BP 6178 — CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Instruction BP 6178(a)
CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION
The Board of Education desires to provide a comprehensive Career Technical Education
(CTE) program in the secondary grades which integrates core academic instruction with
technical and occupational instruction in order to increase student achievement,
graduation rates, and readiness for postsecondary education and employment. The
District’s CTE program shall be designed to help students develop the academic, career,
and technical skills needed to succeed in a knowledge- and skills- based economy.
(cf. 6143 - Courses of Study)
(cf. 6200 - Adult Education)
The District’s CTE program shall focus on preparing students to enter current or emerging
high-skill, high-wage, and/or high-demand occupations by providing a rigorous academic
component and practical experience in all aspects of an industry. CTE opportunities may
be offered through linked learning programs, partnership academies, apprenticeship
programs or orientation to apprenticeships, regional occupational centers or programs
(ROC/Ps), charter schools, small learning communities, magnet programs, or other
programs that expose students to career options while preparing them for future careers
in a given industry or interest area.
(cf. 0420.4 - Charter School Authorization)
(cf. 6178.2 - Regional Occupational Center/Program)
The Superintendent or designee shall explore available funding sources that may be used
to support CTE programs. The Board shall review and approve all District plans and
applications for the use of District, state and/or federal funds supporting CTE.
The Board shall adopt District standards for CTE which meet or exceed the state’s model
content standards and describe the essential knowledge and skills that students enrolled
in these courses are expected to master. The course curriculum shall be aligned with
District-adopted standards and the state’s curriculum framework.
(cf. 6011 - Academic Standards)
(cf. 6141 - Curriculum Development and Evaluation)
At least every three years, the Board shall compare the District’s curriculum, course
content, and course sequence of CTE with the model state curriculum standards.
(Education Code 52376)
The Superintendent or designee shall systematically review the District’s CTE classes to
determine the degree to which each class course may offer an alternative means for
completing and receiving credit for specific portions of the course of study prescribed by
the District for high school graduation. The Board shall ensure that these classes are
equivalent in content and rigor to the courses prescribed for graduation. (Education Code
52376)
BP 6178(b)
CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION (cont.)
(cf. 6146-1 - High School Graduation Requirements)
(cf. 6146.11 - Alternative Credits Toward Graduation)
(cf. 6146.2 - Certificate of Proficiency/High School Equivalency)
The Superintendent or designee shall develop partnerships with local businesses and
industries to ensure that course sequences, career technical and integrated curriculum,
classroom instruction and projects, and assessments have real-world relevance and
reflect labor market needs and priorities. The Superintendent or designee shall also work
to develop connections with businesses, postsecondary institutions, community
organizations, and/or other employers to provide students with actual or simulated work-
based learning opportunities.
(cf. 1700 - Relations Between Private Industry and the Schools)
(cf. 5113.2 - Work Permits)
(cf. 6178.1 - Work Experience Education)
The Superintendent or designee shall collaborate with postsecondary institutions to
ensure that the District’s program is articulated with postsecondary programs in order to
provide a sequential course of study. Articulation opportunities may include dual or
concurrent enrollment in community college courses.
(cf. 6172.1 - Concurrent Enrollment in College Classes)
The Board shall approve a CTE advisory committee to develop recommendations on the
District's CTE program and to serve as a liaison between the District and potential
employers. The committee shall consist of at least one student, teacher, business
representative, industry representative, school administrator, member of the general
public knowledgeable about the disadvantaged, and may include a representative of the
field office of the California Employment Development Department. (Education Code
8070)
Upon written request from a nonprofit private school within the geographical area served
by the District, to the extent required by law, the Superintendent or designee shall consult
with private school representatives in a timely and meaningful manner and may provide
for the participation of private school secondary students in CTE programs and activities
supported by federal funding under the strengthening Career and Technical Education
for the 21ST Century Act (Perkins). (20 USC 2397)
The Superintendent or designee shall collaborate with businesses, government agencies,
postsecondary institutions including universities and career technical schools, community
organizations, and/or other employers to provide students with actual or simulated work-
based learning opportunities through college and/or career fairs.
BP 6178(c)
CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION (cont.)
When planning to hold a college or career fair, the Superintendent or designee shall notify
each apprenticeship program in the county. The notification shall include the planned
date, time and location of the college or career fair. (Labor Code 3074.2)
The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that teachers of CTE courses possess the
qualifications and credentials necessary to teach their assigned courses. The
Superintendent or designee shall also provide teachers and administrators with
professional development designed to enhance their knowledge of standards-aligned
CTE and shall provide opportunities for CTE teachers to collaborate with teachers of
academic courses in the development and implementation of integrated curriculum
models.
The Superintendent or designee shall provide counselors and other guidance personnel
with professional development that includes, but is not limited to, information about
current workforce needs and trends, requirements of the District’s CTE program, work-
based learning opportunities, and postsecondary education and employment options
following high school.
The Superintendent or designee shall regularly assess District needs for facilities,
technologies, and equipment to increase students’ access to the District’s CTE program.
(cf. 0440 - District Technology Plan)
(cf. 3440 - Inventories)
(cf. 3512 - Equipment)
(cf. 7110 - Facilities Master Plan)
The Superintendent or designee shall annually report to the Board achievement data on
participating students, including, but not limited to, the percentage of participating
students who successfully completed courses that satisfy the requirement of CTE
sequences or programs of study that align with state CTE standards. The Board shall
determine the need for program improvements and update the goals in the District's Local
Control and Accountability Plan as necessary.
Legal Reference:
EDUCATION CODE
1205 Classification of counties
17078.70-17078.72 Career Technical Education Facilities
33430-33432 Health Science and Medical Technology Grants
35168 Inventory of equipment
41540-41544 Targeted Instructional Improvement Block Grant
44257.3 CTC recognition of study in linked learning teaching methods
44260-44260.1 Designated Subjects Career Technical Education Credential
44260.9 Designated Subject Career Technical Education Credential
48430 Legislative Intent; Continuation Education Schools and Classes
48980 Parental Notifications
BP 6178(d)
CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION (cont.)
511220-51230 Courses of Study, Grades 7-12
51760-51769.5 Work Experience Education
52060-52077 Local control and accountability plan
52300-52499.66 Career Technical Education
52519-52520 Adult Education, Occupational Training
53010-53016 California Career Pathways Trust
53020-53025 Golden State Pathways Program
53070-53076.4 The California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program
53086 California Career Resource Network
54690-54699.1 California Partnership Academies
54750-54760 California Partnership Academies, green technology and goods movement occupations
56363 Related Services for Students with Disabilities; Specially Designed Career Technical Education
66205.5-66205.9 Approval of Career Technical Education Courses for Admission to California College
8006-8155 Career technical education
88500-88551 Community College Economic and Workforce Development Program
GOVERNMENT CODE
54950-54963 The Ralph M. Brown Act
LABOR CODE
3070-3099.5 Apprenticeships
3110-3112.1 Apprenticeship Innovation Funding Program
3120-3122.4 Youth Apprenticeship
CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 5
1635 Credit for Work Experience Education
3051.14 Specially Designed Career Technical Education for Students with Disabilities
10070-10075 Work Experience Education
10080-10092 Community Classrooms
10100-10111 Cooperative Vocational Education
11500-11508 Regional Occupational Centers and Programs
11535-11538 Career Technical Education Contracts with Private Postsecondary Schools
11610-11611 Regional Adult and Vocational Education Councils
CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 8
200-240 Apprenticeships
UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 20
2301-2414 Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act
6301-6578 Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, TITLE 34
100 Appendix B Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination in Career Technical Education Programs 104.1-
104.39 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
106.1-106.61 Discrimination on the Basis of Sex, Effectuating Title I
Management Resources:
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION PUBLICATIONS
The Linked Learning Approach to High School Reform, Governance Brief, January 2014
A Governance Perspective: Interviews with School Board Members from the Nine Linked Learning Initiative
School Districts, March 2014
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PUBLICATION
California Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards, Grades Seven Through Twelve,
January 2013
Career Technical Education Framework for California Public Schools, Grades Seven Through Twelve,
January 2007
Multiple Pathways to Student Success: Envisioning the New California High School, 2010
BP 6178(e)
CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION (cont.)
WEBSITES
California School Boards Association District and County Office of Education Legal Services:
https://legalservices.csba.org/
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education:
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/cte/index.html
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov/
California Department of Education, Career Technical Education: www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ct
California Workforce Development Board: www.cwdb.ca.gov/
Association for Career and Technical Education: www.acteonline.org
California Association of Regional Occupational Centers and Programs: www.carocp.org
California Career Resource Network: www.californiacareers.info
California Department of Industrial Relations: www.dir.ca.gov
University of California, A-G Course Submissions: https://hs-articulation.ucop.edu/guide/update-your-a-g-
list/submitting-courses
Commission on Teacher Credentialing: www.ctc.ca.gov
Chino Valley Unified School District
Policy adopted: August 21, 1997
Revised: June 18, 2009
Revised: November 1, 2012
Revised: June 1, 2023