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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85824</law_id><section_number>23.1-2900</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>22.1-237.1</reference><reference>23.1-1303</reference><reference>46.2-1711</reference><reference>46.2-341.4</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="23.1">Institutions of Higher Education; Other Educational and Cultural Institutions</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Public Institutions of Higher Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">State Board for Community Colleges and Virginia Community College System</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Career and technical education</span>&#x201D; means the training or retraining under public supervision and control that is (i) given in school classes, including field or laboratory work incidental to such training or retraining, exclusive of those <span class="dictionary">career and technical education</span> programs provided and administered by or through the public school <span class="dictionary">system</span> and (ii) conducted as part of a program designed to fit individuals for gainful employment as semiskilled or skilled workers or technicians in recognized occupations.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Chancellor</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Chancellor</span> of the Virginia Community College <span class="dictionary">System</span>.</p></section></text><history>1966, c. 679, &#xA7; 23-214; 1977, c. 413; 1998, cc. 111, 396; 2001, c. 483; 2016, c. 588.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
