Bill Text: CA AB1940 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Advanced placement program: grant program: STEM curriculum.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1940 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1940-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1940	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 17, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Holden

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to add and repeal Section 52245 of the Education Code,
relating to pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1940, as amended, Holden. Advanced placement program: 
pilot  grant program: STEM  courses.  
curriculu   m. 
   Existing law contains legislative findings and declarations
stating that advanced placement courses, among other things, help to
improve the overall curriculum at schools where they are provided and
provide a cost-effective means for high school pupils to obtain
college-level coursework experience. Existing law requires the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually update the
information on advanced placement available on the Internet Web site
of the State Department of Education to include current information
on the various means available to school districts to offer or access
advanced placement courses, and to annually communicate with high
schools that offer advanced placement courses in fewer than 5
subjects and inform them of the various options for making advanced
placement courses and other rigorous courses available to pupils who
may benefit from them.
   This bill, until July 1,  2017  2021  ,
would establish a  pilot  grant program overseen by
the department for purposes of awarding grants to cover the costs
associated with a high school establishing or expanding its advanced
placement  STEM  curriculum  in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics, as specified   , as
defined . The bill would require the Superintendent  and
the College Board  to submit no later than July 1, 
2017   2021  , a specified report to the
Legislature describing the effectiveness of the  pilot
 grant program.
   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 52245 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   52245.  (a)  There   For purposes of this
section, "STEM curriculum" means courses in any of the following
subject areas:  
   (1) Biology.  
   (2) Calculus.  
   (3) Chemistry.  
   (4) Computer science.  
   (5) Environmental science.  
   (6) Physics.  
   (7) Statistics. 
    (b)     There  is hereby established a
 pilot  grant program for the purpose of awarding
 grants   moneys  to cover the costs
associated with a high school establishing or expanding its advanced
placement  curriculum in science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics   STEM cirriculum  . 
   (b) 
    (c)  A high school may apply to the department for grant
funding pursuant to this section if all of the following conditions
are met:
   (1) The high school meets either of the following criteria:
   (A) Does not offer advanced placement courses in 
mathematics or science   the STEM curriculum  .
   (B) Offers advanced placement courses in  mathematics or
science   the STEM curriculum  , but those courses
are sufficiently oversubscribed.
   (2) The high school has identified pupils who have demonstrated
 through their scores on the preliminary SAT that 
they have high potential to be successful in one or more advanced
placement courses in  science, technology, engineering, or
mathematics  the STEM curriculum. The high school may
identify pupils using any means it deems appropriate, including, but
not limited to, a pupil's score on the preliminary SAT  .

   (c) 
    (d)  (1) No later than July 1,  2017 
 2021  , the Superintendent  and the College Board
 shall submit a report to the Legislature describing the
effectiveness of the  pilot  grant program
established pursuant to this section.  The Superintendent is
encouraged to consult with the College Board in preparing the report
pursuant to this subdivision.  The report shall include both of
the following:
   (A) Number of pupils who have access to advanced placement courses
in  science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
  the STEM curriculum  .
   (B) Success rates in the advanced placement courses in 
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics   the
STEM curriculum  that include core demographics, including, but
not limited to, gender and race.
   (2) A report submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

   (e) The department shall implement this section only to the extent
that moneys are available to the department and the Superintendent
for the purposes of this section. The moneys may be derived from any
source, including, but not limited to, state funding, federal
funding, and nonstate funding sources.  
   (d) 
    (f)  This section shall become inoperative on July 1,
 2017   2021  , and, as of January 1,
 2018   2022  , is repealed, unless a later
enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1,
 2018   2022  , deletes or extends the
dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.