This tool would equip teenagers with the forethought to select their high school courses in an informed way, build their expectations for admission to college, and plan in a preliminary way their eventual or post-graduation entry into the workforce. In no time there was a demand to connect job information with actual jobs. The connection was made to jobs listed in New York State and to America's Job Bank. The Department of Labor took the State Education Department's exemplary Career Plan which spanned elementary, middle, and commencement levels, made it into an electronic portfolio, and connected it to the CareerZone career exploration tool. Currently, and free of charge, any student can create, save, change and print his own portfolio.
Privacy is maintained with a user ID and password.
The funding is to help rural and inner city schools, working with community partners to stay open longer, including weekends and holidays.