HB 2004 — Providing for a program of instruction in workforce preparedness

HB2004 SFAS #1ED RUCKERAMT 3-7#1 3-5 Hager  7871   SenatorThe RuckerCommittee on Education moved to amend the bill on pages one and two, by striking out allthe oftitle section seven-d and insertingsubstituting intherefor lieu thereof a new section,title, designated section seven-d, to read as follows:

§18-2-7d.Eng.

ProgramCom. in workforce preparedness.

(a)Sub. The Legislature finds that, in addition to specialized skills relating to specific professions and trades, students will be better prepared to enter the workforce and succeed in their chosen fields of employment or education by having the opportunity to participate in training related to general workforce preparedness, productive workplace skills and processes, time management and efficiency, and teamwork and leadership competencies in the workplace.

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ofto thisamend said code thatby adoptsadding thereto a programnew ofarticle, instructiondesignated in§21-1E-1, general§21-1E-2, workforce§21-1E-3 and career§21-1E-4; preparedness for all students.

The program of instruction shall include guidelines for schools working through their local school improvement councils and business partners to communicateamend to students the common skills and attributesreenact soughtsection by§29-3-9 employersof insaid prospectivecode; employees.;

Onand pageto two,amend sectionsaid forty,code by strikingadding outthereto thea sectionnew captionarticle, designated §30-1E-1, §30-1E-2, §30-1E-3 and substituting§30-1E-4, thereforall relating to requiring a newstate sectionboard caption,rule tothat readadopts asa follows:program of instruction in general workforce and career preparedness;

§18-2-42.providing career and technical education program information to students and parents;

Providingrequiring careertranscript andof technicalcertain educationpost-secondary programcredits informationearned toby public school students andto parents;be provided to them;

transcriptensuring ofthat post-secondarycertain credit;career technical education students are eligible to participate in the graduation ceremony in the same manner as all other students in the district;

careerelevating technicalpriority educationon studentprogram participationintegration into graduationmeet ceremony.;region and state labor market needs by community and technical college/career and technical education consortia;

Onrequiring pagethe three,facilitating sectioninstitution forty,to lineannually two,submit by striking out the wordsCarl “theD. State Fire Commission and State Fire Marshal”;

OnPerkins pagelocal three,planning sectionguide forty,to linethe eighteen,Council byfor strikingCommunity outand theTechnical wordCollege “to”;Education and State Board of Education;

Onproviding pagefor three,joint sectionState forty,Board afterand lineCouncil twenty-five,for byCommunity addingand aTechnical newCollege subsection,Education designatedguidelines subsectionon (d),administration toof readthe ascode follows:section requiring the formation of community and technical college/career and technical education consortia;

           providing (d)joint Anyresponsibility career technical education student who fulfills the high school graduation requirements required of otherState studentsSuperintendent inand theChancellor districtfor incertain whichactivities heand orreporting; she is enrolled shall be eligible to participate in the graduation ceremony in the same manner as all other students in the district.;

Onrequiring pagestandards five,and sectionprocedures four,for linerecognizing twenty-eight,career bytechnical strikingtraining outacquired thein wordspublic “Collaborativeschools, Degreeapprenticeships Completion Program” and insertingtraining inprograms lieutoward thereofoccupational thetesting, wordscertification “anyand/or programlicensure; that allows students to earn college credit while they are still in high school”;

Onestablishing pagepurpose seven,and sectionintent; four, lines seventy-four through seventy-six, after the word “competency.” by striking out the remainder of the subdivision;

Onproviding pagedefinitions; seven, section four, lines eighty-one and eighty-two, by striking out the words “Work Force Investment Act” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act”;

Onrequiring pagerules nine,providing sectionstandards four,and lineprocedures onebe hundredproposed twenty-eight, by strikingCommissioner outof theLabor, wordsState “BridgemontFire CommunityCommission, andState TechnicalFire CollegeMarshal and Kanawhathe Valley”professions and insertingoccupations inlicensing lieuboards thereofand thecommissions. word “BridgeValley”;

On  page  nine,  section  four,  lineAdopted oneRejected hundred thirty-one, by striking out the words Bridgemont Community and Technical College;

Kanawha Valley” and inserting in lieu thereof the word “BridgeValley”;

On page nine, section four, line one hundred forty-eight, by striking out the word “Bridgemont” and inserting in lieu thereof the word “BridgeValley”;

On page ten, section four, lines one hundred sixty-seven through one hundred seventy-four, by striking out all of subdivision (4) and inserting in lieu thereof a new subdivision, designated subdivision (4), to read as follows:

(4) Submits annually the Carl D.

Perkins local planning guide to the council and the state board.;

And, On page eleven, section four, lines one hundred ninety-one through two hundred, by striking out all of subsection (f) and inserting in lieu thereof a new subsection, designated subsection (f), to read as follows:

(f) The State Superintendent of Schools and the Chancellor for the Council for Community and Technical College Education are responsible for annually evaluating the progress made in meeting the goals for each consortium through the development and collection of performance indicator data.

    Adopted Rejected