New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 2 - PUBLIC FINANCE
Chapter 110 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT GRANTS
Part 6 - SCHOOL-TO-WORK OPPORTUNITY GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATION PROCEDURES
Section 2.110.6.11 - GENERAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Universal Citation: 2 NM Admin Code 2.110.6.11

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

A. All school-to-work systems must:

(1) integrate school-based and work-based learning, integrate academic and occupational learning, and establish effective linkages among elementary, midschool, secondary and postsecondary education;

(2) provide participating students with the opportunity to complete career majors;

(3) provide participating students with experience in and an understanding of all aspects of the industry the students are preparing to enter; and

(4) provide all students with equal access to the full range of program components and related activities, such as recruitment, enrollment and placement activities.

B. SCHOOL- BASED LEARNING COMPONENT: The school-based learning component of a school-to-work opportunities system shall include:

(1) career awareness and career exploration and counseling (beginning at the earliest possible age, but not later than 7th grade) in order to help students who may be interested to identify, and select or reconsider, their interests, goals, and career majors, including those options that may not be traditional for their gender, race, or ethnicity;

(2) initial selection by interested students of a career major not later than the beginning of the 11th grade;

(3) a program of study designed to meet the same academic standards the State has established for all students, including, where applicable, standards established under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, and to meet the requirements necessary to prepare a student for postsecondary education and the requirements necessary for a student to earn a skill certificate;

(4) a program of instruction and curriculum that integrates academic and vocational learning (including applied methodologies and team-teaching strategies), and incorporates instruction, to the extent practicable, in all aspects of an industry, appropriately tied to the career major of a participant;

(5) regularly scheduled evaluations involving ongoing consultation and problem solving with students and school dropouts to identify their academic strengths and weaknesses, academic progress, workplace knowledge, goals, and the need for additional learning opportunities to master core academic and vocational skills; and

(6) procedures to facilitate the entry of students participating in a school-to-work system into additional training or postsecondary education programs, as well as to facilitate the transfer of the students between education and training programs.

C. WORK-BASED LEARNING COMPONENT: Mandatory activities: the work-based learning component of a school-to-work system shall include:

(1) work experience;

(2) a planned program of job training and work experiences (including training related to pre-employment and employment skills to be mastered at progressively higher levels):
(a) that are coordinated with learning in the school-based learning component described in section;

(b) are relevant to the career majors of students and lead to the award of skill certificates.

(3) workplace mentoring;

(4) instruction in general workplace competencies, including instruction and activities related to developing positive work attitudes, and employability and participative skills;

(5) broad instruction, to the extent possible, in all aspects of the industry;

(6) permissible activities: such component may include such activities as:
(a) paid work experience;

(b) job shadowing;

(c) school-sponsored enterprises;

(d) on-the-job training.

D. CONNECTING ACTIVITIES COMPONENT: The connecting activities component of a school-to-work system shall include:

(1) matching students with the work-based learning opportunities of employers;

(2) providing, with respect to each student, a school site mentor to act as a liaison among the student and the employer, school, teacher, school administrator, and parent of the student, and if appropriate, other community partners;

(3) providing technical assistance and services to employers, including small and medium-sized businesses, and other parties in:
(a) designing school-based learning components described in section 102, work-based learning components described in section 103, and counseling and case management services;

(b) training teachers, workplace mentors, school site mentors, and counselors.

(4) providing assistance to schools and employers to integrate school-based and work-based learning, and integrate academic and occupational learning into the program;

(5) encouraging the active participation of employers, in cooperation with local education officials, in the implementation of local activities described in section 102, section 103 or this section;

(6) providing assistance to participants who have completed the program in finding an appropriate job, continuing their education, or entering into an additional training program;

(7) linking the participants with other community services that may be necessary to assure a successful transition from school-to-work;

(8) collecting and analyzing information regarding post-program outcomes of participants in the school-to work system, to the extent practicable, on the basis of socioeconomic status, race, gender, ethnicity, culture, and disability, and on the basis of whether the participants are students with limited English proficiency, school dropouts, disadvantaged students, or academically talented students;

(9) linking youth development activities under this Act with employer and industry strategies for upgrading the skills of their workers.

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