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Relating to career academies by authorizing school districts and local or regional economic development organizations to establish career academies and modifying the definition for work-based learning offered by career academies
Topics:K–12 educationJobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2021
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary School districts could now team up with local economic development groups to create career academies. These programs would offer students hands-on learning through projects and experiences designed alongside those local organizations. This change expands the types of work-based learning students can participate in, such as simulated projects or school-based businesses.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to career academies that may be established under an agreement between a single school district and a community college, or by multiple school districts and a community college organized into a regional career and technical education planning partnership, by adding that a career academy may be established by a school district or a consortium of school districts and a local or regional economic development organization.61. “Work-based learning” is currently defined in Code chapter 258 to mean opportunities and experiences that include but are not limited to tours, job shadowing, rotations, mentoring, entrepreneurship, service learning, internships, and apprenticeships. 15, “work-based learning” also includes high-quality opportunities, experiences, and projects developed by the career academy and a local or regional economic development organization and may include but not be limited to simulated projects, job shadowing, school-based enterprises, internships, pre-apprenticeships, and apprenticeships.