The State Board is hereby designated as the sole state agency responsible for the administration of career and technical education in the State of Nevada. The State Board may:

1. Cooperate with any federal agency, board or department designated to administer the Acts of Congress apportioning federal money to the State of Nevada for career and technical education.

2. Establish policies and adopt regulations for the administration of any legislation enacted pursuant thereto by the State of Nevada.

3. Establish policies and adopt regulations for the administration of money provided by the Federal Government and the State of Nevada for the promotion, extension and improvement of career and technical education in Nevada.

4. Establish policies or regulations and formulate plans for the promotion of career and technical education in such subjects as are an essential and integral part of the system of public education in the State of Nevada.

5. Establish policies to provide for the preparation of teachers of such programs and subjects.

6. Approve positions for such persons as may be necessary to administer the federal act and provisions of this title enacted pursuant thereto for the State of Nevada.

7. Direct the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make studies and investigations relating to career and technical education.

8. Establish policies to promote and aid in the establishment by local communities of schools, departments or classes giving training in career and technical subjects.

9. Cooperate with local communities in the maintenance of such schools, departments or classes.

10. Prescribe qualifications for the teachers, directors and supervisors of career and technical subjects.

11. Provide for the certification of such teachers, directors and supervisors.

12. Establish policies or regulations to cooperate in the maintenance of classes supported and controlled by the public for the preparation of the teachers, directors and supervisors of career and technical subjects, or maintain such classes under its own direction and control.

13. Establish by regulation the qualifications required for persons engaged in the training of teachers for career and technical education.

[272:32:1956] — (NRS A 1957, 213; 1979, 1594; 1985, 812; 2005, 1048; 2017, 503)