258.10 - POWERS OF DISTRICT BOARDS.
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. Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 3846; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
75, 77, 79, 81, § 258.10] Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 37, §6
Referred to in § 85.61