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 9   career pathways program.
10     e.  Provision for program accountability.
11     f.  Provision for career guidance and exploration
12   by the tenth grade level.
13     g.  Encouragement of team teaching within the
14   school or in partnership with postsecondary schools,
15   and business, labor, community, and nonprofit
16   organizations.
17     h.  Service learning opportunities for students.
18     3.  Business, labor, and community organizations
19   are encouraged to market the career pathways program
20   to the local community and provide students with
21   mentors, shadow professionals, speakers, field trip
22   sites, summer jobs, internships, and job offers for
23   students who graduate with high performance records.
24   Students are encouraged to volunteer their time to
25   community organizations in exchange for workplace
26   learning opportunities that do not displace current
27   employees.
28     4.  In developing career pathways program efforts,
29   each consortium shall make every effort to cooperate
30   with the juvenile courts, the department of economic
31   development, the department of employment services,
32   the department of human services, and the new Iowa
33   schools development corporation.
34     5.  The area education agency and community college
35   within each merged area shall provide support services
36   to assist the planning and implementation of career
37   pathways programs.
38     6.  Not later than August 1, for the school year
39   beginning the preceding July 1, the board of directors
40   of a school district, or the authorities in charge of
41   a nonpublic school, or the board of directors of a
42   community college may annually file a written request
43   with the department of education that the department
44   waive rules relating to vocational education that have
45   been adopted by the state board since the enactment of
46   the 1989 Iowa Acts, chapter 278.  A request for a
47   waiver filed by the board of directors of a school
48   district, the authorities in charge of a nonpublic
49   school, or board of directors of a community college
50   shall describe actions being taken by the district,

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 1   school, or community college to meet the requirement
 2   for which the district, school, or community college
 3   has requested a waiver.
 4     7.  The department of education shall direct and
 5   monitor the progress of each career pathways
 6   consortium in developing career pathways programs.  By
 7   January 15, 1998, the department shall submit to the
 8   general assembly any findings and recommendations of
 9   the career pathways consortia, along with the
10   department's recommendations for specific career

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