§ 42. Youth education, employment and training program. This program\nshall provide services to economically disadvantaged in-school and\nout-of-school youth fourteen to twenty-one years of age and shall be\nsubject to the following provisions of this section:\n 1. The goals of this program shall be entry into post-secondary\neducation, enrollment in vocational or skills training programs, or the\nattainment of favorable employment and career opportunities. To obtain\nprogram goals, local projects shall include one or more of the following\nobjectives: retention in high school, improvement in basic academic and\nvocational skills and, when attainable, the acquisition of a high school\ndiploma or its equivalent.\n 2. For the purpose of this section, the following terms shall have the\nfollowing meanings: "local project" shall mean the specific plan or\nproposal for support and/or direct client services at the local level as\nspecified in a contractual agreement with employment and training\nproviders pursuant to this section; and "economically disadvantaged"\nshall be defined as set forth in regulations promulgated by the state\neducation department pursuant to sections sixty-four hundred fifty-one\nand sixty-four hundred fifty-two of the education law or as set forth in\nthe federal job training partnership act, public law 97-300 or its\nsuccessor program or in the absence of such, as defined by the\ncommissioner. Moneys to fund the program may be used for projects in\nwhich up to ten percent of the participants enrolled, on a project by\nproject basis, are youth who are not economically disadvantaged if such\nyouth have been identified as at risk of dropping out of school or have\nbarriers to employment.\n 3. Subject to the limits of available moneys for this program and the\napproval of the director of the budget, the commissioner, in\nconsultation with the commissioner of education, shall select and make\ncontracts with preference to employment and training providers who have\ndemonstrated effectiveness in serving disadvantaged youth for the\npurpose of conducting local projects. Such moneys may be used for\ncontractors selected on a competitive basis consistent with executive\norder number one hundred twenty-seven which expedites and simplifies\ncontracting with not-for-profit agencies. Such employment and training\nproviders shall only include not-for-profit community based\norganizations, boards of cooperative educational services,\npost-secondary educational agencies, grant recipients or administrative\nentities of the service delivery areas (hereinafter referred to as\nSDAs), as may be defined by the Federal Job Training Partnership Act\n(hereinafter referred to as JTPA) or its successor program or in the\nabsence of such, as defined by the commissioner, joint apprentice\ncommittees, labor organizations, and public and private employers.\nPreference in selection of such contractors shall be given to qualified\nand experienced community based organizations with proven ability to\nadminister such programs.\n 4. Moneys for this program shall be apportioned in a manner that\nensures a distribution of funds to projects operating in communities\nwhich have high rates of youth unemployment, significant drop-out rates\namong high school-aged youth, large numbers of youth living in poverty,\nand a high proportion of households receiving public assistance\nbenefits.\n 5. Such moneys may not be used for an SDA as an employment and\ntraining provider for local projects for out-of-school youth unless it\nhas been determined by the commissioner that no other employment and\ntraining provider is available in the area which this program is\ndesigned to serve.\n 6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary, the\neducational opportunity centers (hereinafter referred to as EOCs)\noperated by the state university and educational centers operated by the\nunits of the city university of New York are hereby authorized
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