STATE OF NEW YORK
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2484
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed 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 817 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 817. Career and technical education pathway to a high school diplo-
4 ma. 1. a. A career and technical education (hereinafter referred to in
5 this section as CTE) pathway to a high school diploma is hereby estab-
6 lished. A CTE pathway to a diploma 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;
10 (iii) be made available to all students, including, but not limited to
11 students with disabilities.
12 b. A CTE pathway to a diploma shall be based on curriculum and train-
13 ing designed to provide students with career, trade and technical skills
14 and shall demonstrate that the student is ready for a career or trade as
15 determined by regulations of the commissioner. A CTE pathway to a diplo-
16 ma shall include, but not be limited to:
17 (i) completion of a CTE sequence provided and administered by a busi-
18 ness practicing a particular trade or career, by a board of cooperative
19 educational services or any secondary education program approved by the
20 commissioner or by an institution of higher education;
21 (ii) completion of work-based learning experiences as provided by the
22 approved program; and
23 (iii) completion of a work-skills employability profile.
24 c. For purposes of this section, a career and technical education
25 shall include, but not be limited to, courses of study in the following
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 career fields: agriculture education, business and marketing education,
2 family and consumer sciences education, health occupations education,
3 technical education, technology education, and trade and industrial
4 education.
5 2. The regents, in consultation with trade and professional organiza-
6 tions, shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to estab-
7 lish the curriculum, assessments and any other criteria that students
8 must achieve to earn a regents or local diploma via a CTE pathway.
9 3. Students who entered high school in the two thousand twenty-three-
10 -two thousand twenty-four school year and thereafter shall be eligible
11 to earn a diploma via a CTE pathway.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately,
13 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
14 sary for the timely implementation of this act on its effective date are
15 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
