The purposes of this Chapter are to provide for the establishment,organization, and administration of a system of educational institutionsthroughout the State offering courses of instruction in one or more of thegeneral areas of two‑year college parallel, technical, vocational, andadult education programs, to serve as a legislative charter for suchinstitutions, and to authorize the levying of local taxes and the issuing oflocal bonds for the support thereof. The major purpose of each and everyinstitution operating under the provisions of this Chapter shall be and shallcontinue to be the offering of vocational and technical education and training,and of basic, high school level, academic education needed in order to profitfrom vocational and technical education, for students who are high schoolgraduates or who are beyond the compulsory age limit of the public schoolsystem and who have left the public schools, provided, juveniles of any agecommitted to the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention by acourt of competent jurisdiction may, if approved by the director of the youthdevelopment center to which they are assigned, take courses offered byinstitutions of the system if they are otherwise qualified for admission.
The Community Colleges System Office is designated as the primary leadagency for delivering workforce development training, adult literacy training,and adult education programs in the State. (1963, c. 448, s. 23; 1969, c. 562, s. 1; 1979, c. 462, s. 2; 1985, c.479, s. 68; 1997‑443, s. 11A.118(a); 1998‑202, s. 4(p); 2000‑137,s. 4(s); 2001‑95, s. 5; 2005‑77, s. 1.)
The purposes of this Chapter are to provide for the establishment,organization, and administration of a system of educational institutionsthroughout the State offering courses of instruction in one or more of thegeneral areas of two‑year college parallel, technical, vocational, andadult education programs, to serve as a legislative charter for suchinstitutions, and to authorize the levying of local taxes and the issuing oflocal bonds for the support thereof. The major purpose of each and everyinstitution operating under the provisions of this Chapter shall be and shallcontinue to be the offering of vocational and technical education and training,and of basic, high school level, academic education needed in order to profitfrom vocational and technical education, for students who are high schoolgraduates or who are beyond the compulsory age limit of the public schoolsystem and who have left the public schools, provided, juveniles of any agecommitted to the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention by acourt of competent jurisdiction may, if approved by the director of the youthdevelopment center to which they are assigned, take courses offered byinstitutions of the system if they are otherwise qualified for admission.
The Community Colleges System Office is designated as the primary leadagency for delivering workforce development training, adult literacy training,and adult education programs in the State. (1963, c. 448, s. 23; 1969, c. 562, s. 1; 1979, c. 462, s. 2; 1985, c.479, s. 68; 1997‑443, s. 11A.118(a); 1998‑202, s. 4(p); 2000‑137,s. 4(s); 2001‑95, s. 5; 2005‑77, s. 1.)
The purposes of this Chapter are to provide for the establishment,organization, and administration of a system of educational institutionsthroughout the State offering courses of instruction in one or more of thegeneral areas of two‑year college parallel, technical, vocational, andadult education programs, to serve as a legislative charter for suchinstitutions, and to authorize the levying of local taxes and the issuing oflocal bonds for the support thereof. The major purpose of each and everyinstitution operating under the provisions of this Chapter shall be and shallcontinue to be the offering of vocational and technical education and training,and of basic, high school level, academic education needed in order to profitfrom vocational and technical education, for students who are high schoolgraduates or who are beyond the compulsory age limit of the public schoolsystem and who have left the public schools, provided, juveniles of any agecommitted to the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention by acourt of competent jurisdiction may, if approved by the director of the youthdevelopment center to which they are assigned, take courses offered byinstitutions of the system if they are otherwise qualified for admission.
The Community Colleges System Office is designated as the primary leadagency for delivering workforce development training, adult literacy training,and adult education programs in the State. (1963, c. 448, s. 23; 1969, c. 562, s. 1; 1979, c. 462, s. 2; 1985, c.479, s. 68; 1997‑443, s. 11A.118(a); 1998‑202, s. 4(p); 2000‑137,s. 4(s); 2001‑95, s. 5; 2005‑77, s. 1.)
