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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9946
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2020
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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.
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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.