Bill Text: CA AB3131 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: Strong Workforce Program: applicants receiving equity multiplier funding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. [AB3131 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3131
| Introduced by Assembly Member McCarty (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Bryan, Gipson, Holden, Jackson, Jones-Sawyer, McKinnor, Weber, and Wilson) (Coauthors: Senators Bradford and Smallwood-Cuevas) |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Sections 53075 and 88830 of the Education Code, relating to career technical education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3131, as amended, McCarty.
California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: Strong Workforce Program: applicants receiving equity multiplier funding.
Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs. Existing law provides, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, that $300,000,000 shall be available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the program.
Existing law, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriates $300,000,000 each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation for the Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier apportionment, as provided. Existing law requires the funding to be allocated to eligible local educational agencies that generate a specified local
control funding formula entitlement based on, among other things, the percentage of unduplicated pupils served.
Existing law establishes the Strong Workforce Program to provide funding to career technical education regional consortia made up of community college districts and local educational agencies, as specified. Existing law also establishes a K–12 component of the Strong Workforce Program. Existing law provides that, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, the amount appropriated in the annual Budget Act for the K–12 component of the program is used to create, support, or expand high-quality career technical education programs at the K–12 level that are aligned with the workforce development efforts occurring through the program. Existing law requires each consortium to form a K–12 Selection Committee, as specified, for purposes of awarding grants under the K–12 component of the program.
Existing law, for both the
California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program and the K–12 component of the Strong Workforce Program, requires that applicants with certain characteristics be given positive consideration, as specified.
This bill would require positive consideration for funding from these 2 sources to be given to applicants that include, or serve pupils enrolled at, local educational agencies receiving Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier apportionments.
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 53075 of the Education Code is amended to read:53075.
(a) When determining proposed grant recipients, the department, in consultation with the executive director of the state board, shall do both of the following:(1) Give positive consideration to each of the following characteristics in an applicant:
(A) Serving unduplicated pupils, as defined in Section 42238.02.
(B) Serving pupil subgroups that have higher than average dropout rates rates, as
identified by the Superintendent.
(C) Located in an area of the state with a high unemployment rate.
(D) Offer an existing high-quality regional-based career technical education program as a joint powers agency or county office of education.
(E) The applicant is, or includes, a local educational agency receiving Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding pursuant to Section 42238.024, as identified through the stability rate data file produced by the department in the prior fiscal year.
(2) Give positive consideration to programs to the extent they do any of the following:
(A) Successfully leverage one or both of the following:
(i) Existing structures, requirements, and resources of the federal Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) (Public Law 115-224), the California Partnership Academies, or Academies pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 54690) of Chapter 9 of Part 29, or the Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Grants.
Program pursuant to Article 7.5 (commencing with Section 52460) of Chapter 9.
(ii) Contributions from industry, labor, and philanthropic sources.
(B) Engage in regional collaboration with postsecondary educational institutions, including the Strong Workforce Program consortium operating in their respective geographic areas, or other local educational agencies to align career pathway instruction with postsecondary program requirements. This shall include, but not be limited to, pathway programs provided under an adopted College and Career Access Pathways partnership agreement pursuant to Section 76004.
(C) Make significant investment in career technical education infrastructure,
equipment, and facilities.
(D) Operate within rural school districts.
(b) When determining grant recipients, the department, in consultation with the executive director of the state board, shall give greatest weight to the applicant characteristics included in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a).
(c) Grant recipients are encouraged to use funds provided for in pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 53070 to create high school programs that provide career-themed coursework with articulated pathways to postsecondary education, including programs established
through a College and Career Access Pathways partnership agreement pursuant to Section 76004, and to develop pathway programs that lead into careers that are in high demand in the state.
SEC. 2.
Section 88830 of the Education Code is amended to read:88830.
(a) When determining grant recipients under the K–12 component of the Strong Workforce Program, the K–12 Selection Committee shall consider past performance of grantees before awarding additional funds to those reapplying for grants.(b) (1) The K–12 Selection Committee shall give positive consideration to each of the following characteristics in an applicant:
(A) Aligned programs serving unduplicated pupils, as defined in Section 42238.02.
(B) Programs that the K–12 Selection Committee, in consultation
with the consortium, determines most effectively meet the needs of the local and regional economies.
(C) Programs serving pupil subgroups that have higher than average dropout rates rates, as identified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
(D) Programs located in an area of the state with a high unemployment rate.
(E) Programs serving pupils enrolled at a local educational agency receiving Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding pursuant to Section 42238.024, as identified through the stability rate data file produced
by the State Department of Education in the prior fiscal year.
(2) When determining grant recipients, the K–12 Selection Committee shall give greatest weight to the applicant characteristics included in this subdivision.
(c) The K–12 Selection Committee shall also give positive consideration to programs to the extent they do any of the following:
(1) Successfully leverage one or both of the following:
(A) Existing structures, requirements, and resources of the federal Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) (Public Law 115-224), the partnership academies program
California Partnership Academies pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 54690) of Chapter 9 of Part 29 of Division 4 of Title 2, or the agricultural career technical education incentive program Agricultural Career Technical Education Incentive Program pursuant to Article 7.5 (commencing with Section 52460) of Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2.
(B) Contributions from industry, labor, and philanthropic sources.
(2) Make significant investments in career technical education infrastructure, equipment, and facilities.
(3) Operate within rural school districts.
