The Board of Education desires to provide a comprehensive Career Technical Education (CTE) program in the secondary grades which integrates core academic instruction with technical and occupational instruction in order to increase student achievement, graduation rates, and readiness for postsecondary education and employment. The district's CTE program shall be designed to help students develop the academic, career, and technical skills needed to succeed in a knowledge- and skills-based economy. CTE shall include a rigorous academic component and provide students with a strong experience and understanding of an industry or career pathway.
(cf. 6143 - Courses of Study)
The district's CTE program shall focus on preparing students to enter current or emerging high-skill, high-wage, and/or high-demand occupations. CTE opportunities may be offered through apprenticeship/internship programs or orientation to apprenticeships/internships, Regional Occupational Programs (ROP), technical preparation programs, or other programs that expose students to college and career options while preparing them for future careers in a given industry or interest area.
(cf. 6178.2 - Regional Occupational Center/Program)
The Superintendent or designee shall explore available funding sources that may be used to support CTE. The Board shall review and approve all district plans and applications for the use of state and/or federal funds supporting CTE.
The Board shall ensure that all CTE courses meet or exceed the state's model content standards and describe the essential knowledge and skills that students enrolled in these courses are expected to master. The CTE course curriculum shall be aligned with district-adopted standards and the state's curriculum framework.
(cf. 6011 - Academic Standards)
(cf. 6141 - Curriculum Development and Evaluation)
At least every three years, the Board shall compare the district's curriculum, course content, and course sequence of CTE with the model state curriculum standards. (Education Code 52376)
The Superintendent or designee shall systematically review the district's CTE courses to determine the degree to which each course may offer an alternative means for completing and receiving credit for specific portions of the course of study prescribed by the district for high school graduation. The Board shall ensure that these courses are equivalent in content and rigor to the courses prescribed for graduation. (Education Code 52376)
(cf. 6146.1 - High School Graduation Requirements)
(cf. 6146.11 - Alternative Credits Toward Graduation)
(cf. 6146.2 - Certificate of Proficiency/High School Equivalency)
The Superintendent or designee shall develop partnerships with local businesses and industries to ensure that course sequences, career technical and integrated curriculum, classroom instruction and projects, and assessments have real-world relevance and reflect labor market needs and priorities. He/she also shall work to develop connections with businesses, postsecondary institutions, community organizations, and/or other employers to provide students with actual or simulated work-based learning opportunities.
(cf. 1700 - Relations Between Private Industry and the Schools)
(cf. 5113.2 - Work Permits)
(cf. 6178.1 - Work-Based Learning)
The Superintendent or designee shall collaborate with postsecondary institutions to ensure that the district's program is articulated with postsecondary programs in order to provide a sequential course of study. Articulation opportunities may include dual or concurrent enrollment in community college courses.
(cf. 6172.1 - Concurrent Enrollment in College Classes)
The Superintendent or designee shall inform all secondary students and their parents/guardians about the CTE pathways available in the district, CTE courses that satisfy college admission criteria, and, if applicable, CTE courses that satisfy high school graduation requirements. In addition, secondary students shall receive individualized career guidance and academic counseling which provides information about academic and CTE opportunities related to the student's career goals.
(cf. 5145.6 - Parental Notifications)
(cf. 6164.2 - Guidance/Counseling Services)
The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that teachers of CTE courses possess the qualifications and credentials necessary to teach their assigned courses. He/she also shall provide teachers and administrators with professional development designed to enhance their knowledge of standards-aligned CTE and shall provide opportunities for CTE teachers to collaborate with teachers of academic courses in the development and implementation of integrated curriculum models.
(cf. 4112.2 - Certification)
(cf. 4131 - Staff Development)
(cf. 4331 - Staff Development)
The Superintendent or designee shall provide counselors and other guidance personnel with professional development that includes, but is not limited to, information about current workforce needs and trends, requirements of the district's CTE program, work-based learning opportunities, and postsecondary education and employment options following high school.
Upon written request from a nonprofit private school within the geographical area served by the district, the Superintendent or designee shall consult with private school representatives in a timely and meaningful manner and may provide for the participation of private school secondary students in the district's programs and activities funded under the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. To the extent practicable, the Superintendent or designee also shall, upon request, permit participation of CTE teachers, administrators, and other personnel from private schools in the district's inservice and preservice professional development programs funded through the Perkins Act. (20 USC 2397)
The Superintendent or designee shall regularly assess district needs for facilities, technologies, and equipment to increase students' access to the district's CTE program pathways.
(cf. 0440 - District Technology Plan)
(cf. 3440 - Inventories)
(cf. 3512 - Equipment)
(cf. 7110 - Facilities Master Plan)
Nondiscrimination
The Board of Education is committed to equal opportunity for all individuals in education. District programs, activities, practices, and employment shall be free from discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital or parental status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression or the perception of one or more of such characteristics; or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. This policy applies to all acts related to school activity or school attendance within a school under the jurisdiction of the Superintendent.
The district's program shall provide equal access to and shall not unlawfully discriminate against individuals who are members of special populations. Special populations include, but are not limited to, individuals with disabilities; individuals from economically disadvantaged families, including foster children; single parents, including single pregnant women; displaced homemakers; individuals with limited English proficiency; and individuals preparing for nontraditional fields. Nontraditional fields include occupations or fields of work, including careers in computer science, technology, and other emerging high-skill occupations, for which individuals from one gender constitute less than 25 percent of the individuals employed in each such occupation or field of work. (20 USC 2302)
Prior to the beginning of each school year, the Superintendent or designee shall advise students, parents/guardians, employees, and the general public that all CTE opportunities are offered without regard to any actual or perceived characteristic protected from discrimination by law. (34 CFR 100.B, 104.8, 106.9)
(cf. 0410 - Nondiscrimination in District Programs and Activities)
(cf. 1312.3 - Uniform Complaint Procedures)
The above notification shall be disseminated in languages other than English as needed and shall state that the district will take steps to ensure that the lack of English language skills will not be a barrier to admission and participation in the district's CTE program. (20 USC 2354; 34 CFR 100.B)
School and Community Involvement
The Board shall appoint a CTE advisory committee to develop recommendations on the district's CTE program and to serve as a liaison between the district and potential employers. The committee shall consist of at least one student, teacher, business representative, industry representative, school administrator, member of the general public knowledgeable about the disadvantaged, and representative of the field office of the California Employment Development Department. (Education Code 8070)
(cf. 1220 - Citizen Advisory Committees)
The district also shall involve Board members; parents/guardians; students; academic and CTE teachers; administrators; career guidance and academic counselors; representatives of tech prep consortia if applicable, business and industry, labor organizations, and special populations; and other interested individuals in the development, implementation, and evaluation of CTE programs. (20 USC 2354)
Program Evaluation
The Board shall monitor the achievement of students participating in the district's CTE program in order to determine the need for improvements. The Superintendent or designee shall annually report to the Board and the California Department of Education on program enrollment and completion rates, including enrollment and completion of programs in nontraditional fields as defined in 20 USC 2302; student academic assessment results; attainment of career and technical skill proficiencies; attainment of a high school diploma or equivalent; graduation rates; and subsequent placement in postsecondary education or advanced training, military service, or employment. Data shall be disaggregated, in accordance with 20 USC 2323, by race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, English proficiency, and economic disadvantage status and for each special population as defined in 20 USC 2302 and listed in the section "Nondiscrimination" above.
(cf. 0500 - Accountability)
(cf. 6162.5 - Student Assessment)
(cf. 6162.51 - Standardized Testing and Reporting Program)
(cf. 6190 - Evaluation of the Instructional Program)
Legal Reference:
EDUCATION CODE
1205 Classification of counties
8006-8156 Career technical education
17078.70-17078.72 Career technical education facilities
33430-33432 Health science and medical technology grants
35168 Inventory of equipment
41540-41544 Targeted instructional improvement block grant
44257.3 CTC recognition of study in linked learning teaching methods
44260-44260.1 Designated subjects career technical education credential
44260.9 Designated subjects career technical education credential
48430 Legislative intent; continuation education schools and classes
48980 Parental notifications
51220-51229 Courses of study, grades 7-12
51760-51769.5 Work experience education
52060-52077 Local Control and Accountability Plan
52300-52499.66 Career technical education
52519-52520 Adult education, occupational training
53010-53016 California Career Pathways Trust
53070-53076.4 The California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program
53086 California Career Resource Network
54690-54699.1 California Partnership Academies
54750-54760 California Partnership Academies, green technology and goods movement occupations
56363 Related services for students with disabilities; specially designed career technical education
66205.5-66205.9 Approval of career technical education courses for admission to California colleges
88500-88551 Community college economic and workforce development program
GOVERNMENT CODE
54950-54963 Brown Act
LABOR CODE
3070-3099.5 Apprenticeships
CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 5
1635 Credit for work experience education
3051.14 Specially designed career technical education for students with disabilities
10070-10075 Work experience education
10080-10092 Community classrooms
10100-10111 Cooperative vocational education
11500-11508 Regional occupational centers and programs
11535-11538 Career technical education contracts with private postsecondary schools
11610-11611 Regional adult and vocational education councils
CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 8
200-240 Apprenticeships
UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 20
2301-2414 Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006
6301-6578 Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, TITLE 34
100.B Appendix B Guidelines for eliminating discrimination in career technical education programs
104.1-104.39 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
106.1-106.61 Discrimination on the basis of sex, effectuating Title IX
Management Resources:
CSBA PUBLICATIONS
A Governance Perspective: Interviews with School Board Members from the Nine Linked Learning Initiative School Districts, March 2014
The Linked Learning Approach to High School Reform, Governance Brief, January 2014
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
California Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards, Grades Seven Through Twelve, January 2013
Multiple Pathways to Student Success: Envisioning the New California High School, 2010
Career Technical Education Framework for California Public Schools, Grades Seven Through Twelve, January 2007
WEB SITES
CSBA: http://www.csba.org
Association for Career and Technical Education: http://www.acteonline.org
California Association of Regional Occupational Centers and Programs: http://www.carocp.org
California Career Resource Network: http://www.californiacareers.info
California Department of Education, Career Technical Education: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ct
California Department of Employment Development: http://www.edd.ca.gov
California Department of Industrial Relations: http://www.dir.ca.gov
California Workforce Investment Board: http://www.calwia.org
Commission on Teacher Credentialing: http://www.ctc.ca.gov
University of California, a-g Course Submissions: http://www.ucop.edu/a-gGuide/ag/
course_submissions
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ovae/pi/cte/index.html
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov
Policy NEWPORT-MESA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
adopted: April 23, 2019 Costa Mesa, California