Bill Text: CA AB2617 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Pupil instruction: dual enrollment programs: competitive grants: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships: best practices: communication and marketing strategy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-11 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2617 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2617
| Introduced by Assembly Member Holden |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to add Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 41585) to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of Division 3 of Title 2 of, the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction, and making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2617, as amended, Holden.
Pupil instruction: dual enrollment programs: competitive grants: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships: best practices: communication and marketing strategy.
Existing law, until January 1, 2027, authorizes the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership with the governing board of a school district or the governing body of a charter school with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school to community college for career technical education or preparation for transfer, improving high school graduation rates, or helping high school pupils achieve college and career readiness. Existing law requires each middle college high school to be structured as a broad-based, comprehensive instructional program focusing on college preparatory and school-to-work curricula, among other things. Under existing law, pupils in early college high schools begin taking college courses as soon as they demonstrate readiness and the college credit earned may be applied toward
completing an associate or bachelor’s degree, transfer to a 4-year university, or obtaining a skills certificate.
This bill would appropriate $500,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the department, in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, by July 1, 2023, to administer a competitive grant program to to, among other things, enable local educational agencies to establish opportunities for pupils to obtain college credits while enrolled in high school and provide dual enrollment opportunities, as provided. The bill would authorize local educational agencies to apply for one-time grants of up to $500,000 to couple
robust pupil advising and success supports with dual enrollment and establish outreach campaigns to encourage pupils to enroll in dual enrollment programs, and to support costs associated with coupling robust pupil advising and success supports with available dual enrollment and accelerated college credit opportunities. promote dual enrollment for new or existing middle college or early college high schools or College and Career Access Pathways partnerships, as specified. The bill would authorize local educational agencies to also apply for one-time grants of up to $250,000 to support the costs to plan for, and start up, a middle college or early college high school that is located on the campus of a local educational agency,
a partnering community college, or other location determined by the local partnership, as provided. The bill would authorize local educational agencies to also apply for one-time grants of up to $100,000 to establish a CCAP partnership, as provided.
Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 41585) is added to Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Education Code, to read:
Article
8.5. Dual Enrollment and Accelerated College Credit Opportunities
41585.
(a) Contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute, the department, in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, shall, beginning on or before July 1, 2023, administer a competitive grant program to do all of the following:(1) Enable more local educational agencies to establish either middle college or early college high schools that provide pupils with access to obtain college credits while enrolled in high school.
(2) Provide incentives for local educational agencies to establish dual enrollment course opportunities that are consistent with the requirements of Section 76004.
(3) Enable local educational agencies with existing middle college or early college high schools or College and Career Access Pathways partnerships established pursuant to Section 76004, to couple robust pupil advising and success supports with available dual enrollment programs dual enrollment and establish outreach campaigns to encourage pupils to enroll in dual enrollment programs.
promote dual enrollment for new or existing middle college or early college high schools or College and Career Access Pathways partnerships established pursuant to Section 76004. For local educational agencies with College and Career Access Pathways partnerships, outreach shall target families and pupils who may not be college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education.
(b) (1) Of the funds appropriated in support of this grant program, the Superintendent shall provide approved applicants with any, or all, of the following, as applicable:
(A) A one-time grant of up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to support a local educational agency’s costs, over a five-year period, to
couple robust pupil advising and success supports with dual enrollment and establish outreach campaigns to encourage pupils to enroll in dual enrollment programs, and to couple robust pupil advising and success supports with available dual enrollment and accelerated college credit opportunities. promote dual enrollment for new or existing middle college or early college high schools or College and Career Access Pathways partnerships established pursuant to Section 76004. For local educational agencies with College and Career Access Pathways partnerships, outreach shall target families and pupils who may not be college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education.
(B) A one-time grant of up to two hundred
fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to support the costs to plan for, and start up, a middle college or early college high school that is located on the campus of a local educational agency agency, a partnering community college, or other location determined by the local partnership, and that is consistent with the specifications of Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 11300) of Part 7 of Division 1 of Title 1.
(C) A one-time grant of up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to establish a College and Career Access Pathways dual enrollment partnership agreement that is consistent with the requirements of Section 76004 and to enable pupils at the participating high school to access dual enrollment opportunities pursuant to the College and Career Access
Pathways partnership agreement.
(2) (A) A local educational agency may request grants from any, or all, of the opportunities specified in subparagraphs (A) to (C), inclusive, of paragraph (1).
(B) A local educational agency may request a grant for the purposes of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) for each schoolsite at which the local educational agency intends to offer dual enrollment opportunities or accelerated college credit opportunities.
(c) The funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act or other statute for purposes of this section shall be distributed, approximately, in the following manner:
(1) Sixty percent shall be available for the
purposes of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b).
(2) Twenty-seven and one-half percent shall be available for the purposes of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b).
(3) Twelve and one-half percent shall be available for the purposes of subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b).
(d) (1) A local educational agency seeking a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Superintendent at a time, in a manner, and with any appropriate information, as the Superintendent may reasonably require. require, including, but not limited to, evidence of an existing partnership with an
institution of higher education for the creation of the dual enrollment program.
(2) The Superintendent shall give priority to available grant funds to support applications from local educational agencies that display any of the following characteristics:
(A) Fifty percent or more of the enrolled pupils at the local educational agency are unduplicated pupils, as defined in Section 42238.02.
(B) The local educational agency has a higher than state average dropout rate.
(C) The local educational agency has a higher than state average rate of suspension and a higher than state average rate of expulsion.
(D) The local educational agency has higher than state average
rates of child homelessness, foster youth, or justice-involved youth.
(E) The local educational agency has a lower than state average rate of pupils completing all of the A–G courses required to be eligible for admission to the University of California or the California State University.
(3) To ensure funds are disbursed in a timely manner, the Superintendent shall begin disbursing funds for approved applicants on or before December 1, 2023.
(e) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that courses offered to high school pupils in dual enrollment programs are part of structured, well-sequenced pathways and count toward postsecondary certificate or degree requirements, and are counted toward high school graduation requirements in equivalent subject areas.
(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that courses offered to high school pupils pursuant to a College and Career Access Pathways partnership agreement established by Section 76004, are part of structured, well-sequenced pathways and consist of transfer-level courses, unless one of the following occurs:
(A) The pupil elects to participate in a degree or certificate pathway that is not met with transfer-level courses.
(B) The pupil has failing grades in mathematics, English, or both, in grade 10 or 11, as determined by the partnering school district, county office of education, or charter school. The pupil may be placed into an innovative remediation course during their first year of participating in the College and Career Access Pathways partnership agreement as an intervention taken to ensure the pupil is on track to
satisfactorily complete state and any local graduation requirements, as determined by the school district, county office of education, or charter school, and is prepared for transfer-level coursework at a community college upon graduation.
(C) A local educational agency seeking a grant pursuant to subdivision (b), that participates in a College and Career Access Pathways partnership pursuant to Section 76004, focuses outreach and opportunities to pupils who may not be already college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education by setting pupil-centered and equitable goals.
(f) On or before June 30, 2024, and on or before June 30, 2027, the department shall prepare a summary of how the funds in this section were disbursed and used to further the goals listed in
subdivision (a), and shall submit the summary to the Senate Committee on Education, Assembly Committee on Higher Education, and Assembly Committee on Education. The summary shall include all of the following information:
(1) The number of grants awarded, disaggregated by local educational agency.
(2) How the funding was used by local educational agencies to accomplish the goals listed in subdivision (a).
(3) The total number of high school pupils by schoolsite enrolled in dual enrollment programs disaggregated by participation in middle college high school, early college high school, College and Career Access Pathways, and other dual enrollment programs.
(4) The total number of community college courses by course category taken by pupils participating
in middle college high school, early college high school, College and Career Access Pathways, and other dual enrollment programs.
(5) The total number of successful course completions by course category disaggregated by participation in middle college high school, early college high school, College and Career Access Pathways, and other dual enrollment programs.
(6) Program Course and program outcomes for pupils who were enrolled in dual enrollment programs, disaggregated by grade level, gender, socioeconomic status, and race and ethnicity.
ethnicity, and other disproportionately impacted groups.
(g) It is the intent of the Legislature that, upon the implementation of the California Cradle-to-Career Data System established in Section 10860, future data and outcome reporting on dual enrollment programs shall be linked through, and conducted in accordance with, the privacy requirements of the California Cradle-to-Career Data System.
(h) For purposes of this article, “local educational agency” means a school district, charter school, or county office of education.
SEC. 2.
(a) The sum of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the department, in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, to administer a competitive grant program pursuant to Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 41585) of Chapter 3.2 of Part 24 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Education Code. The funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be available for encumbrance until June 30, 2027.(b) For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriation made pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be “General Fund
revenues appropriated for school districts,” as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, and included within the “total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B,” as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the 2021–22 fiscal year.
