NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A2371
SPONSOR: Hyndman TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a career
and technical education diploma
PURPOSE:
To create an alternative pathway to graduation for students seeking a
career technical education (CTE)
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends the education law by adding a new section 817 that
provides to all students a CTE pathway diploma, which will result in
either a regents or local diploma and differ from the traditional
requirements for a regents or local diploma with respect to required
assessments. This section further provides for a curriculum based on
training designed to provide students with career, trade, and technical
skills. This curriculum will be administered by a business practicing a
particular trade or career, a board of cooperative education, or by an
institution of higher education. The curriculum will include, but not be
limited to, completion of work-based learning experiences, and
completion of a work-skills employment profile. CTE will include, but
not be limited to, the following career fields: agriculture education,
business and marketing education, family and consumer sciences educa-
tion, health occupations education, technical education, technology
education, and trade industrial education.
Lastly, the Regents, in consultation with trade and professional organ-
izations, shall promulgate regulations necessary to establish the
curriculum, assessments, and any other criteria that students must
achieve to earn a regents or local diploma via CTE pathway.
Section 2: Enacting the clause.
JUSTIFICATION:
Students in New York, regardless of their inclination in life, only have
one path to graduation through the regents with an education that is
geared towards achieving college readiness. Recently, with the implemen-
tation of the Common Core Standards, the college ready agenda is being
demanded heavily upon all students, while at the same time stressing
increased test scores and graduation rates. New York's current education
system is ignoring a part of the student population that is inclined to
other types of education and learning experiences. Regardless of how
effective our college ready education system is, in many instances it
does not take into consideration the needs of those students who chose
another path, such as students interested in a trade. Many of our chil-
dren excel in these types of skills but are denied this path to a diplo-
ma.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Undetermined
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately; provided that effective imme-
diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
necessary for the timely Implementation of this act on its effective
date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before
such effective date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2371
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 19, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
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;
21 (ii) completion of work-based learning experiences as provided by the
22 approved program; and
23 (iii) completion of a work-skills employability profile.
24 c. For purposes of this section, a career and technical education
25 shall include, but not be limited to, courses of study in the following
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 career fields: agriculture education, business and marketing education,
2 family and consumer sciences education, health occupations education,
3 technical education, technology education, and trade and industrial
4 education.
5 2. The regents, in consultation with trade and professional organiza-
6 tions, shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to estab-
7 lish the curriculum, assessments and any other criteria that students
8 must achieve to earn a regents or local diploma via a CTE pathway.
9 3. Students who entered high school in the two thousand twenty-one--
10 two thousand twenty-two school year and thereafter shall be eligible to
11 earn a diploma via a CTE pathway.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately,
13 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
14 sary for the timely implementation of this act on its effective date are
15 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
