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Died SENATE · SESSION 2026

No. SB 448

Career and Academic Planning for Middle and High School Students
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SPONSOR
Arrington
FILED BY
Kristen Aston Arrington — District 25, Democrat [search donations]
EFFECTIVE
7/1/2026
DIED IN
Education Pre-K - 12

Filed under Education.

PROVIDED SUMMARY

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.

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Plain English Summary

AI-GENERATED
Mandates annual career planning meetings and CTE information for students and parents.

Districts 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.

KEY PROVISIONS
§ 1 Mandatory CTE Information to Parents majors. 1001.43(15)

AICreates a recurring obligation for school districts to provide specific career and technical education program details to students and parents.

“each student and his or her parent must be provided a list of schools within the school district which offer career and technical education programs and a description of each” bill text, line 29 →
§ 2 Mandatory Grade 8 Planning Meeting majors. 1001.43(16)

AIRequires middle schools to hold a specific meeting with grade 8 students and parents before high school course registration.

“each district school board shall require each middle school to hold a career and academic planning meeting for grade 8 students and their parents” bill text, line 34 →
§ 3 Mandatory Career Planning Course majors. 1003.4156(1)(e)

AIAdds a required course in career and education planning as a condition for promotion to high school.

“One course in career and education planning to be completed in grades 6, 7, or 8, which may be taught by any member of the instructional staff” bill text, line 66 →
§ 4 Mandatory Annual Plan Review moderates. 1003.4156(1)(e)

AIRequires annual review of a student's personalized academic and career plan starting in grade 9.

“the student's personalized academic and career plan must be reviewed annually and include a demonstration of the state's online career planning and work-based learning coordination” bill text, line 102 →
TIMELINE
3/13/2026
Died in Education Pre-K - 12
1/13/2026
Introduced
12/1/2025
Referred to Education Pre-K - 12; Appropriations Committee on...
11/12/2025
Filed
STATUTES IT CHANGES
s. 1001.43
+252 / −0
s. 1003.4156
+55 / −0