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PRINTER'S NO. 857
No. 754 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY GREENFIELD, PETRARCA, MYERS, GEORGE AND BURNS,
MARCH 18, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MARCH 19, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
2 act relating to the public school system, including certain
3 provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
4 schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
5 laws relating thereto," providing for reimbursement for
6 school districts that offer vocational-technical courses in
7 their own school district in existing buildings.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. Section 2504, act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30,
11 No.14), known as "The Public School Code of 1949," amended
12 January 14, 1970 (1969 P.L.468, No.192), is amended to read:
13 Section 2504. Payments of Account of Vocational
14 Curriculums.--(a) Every school district regardless of
15 classification, and every intermediate unit with reference to
16 vocational departments of high schools or vocational schools,
17 shall be paid by the Commonwealth for every school year, the sum
18 of thirty-five dollars ($35) in vocational agriculture and
19 vocational industrial education; twenty dollars ($20) in
20 vocational home economics education; and fifty dollars ($50) in
1 vocational distributive education per pupil in average daily
2 membership in vocational curriculums, approved by the
3 [Superintendent of Public Instruction] Secretary of Education.
4 (b) School districts who are sponsors of an established area
5 vocational-technical school may offer vocational-technical
6 courses in their own school district in existing school
7 buildings, provided the offered courses fulfill the standards of
8 the Department of Education for these courses. In such event all
9 State subsidies provided for vocational-technical courses in
10 area vocational-technical schools shall be paid to local school
11 districts in the same amount as though the courses were being
12 given in the area vocational-technical school.
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 1975.
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