Bill Text: CA SB1376 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Career technical education: pilot preapprentice
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-27 - Held in committee and under submission. [SB1376 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SB1376-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1376 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 5, 2010
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 12, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Senator Romero
( Coauthors: Assembly Members
Hall and Solorio )
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
An act to add and repeal Section 8157 of the Education Code,
relating to career technical education , and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1376, as amended, Romero. Career technical education: pilot
preapprentice aerospace machining program.
Existing law establishes the Health Science and Medical Technology
Project, administered by the State Department of Education to
provide competitive grant funds to California public schools to
enhance existing or establish new health-related career pathway
programs.
This bill would state findings and declarations of the Legislature
regarding California's aerospace workforce and trends in California'
s high schools. The bill would create a pilot preapprentice aerospace
machining program, administered by the California Labor and
Workforce Development Agency to provide career technical education to
high school pupils in the form of machining and related curriculum
that can be applied to various manufacturing industries in
California, including, but not limited to, aerospace manufacturing,
as specified. The program would be funded by a direct federal
appropriation, that would be deposited into the Machinist Investment
Fund, which would be created by this bill. The bill would provide
that implementation of the program would be contingent upon receipt
of sufficient federal funding. Grants would be competitively awarded
to community colleges based upon specified criteria, including their
ability to address the existing local and regional industry
manufacturing needs, while providing meaningful career technical
education opportunities for at-risk youth. The bill would require the
Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges system to
develop preapprenticeship curriculum in aerospace technology, and
machining technology generally. The model curriculum would be
required to result in the issuance of a certificate of completion
stating that the holder has completed curriculum that meets specified
criteria. The bill would specify that, consistent with federal
guidelines, each community college shall complete an evaluation of
its participation in the pilot program on or before the end date of
the grant award, and submit the evaluation to the chancellor's office
by that date. The chancellor's office would be required to compile
the information provided by the participating community colleges, and
to submit an evaluation to the Legislature by December 1, 2013. The
bill would provide that its provisions would remain in effect until
January 1, 2015.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Vote: majority 2/3 . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) Despite the departure of several companies since the military
base closures of the early 1990s, the aerospace industry remains a
vital component of California's economy, representing at least
370,000 jobs statewide and a minimum of thirty-two billion dollars
($32,000,000,000) annually in gross domestic product.
(b) There will be a dearth of skilled machinists and technicians
to work in the aerospace industry as the baby boomers begin to retire
over the next decade.
(c) The aerospace industry is currently addressing its labor needs
by luring skilled labor away from competing companies.
(d) The highly skilled labor sought by the aerospace industry is
represented by a finite, aging pool of employees who, under current
conditions, will not be readily replaced by younger workers.
(e) The continued growth of the aerospace industry is pivotal to
California's future prosperity.
(f) Unless the Legislature acts to address labor workforce needs
in this sector, the aerospace industry will continue to leave
California or import a far greater proportion of foreign labor which,
in either case, will cause significant damage to the state's
economy.
(g) California's high schools are struggling with a dropout rate
of 21 percent.
(h) A significant factor in California's dropout rate is the
existence of curriculum that does not engage pupils with some
immediate, real-world application.
(i) Pupils who drop out of high school are often unable to find
suitable entry-level employment and have little chance of continuing
on to higher education, and there is a strong chance that they will
ultimately join California's prison population, given the statistic
that at least two-thirds of the current inmate population does not
possess a high school diploma.
(j) The dropout rate is likely to hold, and possibly worsen,
unless the state acts to provide hands-on high school curriculum with
cross-over mathematics and science applications, that also provides
an avenue to both higher education in related disciplines, and to
skilled, high-wage employment.
SEC. 2. Section 8157 is added to the Education Code, to read:
8157. (a) There is hereby established a pilot preapprentice
aerospace machining program that shall provide career technical
education to high school pupils in the form of machining and related
curriculum that can be applied to various manufacturing industries in
California, including, but not limited to, aerospace manufacturing.
The curriculum shall include, but not be limited to, the following
green technologies in aerospace manufacturing:
(1) Use of computers to assist in metalworking to eliminate waste
of aluminum, titanium, and other costly strategic metals in the
manufacturing process.
(2) Training in the machining of lighter, strategic materials,
including titanium and composites, to reduce weight and increase
aircraft fuel efficiency.
(3) Training in the fabrication of more energy-efficient aircraft
ventilation, heating, and cooling systems.
(b) The program shall be funded by a direct federal appropriation.
All funds appropriated for the purposes of this program shall be
deposited into the Machinist Investment Fund, which is hereby
created.
(c) The pilot program and the Machinists Investment Fund shall be
administered by the California Labor and Workforce Development
Agency.
(d) Implementation of the pilot program established by this
section shall be contingent upon receipt of sufficient federal
funding.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a mandate
on local workforce investment boards with regard to how they will
spend Workforce Investment Act funds, including funds made available
to them through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
(f) It is the intent of the Legislature that the goal of the pilot
program shall be the development of an industry-based sector
strategy to address labor needs in the manufacturing industry
generally and in the aerospace industry in particular, specifically
the need for trained machinists, and that the Labor and Workforce
Development Agency shall focus on efforts to assist in this strategy.
(g) The California Workforce Investment Board is encouraged, in
collaboration with local workforce investment boards, industry, and
community colleges, to seek and apply for funds for related
industry-based sector strategies.
(h) Community colleges, in partnership with local workforce
investment boards, employers, and high schools, shall apply for
grants that shall be competitively awarded based upon a number of
criteria, including, but not limited to:
(1) A detailed explanation regarding what actions the applicant
will take to ensure that it will meet the objectives of the program,
specifically, the ability to address the existing local and regional
industry manufacturing needs, while providing meaningful career
technical education opportunities for at-risk youth that are likely
to lead to employment after participation and to position pupils for
admission to additional higher education in a related field.
(2) Whether the adopted preapprenticeship curriculum in aerospace
technology, and machining technology generally, conforms to the model
curriculum developed by the Chancellor's Office of the California
Community Colleges system pursuant to subdivision (i).
(3) Inclusion of an aggressive outreach plan demonstrating the
degree to which the pupils targeted to receive instruction may be
considered at risk, based upon factors such as prior academic
achievement, socioeconomic background, and school disciplinary
record. Special weight may be given to the specific media employed to
reach the target pupil population.
(4) Evidence that the application will advance an industry sector
strategy for addressing current and future labor needs, as well as
provide career paths for potential employees in the manufacturing
industry consistent with Division 8 (commencing with Section 15000)
of the Unemployment Insurance Code.
(5) Evidence that the industry sector will benefit from the
regional economy in which it is located.
(6) The ability of the community college campus or of a regional
occupational center to provide sufficient in-house expertise and
laboratory facilities to teach the required curriculum.
(7) The availability and willingness of a local machinists union
to actively participate in program-related activities, including, but
not limited to, technical assistance for curriculum development,
mentoring, and recruiting pupils as future journeymen upon completion
of the preapprentice curriculum.
(8) Whether there are opportunities to build on existing
partnerships with local high schools in the region.
(i) The Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges
system shall develop preapprenticeship curriculum in aerospace
technology, and machining technology generally. The model curriculum
shall result in the issuance of a certificate of completion stating
that the holder has completed curriculum that meets the National
Institute of Metalworking Skills (NIMS) standard. Upon completion of
the curriculum, community colleges shall administer to students a
NIMS examination that, if passed, will result in the issuance of a
NIMS certificate. Individual colleges wishing to participate in the
pilot program established by this section shall have the option of
adopting the model curriculum developed by the chancellor's office or
adopting an alternative curriculum that meets the standard for the
certificate of completion.
(j) To provide maximum flexibility at the local level regarding
the details of implementation, community college campuses selected
for receipt of a competitive grant, in consultation with area high
schools, shall identify the location at which instruction shall
occur, whether on the high school campus, at a regional occupation
center, or at a community college. Factors such as availability of
curriculum, instructors, lab facilities, and transportation may be
considered.
(k) To the degree consistent with federal guidelines, the
community-based job training grant award recipients shall reserve 10
percent of the funds received for an evaluation component. Each
community college, in consultation with its local workforce
investment board, shall complete an evaluation of its participation
in the pilot program on or before the end date of the grant award,
and submit it to the chancellor's office by that date. The chancellor'
s office shall compile the information provided by participating
community colleges and submit an evaluation to the Legislature by
December 1, 2013. The evaluation shall include all of the following:
(1) A report of the number of students who received training.
(2) The number of students who completed training and received a
NIMS certificate.
(3) The number of private companies participating in the training,
either via in-kind equipment donations, mentorship and apprentice
activities, or other support.
(4) The number of students who obtained related employment
otherwise secured placement in a machining apprentice program as a
result of the training.
(l) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2015, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 3. This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to access federal funding in the current budget cycle, it
is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
