This upcoming school year, Senate Bill 68 will go into effect, allowing students in the state of Texas two excused absences for career shadowing days.
The bill allows students to visit a professional workplace to explore a career path before they go to college.
"Right now, they have college days. Kids can take college days, but they don't have the opportunity to go explore careers. And we wanted to give them that," says Granger ISD superintendent Jeni Neatherlin. Neatherlin says she was inspired to write the bill when she asked her niece what she wanted to do after she graduated from high school.
"For me, that's very important that our kids get some kind of plan together about what's next, because you don't want to leave high school not knowing," says Neatherlin."We went and testified. Representative Andrew Murr put it forward last session, and it made it through. But it didn't. It just died. And that's part of the process," says Neatherlin.
Students from Granger ISD testified for Senate Bill 68. It would allow juniors and seniors in high school to take excused absences for "career shadowing days."
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