Career and technical industrial, career and technical agricultural, career and technical family and consumer sciences, and career and technical marketing and distributive occupational education schools or departments shall, so long as they are approved by the State Board of Career and Technical Education as to organization, control, location, equipment, courses of study, qualifications of teachers, methods of instruction, conditions of admission, employment of pupils, and expenditures of money, constitute approved local or joint career and technical schools. School districts maintaining such approved local or joint career and technical schools or departments shall receive reimbursement from the Commonwealth, as provided for in this act,¹ and shall make such certificates to the Secretary of Education as are required by article twenty-five of this act.²