No. HB 417
Filed under Education.
Career and Academic Planning For Middle and High School Students; Requires district school boards to annually provide students & their parents with certain information relating to career & technical education programs beginning in specified grade; requires middle schools to hold career & academic planning meeting for specified students & their parents; requires certain information to be included in meeting; revises information included in student's personalized academic & career plan; requires students in specified grades to annually review personalized academic & career plan; requires such review to include certain demonstration.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDDistricts must send parents a list of local career and technical education programs starting in fifth grade. This ensures families know their options before high school course selection begins.
Middle schools must host a mandatory planning meeting for eighth graders and parents before ninth-grade registration. The meeting must cover scholarships, local job data, and dual enrollment opportunities.
Students entering ninth grade must review their personalized academic and career plan every year. This review must include a demonstration of the state's online career planning system.
The required career planning course must now explicitly include information on local career and technical education programs. This expands the scope of the existing middle school curriculum requirement.
AIDistricts must provide a list and description of all local career and technical education programs to every student and parent starting in 5th grade and every year after.
AIMiddle schools must hold a career and academic planning meeting for 8th graders and parents before 9th grade course registration, covering CTE, scholarships, regional jobs, and dual enrollment.
AIHigh school students must review their personalized academic and career plan every year, including a demonstration of the state's online career planning system.
AIThe required middle school career and education planning course must now include information on career and technical education programs available within the school district.