Bill Text: CA SB775 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Postsecondary education: accountability program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB775 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SB775-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 775 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 14, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Senator Liu
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to add Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 67050) to Part
40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of, and to repeal Chapter 4.5
(commencing with Section 99180) of Part 65 of Division 14 of Title 3
of, the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 775, as amended, Liu. Postsecondary education: accountability
program.
Existing law establishes the University of California, under the
administration of the Regents of the University of California, the
California State University, under the administration of the Trustees
of the California State University, and the California Community
Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges, and private, independent institutions
of higher education as the 4 segments of postsecondary education in
this state.
Existing law establishes a higher education accountability program
under which the University of California, the California State
University, and the California Community Colleges are required to
prepare a list of reports on a regular basis to the Legislature and
to state agencies. Under the program, the California Postsecondary
Education Commission (CPEC) is required to submit an
annual higher education report to the Legislature and the Governor
that provides information on significant indicators of the
performance of public colleges and universities.
This bill would repeal the existing higher education
accountability program and require the state to establish a new
accountability framework to achieve prescribed educational and
economic goals. The bill would set forth educational and
economic goals and would require the CPEC, by January 30, 2010, to
convene a working group to develop a prescribed set of performance
outcomes to measure progress toward meeting those educational and
economic goals. The bill would require the working group to publish
those performance outcomes by January 30, 2011. The bill also would
express legislative intent with respect to conditioning receipt of
enrollment growth funding upon achievement of those
performance outcomes by the 3 segments of public postsecondary
education.
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. Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 67050) is added
to Part 40 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read:
CHAPTER 12.5. EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC GOALS FOR CALIFORNIA
HIGHER EDUCATION
67050. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Since the enactment of the Master Plan for Higher Education in
1960, California's system of postsecondary education has provided
access and high quality educational opportunities that have fueled
California's economic growth.
(b) In today's global information economy, California's national
and international success as an educational and economic leader will
require strategic investments and improved management of state
resources.
(c) Several factors, including changing demographics, rising
costs, increased competition for scarce state funding, and employer
concerns about graduates' skills, present new challenges to higher
education and state policymakers in effectively meeting the
postsecondary education needs of Californians.
(d) Although the public segments of higher education have each
developed their own institution-specific accountability efforts,
these efforts do not combine to tell us whether the state as a whole
is on track to produce enough college educated
college-educated individuals to meet workforce needs and
to effectively compete in the global information economy, nor do they
reflect statewide policy goals that cut across all higher education
segments.
(e) Without the articulation of a shared common vision and goals,
and in the absence of a statewide focus and context, the state has
limited access to meaningful data and analyses to assess the state's
performance in key areas, in order to make critical fiscal and policy
decisions aimed at fostering fundamental changes within
California's postsecondary education system that are required to meet
the needs of the 21st century .
(f) As public demand to ensure the state is making proper
investments in postsecondary education grows, policy and educational
leaders must collectively hold themselves be
accountable for connecting the postsecondary academic
educational and research enterprise to the state'
s economic and workforce development needs, increasing its
productivity, and expanding postsecondary access for all citizens and
regions of the state to produce the economic and educational
outcomes that best serve the state's interest.
(g) In order to achieve the educational and economic outcomes
necessary to ensure the state's success, it is the intent of the
Legislature that data-driven budget and policy decisions within
higher education, premised on a state-level public agenda for higher
education pursuant to this chapter, be guided by each of the
following goals:
(1) Increased educational attainment and successful transition
across all education levels. In the best performing state in the
nation, for every 100 pupils in grade 9, 91 graduate from high
school, 57 directly enter college, and 27 graduate within 150 percent
of program time. However, in California, for every 100 pupils in
grade 9, 71 graduate from high school, 31 directly enter college, and
17 graduate within 150 percent of program time, placing California
27th in the nation. Goal: by 2020, California will have improved its
educational pipeline numbers sufficiently so that it is among the top
10 states in the nation for the successful movement of students
through this pipeline.
(2) Meeting the state's economic development, workforce
development, and civic capacity needs. Current projections by the
National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education indicate that
California residents will have the largest drop in projected per
capita income in the nation over the next two decades, and will fall
below the national average by 2012. Goal: by 2020, California will be
at the average per capita income of the top 10 new economy states as
determined using the State New Economy Index developed by the
Progressive Policy Institute.
(3) Closure of the achievement gap and increased learning at all
levels. In 2005, California ranked 33rd among states in the
percentage of persons between 18 and 24 years of age, inclusive, with
a high school diploma, 31st in the percentage of persons between 25
and 64 years of age, inclusive, with an associate degree, and 14th in
the percentage of persons between 25 and 64 years of age, inclusive,
with a bachelor's or higher degree. Goal: by 2020, California will
be in the top 10 states nationally for the percentages of its age
groups with degrees and certificates conferred.
67051. The State of California shall establish an accountability
framework that provides the basis for an ongoing assessment of the
collective contribution of the state's system
each of the public segments of postsecondary education toward
meeting clear and measurable educational and economic goals.
economic goals established pursuant to Section 67050.
The accountability framework shall be designed to serve as a tool to
hold California's postsecondary education system accountable in
helping the state meet articulated state goals by
informing funding and policy decisions.
67052. The state shall assess the contributions of the segments
of public postsecondary education in helping the state meet the
statewide goals articulated in Section 67050 by measuring progress
toward specific performance outcomes in each of the following areas:
(a) Improved access to postsecondary education.
(b) Enhanced learning and graduation rates.
(c) Increased efficiency, including reduced time to obtain a
degree.
(d) Closure of achievement gaps.
(e) Generation of beneficial research.
(f) Production of graduates able to meet critical workforce needs.
67053. (a) On or before January 30, 2010, the California
Postsecondary Education Commission shall convene a working group of
postsecondary education stakeholders, practitioners, and experts,
including, but not limited to, representatives of each segment of
public postsecondary education.
(b) The working group shall develop a set of specific performance
outcomes in each of the areas specified in Section 67052. The
development of each performance outcome shall include consideration
of the degree to which postsecondary educational institutions can
reasonably achieve the outcome.
(c) On or before January 30, 2011, the working group shall publish
the set of performance outcomes and shall make that publication
available to each segment of public postsecondary education, the
Governor, the Legislature, and the public.
67054. (a) Commencing with the 2012-13 fiscal year, in allocating
any state funding to public postsecondary educational institutions
for purposes of enrollment growth, the state shall consider the
progress of those institutions toward meeting performance outcomes
aimed at helping the state achieve the goals articulated in Section
67050.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section,
that public postsecondary educational institutions demonstrate
measurable progress in achieving performance outcomes, as a condition
of receiving enrollment growth funding.
SEC. 2. Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 99180) of Part 65 of
Division 14 of Title 3 of the Education Code is repealed.
