Bill Text: NY A01887 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A01887 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01887-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1887

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee 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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03378-01-3
        A. 1887                             2

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