SF 2411:

Division I - Regional Industry Sector Partnerships and Statewide Work-Based Learning Intermediary Network

-Repeals allowing use of money for PACE to provide staff and support for development/implementation of regional industry sector partnership w/in each region

-Repeals the work-based learning intermediary network 

Division II - Career and Technical Education and Work-Based Learning

-Allows work-based learning to qualify as one of the three sequential units of CTE courses taught in grades 9-12

Division III - Student Teaching

-Allows student teaching to be reduced to four weeks if the student is responsible for planning, instruction, and assessment w/in the classroom; the BOEE has issued a substitute license, substitute authorization, or para-educator certificate to the student, and the student has prior experience working as a substitute teacher/para-educator; and the student teaching experience takes place in the classroom of a cooperating teacher who is appropriately licensed in the subject area and grade level endorsement for which the student is being prepared

Division IV - Changes to Defined Terms

-Modifies definition of "work-based learning" for purposes of the Iowa registered apprenticeship Act, and for purposes of the community colleges and post-secondary readiness bureau within the higher education division of the department of education, to mean opportunities and experiences that include but are not limited to sustained project-based learning in partnership with an employer, simulated work experiences aligned with industry-recognized credentials, high-quality pre-apprenticeships aligned to an apprenticeship, student learner programs, internships, and apprenticeships

Division V - IWD - Workforce Opportunity Fund

-Establishes a workforce opportunity fund

-Any moneys appropriated to IWD for purposes of unemployment compensation reserve fund that remain unencumbered or unobligated as of July 1, 2024, but not more than $30 million, shall be deposited in the workforce opportunity fund

Division VI - Future Ready Iowa Skilled Workforce LDS Program

-Removes requirement to annually submit a new application to the commission for reevaluation of eligibility in order to receive a renewal of a scholarship

-Establishes a requirement for eligible students to have an SAI of $20k or less

-Creates a two-year award period

-Authorizes CSAC & IWD to adopt emergency rules to carry out the new requirements

NOBA: 1449829.pdf (iowa.gov)