Reference is to the bill as introduced.
Amend the joint resolution, as and if amended, by deleting all after the enacting words and inserting:
/ SECTION 1. (A)(1)
Effective beginning with the 2015-2016
school year, the State Department of Education shall establish a
two-year pilot program to be known as the General Educational
Development (GED) Camp Pilot Program, which must emulate
existing volunteer programs in the State to develop, implement,
support, and monitor GED Camps that provide a volunteer-based
system to assist people who do not have a high school diploma
earn their GED certificates and advance to higher education, the
military, an occupation, and so forth.
(2)
To ensure that the program concentrates on areas served by
technical colleges, the GED Camp program must be implemented in
each of the service markets of the technical college system.
(B) The GED Camp
program should focus on the use of volunteers to provide
tutorial assistance for community members without a high school
diploma who seek to obtain a GED certificate using a
concentrated "boot camp" model lasting approximately
six to eight consecutive weeks during which students must:
(1)
undergo direct instruction by teacher volunteers and test
for vocational interests;
(2)
participate in college and career readiness workshops
related to interviewing skills, resume building, enrollment, and
education financing; and
(3)
receive direct and indirect mentoring.
(C) Based on the
outcomes achieved by the GED Camp program, the State Department
of Education shall make recommendations regarding statewide
expansion of the program to the General Assembly before July 1,
2017. In keeping with federal and state requirements for
tracking adult education, GED Camp programs shall report
outcomes to the State Department of Education. For the duration
of the two-year pilot, programs using the GED Camp program model
shall report these outcomes annually to the State Department of
Education by June fifteenth for the previously completed school
year. The State Department of Education may prescribe
additional outcome measures to be tracked by the GED Camp
programs. The State Department of Education shall in turn
report the program outcomes annually to the Senate Education
Committee and the House Education and Public Works Committee by
December first for the previously completed school year.
(D) The State
Department of Education shall create policies to implement the
provisions of this joint resolution. Recognizing that great
flexibility in the implementation of the GED Camp Pilot Program
is critical to is success, the department is directed to assist
volunteers in the implementation of the provisions of this joint
resolution.
SECTION 2. This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.