DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION  
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION  
CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION REIMBURSED PROGRAMS  
(By authority conferred on the superintendent of public instruction by section 61a of the  
state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1661a)  
PART 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS  
R 395.231 Definitions.  
Rule 1. As used in these rules:  
(a) “Added cost” means expenditures incurred by a public educational agency in the  
operation of a career and technical education program that exceed the expenditures  
required to operate non-career and technical education programs.  
(b) “Career and technical education program” means an instructional program as  
defined under section 3 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.3.  
(c) “Career and technical education program of study” means a coherent, articulated  
sequence of rigorous academic and career-related courses, commencing in ninth grade  
and leading to an associate degree, an industry-recognized certificate of licensure, or a  
baccalaureate and beyond.  
(d) "Career clusters" means an organizing tool defining career and technical education  
programs using broad clusters of occupations and career cluster pathways with validated  
standards that ensure opportunities for all students.  
(e) “CEPD” means career education planning district.  
(f) “Department” means the department of education.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS; 2025 MR 21, Eff. November 24, 2025.  
R 395.232 Career and technical education administrators.  
Rule 2. (1) Titles of career and technical education administrators of public educational  
agencies may be director of career and technical education, CEPD administrator,  
supervisor, or other administrator or consultant. Career and technical education  
administrators shall oversee career and technical education programs that are of sufficient  
size, scope, and quality. The size, scope, and quality of a career and technical education  
program must contain the necessary elements to provide effective services, activities, and  
instructional program offerings so that students are successful as evidenced by  
performance indicators.  
(2) An administrator of career and technical education shall promote, organize,  
coordinate, supervise, evaluate, and give general direction to state-approved career and  
technical education programs. The career and technical education administrator shall be  
responsible for determining the needs for career and technical education in the various  
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occupational areas and the establishment of programs consistent with the employment  
needs of the state and region. The administrator shall be responsible for the preparation of  
periodic reports.  
(3) A career and technical education administrator shall have both of the following  
qualifications:  
(a) A master’s degree from a recognized college or university and completion of career  
and technical education courses in the administration, supervision, and organization of  
career and technical education programs.  
(b) At least 3 years of experience in administration, teaching, or a combination of  
administration and teaching in career and technical education programs.  
(4) If an individual does not satisfy the requirements of subrule (3) of this rule, the  
department may waive 1 or both of the requirements based on a detailed review of the  
individual’s qualifications.  
(5) A CEPD administrator may provide input regarding decisions that affect career and  
technical education programs. Department decisions must be consistent with the state  
plan for career and technical education as required by the strengthening career and  
technical education for the 21st century act (Perkins), 20 USC 2301 to 2414, and section  
61a of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1661a.  
History: 2010 AACS; 2025 MR 21, Eff. November 24, 2025.  
R 395.236 Career and technical education guidance counselor.  
Rule 6. (1) All of the following are duties of a career and technical guidance counselor:  
(a) Provide adequate guidance and counseling designed to enable career and technical  
education students and potential career and technical education students to plan and  
participate in state-approved career and technical education programs of study.  
(b) Provide adequate guidance and counseling for students enrolled in and pursuing a  
state-approved career and technical education program of study.  
(c) Provide additional guidance and counseling services to assist students in the  
students’ career and technical education program of study to benefit from the students’  
academic and technical training.  
(d) Provide information to students regarding career awareness and planning with  
respect to preparing for the students’ future academic and career plans.  
(e) Provide information to students regarding career options, employment trends,  
financial aid, and postsecondary options.  
(f) Identify and encourage the appropriate placement of students in career and technical  
education, based on review of the students’ educational development plans.  
(2) A career and technical education guidance counselor shall comply with rules  
governing the certification and licensure of school counselors, R 390.1301 to R 390.1313.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS; 2025 MR 21, Eff. November 24, 2025.  
PART 2. STATE-APPROVED CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION  
PROGRAMS  
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R 395.241 State-approved career and technical education programs.  
Rule 11. State-approved career and technical education wage-earning programs must  
include all of the following:  
(a) A coherent sequence of courses so that students gain academic, technical, and work  
behavior skills.  
(b) Instruction that includes classroom, laboratory, work-based learning, and leadership  
opportunities.  
(c) Instruction that is supervised, directed, or coordinated by an appropriately  
certificated career and technical education teacher.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS; 2025 MR 21, Eff. November 24, 2025.  
R 395.242 Persons to be served.  
Rule 12. Programs are for students attending high school that have indicated on  
their educational development plan an interest in enrolling in 1 of the state-approved  
career and technical education programs of study.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS.  
R 395.243 Career and technical education standards; career clusters.  
Rule 13. Career and technical education standards must align with career clusters as  
required by section 2323 of the strengthening career and technical education for the 21st  
century act (Perkins), 20 USC 2323, and approved by the state board of education.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS; 2025 MR 21, Eff. November 24, 2025.  
R 395.244 Career and technical education program criteria.  
Rule 14. (1) Instruction must meet the following criteria:  
(a) It is organized and operated under the direction of the department, intermediate  
school district, or a local educational agency responsible for expenditure of public  
education agency funds for career and technical education in the state or community.  
(b) The teachers are appropriately certified and are employed as public school teachers  
under the conditions generally applicable to the employment of other public school  
teachers employed by the department, intermediate school district, or local educational  
agency responsible for career and technical education.  
(2) Instruction under contract must meet the following criteria:  
(a) Whenever any portion of the career and technical education program is being  
administered by a public or nonpublic agency or institution other than the department,  
intermediate school district, or local educational agency under an arrangement made with  
it by the department, intermediate school district, or local educational agency, there must  
be a written agreement between the parties that describes the portion of the career and  
technical education program to be administered by the agency or institution and  
incorporates the standards and requirements set forth in these rules and prescribed by the  
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department that are applicable to the portion. The parties shall review the agreement  
annually.  
(b) All written agreements must include an assurance that federal, state, and local funds  
allocated to an agency or institution will be used only to cover the additional costs that  
are necessary to administer the portion of the career and technical education program that  
the parties have agreed will be administered by an agency or institution, or to lower the  
rate of or eliminate tuition, fees, and other charges collected from persons benefiting  
from the portion of the program, or both; and that federal, state, and local funds will not  
be used to cover costs that would otherwise be covered by the agency’s or institution's  
own resources, thereby diverting those resources to other purposes.  
(c) The department, intermediate school district, or local educational agency shall not  
enter into any agreement with an agency or institution that collects tuition, fees, and other  
charges, and that is able to cover with its own resources substantially all the necessary  
costs of administering the portion of the career and technical education program that the  
department, intermediate school district, or local educational agency desires to have  
carried out by an agency or institution, unless the agency or institution agrees to use  
federal, state, and local funds allocated to it to cover the cost of reducing the rate of or  
eliminating tuition, fees, and other charges collected from those benefiting from that  
portion.  
(3) Instruction must prepare students for occupations that lead to high-skill, high-wage,  
and in-demand careers and prepare students for postsecondary education. The department  
shall identify these occupations based on available employment and workforce data.  
(4) Instruction must meet all of the following:  
(a) Contain a coherent and complete sequence of instruction, as determined by the  
department for the United States Department of Education classification of instruction  
(CIP) code area.  
(b) Be part of a high school program of study that includes a post high school  
component.  
(c) Teach content standards approved by the state board of education.  
(d) Use required assessments.  
(e) Contain criteria for state-approved career and technical education programs under  
subrule (10) of this rule.  
(5) Reimbursement for instruction costs must comply with part 4 of these rules.  
(6) Access to career and technical education instruction must comply with the pupil  
accounting rules, R 340.1 to R 340.18.  
(7) All individuals residing in the state who are available and qualified to receive  
instruction shall have access to programs that are offered. If it is not economically or  
administratively feasible to provide each type of program in all areas and communities  
served by a local educational agency, an individual residing in an area served by 1 local  
educational agency may enroll, in accordance with policies and procedures established by  
the department or by the involved local educational agencies, in a program of instruction  
offered by another local educational agency if the local educational agency serving the  
area in which the individual resides does not offer a reasonably comparable type of  
program, the individual is otherwise available and qualified to receive the instruction, and  
facilities are reasonably available for additional enrollees in the program offered by the  
receiving local educational agency.  
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(8) Access to career and technical education instruction offered within the area served  
by the department or a local educational agency must be provided to the extent that  
facilities are available so that each type of program of career and technical education  
instruction offered by the department is made available to all individuals residing in the  
state, and each program of instruction offered by a local educational agency is made  
available to all individuals residing in the district or community served by the local  
educational agency offering the instruction, if the individuals are otherwise available and  
qualified to receive the instruction in accordance with the standards and requirements of  
the state plan. The fact that an individual resides in a certain attendance area within a  
district or community does not preclude the individual’s access to a program of  
instruction available to other individuals residing in other attendance areas within the  
district or community if access to a reasonably comparable program is not otherwise  
available to the individual. If a school district is the local educational agency offering  
career and technical education instruction, it shall agree in writing to accept nonresident  
individuals if the career and technical education instruction is not available to the  
individuals and if the school has facilities available.  
(9) Students shall be admitted for enrollment in career and technical education programs  
and provided career and technical education instruction for each type of occupation or  
occupational field if they are qualified and the facilities are reasonably available.  
(10) The criteria for continued state approval of a career and technical education  
program or development of a new state-approved career and technical education program  
include, but are not limited to, all of the following:  
(a) Teacher certification that complies with the teacher certification code, R 390.1101  
to R 390.1216.  
(b) Professional development.  
(c) Completer rates.  
(d) Use of advisory committees.  
(e) Facilities.  
(f) Classroom safety.  
(g) Implementation of program standards and course content.  
(h) Equipment.  
(i) Elimination of barriers to access.  
(j) Work-based learning  
(k) Accuracy of program and student data.  
(l) Alignment of programs of study to postsecondary education.  
(m) Opportunities for student leadership activities.  
(n) Administration of required assessments.  
(11) Related career and technical education instruction may be appropriate for students  
before participation in an apprenticeship program. As used in this subrule, "apprentice"  
means a worker who is learning a recognized apprenticeable occupation in accordance  
with a written apprentice training agreement between the apprentice and an individual  
employer or group of employers that either provides for or makes reference to a  
document that provides for a given length of planned work experience through  
employment on the job, supplemented by appropriate related instruction, and other  
recognized standards and requirements of apprenticeship. Apprenticeship program  
oversight is provided by the United States Department of Labor.  
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(12) Less-than-class-size programs are work-based learning experiences that are  
contracted through a business or industry. These programs provide additional options for  
students to receive a career and technical education program using a business as the  
instructional site. Less-than-class-size programs must comply with R 340.16.  
(13) The department shall determine guidelines for facilities, equipment, and materials  
based on instructional safety and enrollment needs.  
(14) Qualified teachers meeting certification requirements shall conduct the program of  
instruction.  
(15) When the activities of career and technical student organizations complement the  
career and technical education instruction offered, individuals who are qualified as career  
and technical education teachers in the respective career and technical fields within the  
state or school personnel supervised by qualified career and technical education teachers  
shall conduct the activities.  
(16) A local school district shall comply with work-based learning experience  
requirements in R 340.16 when placing students into paid, unpaid, in-district, or less-  
than-class-size work-based learning experiences. Students who participate in work-based  
learning experiences may generate added cost funding and may be counted in  
membership if the requirements are met.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS; 2025 MR 21, Eff. November 24, 2025.  
R 395.251 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.252 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.253 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.254 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.261 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
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R 395.262 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.271 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.272 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
PART 3. FINANCIAL COMPLIANCE  
R 395.281 Assurance of compliance.  
Rule 51. All public education agencies operating career and technical education  
programs in the state shall comply with these rules; the revised school code, 1976 PA  
451, MCL 380.1 to 380.1852; section 61a of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94,  
MCL 388.1661a; all provisions of the state's application for federal funds under section  
2342 of the strengthening career and technical education for the 21st century act  
(Perkins), 20 USC 2342; and the federal regulations governing education programs, 34  
CFR parts 76, 77, 81, 82, and 99.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS; 2025 MR 21, Eff. November 24, 2025.  
R 395.282 Source of funds.  
Rule 52. Funds for operating career and technical education programs and services by  
intermediate school districts, local school districts, and public school academies shall be  
derived from federal appropriations; general and categorical appropriations in the state  
school aid act, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1601 et seq., and local general and specific  
property taxes, gifts, grants, and bequests.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS.  
R 395.283 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.284 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
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R 395.285 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.286 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.291 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
Editor's Note: An obvious error in R 395.291 was corrected at the request of the promulgating agency,  
pursuant to Section 56 of 1969 PA 306, as amended by 2000 PA 262, MCL 24.256. The rule containing  
the error was published in Michigan Register, 2010 MR 9. The memorandum requesting the correction  
was published in Michigan Register, 2010 MR 12.  
R 395.301 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.311 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.312 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.321 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.322 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.323 Rescinded.  
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History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.331 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.332 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.333 Rescinded.  
History: 1954 ACS 50, Eff. May 15, 1967; rescinded 1954 ACS 74, Eff. Jan. 19, 1973.  
R 395.334 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.335 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.341 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.351 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.352 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.353 Rescinded  
History: 1954 ACS 50, Eff. May 15, 1967; rescinded 1954 ACS 74, Eff. Jan. 19, 1973.  
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R 395.354 Rescinded.  
History: 1954 ACS 50, Eff. May 15, 1967; rescinded 1954 ACS 74, Eff. Jan. 19, 1973.  
R 395.355 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.361 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.362 Rescinded.  
History: 1979 AC; rescinded 2010 AACS.  
R 395.363 Rescinded.  
History: 1954 ACS 50, Eff. May 15, 1967; rescinded 1954 ACS 74, Eff.  
Jan. 19, 1973.  
PART 4. REIMBURSEMENT FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL  
EDUCATION ON AN ADDED COST BASIS  
R 395.371 Allowable career and technical education program expenses.  
Rule 141. Allowable expenses related to reimbursement for career and technical  
education on an added cost basis under section 61a of the state school aid act of 1979,  
1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1661a, do not include more than 10 percent of instructional and  
support costs associated with providing activities, including, but not limited to, staff  
salaries, wages, and benefits, under section 7 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451,  
MCL 380.7. Allowable expenses do not include costs associated with acquisition and  
rental of real property; construction of buildings; maintenance, repair, and replacement of  
buildings and lands; and associated construction equipment and building supplies.  
Reimbursable expenses apply to individuals served under R 395.242.  
History: 1979 AC; 1988 AACS; 2010 AACS; 2025 MR 21, Eff. November 24, 2025.  
R 395.372 Added cost determination.  
Rule 142. The distribution of added cost funding shall be determined by the  
department based on availability and eligibility for reimbursement under R 395.374.  
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History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS.  
R 395.373 Eligible agencies.  
Rule 143. Area career and technical education centers as well as local and intermediate  
school districts which are not area career and technical centers but which are operating  
in compliance with all applicable statutory provisions and administrative regulations  
are eligible agencies.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS.  
R 395.374 Availability and eligibility for reimbursement.  
Rule 144. Availability of grants shall be made public by the department.  
An  
educational agency's career and technical education program shall be state approved and  
student enrollment data shall be reported as required on the department's career and  
technical education data collection system. Applications for funding are not required.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS.  
R 395.375 Approval.  
Rule 145. To be funded on an added cost basis, career and technical education  
programs shall be determined by the department to be in compliance with all applicable  
statutory provisions and administrative regulations.  
History: 1979 AC; 2010 AACS.  
R 395.376 Administration of funds.  
Rule 146. (1) The department shall disburse added cost monies annually to eligible  
agencies which operate secondary state-approved career and technical education  
programs which are in compliance with all applicable statutory provisions and  
administrative rules. The department shall determine priorities for funding  
programs after considering available funds and eligible requests.  
(2) The department shall annually determine career and technical education programs to  
be funded with 60% of the available added cost money. Programs to be funded with  
the remaining 40% of the available money shall be determined by career education  
planning districts. If available monies do not cover the added costs, the department  
shall determine the amount of fund distribution.  
(3) Any amounts not used shall be redistributed to eligible agencies as determined by  
the department based on availability and eligibility for reimbursement under R  
395.374.  
History: 1979 AC; 1982 AACS; 1988 AACS; 2010 AACS.  
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