BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: April 17, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Joan Buchanan, Chair
AB 1146 (Morrell) - As Amended: April 8, 2013
[Note: This bill is doubled referred to the Assembly Higher
Education Committee and will be heard as it relates to issues
under its jurisdiction.]
SUBJECT : Pupils: Concurrent enrollment in secondary school and
community college
SUMMARY : This bill extends the sunset date of the section from
January1, 2014 until January 1, 2019.
EXISTING LAW:
1)Provides for the admission of currently enrolled K-12 students
to the California Community Colleges (CCC). Specifically, a
school district governing board, with a principal's
recommendation and parental consent, may authorize pupils who
would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work to
attend a CCC during any session, including summer session, as
special part-time or full-time students.
2)Prohibits the principal of a school from recommending more
than five percent of the total number of students in any grade
level, as specified, for CCC summer session attendance.
Students participating in a middle college high school or
early college high school program, as defined, are generally
exempted from the five percent cap.
3)This bill makes technical non-substantive edits to this
section.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Concurrent enrollment includes all CCC coursework,
both credit and non-credit, undertaken by students who are
concurrently enrolled in high school, including summer terms
prior to high school graduation. These students are also known
as "special admits" because they are granted admission to the
CCC under special rules. School districts may determine which
pupils would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work
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and may recommend and authorize those pupils to attend and take
courses at the CCC level. The CCC districts may then admit such
students.
Students receive credit toward high school graduation and/or
college degrees depending upon the nature of the course and the
academic policies of the granting institutions. For example, a
student who completes the equivalent of Advanced Placement
Calculus at a CCC might be provided credit by the high school
for one of the years of mathematics required for graduation.
According to the author, there is clear evidence that summer
school in high schools has been diminished due to fiscal
constraints and as a result, continued opportunities for
students to take courses at the CCC are necessary.
Prior legislation :
SB 1437 (Padilla) Chapter 718, Statutes of 2008, established
California Virtual Campus and deemed the CCC to be qualifying
schools for the California Teleconnect Fund program
administered by the Public Utilities Commission. This bill also
revised the sunset date of this section from January 1, 2009
until January 1, 2014. This bill was not heard by the Assembly
Education Committee.
AB 967 (Canciamilla) Chapter 399, Statutes of 2005, exempted
from an enrollment cap on concurrent enrollment at the CCC a
student recommended by his/her principal for enrollment in a
college level advanced scholastic summer session course, or in a
vocational CCC summer session course. This bill was not heard by
the Assembly Education Committee.
SB 338 (Scott), Chapter 786, Statutes of 2003, changed the
statutes governing concurrent enrollment in the CCC, including
the specification of eligible courses, the determination of
academic credit for courses completed, appropriate claiming of
per student funding for courses offered, and the disclosure of
course availability. This measure was passed out of the Assembly
Education Committee by an 11-0 vote.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
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Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Jill Rice / ED. / (916) 319-2087