BILL NUMBER: SB 1339	CHAPTERED  09/03/02

	CHAPTER  320
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 3, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 30, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 15, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 17, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 23, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 7, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 23, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Vasconcellos

                        JANUARY 31, 2002

   An act to amend Section 66204 of the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1339, Vasconcellos.  Postsecondary education:  admissions.
   Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
assist all school districts to ensure that all public high school
pupils have access to a core curriculum that meets the admission
requirements of the University of California and the California State
University.
   This bill would additionally require the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to advise school districts that maintain high schools
about the importance of making readily available to each high school
pupil the list of courses offered by the school attended by that
pupil that are certified by the University of California as meeting
admission requirements.
   This bill would also request the University of California to
assist each school district that maintains a high school to ensure
certain matters regarding admission requirements of the University of
California and the California State University are understood,
employed, and maintained by the school districts and to ensure that
lists of courses currently offered by the high schools and certified
by the University of California as meeting admission requirement
criteria are made available to each high school pupil and a copy is
provided annually to each high school pupil.  This provision and
other related provisions would, pursuant to existing provisions of
law, only be applicable to the University of California if the
Regents of the University of California adopt a resolution to make
them applicable.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that school
districts are encouraged to ensure that their high school pupils are
both of the following:
   (a) Well informed of the courses they need to take to meet
admission requirements for the California State University and the
University of California.
   (b) Not disadvantaged because their high school is unfamiliar with
the processes by which the California State University and the
University of California approve courses that are used to meet
entrance requirements at those respective institutions of higher
education.
  SEC. 2.  Section 66204 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   66204.  (a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall assist
all school districts to ensure that all public high school pupils
have access to a core curriculum that meets the admission
requirements of the University of California and the California State
University.  The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall  advise
school districts that maintain high schools about the importance of
making readily available to each high school pupil the current list
of courses offered by the school attended by that pupil that are
certified by the University of California as meeting admissions
requirements.  It is the intent of the Legislature that each public
high school shall provide the full precollegiate program, provide
adequate course sections in precollegiate programs to accommodate all
its pupils, and regularly counsel pupils to enter those programs and
courses.  There shall be no policy or practice in any public
elementary or secondary school of directing, especially for cultural
or linguistic reasons, any pupil in kindergarten or any of the grades
1 to 12, inclusive, away from choosing programs that prepare that
pupil academically for college.
   (b) The University of California is requested to assist each
school district that maintains a high school in order to ensure all
of the following:
   (1) School districts understand the process by which courses are
submitted to the University of California to be reviewed and
certified as meeting admission requirement criteria.
   (2) School districts have an internal process for developing
courses and submitting courses for review and certification by the
University of California in order to meet admission requirement
criteria.
   (3) School districts maintain accurate lists of courses that are
currently offered by the high schools and are certified by the
University of California as meeting admission requirement criteria.
   (4) Updated lists described in paragraph (3) are readily made
available by the school districts to each high school pupil and a
copy of that list is annually provided to each high school pupil.
   (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that the public and
independent institutions of higher education participate in programs
that assist those in elementary and secondary education in meeting
their responsibilities in preparing students for college.