258.10  Powers of district boards.
  1.  The board of directors of a school district may carry on prevocational and vocational instruction in subjects relating to agriculture, commerce, industry, and home economics, and pay the expense of such instruction in the same way as the expenses for other subjects in the public schools are paid.
  2.  The board of directors of a school district may establish and maintain school-to-work programs including alternative learning opportunities through which students may obtain skills or training outside the classroom. School-to-work programs include, but are not limited to, the following:
  a.  Short-term job shadowing opportunities for students to explore career interests by observing work at a workplace or to include a series of visits to various workplaces and time spent with individual workers to observe specific jobs.
  b.  Structured work experiences integrating school and work-based experiences in an internship that may be an extension of a job shadowing experience.
  c.  Mentoring experiences providing students with a formal relationship with a worksite role model who shares career insights and teaches students specific work-related skills.
  d.  Career-oriented work experiences tied to school lessons through formal or informal training agreements, formal learning plans or mentoring, by workplace personnel who may be paid or unpaid, and which may earn students credit toward graduation.
  e.  Structured on-the-job training or apprenticeships for students who are enrolled in a technical or professional program that leads to a high school diploma, advanced certificate of mastery, or associate degree.
  f.  Work experiences available to students in school and community placements directly supervised by a school district or community college staff member.
  3.  The board may provide workers’ compensation coverage by insuring, or self-insuring as provided in section 87.4, students participating in unpaid school-to-work programs. A school district’s liability to students injured while participating in an unpaid school-to-work program is as provided in section 85.20.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3846; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §258.10]
97 Acts, ch 37, §6