SB 1766 Summary

• Directs the State Board of Career and Technology Education to develop guidelines for technology center schools to establish high school to work partnerships with local businesses for apprenticeship, internship, and job shadow programs.

• Requires the guidelines to include a model waiver form to protect both students and businesses from liability in partnership programs.

• Allows technology center school districts to collaborate with public high schools' guidance counselors to establish partnerships and educate students about available opportunities.

• Students participating in partnership programs are not counted as absent for average daily membership calculations, though school districts may set policies on make-up work and limit participation to a maximum number of days per year.

• Effective date of November 1, 2014; directs the State Board to promulgate rules to implement the provisions.