24 Pa. Stat. § 19-1901

Current through P.A. Acts 2023-32

Section 19-1901 - Scope of general extension education; definitions

The following words and phrases, as used in this article, shall, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, have the following meaning:

"General extension education" shall designate the instructional and recreational services listed below that are provided and administered by the board of school directors of any school district, but shall not include activities which are subsidized under the provisions of Federal enactment nor the coaching or supervision of interscholastic athletic teams or games.

The areas of "extension education" for which local school districts receive reimbursement from the Commonwealth, as provided in section 1146, shall be as follows:

(1) General extension education credit courses, including

(a) Standard evening high school, and

(b) Summer schools (elementary and secondary).

(2) General extension education noncredit courses organized for classes in which eighty per cent (80%) of the pupils are out-of-school youth and adults, including

(a) Citizenship classes (education for immigrants, education for illiterates),

(b) Adult education for the blind (itinerant and class instruction, parent education for blind),

(c) Home nursing, home management, child care.

(3) Recreation, including

Recreation activities for children and youth from the ages of six (6) to twenty-one (21).

24 P.S. § 19-1901

1949, March 10, P.L. 30, art. XIX, § 1901. Amended 1953, Aug. 19, P.L. 1207, § 2; 1961, Sept. 12, P.L. 1263, § 1, effective 7/2/1962.