Bill Text: CA SB1126 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: student transfer: early
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-27 - Held in committee and under submission. [SB1126 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SB1126-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1126 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 6, 2010
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 22, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Senator Liu
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
An act to add Article 3 (commencing with Section 66745) to Chapter
9.2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code,
relating to public postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1126, as amended, Liu. Public postsecondary education: student
transfer: early childhood education: transfer courses.
Existing law establishes the segments of the public postsecondary
education system in the state, including the University of California
administered by the Regents of the University of California, the
California State University administered by the Trustees of the
California State University, and the California Community Colleges
administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges.
Existing law requires the board of governors, the regents, and the
trustees to jointly develop, maintain, and disseminate a common core
curriculum in general education courses for the purposes of student
transfer and prescribes related requirements. These provisions are
applicable to the University of California only to the extent that
the regents, by appropriate resolution, make them applicable.
This bill would require the Academic Senates of the California
Community Colleges and the California State University, and request
the Academic Senate of the University of California, to review the
lower division 8 common core courses in child development or early
education identified by the Early Childhood Curriculum Alignment
Project in conjunction with early childhood faculty to improve
early childhood educator program articulation, and in doing so, to
consider and make findings on specified topics, which the chairs of
the Academic Senates of the California Community Colleges and the
California State University would be required, and the chair of the
Academic Senate of the University of California would be requested,
to report to the Legislature and the Legislative Analyst's Office, on
or before December 1, 2011, along with other specified
recommendations and suggestions. The bill would require the
California State University, and request the University of
California, to deem specified transferring community college students
as having fulfilled lower division coursework requirements, and not
require these students to take more total units in child development
or early education to satisfy graduation requirements for the related
majors than other enrolled students. The bill would remove this
requirement and request upon the Academic Senates' completion of
specified tasks. The bill would make the reporting requirement
inoperative on January 1, 2015, and require the report to be
submitted in compliance with specified law.
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. Article 3 (commencing with Section 66745) is added to
Chapter 9.2 of Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education
Code, to read:
Article 3. Early Childhood Education Transfer Requirements
66745. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) A study conducted by First 5 California estimates that more
than 50 percent of children under the age of five require the care of
someone other than their parents. The same study found that children
who participate in high-quality child care and education do better
in reading and math and are more likely to graduate from high school,
go to college, and develop better emotional and social skills.
(b) The Child Care Law Center has determined that early care and
education is a critical area for societal investment to ensure equity
and opportunity for all children, to support low-income families,
and to fight poverty.
(c) The demand for high quality child care and early education far
surpasses the number of providers and facilities currently
available. Licensed care in California is available for only 27
percent of children with parents in the labor force.
(d) Students in California face barriers as they move from
community colleges to four year institutions due to a lack of
consistency in colleges and confusing educational requirements that
slow the growth of a well-educated workforce.
(e) The state should continue to build upon the work of the Early
Childhood Curriculum Alignment Project, which has identified eight
lower division common core courses in child development or early
education.
(e)
(f) In order for California to meet the demand for
high-quality early education programs and to address the critical
shortage of highly qualified early childhood educators in our state,
the state needs to implement research-based criteria for early
childhood educators, improve articulation and transfer pathways for
early childhood educators, and ensure that policies reflect the best
practices identified by research.
66746. (a) The Academic Senates of the California State
University and the California Community Colleges shall, and the
Academic Senate of the University of California is requested to,
review the lower division 8 common core courses in child development
or early education identified by the Early Childhood Curriculum
Alignment Project in conjunction with early childhood faculty
to improve early childhood educator program articulation. In
conducting this work, the academic senates shall consider and make
findings , at a minimum, on all of the following:
(1) A plan to ensure that California State University and
University of California courses reflect the advanced level of early
educator competencies that will build upon the lower division 8
common core courses and other competency based coursework.
(2) The transferability of coursework from the California
Community Colleges to the California State University and the
University of California.
(3) An implementation plan for The
appropriateness of, and how to achieve, the attainment of a
baccalaureate degree in child development, early education, or a
related major at the California Community Colleges in collaboration
with the California State University or the University of California.
(b) The chairs of the Academic Senates of the California Community
Colleges and the California State University shall, and the chair of
the Academic Senate of the University of California is requested to,
report to the Legislature and the Legislative Analyst's Office, on
or before December 1, 2011, on the findings made pursuant to
subdivision (a), recommend the next steps for implementing changes to
facilitate success for students student
completion of transferable lower division coursework in early
childhood education programs, and suggest any statutory changes
necessary to implement their findings.
(c) (1) The California State University
shall, and the University of California is requested to, deem
transferring community college students who have completed all lower
division 8 common core courses and general education requirements as
having fulfilled lower division coursework requirements and not
require these students to take more total units in child development
or early education to satisfy graduation requirements for the related
majors than other enrolled students.
(2) This subdivision shall become inoperative upon the Academic
Senates' creation of, agreement to, and implementation of the chairs'
recommendations made pursuant to subdivision (b).
(d) (1) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under
subdivision (b) is inoperative on January 1, 2015, pursuant to
Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
(2) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
