The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and regulations governing the expenditures of moneys appropriated by Sections 59-53-1810 to 59-53-1870 and shall make the same known to the various school districts of the State in order that they may know the conditions under which they are entitled to share in the funds available for vocational education.

On or before December 30, 1980, the State Board of Education shall adopt instructional program standards for vocational programs and a needs assessment format which includes instructional requirements for the special characteristics of the different vocational programs, using as a guide for vocational agriculture the standards of quality vocational programs in agriculture/agribusiness education developed by the vocational agricultural education profession. The instruction program standards for vocational agriculture programs shall include the instructional programs for the interim between academic years which are itemized in Section 59-53-1860 of the 1976 Code, as amended.

These instructional program standards shall be incorporated in the South Carolina State Plan for Vocational-Technical Education as adopted by the State Board of Education. The instructional standards adopted by the State Board of Education shall be used to evaluate all vocational programs.

Local programs of vocational agriculture education and the school district's needs assessment for agriculture education programs shall be reviewed by the State Department of Education consultants for agriculture education with the participation of an advisory team consisting at minimum of a member of the local advisory committee for vocational agriculture, a member of the local advisory council for vocational education and a teacher-educator for agriculture education from Clemson University. The findings of such reviews shall include an explicit statement of the vocational agricultural education needs of the students and the agriculture community served by such local program. Any member of this review team shall be allowed to include a minority opinion in the findings of the review. These reviews shall be scheduled by the State Department of Education at intervals adequate to assure local program compliance with the State Plan for Vocational and Technical Education. Whenever a high school or joint vocational school's annual report, as required by Section 59-20-60, the S. C. Education Finance Act of 1977, on programmatic needs fails to justify or continue offering on a full-time twelve-month per year basis any existing vocational agriculture education program, the school district board of trustees for such school shall include and consider the findings of the State Department of Education review of the local vocational agriculture program in the needs assessment of such district board of trustee's comprehensive annual and long-range plan for meeting program needs.