Bill Text: NJ A3270 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires Commissioners of Education and Labor and Workforce Development to study and report on departments' efforts in providing students with information on employment in high-demand industries.***
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-01-17 - Approved P.L.2013. c.256. [A3270 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2012-A3270-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman CELESTE M. RILEY
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
Assemblywoman CONNIE WAGNER
District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblyman CHARLES MAINOR
District 31 (Hudson)
Assemblyman THOMAS P. GIBLIN
District 34 (Essex and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Requires Commissioner of Education to develop career exploration report for students in grades 8 through 12.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning employment information provided to certain students and supplementing chapter 54E of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, shall develop a career exploration report that provides students enrolled in grades 8 through 12 with information concerning employment in high-demand industries. The report shall include, but need not be limited to:
(1) a list of the fastest growing industries in the country and the State and the projected growth rates of those industries for the next 10 years, as determined by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics;
(2) information on professional and occupational employment opportunities in those industries and on the educational background and training required to pursue those careers, including the courses designed to prepare students for employment in those careers;
(3) employment rates and salary information for persons employed in those professions and occupations; and
(4) information on where to find the employment data compiled by four-year public institutions of higher education pursuant to section 2 of P.L.2009, c.197 (C.18A:3B-44).
b. The commissioner shall annually distribute the report, at no charge, to each school district, which shall distribute the report to each student and to the parents or guardians of each student enrolled in grades 8 through 12. The commissioner shall update the report as necessary.
c. The commissioner shall make the report available to nonpublic schools that enroll students in grades 8 through 12, or any combination thereof. Nonpublic schools are encouraged to distribute the report to each student and to the parents or guardians of each student enrolled in grades 8 through 12; however, nothing in this section shall be construed to require a nonpublic school to distribute the report.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, to develop a career exploration report that provides students enrolled in grades 8 through 12 with information concerning employment in high-demand industries. Under the bill, the report, at a minimum, must include:
· a list of the fastest growing industries in the country and the State and the projected growth rates of those industries for the next 10 years, as determined by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics;
· information on professional and occupational employment opportunities in those industries and on the educational background and training required to pursue those careers, including the courses designed to prepare students for employment in those careers;
· employment rates and salary information for persons employed in those professions and occupations; and
· information on where to find the employment data compiled by four-year public institutions of higher education for their graduates.
The commissioner will annually distribute the report to each school district, which will then distribute it to each student and to the parents or guardians of each student enrolled in grades 8 through 12.
