Pupils: career fairs.

Existing law states that the Legislature recognizes that all pupils need to be provided with opportunities to explore and make career choices and to seek appropriate instruction and training to support those choices. Existing law also states that the Legislature finds that fairs as community resource and youth leadership activities are integral to assisting and guiding pupils in making choices and therefore encourage the further expansion of cooperative activities between schools, youth leadership activities, and community resources. The State Department of Education is required to annually encourage school districts to plan programs and activities that use the resources of fairs and youth leadership activities as an integral part of the vocational instructional program and career decisionmaking. Existing law authorizes career technical training to be a part of a program of national defense of the federal government or any agency of the federal government. This bill would require a school that offers a career fair to its pupils to allow military recruiters access to that career fair to the same extent that it allows other persons and entities access to the fair.