Bill Text: NY A09946 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes a career explorations class to integrate academic and vocational education, link secondary and post-secondary education and provide learning activities and mentoring at the work site; provides students with school-based learning and work-based learning.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-27 - referred to education [A09946 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09946-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9946

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a career
          explorations class

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  817. Career explorations class. 1. The commissioner shall establish
     4  a career explorations class to integrate academic and vocational  educa-
     5  tion,  link  secondary and post-secondary education and provide learning
     6  activities and mentoring at the work  site.  Such  class  shall  provide
     7  students  with school-based learning and work-based learning which shall
     8  include, but not be limited to:
     9    (a) career workshops to provide information on how to search for  jobs
    10  and/or internships in such student's industry of interest;
    11    (b)  guest speakers who shall be professionals from various industries
    12  to give a brief synopsis of an average work day as well as what type  of
    13  employees their company employs;
    14    (c) outside internships where every student participates in either one
    15  summer internship or spends at least five days shadowing a professional;
    16    (d)  resume  and  cover  letter  writing  to teach students to write a
    17  competitive and comprehensive resume and cover letter;
    18    (e) thank you letters to teach students to write and send proper thank
    19  you notes after an interview;
    20    (f) mock interviews to conduct a  series  of  phone  and  face-to-face
    21  interviews simulating the actual event;
    22    (g)  workplace  etiquette  to  teach the basic principles of a profes-
    23  sional environment in reference to mutual respect,  appropriate  attire,
    24  language and behavior; and
    25    (h)  SAT preparation and post-secondary school application and accept-
    26  ance process.
    27    2. Such class shall be called career explorations and shall be offered
    28  in the spring semester or term of the freshman year of secondary school.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10268-01-9

        A. 9946                             2

     1  SAT preparation and post-secondary application  and  acceptance  process
     2  shall  be  offered  in  the  fall semester or term of the junior year of
     3  secondary school during the regular school day in the place of two elec-
     4  tive  classes.  Such  classes  shall  be  held  in a computer lab or the
     5  computer section of the school library.
     6    3. The department shall develop a system of performance  reporting  to
     7  define  measures of student, school and employer participation in career
     8  awareness, career exposure, career exploration and  work-based  learning
     9  activities.  The  department  shall  further establish, in collaboration
    10  with the participating school districts, a system of performance indica-
    11  tors and measures for assessing state and local  progress  and  build  a
    12  foundation  of  core  measures  around which state and local information
    13  systems can be built.
    14    4. The department shall have one year from the effective date of  this
    15  section  to  assemble  a  curriculum  entitled  the "career explorations
    16  class". Such new class shall be phased in by  cities  in  the  following
    17  manner:
    18    (a) first year, cities with a population of one million or more;
    19    (b)  second  year, cities with a population between fifty thousand and
    20  ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine;
    21    (c) third year, cities with a population between twenty  thousand  and
    22  forty-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine;
    23    (d)  fourth year, all other cities not enumerated in this subdivision;
    24  such that the largest cities  in  the  state  with  the  largest  school
    25  districts  shall first implement the career explorations course and four
    26  years after the effective date of this section, every school district in
    27  New York state shall implement the career explorations course.
    28    5. Such school districts which implement the career explorations class
    29  outlined in subdivision one of this  section  shall  receive  additional
    30  funding  and  training  during  such year; the funding of which shall be
    31  derived from funds of the division of the lottery.
    32    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    33  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
    34  rule  or  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
    35  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
    36  effective date.
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