State Program Requires Ninth-Graders to Pursue Career Path

A new state program under H.B. 713 requires ninth-graders to choose a career path and follow a career-tailored class schedule.

The objective, part of a national trend, is to prepare students for career and college. Most states have established career pathways initiatives. The new program will be the first mandated for Georgia ninth-graders.

chairwoman Alison Bartlett is an advocate of the program.

Georgia lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year to start the career pathways program next fall, but lawmakers delay the launch date to 2013-14 in order to iron-out program details.

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