BILL NUMBER: AB 2216	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Muratsuchi

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act relating to career technical education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2216, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Career technical education:
programs.
   Existing law establishes various career technical education
programs, including, but not limited to, regional occupational
centers or programs, linked learning, partnership academies, and
career pathways programs.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would promote and support high quality career
technical education, including, but not limited to, regional
occupational centers or programs, linked learning, partnership
academies, and career pathway programs, to help prepare and engage
pupils for transition to higher education and the workforce.
   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 enact
legislation that would promote and support high quality career
technical education, including, but not limited to, regional
occupational centers or programs, linked learning, partnership
academies, and career pathway programs, to help prepare and engage
pupils for transition to higher education and the workforce.