No. SB 448
Filed under Education.
Career and Academic Planning for Middle and High School Students; Requiring district school boards annually to provide students and their parents with certain information relating to career and technical education programs beginning in a specified grade; requiring middle schools to hold a career and academic planning meeting for specified students and their parents; revising the information included in a student’s personalized academic and career plan, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDDistricts must send parents a list of local career and technical education programs every year starting in fifth grade.
Middle schools must hold a mandatory career planning meeting with eighth graders and their parents before ninth-grade course registration.
The meeting must cover scholarship eligibility, regional job data, dual enrollment options, and the state's online career planning system.
Students must complete an internet-based career planning course in grades six through eight to be promoted to high school.
AICreates a recurring obligation for school districts to provide specific career and technical education program details to students and parents.
AIRequires middle schools to hold a specific meeting with grade 8 students and parents before high school course registration.
AIAdds a required course in career and education planning as a condition for promotion to high school.
AIRequires annual review of a student's personalized academic and career plan starting in grade 9.