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Summary

SB 621 would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to include guidance for adapting work-based learning for individuals with exceptional needs when coordinating the next revision of the career technical education curriculum framework.

Curriculum frameworks are blueprints for implementing the SBE-adopted academic content standards and serve as a basis for the development of standards-aligned instructional materials. The Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission advises the SBE on the adoption of curriculum frameworks and instructional materials. The State Board of Education (SBE) adopted Model Curriculum Standards for Career Technical Education (CTE) in 2005 and adopted the curriculum frameworks for those standards in 2007.

According to the Department of Education, revising the CTE framework in this manner would require two positions and costs of over $250,000. The Department also expresses concern that this workload may be unnecessary, as students with exceptional needs students are served through Project Workability, which is a transitional job training and placement program for students with exceptional needs.