HB1242 Summary

• Requires public and nonpublic high schools to make available two units of career and technical education from a coordinated plan of study recommended by the department of career and technical education and approved by the superintendent of public instruction.

• Adds career and technical education courses as an option to satisfy one unit of the foreign languages, native American languages, American sign language, or fine arts requirement.

• Allows two units of career and technical education courses to satisfy scholarship requirements regardless of whether the courses are in areas of similar subject matter.

• Removes the requirement that career and technical education courses must be part of a "coordinated plan of study" for scholarship purposes, allowing greater flexibility in course selection.