N.Y. Education Law § 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.