AUGUSTA — The Maine Council on Vocational Education will ask the state this week to consider dropping the general course track from high schools and replace it with a program that combines vocational and academic subjects.

The council will make its recommendations to the Board of Education on Wednesday.

Christine Szigeti-Johnson, the council’s executive director, said the general program is a student catchall that offers no real educational purpose.

“They (students) have to have a greater exposure to education,” she said in a recent interview.