The governing board of a district maintaining a high school may do all of the following:
(a)
Provide for the instruction of pupils in the skills, attitudes, and understanding necessary to succeed in employment by means of courses of work-based learning or work experience education as provided in this article.
(b)
Provide for guidance and supervision procedures designed to ensure maximum educational benefit to pupils from placement in suitable work-based learning or work experience education courses.
(c)
Provide for arranging, approving, coordinating, and awarding credit for
work-based learning or work experience education courses, and for those purposes employ instructors, coordinators, and other necessary personnel.
(d)
Provide for the district to purchase liability insurance for pupils enrolled in programs of study involving work experience, which may include work-based learning, or vocational education at locations off school grounds approved by the governing board, or require pupils to purchase insurance and to pass on all or a portion of the costs, at the discretion of the governing board, to the district.