Bill Text: CA AB1540 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Concurrent enrollment in secondary school and community college.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1540 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1540-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1540	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 10, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Brown,  Linder,  Nestande,
Olsen,  and Waldron   Quirk-Silva,  
Waldron,   and Wilk  )
   (Coauthors: Senators Fuller,  Knight,  Padilla, and
Vidak)

                        JANUARY 23, 2014

   An act to amend Section 48800 of, and to add Section 48804 to, the
Education Code, relating to public schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1540, as amended, Hagman. Concurrent enrollment in secondary
school and community college.
   Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district
to allow pupils whom the district has determined would benefit from
advanced scholastic or vocational work to attend community college as
special part-time or full-time students, subject to parental
permission.
   This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district
to authorize a pupil, at the recommendation of a community college
dean of a computer science department or other appropriate community
college career computer science administrator, and with parental
consent, to attend a community college during any session or term and
to undertake one or more courses of computer science offered at the
community college.
   Existing law makes the authority of a school principal to
recommend a pupil for community college summer session contingent
upon a determination that the pupil meets various criteria and
prohibits the principal from recommending more than 5% of the total
number of pupils from any particular grade level who completed that
grade immediately prior to the time of recommendation for summer
session attendance, except as specified.
   This bill would add specified computer science courses to the list
of courses exempted from this 5% limitation.
   This bill would also authorize the governing board of a community
college district to enter into a formal partnership with a school
district or school districts located within its immediate service
area to allow secondary school pupils to undertake one or more
courses of computer science at a community college if those pupils
have exhausted all opportunities to enroll in an equivalent computer
science course at the high school of attendance.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 48800 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   48800.  (a) The governing board of a school district may determine
which pupils would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational
work. The intent of this section is to provide educational enrichment
opportunities for a limited number of eligible pupils, rather than
to reduce current course requirements of elementary and secondary
schools, and also to help ensure a smoother transition from high
school to college for pupils by providing them with greater exposure
to the collegiate atmosphere. The governing board of a school
district may authorize those pupils, upon recommendation of the
principal of the pupil's school of attendance, and with parental
consent, to attend a community college during any session or term as
special part-time or full-time students and to undertake one or more
courses of instruction offered at the community college level.
   (b) If the governing board of a school district denies a request
for a special part-time or full-time enrollment at a community
college for any session or term for a pupil who is identified as
highly gifted, the governing board of the school district shall issue
its written recommendation and the reasons for the denial within 60
days. The written recommendation and denial shall be issued at the
next regularly scheduled board meeting that falls at least 30 days
after the request has been submitted.
   (c) The governing board of a school district may authorize a
pupil, at the recommendation of a community college dean of a
computer science department or other appropriate community college
computer science administrator, and with parental consent, to attend
a community college during any session or term as a special part-time
or full-time student and to undertake one or more courses of
computer science offered at the community college.
   (d) A pupil shall receive community college credit for community
college courses that he or she completes at the level determined
appropriate by the governing boards of the school district and
community college district.
   (e) (1) The principal of a school may recommend a pupil for
community college summer session only if that pupil meets both of the
following criteria:
   (A) Demonstrates adequate preparation in the discipline to be
studied.
   (B) Exhausts all opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course,
if any, at his or her school of attendance.
   (2) For any particular grade level, a principal shall not
recommend for community college summer session attendance more than 5
percent of the total number of pupils who completed that grade
immediately before the time of recommendation.
   (3) A high school pupil recommended by his or her principal for
enrollment in a course shall not be included in the 5-percent
limitation of pupils allowed to be recommended pursuant to paragraph
(2) if the course in which the pupil is enrolled meets one of the
criterion listed in subparagraphs (A) to (D), inclusive, and the high
school principal who recommends the pupil for enrollment provides
the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, upon the request
of that office, with the data required for purposes of paragraph
(4).
   (A) The course is a lower division, college-level course for
credit that is designated as part of the Intersegmental General
Education Transfer Curriculum or applies toward the general education
breadth requirements of the California State University.
   (B) The course is a college-level, occupational course for credit
assigned a priority code of "A," "B," or "C," pursuant to the Student
Accountability Model, as defined by the Chancellor of the California
Community Colleges and reported in the management information
system, and the course is part of a sequence of vocational or career
technical education courses leading to a degree or certificate in the
subject area covered by the sequence.
   (C) The course is a college-level computer science course for
credit as determined by the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges, and the course is part of a sequence of computer science
courses leading to a degree in the subject matter covered by the
sequence.
   (D) The course is necessary to assist a pupil who has not passed
the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE), does not offer
college credit in English language arts or mathematics, and the pupil
meets both of the following requirements:
   (i) The pupil is in his or her senior year of high school.
   (ii) The pupil has completed all other graduation requirements
before the end of his or her senior year, or will complete all
remaining graduation requirements during a community college summer
session, which he or she is recommended to enroll in, following his
or her senior year of high school.
   (4) On or before March 1 of each year, the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges shall report to the Department of
Finance the number of pupils recommended pursuant to paragraph (3)
who enroll in community college summer session courses and who
receive a passing grade. The information in this report may be
submitted with the report required by subdivision (c) of Section
76002.
   (5) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
shall not include enrollment growth attributable to paragraph (3) as
part of its annual budget request for the California Community
Colleges.
   (6) Notwithstanding Article 3 (commencing with Section 33050) of
Chapter 1 of Part 20 of Division 2 of Title 2, compliance with this
subdivision shall not be waived.
   (f) Paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of subdivision (e) shall become
inoperative on January 1, 2017.
  SEC. 2.  Section 48804 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   48804.  (a) (1) The governing board of a community college
district may enter into a formal partnership with a school district
or school districts located within its immediate service area to
provide secondary school pupils who have exhausted all opportunities
to enroll in an equivalent course at the high school of attendance
with the opportunity to benefit from one or more computer science
courses offered at a community college. A secondary school pupil in a
district subject to a formal partnership, upon notification of the
principal of the pupil's school of attendance that the pupil has
exhausted all opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course at the
high school of attendance, and with parental consent if the pupil is
under 18 years of age, may attend a community college during any
session or term as a special part-time or full-time student.
   (2) (A) The partnership agreement shall outline the terms of the
partnership and may include, but is not necessarily limited to, the
scope, nature, and schedule of courses offered, the academic
readiness of pupils that is necessary for them to benefit from the
courses offered, and the ability of pupils to benefit from those
courses. The partnership agreement may establish protocols for
information sharing and joint facilities use.
   (B) A copy of the partnership agreement shall be filed with the
department and with the Office of the Chancellor of the California
Community Colleges before the start of a program authorized by this
section.
   (3) A pupil shall receive community college  and high
school credit for community college courses that he or she
completes at the level determined to be appropriate by the governing
 boards of the school district and   board of
 the community college district pursuant to the partnership
agreement as described in paragraph (2). 
   (4) A pupil shall receive high school credit for community college
courses that he or she completes at the level determined to be
appropriate by the governing board of the school district pursuant to
the partnership agreement described in paragraph (2) provided the
course is taught by a credentialed teacher and the pupil is not
assessed any fees prohibited by Section 49011. 
   (b) (1) A community college district shall not receive a state
allowance or apportionment for an instructional activity for which a
school district has been, or shall be, paid an allowance or
apportionment.
   (2) The attendance of a pupil at a community college as a special
part-time or full-time student pursuant to this section is authorized
attendance for which the community college shall be credited or
reimbursed pursuant to Section 48802 or 76002, provided that no
school district has received reimbursement for the same instructional
activity. Credit for courses completed shall be at the level
determined to be appropriate by the governing boards of the school
district and the community college district pursuant to the
partnership agreement as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision
(a).
   (c) For purposes of this section, a special part-time student may
enroll in not more than 11 units per semester, or the equivalent
thereof, at the community college he or she attends.
   (d) Community college districts and school districts that enter
into a partnership pursuant to this section shall be exempt from
concurrent enrollment provisions pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b)
of, and paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (e) of, Section
48800, if the governing board of the community college district
determines that enrollment of secondary school pupils will not
significantly displace regularly admitted students. 
   (e) If enrollment in a computer science course offered pursuant to
this section requires a laptop computer, or any other computing
device, a pupil shall not be denied enrollment solely on the basis
that he or she does not own such a device.