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Education panel hears plan for statewide student career-development platform; vendor outlines costs
Summary
House Bill 505 would direct the Department of Education to develop an electronic career-development platform for students, parents and educators. A vendor testified the service could be deployed statewide for about $8.50 per student per year plus a one-time implementation cost of roughly $200,000.
Lawmakers discussed House Bill 505, a proposal to create an electronic platform for career-development plans that would allow students to maintain an online profile, track extracurriculars, build résumés and explore in-demand careers. Sponsors framed the measure as an extension of prior work on career readiness and said it would shift "graduation plans" toward…
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