Bill Text: CA AB359 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: dual enrollment: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-10 - In committee: Referred to suspense file. [AB359 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB359-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 359

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Introduced by Assembly Member Holden

February 01, 2023

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An act relating to pupil instruction, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 359, as introduced, Holden. Pupil instruction: dual enrollment: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.

Existing law 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, a county office of education, or the governing body of a charter school for the purpose of offering or expanding dual enrollment opportunities for pupils who may not already be college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education, as provided.

This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum from the General Fund to the State Department of Education and the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for purposes of providing technical support and services for CCAP partnerships, as specified.

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: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) Dual enrollment is an equity-based approach that allows high school pupils who are not historically represented in institutions of higher education the opportunity to take college courses.

(2) Dual enrollment equity gaps among racial and ethnic subgroups are smaller in courses that enroll only high school pupils.

(3) All California community colleges offer some form of dual enrollment.

(4) More than 112,000 high school pupils in the 2019–20 graduating class participated in dual enrollment programs, an increase of 56 percent from the 2015–16 high school graduating class according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

(b) As used in this section, the following definitions apply:

(1) “CCAP partnership” means a College and Career Access Pathways partnership established pursuant to Section 76004 of the Education Code.

(2) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.

(c) The sum of ____ is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Education and the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for purposes of this section.

(d) (1) (A) The State Department of Education shall enter into a contract with the governing board of a school district to perform the activities described in subdivision (f).

(B) The contracted school district shall focus its efforts on school districts that have established or may enter into a CCAP partnership with a community college district.

(2) (A) The State Department of Education shall enter into a contract with a county office of education or consortium of county offices of education to perform the activities described in subdivision (f).

(B) The contracted county office of education or consortium of county offices of education shall focus its efforts on county offices of education that have established or may enter into a CCAP partnership with a community college district.

(3) When performing the activities specified in subdivision (f), a contracted school district, county office of education, or consortium of county offices of education may enter into appropriate contracts for support and services.

(e) (1) (A) The office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall enter into a contract with the governing board of a community college district to perform the activities described in subdivision (f).

(B) The contracted community college district shall focus its efforts on community colleges that have established or may enter into a CCAP partnership with a school district or county office of education.

(2) When performing the activities specified in subdivision (f), the contracted community college district may enter into appropriate contracts for support and services.

(f) Funds appropriated in subdivision (c) shall be used for all of the following:

(1) To identify best practices in providing CCAP partnerships to encourage more local educational agencies and community college districts to participate in CCAP partnerships.

(2) To provide professional development and regional trainings for teachers, faculty administrators, and paraprofessionals to support the establishment of CCAP partnerships.

(3) To develop a statewide pupil- and parent-centered communication and marketing strategy in order to increase the visibility of CCAP partnerships.

(4) To provide access to an online repository of resources to support CCAP partnerships.

(5) To provide technical assistance to local educational agencies and community college districts that participate in CCAP partnerships.

(g) For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriation made by subdivision (c) 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 2024–25 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 2024–25 fiscal year.