Section 52372.1 Of Article 4. High School Career Technical Courses From California Education Code >> Division 4. >> Title 2. >> Part 28. >> Chapter 9. >> Article 4.
52372.1
. (a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall adopt
rules and regulations for cooperative career technical education
programs and community classrooms. The rules and regulations shall
include, but need not necessarily be limited to, all of the
following:
(1) Selection and approval of work and training stations.
(2) Related classroom instruction.
(3) Supervision of students while in training.
(4) Joint venture training agreements and plans.
(5) Student teacher ratios.
(6) Paid and unpaid on-the-job experiences.
(7) Credit for participation in cooperative career technical
education programs and community classrooms.
(b) As used in this section, "cooperative career technical
education programs" includes cooperative agreements between schools
and employers to provide students with paid on-the-job experiences,
as well as career technical education instruction contributing to the
student's education and employability.
(c) As used in this section, "community classrooms" includes
instructional methodologies which are part of a career technical
education course, and which may utilize the facilities and equipment
of a public agency or private business to provide students the
opportunity to expand competencies developed in a career technical
course in unpaid on-the-job experiences.
(d) Joint venture agreements shall be entered into between the
director and the management of the community classroom site to ensure
that students will be provided, through unpaid on-the-job
experiences, the opportunity to expand the competencies developed in
the classroom instruction portion of their training.
Each instructor, in cooperation with the business or agency in
which the student will be placed, shall develop an individualized
training plan for each pupil enrolled in a community classroom.
(e) All statutes and regulations applicable to minors in
employment relationships apply to cooperative career technical
education programs and to community classrooms.
(f) For purposes of this section, "public agency" means any public
agency capable of providing unpaid on-the-job experience meeting all
of the following requirements:
(1) The on-the-job experiences are in occupations for which there
is a local job market.
(2) The on-the-job experiences are equivalent to those which could
be received for each specific occupational area as if they were held
at a private business site.