72-3814. Agreements between boards authorized; conditions; terms; financing; approval; modifications; property ownership and disposition.
Any board may enter into a career technical education agreement with any other board or boards, subject to the following:
(a) Such agreement shall be for a term of at least three years but not exceeding five years.
(b) Such agreement shall be subject to change or cancellation by the legislature at any time in accordance with article 6, section 5 of the constitution of Kansas.
(c) Such agreement shall be approved by the state board before the same has any force or effect.
(d) Such agreement may provide for payment between boards of moneys for career technical education tuition or fees, or for establishing, conducting, maintaining or administering an area vocational school or any career technical education course or program.
(e) Such agreement may provide that the tuition of students enrolled in any of the contracting districts, when such students attend a career technical education course or program not offered in one of the contracting districts, shall be paid by the board receiving funds under this agreement.
(f) Such agreement may provide that certain career technical education courses or programs will be offered only in certain districts.
(g) Such agreement may provide that certain career technical education courses or programs are to be contracted for under conditions specified in the agreement.
(h) Such agreement shall make appropriate provision for modification thereof in the event of cancellation, discontinuance or disapproval of any course or program by the state board, whether the same constitutes a loss of current designation as an area vocational school or not.
(i) Such agreement shall provide that the board owning or having jurisdiction over physical facilities used for career technical education shall retain the ownership of or jurisdiction over such physical facilities; however, such agreement may provide for the use of such physical facilities during the term of the agreement or a shorter period of time. Any agreement under this section may provide for a different method of ownership or disposition of real or personal property or interest therein, if such provision has received the prior approval of the state board and the attorney general.
History: L. 1969, ch. 318, § 11; L. 1985, ch. 241, § 5; L. 1999, ch. 147, § 105; L. 2009, ch. 24, § 9; July 1.