20 ILCS 701/25

Local partnerships must provide students with work experience in high technology occupations combined with related classroom instruction. Employers and educators must cooperatively adopt or develop, or both, skills standards, curricula, and assessment tools. Skills standards must be current with high performance workplaces and technology requirements. Project activities include, but are not limited to: (1) designing in-school and related work-based curricula; (2) training teachers; (3) training work site supervisors and mentors; (4) developing instructional materials; (5) coordinating activities among the partners; (6) outreach and recruitment of students; (7) developing assessment tools; (8) providing vocational counseling to student participants; (9) completing project related administrative activities; and (10) evaluating the project.