BILL NUMBER: AB 1940	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 17, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Holden

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to add and repeal Section 52245 of the Education Code,
relating to pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1940, as amended, Holden. Advanced placement program: pilot
grant program: STEM courses.
   Existing law contains legislative findings and declarations
stating that advanced placement courses, among other things, help to
improve the overall curriculum at schools where they are provided and
provide a cost-effective means for high school pupils to obtain
college-level coursework experience. Existing law requires the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually update the
information on advanced placement available on the Internet Web site
of the State Department of Education to include current information
on the various means available to school districts to offer or access
advanced placement courses, and to annually communicate with high
schools that offer advanced placement courses in fewer than 5
subjects and inform them of the various options for making advanced
placement courses and other rigorous courses available to pupils who
may benefit from them.
   This bill, until July 1, 2017, would establish a pilot grant
program overseen by the department for purposes of awarding grants to
cover the costs associated with a high school establishing or
expanding its advanced placement curriculum in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics, as specified. The bill would require
the Superintendent and the College Board to submit no later than July
1, 2017, a specified report to the  appropriate committees
of the  Legislature describing the effectiveness of the 
pilot  grant program.
   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.  Section 52245 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   52245.  (a) There is hereby established a pilot grant program for
the purpose of awarding grants to cover the costs associated with a
high school establishing or expanding its advanced placement
curriculum in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
   (b) A high school may apply to the department for grant funding
pursuant to this section if all of the following conditions are met:

   (1) The school offers five or fewer advanced placement courses.
 
   (2) The school lacks advanced placement courses in science,
technology, engineering, or mathematics.  
   (1) The high school meets either of the following criteria: 

   (A) Does not offer advanced placement courses in mathematics or
science.  
   (B) Offers advanced placement courses in mathematics or science,
but those courses are sufficiently oversubscribed.  
   (3) 
    (2)  The  high  school has identified pupils
who have demonstrated through their scores on the preliminary SAT
that they have high potential to be successful in one or more
advanced placement courses in science, technology, engineering, or
mathematics.
   (c) (1) No later than July 1, 2017, the Superintendent and the
College Board shall submit a report to the Legislature describing the
effectiveness of the pilot grant program established pursuant to
this section. The report shall include both of the following:
   (A) Number of pupils who have access to advanced placement courses
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
   (B) Success rates in the advanced placement courses in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics that include core
demographics, including, but not limited to, gender and race.
   (2) A report submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
   (d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2017, and, as
of January 1, 2018, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2018, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.