SB 845: Pupil instruction: career technical education, career education, work-based learning, work experience education, and apprenticeships.

The bill aims to improve pupil instruction in California by making several changes to career technical education, career education, and apprenticeships. It requires the superintendent to set forth career technical education standards in terms of specific competencies, rather than subject areas, and seeks advice from career technical teachers and representatives of labor. The bill also extends authorizations for work-based learning opportunities to governing boards of school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools. The bill allows work-based learning activities to be delivered by partnership academies, regional occupational programs, and local educational agencies, and authorizes the delivery of work experience education courses, community classrooms, cooperative career technical education programs, early college credit courses, and other relate…