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Chapter 178

Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 178

Special Schools and Instruction and Special Districts

178.1100Definitions — fund created, use of moneys — review by coordinating board — rulemaking authority 178.160State to furnish funds for readers for blind students, when 178.170Qualifications of reader 178.180Compensation of reader, how and when paid 178.280Board of directors of seven-director district may conduct summer schools 178.290Establishment of night schools in certain districts — tuition — use of school buildings 178.295Definitions 178.296Educational programs for juveniles placed or detained in county facilities — state aid 178.297Cost of programs, how paid — school district may contract with other district to provide services, when — failure of contracting district to pay, procedure 178.298Notice to school district of juvenile's placement or detention, when 178.300Part-time schools established, when 178.310State board to establish standards 178.320Federal funds available, when 178.330Attendance counted as part of employment time 178.340State and local boards of education to administer law 178.350District may be excused from maintaining part-time school 178.360Annual report of state board 178.370Establishment of two-year college courses 178.380Per capita cost of courses to be determined — tuition 178.390Board may set aside funds for pupils' tuition 178.400Community colleges established prior to October 13, 1961, supervision of — community college district may be created from public school district, procedure — taxation, how affected 178.411Definitions — duties of state board of education — fee waiver, effect on agency benefits — eligibility requirements — no guarantee of acceptance in or graduation from program — rules, promulgation, procedure 178.420Definitions 178.430Acceptance of federal acts and funds 178.440State board of education to cooperate with federal authorities 178.450Duties of state board of education 178.460State treasurer to be custodian of funds 178.470Report to the general assembly 178.480Approved schools to receive federal money, when — appropriation of state's share 178.490Local boards may contract for vocational education services 178.500May also contract for additional instruction in approved courses 178.510Contracting district to pay tuition — apportionment of state aid 178.520Vocational education fund — how obtained when no state appropriation is made 178.530State board to establish standards, inspect and approve schools — local boards to report — allocation of money — standards for agricultural education — pilot program for agricultural education in elementary schools, requirements 178.540Commissioner of education to be executive officer — assistants 178.550Career and technical education student protection act — council established, members, terms, meetings, duties 178.560Advisory committee to be appointed in each district offering vocational subjects — no compensation 178.570State board may incur necessary administration expenses 178.580State board to report to general assembly 178.585Upgrade of vocational and technical education — advisory committees — listing of demand occupations — use of funds 178.590Acceptance of federal acts to provide for vocational rehabilitation of certain persons 178.600State treasurer to be custodian of funds — disbursement 178.610Duties of state board of education 178.620State board to formulate plan of cooperation 178.630State board may receive gifts and donations — fund created — use — report 178.631State Technical College of Missouri established by gift to state of the Osage R-II school district 178.632Board of regents to be governing board — members, appointment, qualifications, residency requirements 178.633Terms of voting members — nonvoting members, terms 178.634Board's expenses, to be paid — vacancies, resignations, removals, how filled 178.635Board organization, powers and duties — limitations — bonded indebtedness deemed to be debt of board — bonds retired through tuition revenue 178.636State Technical College of Missouri, purpose and mission — certificates, diplomas and applied science associate degrees, limitations — baccalaureate degrees, limitations 178.637State Technical College of Missouri deemed qualified for student loans or scholarship program, when 178.638Oversight of college by coordinating board and state board of education — state to provide funds, exception vocational technical education reimbursement to continue through state board of education — performance funding measures to be used, when 178.639Employees of college eligible for Missouri state employees' retirement system 178.640Retirement system options for employees of the college, effective when — election by employee, time limitation — failure of employee to make election, effect — service credit, limitation 178.651Definitions 178.652Plan to fund and maintain centers to be developed by division — rulemaking authority, procedure 178.653Independent living center fund created — administration — funding 178.654Financial assistance provided to centers, when — program accountability, duties of division, evaluation contents — standards 178.656Organization of centers, board of directors, staff — services provided — disabilities served — compliance with local laws and ordinances required 178.658Location of centers, restriction on funding 178.691Definitions 178.693Educational and screening programs — reimbursement by state 178.694Imagination library of Missouri program — definitions — purpose — Dolly Parton's imagination library affiliate — reading selections provided to eligible children — rulemaking authority — fund created — sunset provision 178.695Program review 178.697Costs not to exceed appropriations — annual screenings and prenatal visit eligibility, when, expiration 178.698Plan to distribute funds to allow voluntary participation 178.699Participation voluntary — information obtained is confidential 178.716Vocational school districts permitted, procedure (Butler, Stoddard, Wayne, Ripley, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Dunklin, Mississippi, Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, and Scott counties)178.770Organization of community college districts — standards — corporate powers of districts 178.780Coordinating board for higher education to supervise colleges — duties 178.785Higher education core curriculum transfer act — definitions 178.786Lower division core curriculum of forty-two semester hours, recommendation — common course numbering equivalency matrix — lower division core curriculum of sixty credit hours, equivalency matrix, requirements — report — evaluation criteria — board duties 178.787Forty-two credit hour block, adoption of — transfer of course credits 178.788Transfer practices, criteria to evaluate — requirements for credit transfers 178.789Rulemaking authority 178.790Boundaries of community college districts 178.800Petition to establish district — election on proposal 178.820Trustees, election of — subdistricts — redistricting committees — trustee of subdistrict, residency requirements, qualifications — board of trustees, requirements, St. Louis City 178.830Board of trustees — oath — officers — quorum — vacancies filled, how — seal 178.835Discipline of students 178.840Election, when held, how conducted — certification of votes cast 178.850District to provide college courses — per capita cost to be determined — tuition charges 178.860Board to appoint employees — fix compensation — teachers to be members of public school retirement system 178.862Community college district police — oath, powers, qualifications 178.870Tax rates, limits — how increased and decreased 178.880Taxation of public utility property — rate not included in determining rate to be levied by other school districts 178.881Community college capital improvement subdistrict may be established, boundaries, taxation — ballot language — dissolution of subdistrict 178.890Annexation of school districts — new community college district formed, when — refusal without cause of petition to annex, penalty 178.891Crowder College energy center, state to assist in funding, when — uses for state's contribution 178.900Definitions 178.910Purposes of sheltered workshops 178.920Procedure for establishing sheltered workshops — hearing — certificate — revocation 178.931Payments for hours worked by disabled employees, how calculated 178.935Special certificates for employment of disabled persons at sheltered workshops — commensurate wage requirements — issuance of certificate, criteria 178.940Department designated to accept and disburse federal funds 178.950Board of education to appoint necessary staff 178.960Judicial review