Bill Text: NY A07972 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a career and technical high school diploma (CTE) for students completing a course of study for a career or trade.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-23 - print number 7972a [A07972 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07972-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7972--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. HYNDMAN, VANEL, DICKENS, McDONOUGH, MURRAY --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, SIMON -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Education  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
          Education  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        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;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (ii) completion of work-based learning experiences as provided by  the
     2  approved program; and
     3    (iii) completion of a work-skills employability profile.
     4    c.  For  purposes  of  this  section, a career and technical education
     5  shall include, but not be limited to, courses of study in the  following
     6  career  fields: agriculture education, business and marketing education,
     7  family and consumer sciences education,  health  occupations  education,
     8  technical  education,  technology  education,  and  trade and industrial
     9  education.
    10    2. The regents, in consultation with trade and professional  organiza-
    11  tions,  shall  promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to estab-
    12  lish the curriculum, assessments and any other  criteria  that  students
    13  must achieve to earn a regents or local diploma via a CTE pathway.
    14    3.  Students who entered high school in the two thousand eighteen--two
    15  thousand nineteen school year and thereafter shall be eligible to earn a
    16  diploma via a CTE pathway.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided  that  effective
    18  immediately,  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regu-
    19  lation necessary for the timely implementation of this act on its effec-
    20  tive date are authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or
    21  before such effective date.