BILL NUMBER: AB 32	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuller

                        DECEMBER 4, 2006

   An act relating to career technical education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 32, as introduced, Fuller. Career technical education: work
certification training.
   Existing law requires school districts to adopt a course of study
for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, that includes, among other things,
career technical education.
   Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district
to authorize pupils, with parental permission, who would benefit from
advanced scholastic or vocational work, to attend community college
as special part-time students to undertake one or more courses of
instruction at the community college level, in order to provide
educational enrichment opportunities for a limited number of eligible
pupils.
   Existing law provides for the establishment of partnership
academies by participating school districts as "schools within a
school" and as state-school-private sector partnerships that provide
combined academic and occupational training to high school pupils who
present a high risk of dropping out of school.
   Existing law authorizes the county superintendent of schools of
each county, with the consent of the State Board of Education, to
establish and maintain at least one regional occupational center, or
regional occupational program, in the county to provide education and
training in career technical courses. Existing law requires the
governing board of a regional occupational center or program to
ensure that at least 90% of all state-funded courses offered by the
center or program are part of occupational course sequences that
target high-skill occupations that are in demand and to establish and
maintain an employer advisory board or boards.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to provide,
within the public school system, work certification training options
to pupils who are between the ages of 16 and 18 years, have passed
the high school exit examination, and have the consent of their
parents or guardians, with particular emphasis on job specific
skilled labor and technical training.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to provide, within
the public school system, work certification training options to
pupils who are between the ages of 16 and 18 years, have passed the
high school exit examination, and have the consent of their parents
or guardians, with particular emphasis on job specific skilled labor
and technical training.