What's happening
This bill renames BOCES schools as "career prep centers," provides marketing funds, and requires annual effectiveness reporting.
Why it matters
Rebranding BOCES programs as "career prep centers" could help change public perception. , potentially making these programs more appealing to students and families by emphasizing their role in workforce readiness and future career opportunities.
Providing dedicated marketing funds (with a required local match) enables schools to actively promote these rebranded programs. , which could increase enrollment, strengthen community partnerships, and attract students who might otherwise overlook vocational education options.
Mandating annual effectiveness reporting on marketing efforts ensures accountability and transparency. , encouraging schools to use public funds efficiently and giving policymakers and the public insight into whether the rebranding and outreach are achieving intended outcomes.
The bill’s emphasis on consistent branding (“Career Prep Centers: Foundation for Your Future”) aims to create a unified statewide image. , which could help employers, students, and families more easily recognize and value the programs offered by these centers.
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Rename BOCES as Career Centers
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Sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Held for consideration in education
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1137
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. KOLB, BARCLAY, CROUCH, MONTESANO, ASHBY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to renaming certain schools established by a board of cooperative educational services as career prep centers; and making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 1950 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
1-a. On and after the effective date of this subdivision all educational programs provided or operated by a board of cooperative educational services shall be known as "career prep centers". Upon application by a board of cooperative educational services, there shall be paid to each qualifying board of cooperative educational services an amount up to ten thousand dollars for the purposes of marketing of such schools as career prep centers and for the replacement of signs and other printed materials. A board of cooperative educational services shall be required to expend one thousand dollars from existing funds toward such marketing or sign replacement to be eligible for a grant under this subdivision. Signs and materials developed pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision shall bear the phrase "Career Prep Centers: Foundation for Your Future".
§ 2. The sum of three hundred eighty thousand dollars ($380,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of education out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to the credit of the local assistance account, not otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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approved by the commissioner of education in the manner prescribed by law.
§ 3. By January first of each year, the commissioner of education shall issue a report to the governor and the legislature concerning the effectiveness of marketing education programs provided by boards of cooperative educational services pursuant to the provision of subdivision 1-a of section 1950 of the education law as added by section one of this act.
§ 4. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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