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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 650
Author: Lowenthal (D)
Amended: 7/13/11
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 9-0, 4/13/11
AYES: Lowenthal, Runner, Alquist, Hancock, Huff, Liu,
Price, Simitian, Vargas
NO VOTE RECORDED: Blakeslee, Vacancy
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 9-0, 5/16/11
AYES: Kehoe, Walters, Alquist, Emmerson, Lieu, Pavley,
Price, Runner, Steinberg
SENATE FLOOR : 39-0, 5/23/11 (Consent)
AYES: Alquist, Anderson, Berryhill, Blakeslee, Calderon,
Cannella, Corbett, Correa, De León, DeSaulnier, Dutton,
Emmerson, Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Hancock, Hernandez,
Huff, Kehoe, La Malfa, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Lowenthal,
Negrete McLeod, Padilla, Pavley, Price, Rubio, Runner,
Simitian, Steinberg, Strickland, Vargas, Walters, Wolk,
Wright, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Harman
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/25/11 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : Postsecondary education: College Promise
Partnership Act
SOURCE : Author
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DIGEST : This bill permits Long Beach Community College
District to admit students who are participants in the
College Promise Partnership, to any community college under
its jurisdiction as a special part-time or full-time
student and to permit assigned priority for enrollment and
course registration for these pupils.
Assembly Amendments make clarifying changes and revise and
recast Section 3 of the bill
ANALYSIS :
Existing Law
1.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 or full
time students to undertake one or more courses of
instruction at the community college level.
2.Authorizes a parent or guardian of a pupil to petition
the governing board of a school district to authorize the
attendance of the pupil at a community college as a
special part-time or full-time student on the ground that
the pupil would benefit from advanced scholastic or
vocational work.
3.Authorizes the governing board of a community college
district to admit those students to any community college
under its jurisdiction and to include those students in
the district's report of full-time equivalent students if
they are enrolled in community college classes that are
open to the general public.
2.Provides that, for purposes of receiving state
apportionments, California community college districts
may only include high school students within the
community college district's report on full-time
equivalent students if the students are enrolled in
courses that are open to the general public, as
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specified.
3.Allows the governing board of a community college to
restrict enrollment of K-12 school district students
based on age, completion of a specified grade level, and
demonstrated eligibility.
4.Requires the Chancellor's Office of the California
Community Colleges (CCC) to report to the Department of
Finance annually on the amount of full-time equivalent
students claimed by each community college district for
high school students enrolled in non-credit, non-degree
applicable, degree applicable (excluding physical
education), and degree-applicable physical education,
pursuant to the aforementioned provisions.
This bill:
1. Permits the Long Beach Community College District
(LBCCD) and the Long Beach Unified School District
(LBUSD) enter into a partnership, under the College
Promise Partnership Act, to provide pupils with an
aligned sequence of high school and college coursework
that leads to college courses, with consistent and
jointly established eligibility for college courses.
2. Specifies the purpose of the partnership is to provide
a bridge to college for pupils not already college
bound and to reduce the time for advanced student to
complete programs.
3. Requires pupils participating in the partnership to
complete the augmented California Standards Tests in
grade 11 and enroll in coursework in grade 12 to remedy
any deficiencies diagnosed.
4 Requires the consent of a parent or guardian of a
pupil prior to a pupil's participation in the
partnership.
5. Requires LBCCD and LBUSD to design the partnership to
include focused curricular pathways for a participating
pupil to obtaining credit in general education courses
or a career technical certificate or degree.
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6. Requires the partnership to coordinate the delivery of
student support services including counseling to
participating pupils.
7. Authorizes LBCCD to include high school pupils who
attend a community college within the district who
participate in a partnership to receive state
apportionments, provided that no school district has
received reimbursement for the same instructional
activity.
8. Requires the LBCCD to implement the partnership in a
manner that does not result in increased allocations,
which are above the regularly funded full-time
equivalent students enrollment cap, from the General
Fund for the LBCCD.
9. Requires the LBCCD, if it enters into a partnership,
to provide for an independent evaluation of the
partnership funded with resources provided by the
participating entities, which shall be presented to the
Chancellor of the CCC and the Legislature.
10. Requires the evaluation, at a minimum, to provide
recommendations for the improvement of, and issues
related to the establishment of admittance, enrollment,
course registration priority provided to pupils
participating in the partnership and a review and
analysis of whether the partnership met the following
objectives:
A. An increase in the percentage of students who
attended the school district who attend college
directly from high school.
B. An increase in the percentage of students who
attended the school district who are determined, by
assessment or other means, to be prepared for
college-level English and mathematics by the
commencement of their first regular semester of
college.
C. An increase in the average number of college
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units completed prior to first semester enrollment
by entering freshmen from the school district.
D. An increase in the number of students who
attended the school district who successfully
complete college-level English and mathematics in
their first year.
E. An increase in the number of students who
attended the school district who complete 25
transferable units in their first year.
F. An increase in the number of students who
attended the school district who earn a degree or
certificate at the college, or successfully transfer
to a four-year university, within four years of
graduating from high school.
G. The evaluation is submitted to the Legislature
on or before December 30, 2016.
11.Allows the LBCCD to include high school pupils who
attend a community college within the district, provided
that no school district has received reimbursement for
the same instructional activity.
12.Requires the LBCCD to report to the Chancellor of the
CCC the monies utilized for the partnership by no later
than November 1 of each year the partnership is in
operation.
13.Provides that credit for partnership courses completed
shall be at the level determined to be appropriate by
the governing boards of the LBUSD and the LBCCD.
14.Allows the LBCCD to assign priority enrollment and
course registration to any of the following:
A. Students pursuing and making satisfactory
academic progress toward a degree, certificate,
transfer, or basic skills objective that is declared
for reaffirmed upon enrollment in each academic term.
B. Students pursuing and making satisfactory
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academic progress pursuant to an approved individual
education plan toward a career development objective
that is declared or reaffirmed upon enrollment in
each academic term.
15. Sunsets as of June 30, 2018, as specified.
Comment
Need for the Bill . The Long Beach "College Promise" is a
nationally recognized program that provides early and
sustained outreach to students and families through college
transition, academic support and guidance, guaranteed
admission to California State University, Long Beach, and a
tuition-free first semester at LBCCD. This bill takes the
"College Promise" to the next level by authorizing
collaboration between Long Beach's three premier
educational institutions to provide participating pupils
with:
1.Concurrent enrollment, so that LBUSD students can earn
college credit while they simultaneously meet high school
graduation requirements.
2.Priority for enrollment and course registration to
certain students, as specified.
3.Measurable results that are clearly defined with metrics
that must be achieved, or else the Act sunsets in 2019.
Additional Background . Current law does not outline a
comprehensive strategy for concurrent enrollment. As a
result of past improper concurrent enrollment practices,
inadvertent barriers that inhibit the creation and growth
of more comprehensive practices have been the result. The
basic underlying concern is that concurrent enrollment
allows both the K-12 district and the CCC district to claim
apportionments for the same student (double-dipping\
Prioritizing Enrollment and Displacement Issues . As the
state continues to go through a significant downturn in
available funding for adult education and community
colleges, adult education (offered by K-12) funding for
this has been reduced by over 20 percent and the remaining
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funding put into the "flexibility" category meaning the
funding has become discretionary, with most K-12 school
districts using these funds to maintain the core K-12
programs within a district. In addition, community
colleges are suffering from budgetary shortfalls combined
with increased student demand, in part due to unemployment
and the overall economic slowdown, leaving the community
colleges unable to provide course offerings to fully meet
student needs. According to Chancellor Jack Scott, the
proposed 2011Budget translates into approximately 400,000
students losing access to classes (200,000 students already
in the system for which the colleges are receiving no state
remuneration and roughly 200,000 additional students).
When implementing budget cuts in prior years, community
college CEOs were directed by state chancellor Jack Scott
to retain courses that lead to job retraining, degrees,
certificates, transfer, and that help increase basic
English and math skills.
This bill includes an additional priority for enrollment
and registration to include students that are participating
in the "College Promise."
The sunset of "College Promise Partnership" is conditional
and contingent upon the certification by the State Board of
Education and the Chancellor of the CCC that at least four
out of six measureable objectives are met.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2011-12 2012-13
2013-14 Fund
Authorizes partner- Likely minor, non-reimbursable
costs Local/
ship
General*
*Counts toward meeting the Proposition 98 minimum funding
guarantee
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SUPPORT : (Verified 8/25/11)
Community College League of California
Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce
Long Beach City College
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
Long Beach Unified School District
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office,
existing law restricts LBCCD from admitting additional high
school students to take college courses. This bill would
allow LBCCD, upon entering into a Partnership with LBUSD,
to accept more high school seniors who are participating in
the Promise to take LBCCD courses. Through providing LBCCD
additional flexibility to accept Promise students, this
bill aims to create a model program for increasing college
attendance and completion rates.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/25/11 (Consent)
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall,
Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford, Brownley,
Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter,
Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani,
Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Grove,
Hagman, Halderman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Roger
Hernández, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones,
Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor,
Mendoza, Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande,
Nielsen, Norby,
Olsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Portantino, Silva,
Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres, Valadao,
Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bonilla, Gorell
CPM:cm 8/26/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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