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and is intended to be omitted in the law.
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
SENATE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 1383
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR WASHINGTON.
4325S.03P KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 178.530, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to
agricultural education.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 178.530, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 178.530, 2
to read as follows:3
178.530. 1. The state board of education shall 1
establish standards and annually inspect, as a basis for 2
approval, all public prevocational, vocational schools, 3
State Technical College of Missouri, departments and classes 4
receiving state or federal moneys for giving training in 5
agriculture, industrial, home economics and commercial 6
subjects and all schools, departments and classes receiving 7
state or federal moneys for the preparation of teachers and 8
supervisors of such subjects. The public prevocational and 9
vocational schools, State Technical College of Missouri, 10
departments, and classes, and the training schools, 11
departments and classes are entitled to the state or federal 12
moneys so long as they are approved by the state board of 13
education, as to site, plant, equipment, qualifications of 14
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teachers, admission of pupils, courses of study and methods 15
of instruction. All disbursements of state or federal 16
moneys for the benefit of the approved prevocational and 17
vocational schools, State Technical College of Missouri, 18
departments and classes shall be made semiannually. The 19
school board of each approved school or the governing body 20
of State Technical College of Missouri shall file a report 21
with the state board of education at the times and in the 22
form that the state board requires. Upon receipt of a 23
satisfactory report, the state board of education shall 24
certify to the commissioner of administration for [his] the 25
commissioner's approval the amount of the state and federal 26
moneys due the school district or State Technical College of 27
Missouri. The amount due the school district shall be 28
certified by the commissioner of administration and proper 29
warrant therefor shall be issued to the district treasurer 30
or State Technical College of Missouri. 31
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of 32
this section, the state board of education shall establish 33
standards for agricultural education that may be adopted by 34
a private school accredited by an agency recognized by the 35
United States Department of Education as an accreditor of 36
private schools that wishes to provide quality vocational 37
programming outside the requirements of, but consistent 38
with, the federal Vocational Education Act. Such standards 39
shall be sufficient to qualify a private school to apply to 40
the state chapter for approval of a local chapter of a 41
federally chartered national agricultural education 42
association on a form developed for that purpose by the 43
department of elementary and secondary education without 44
eligibility to receive state or federal funding for 45
agricultural vocational education. The provisions of this 46
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subsection shall not be construed to create eligibility for 47
a private school to receive state or federal funding for 48
agricultural vocational education, but shall not prohibit a 49
private school from receiving state or federal funds for 50
which such private school would otherwise be eligible for 51
agricultural vocational education. Any such private school 52
shall reimburse the department annually for the cost of 53
oversight and maintenance of the program. 54
3. (1) The department of elementary and secondary 55
education, through its agricultural education section, shall 56
be authorized to establish a [pilot] program, beginning in 57
the [2020-21] 2027-28 school year, to provide for 58
agricultural education in elementary schools in the state. 59
[The purpose of the pilot program shall be to determine 60
whether and how to implement an elementary agricultural 61
education program statewide.] 62
(2) (a) The department, through its employees who 63
work in the agricultural education section, [is authorized 64
to select from among applications submitted by the public 65
elementary schools a minimum of sixteen public elementary 66
schools for participation in the pilot program. The 67
department] shall develop [an application] a process for 68
public elementary schools to [apply to] participate in the 69
[pilot] program. 70
(b) The local school board for each elementary school 71
[selected] that elects to be in the [pilot] program shall 72
agree to implement and fully fund an elementary agricultural 73
education program in such school and [to continue to provide 74
such elementary agricultural education program for a period 75
no shorter than three years. The local school district] may 76
employ an agricultural education teacher to provide such 77
program for the elementary school. 78
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(3) The department, through its employees who work in 79
the agricultural education section, [and local school 80
districts] shall [collaborate to] establish [the] 81
instructional [model] models for [each] the elementary 82
agricultural education program in conjunction and 83
collaboration with Missouri agricultural commodity groups 84
and organizations that promote and support Missouri 85
agriculture. Such instructional [model] models shall be 86
grade-appropriate and include instruction in an organized 87
classroom, collaborative learning experiences through 88
investigation and inquiry, including laboratory and site- 89
based learning activities, and personal, leadership, and 90
career development opportunities. 91
(4) The department, through its agricultural education 92
section, shall provide for a program evaluation regarding 93
the success and impact of the [pilot] program [upon 94
completion of the third year of the pilot program] and shall 95
report the results of such evaluation [to the relevant house 96
and senate committees on agriculture and education] on the 97
department's website. 98
4. The department shall maintain an adequate number of 99
full-time employees, certified in agricultural education and 100
distributed regionally throughout the state, to provide 101
accountability for program delivery of agricultural 102
education, to continue to develop and maintain pertinent 103
agricultural education instructional models and standards, 104
to assist local school districts on matters related to 105
agricultural education, and to coordinate regional and 106
statewide activities supporting K-12 agricultural education 107
programming. 108
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5. Nothing in this section shall be construed to 109
require public elementary schools to participate in the 110
[pilot] program. 111
6. The requirements of section 160.514 shall not apply 112
to the provisions of this section. 113
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