced levels and/or preparing for advancement in occupations utilizing family and consumer sciences education, knowledge, and competencies. Occupational family and consumer sciences clusters relate to the areas of child care and guidance workers and managers; clothing, apparel and textile workers and managers; institutional food workers and administrators; home furnishings and equipment installers and consultants; custodial, housekeeping, and home services workers and managers; and other areas of human services. Partial financial support is provided for instructional improvement, salaries, and equipment for approved programs. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Public educational institutions serving secondary (Grades 9-12), postsecondary, and adult students. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Partial financial support through a non-uniform allocation and/or a non-uniform reimbursement formula. |
| Access Procedures | Proposals for new and/or expanding programs are due March 1. A guideline for developing proposals is available from the Department. |
| Contact | Director, Family and Consumer Sciences and
Human Services MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-2644 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | Health Occupations Education |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
Instruction is organized to prepare students
for occupational objectives concerned with assisting qualified personnel in providing
diagnostic, therapeutic, preventive, restorative, and rehabilitative services to people,
including understandings and skills essential to provide care and health services to
patients. Some occupations require licensure from state boards and/or national
certification. Examples of health occupations programs are: health occupations, dental
assisting, practical nursing, and nursing assistant. Partial financial support is provided for instructional salaries and equipment for approved programs. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Public educational institutions serving secondary (Grades 11-12), postsecondary, and adult students. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Partial financial support through a non-uniform allocation and/or a non-uniform reimbursement formula. |
| Access Procedures | Proposals for new and/or expanding programs are due March 1. A guideline for developing proposals is available from the Department. |
| Contact | Director, Industrial and Engineering
Technology and Health Sciences MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-7764 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | Industrial Education |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
Trade industrial and technical occupations to
prepare persons for initial employment as workers in a wide range of occupations. Such
occupations are skilled and are concerned with layout designing, producing, processing,
assembling, testing, maintaining, servicing, or repairing any product or commodity.
Instruction is provided in manipulative skills and safety judgment required to perform
successfully in an occupation. Partial financial support is provided for instructional salaries and equipment for approved programs. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Public educational institutions serving secondary (Grades 11-12), postsecondary, and adult students |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Partial financial support through a non-uniform allocation and/or a non-uniform reimbursement formula. |
| Access Procedures | Proposals for new and/or expanding programs are due March 1. A guideline for developing proposals is available from the Department. |
| Contact | Director, Industrial Education MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-4460 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | Industrial Technology Education Grant Award Program |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
The grant award program provides limited
financial support for implementing an industrial technology education program. The
emphasis of the effort is to focus on assisting students in developing insight,
understanding, and application of the technological concepts and processes to systems of
industry. The program is designed to stimulate the development of goals, objectives, and
activities that reinforce technology, its evolution, impact, utilization, and career
opportunities in industry. Partial financial support is provided for curriculum development and/or revision, industrial technology workshop expenses, resource materials, and equipment. An approved budget is required. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Public educational institutions serving secondary (Grades 7-12) students. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Discretionary grants are based on size and scope of the program and are funded in accordance with priorities established annually. |
| Access Procedures | Project applications are solicited annually beginning January 1 with a due date of April 1. Program guidelines, application procedures, and necessary forms are available from the Department upon request. |
| Contact | Director, Industrial and Engineering
Technology and Health Sciences MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-2584 or (573) 751-4460 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | Marketing and Cooperative Education |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
Provides funds for the implementation and maintenance of programs in marketing and cooperative education. Marketing education provides instruction in marketing, merchandising, and management with the goal of preparing individuals for marketing and management occupations. Cooperative occupational education (COE) offers a work-study program for persons who, through a cooperative arrangement between the school and employers, receive related vocational instruction by the alternation of study in school with on-the-job training in a variety of occupations. Cooperative industrial education (CIE) offers a work-study program for persons who, through a cooperative arrangement between the school and employers, receive related vocational instruction by alternation of study in school with on-the-job training in industrial occupations. Partial financial support is provided for instructional salaries and equipment for approved programs. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Public educational institutions serving secondary (Grades 10-12), postsecondary, and adult students. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Partial financial support through a non-uniform allocation and/or a non-uniform reimbursement formula. |
| Access Procedures | Proposals for new and/or expanding programs are due March 1. A guideline for developing proposals is available from the Department. |
| Contact | Director, Marketing Education, Arts and
Communication MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-4367 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | New Perspectives |
| Authority | |
| Service or
Program Description |
Assistance for single parents, girls/women 14-25, nontraditional females and males seeking vocational training/education. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Single parents, females 14-25 and those seeking training in nontraditional occupations. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Funding is available. |
| Access Procedures | Contact the director of the project for information. |
| Contact | Director, Special Vocational Services MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-2661 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3 Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | Occupational Home Economics |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
Occupational home economics education
programs are instructional programs emphasizing the acquisition of competencies needed for
securing and maintaining an entry-level job and/or preparing for advancement in an
occupation(s) utilizing home economics knowledge and skills. Instructional programs are
developed from home economics subject-matter areas to meet the unique requirements of the
specific occupations derived from a job analysis. Partial financial support is provided for instructional salaries and equipment for approved programs. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Public educational institutions serving secondary (Grades 11-12), postsecondary, and adult students. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Partial financial support through a non-uniform allocation and/or a non-uniform reimbursement formula. |
| Access Procedures | Proposals for new and/or expanding programs are due March 1. A guideline for developing proposals is available from the Department. |
| Contact | Director, Family and Consumer Sciences and Human Services MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-2644 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | Vocational Administration |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
Funds are available to support vocational
education administrative activities in public area vocational-technical schools and
community colleges. These activities include the administrative and supervisory functions,
which relate to the development, operation, and evaluation of vocational education
programs and supportive services for secondary, postsecondary, and adult individuals. Partial financial support is provided for approved administrative/supervisory salaries. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Public educational institutions that are designated as area vocational schools or community colleges, which provide approved vocational education programs. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Partial financial support through a non-uniform reimbursement formula. |
| Access Procedures | Proposals for approval must be submitted to the Department by March 1. |
| Contact | Director, Administration and Accountability
Services MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-3872 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation. |
| Service or Program | Vocational Contracted Services |
| Authority | State: Section 178.450, RSMo |
| Service or
Program Description |
Provides financial assistance to public high school districts, which participate by sending students to a designated area vocational school. Partial financial support is provided to public high school districts that are not designated area vocational schools that transport students to and pay tuition to designated area school districts for vocational education services. This financial assistance is restricted to districts, which contract for secondary regular vocational education services from area vocational schools. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Approved vocational education students attending a designated area vocational school from contracting public high school districts. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Grant award reimbursement from specific General Assembly appropriation is made to districts making application. Grants are based on numbers of students attending each semester. |
| Access Procedures | Contact the program director. |
| Contact | Director, Administration and Accountability
Services MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-3872 |
| Service or Program | Vocational Education Programs, Federal |
| Authority | Federal: Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act (Public Law 101-392) |
| Service or
Program Description |
The Perkins Act provides funds to a limited number of public institutions to supplement and improve Vocational Education programs offering a sequence of courses which are directly related to the preparation of individuals in paid and unpaid employment in current or emerging occupations requiring other than a baccalaureate or advanced degree. Programs include competency-based applied learning, which contributes to an individual’s academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employment skills, and occupational-specific skills necessary for economic independence as a productive and contributing member of society. |
| Eligible
Recipients or Participants |
Only public educational institutions are eligible to apply for funding. Funds are targeted to serve individuals who are members of special populations (disadvantaged, handicapped, single parents, displaced homemakers, and single pregnant women), secondary students (Grades 9-12), postsecondary students, and adults enrolled in vocational education programs. |
| Funding or
Grants Available |
Formula grants allocating funds to secondary school programs are based on Chapter 1 funds, numbers of handicapped served, and number of students enrolled in school. Postsecondary and adult programs receive funding based on the school’s proportion of Pell Grant recipients compared to a state total. Grants are made for community-based organizations, consumer and homemaking education, technical preparation education, single parents and displaced homemakers, single pregnant women and sex equity from competitive requests for proposals. |
| Access Procedures | Application, guidelines, and technical assistance may be obtained from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. |
| Contact | Coordinator, Vocational-Technical Education MO Department of Elementary and Secondary Education P.O. Box 480 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0480 Telephone: (573) 751-3500 |
| MSIP | This program could be used to improve the following MSIP Performance Standards: 16.3*3, *4 Career Preparation. |
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