2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 6 - Special Schools and Instruction › Article 93 - Career, Practical Arts, Continuing Adult Education and Vocational and Educational Guidance › 4602 - Career Education.

§ 4602. Career  education.  1.  The  board of education of each school
district shall provide secondary school  pupils  and  adults  access  to
programs  of  career  education,  commensurate  with  the  interests and
capabilities of  those  desiring  and  having  a  need  for  preparatory
training,  retraining or upgrading for employment, and develop realistic
programs  in  accord  with  manpower  needs  in  existing  and  emerging
occupations for present and projected employment opportunities.
2.  Career  education  programs  and  classes  shall  be organized and
conducted by boards of education or arranged through shared services  as
provided  by  boards  of cooperative educational services, in accordance
with the rules of the board  of  regents  and  the  regulations  of  the
commissioner  of  education.  Boards of education that are designated by
the commissioner as major career education providers shall submit to the
commissioner every two years, no later than the date  specified  by  the
commissioner,  a  career  education program plan, in a form specified by
the commissioner, which shall be revised annually.
3. Programs may include  pre-vocational  activities,  career  classes,
apprentice  related instruction, cooperative education, work experience,
continuing  adult  career  education,  and  other  effective  means   of
preparation  and  of  upgrading  employment  capabilities.  Classes  for
out-of-school youth sixteen years of age and over and for adults may  be
conducted during the day and/or evening.
4. The board of education of each school district maintaining programs
in   career   education,  practical  arts,  vocational  and  educational
guidance, or continuing career education for adults has full  power  and
authority:
a.  To  employ  properly certified directors, supervisors, principals,
teachers and counselors and assign them to  serve  in  the  schools  and
classes authorized by this article.
b. To establish approved courses of study.
c.  To  purchase  or  acquire sites and grounds; to purchase, acquire,
lease or construct and to repair suitable  shops  and  buildings  or  to
arrange for shared services.
d.  To  purchase  necessary  machinery,  tools,  apparatus,  books and
supplies.
e. To enter into agreements with one or  more  financing  agencies  to
provide  for  the acceptance by such board of credit cards as a means of
payment of course  fees  or  tuition  when  required  for  instructional
programs.  Any such agreement shall govern the terms and conditions upon
which a credit card proffered as a means of  payment  of  such  fees  or
tuition  shall  be accepted or declined and the manner in and conditions
upon which the financing agency shall pay to such board of education the
amount of such fees or tuition paid by means of a credit  card  pursuant
to  such  agreement.  Any  such agreement may provide for the payment by
such board of education  to  such  financing  agency  of  fees  for  the
services  provided  by  such  financing  agency.  For  purposes  of this
paragraph, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(i) "Credit card" means any credit card, credit plate,  charge  plate,
courtesy  card, debit card or other identification card or device issued
by a person to another person which may be used to obtain a cash advance
or a loan or credit, or to purchase or lease property or services on the
credit of the person issuing the credit card or a person who has  agreed
with the issuer to pay obligations arising from the use of a credit card
issued to another person.
(ii)   "Financing   agency"  means  any  agency  defined  as  such  in
subdivision eighteen  of  section  four  hundred  one  of  the  personal
property law;
(iii)  "Person"  means  an individual, partnership, corporation or any
other legal or commercial entity.
5.  School  days  spent  in  legal  employment  by  pupils enrolled in
approved career cooperative education  programs  who  are  in  part-time
school  attendance shall be included in the average daily attendance and
average daily membership for apportionment of state aid under provisions
of section thirty-six hundred two of this chapter.