Establishes a career and technical education (CTE) diploma; establishes a CTE pathway to a diploma shall be based on a curriculum designed to provide students with technical skills and shall demonstrate that the student is ready for a career as determined by regulations of the commissioner.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4903
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, BARRETT, BRAUNSTEIN, BRONSON,
COLTON, COOK, CRUZ, EPSTEIN, HUNTER, JACOBSON, JONES, LUNSFORD, LUPAR-
DO, OTIS, PAULIN, PHEFFER AMATO, REYES, ROSENTHAL, ROZIC, SANTABAR-
BARA, SAYEGH, STIRPE, WALKER, WEPRIN, WOERNER, WILLIAMS, DE LOS SANTOS
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a career
and technical education diploma
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 819 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 819. Career and technical education pathway to a high school diplo-
4 ma. 1. a. A career and technical education (CTE) pathway to a high
5 school diploma is hereby established. A CTE pathway to a diploma, if
6 made available by a school district shall:
7 (i) result in a regents or local diploma;
8 (ii) differ from the traditional requirements to a regents or local
9 diploma with respect to required assessments, except as otherwise
10 required by federal law;
11 (iii) be made available to all students, including, but not limited to
12 students with disabilities and English language learners.
13 b. A CTE pathway to a diploma shall be based on a course of study
14 designed to provide students with technical knowledge and skills and
15 shall demonstrate that the student is ready for a career as determined
16 by regulations of the commissioner. A CTE pathway to a diploma shall
17 include, but not be limited to:
18 (i) completion of a CTE course of study;
19 (ii) completion of a three-part technical assessment;
20 (iii) completion of work-based learning experiences as provided by the
21 state approved program; and
22 (iv) completion of a work-skills employability profile.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 c. For purposes of this section, a career and technical education
2 shall include, but not be limited to, a course of study in the following
3 career fields: agriculture education, business and marketing education,
4 family and consumer sciences education, health occupations education,
5 technical education, technology education, and trade and industrial
6 education.
7 2. The board of regents shall promulgate such regulations of the
8 commissioner as may be necessary to establish the curriculum, assess-
9 ments and any other criteria that students must achieve to earn a
10 regents or local diploma via a CTE pathway.
11 3. Students first entering ninth grade in the two thousand twenty-six-
12 -two thousand twenty-seven school year and thereafter shall be eligible
13 to earn a diploma via a CTE pathway if made available by a school
14 district.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately,
16 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
17 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
18 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
