What's happening
This bill creates a new career and technical education (CTE) pathway for New York high school students to earn a diploma.
Why it matters
Expands diploma options for all students, including those with disabilities. , potentially increasing graduation rates and offering more accessible routes to high school completion for students whose strengths align with hands-on or technical learning.
Aligns high school education more closely with workforce needs. by requiring practical training, work-based learning, and employability profiles, aiming to better prepare students for immediate entry into skilled trades or technical careers.
Requires input from trade and professional organizations in curriculum development. , which could ensure that programs remain relevant to current industry standards and help address skills gaps in the New York labor market.
Recognizes a broad range of fields—including agriculture, business, health, and technology—as valid career pathways. , potentially reducing stigma around non-college-bound routes and validating diverse post-secondary goals.
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Who cares
High school students, including students with disabilities
The bill would offer students entering high school in 2019–2020 or later a CTE pathway to a Regents or local diploma with different assessment requirements.
BOCES, secondary schools and higher education institutions
They could provide CTE sequences for a diploma pathway requiring work-based learning and a work-skills employability profile.
Businesses and trade and professional organizations
Businesses could administer career or trade training sequences, while trade and professional organizations would be consulted on pathway regulations.
Board of Regents and state education commissioner
They would set the curriculum, assessments and career-readiness criteria governing the CTE diploma pathway.
Headline styles
Create Trade School Diploma
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
12 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Create Trade School Diploma
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Leroy Comrie
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3951
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN, VANEL, DICKENS, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 817 to read as follows:
§ 817. Career and technical education pathway to a high school diploma. 1. a. A career and technical education (hereinafter referred to in this section as CTE) pathway to a high school diploma is hereby established. A CTE pathway to a diploma shall:
(i) result in a regents or local diploma;
(ii) differ from the traditional requirements to a regents or local diploma with respect to required assessments;
(iii) be made available to all students, including, but not limited to students with disabilities.
b. A CTE pathway to a diploma shall be based on curriculum and training designed to provide students with career, trade and technical skills and shall demonstrate that the student is ready for a career or trade as determined by regulations of the commissioner. A CTE pathway to a diploma shall include, but not be limited to:
(i) completion of a CTE sequence provided and administered by a business practicing a particular trade or career, by a board of cooperative educational services or any secondary education program approved by the commissioner or by an institution of higher education;
(ii) completion of work-based learning experiences as provided by the approved program; and
(iii) completion of a work-skills employability profile.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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c. For purposes of this section, a career and technical education shall include, but not be limited to, courses of study in the following career fields: agriculture education, business and marketing education, family and consumer sciences education, health occupations education, technical education, technology education, and trade and industrial education.
2. The regents, in consultation with trade and professional organizations, shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to establish the curriculum, assessments and any other criteria that students must achieve to earn a regents or local diploma via a CTE pathway.
3. Students who entered high school in the two thousand nineteen--two thousand twenty school year and thereafter shall be eligible to earn a diploma via a CTE pathway.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Effective immediately, 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 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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