AB 288, as introduced, Holden. Public schools: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to allow pupils whom the district has determined would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work to attend community college as special part-time or full-time students, subject to parental permission. Existing law requires credit to be awarded to these pupils, as specified, authorizes a school principal to recommend a pupil for community college summer session if the pupil meets specified criteria, and prohibits the principal from recommending more than 5% of the total number of pupils from any particular grade level who completed that grade immediately before the time of recommendation for summer session attendance.
This bill would authorize the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways partnership with the governing board of a school district located within its service area with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school to community college for career technical education or preparation for transfer, improving high school graduation rates, or helping high school pupils achieve college and career readiness. The bill would require the partnership agreement to outline the terms of the partnership, as specified, and to establish protocols for information sharing, joint facilities use, and parental consent for high school pupils to enroll in community college courses.
The bill would authorize specified high school pupils to enroll in up to 15 units if those units are required for these pupils’ partnership programs and specified conditions are satisfied, and would authorize a community college district to exempt special part-time and full-time students taking up to a maximum of 15 units per term from specified fee requirements. The bill would prohibit a community college district from receiving a state allowance or apportionment for an instructional activity for which a school district has been, or will be, paid an allowance or apportionment under a concurrent enrollment partnership agreement. The bill would require, for each partnership agreement entered into under the bill, the affected community college district and school district to provide an annual report, containing specified data, to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
The Legislature finds and declares all of the
2following:
3(a) Research has shown that dual enrollment can be an effective
4means of improving the educational outcomes for a broad range
5of students.
6(b) Dual enrollment has historically targeted high-achieving
7students; however, increasingly, educators and policymakers are
8looking toward dual enrollment as a strategy to help students who
9struggle academically or who are at risk of dropping out.
10(c) Allowing a greater and more varied segment of high school
11pupils to take community college courses could provide numerous
12benefits to both the pupils and the state,
such as reducing the
13number of high school dropouts, increasing the number of
14community college students who transfer and complete a degree,
15shortening the time to completion of educational goals, and
16improving the level of preparation of students to successfully
17complete for-credit, college-level, courses.
P3 1(d) California should rethink its policies governing dual
2enrollment, and establish a policy framework under which school
3districts and community college districts could create dual
4enrollment partnerships as one strategy to provide critical support
5for underachieving students, those from groups underrepresented
6in postsecondary education, those who are seeking advanced
7studies while in high school, and those seeking a career technical
8education credential or certificate.
9(e) Through dual enrollment partnerships, school districts and
10community college districts could create
clear pathways of aligned,
11sequenced coursework that would allow students to more easily
12and successfully transition to for-credit, college-level, coursework
13leading to an associate degree, transfer to the University of
14California or the California State University, or to a program
15leading to a career technical education credential or certificate.
16(f) To facilitate the establishment of dual enrollment
17partnerships, the state should remove fiscal penalties and policy
18barriers that discourage dual enrollment opportunities. By reducing
19some of these restrictions, it will be possible to expand dual
20enrollment opportunities, thereby saving both students and the
21state valuable time, money, and scarce educational resources.
Section 76004 is added to the Education Code, to read:
Notwithstanding Section 76001 or any other law:
24(a) The governing board of a community college district may
25enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP)
26partnership with the governing board of a school district located
27within its service area for the purpose of offering or expanding
28dual enrollment opportunities with the goal of developing seamless
29pathways from high school to community college for career
30technical education or preparation for transfer, improving high
31school graduation rates, or helping high school pupils achieve
32college and career readiness.
33(b) A participating community college district may enter into a
34CCAP partnership with a school district partner that is governed
35by a
CCAP partnership agreement approved by the governing
36boards of both districts. As a condition of, and before adopting, a
37CCAP partnership agreement, a community college district and a
38school district, at regularly scheduled open public meeting of their
39respective governing boards, shall take comments from the public
40and approve or disapprove the proposed agreement.
P4 1(c) (1) The CCAP partnership agreement shall outline the terms
2of the CCAP partnership and shall include, but not necessarily be
3limited to, the scope, nature, and listing of community college
4courses to be offered, and criteria to assess the ability of pupils to
5benefit from those courses. The CCAP partnership agreement shall
6also establish protocols for information sharing, joint facilities use,
7and parental consent for high school pupils to enroll in community
8college courses.
9(2) The CCAP
partnership agreement shall identify a point of
10contact for the participating community college district and school
11district partner.
12(3) A copy of the CCAP partnership agreement shall be filed
13with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community
14Colleges and with the department before the start of the CCAP
15partnership.
16(d) A community college district participating in a CCAP
17partnership shall not provide physical education course
18opportunities to high school pupils pursuant to this section or any
19other course opportunities that do not assist in the attainment of
20at least one of the goals listed in subdivision (a).
21(e) A high school pupil enrolled in a course offered through a
22CCAP partnership shall not be assessed any fee that is prohibited
23by Section 49011.
24(f) A community college district participating in a CCAP
25partnership may assign priority for enrollment and course
26registration to a pupil seeking to enroll in a community college
27course that is required for the pupil’s CCAP partnership program
28that is equivalent to the priority assigned to a pupil attending a
29middle college high school as described in Section 11300 and
30consistent with middle college high school provisions in Section
3176001.
32(g) The CCAP partnership agreement shall certify that any
33community college instructor teaching a course on a high school
34campus has not been convicted of any sex offense as defined in
35Section 87010, or any controlled substance offense as defined in
36Section 87011.
37(h) The CCAP partnership agreement shall certify that any
38community college instructor teaching a course on a high school
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campus has not displaced or resulted in the termination of an
P5 1existing high school teacher teaching the same course on that high
2school campus.
3(i) (1) A community college district may limit enrollment in a
4community college course solely to eligible high school students
5if the course is offered at a high school campus during the regular
6school day and the community college course is offered pursuant
7to a CCAP partnership agreement.
8(2) For purposes of allowances and apportionments from Section
9B of the State School Fund, a community college district
10conducting a closed course on a high school campus pursuant to
11paragraph (1) of subdivision (j) shall be credited with additional
12units of full-time equivalent students attributable to the attendance
13of eligible high school pupils.
14(j) A community
college district may allow a special part-time
15student participating in a CCAP partnership agreement established
16pursuant to this article to enroll in up to a maximum of 15 units if
17both of the following circumstances are satisfied:
18(1) The units constitute no more than four community college
19courses per term.
20(2) The units are part of an academic program that is part of a
21CCAP partnership agreement established pursuant to this article.
22(k) The governing board of a community college district
23participating in a CCAP partnership agreement established pursuant
24to this article may, in whole or in part, exempt special part-time
25students described in subdivision (j) from the fee requirements in
26Sections 76060.5, 76140, 76223, 76300, 76350, and 79121.
27(l) A
community college district shall not receive a state
28allowance or apportionment for an instructional activity for which
29a school district has been, or shall be, paid an allowance or
30apportionment.
31(m) The attendance of a high school pupil at a community
32college as a special part-time or full-time student pursuant to this
33section is authorized attendance for which the community college
34shall be credited or reimbursed pursuant to Section 48802 or 76002,
35provided that no school district has received reimbursement for
36the same instructional activity.
37(n) For each CCAP partnership agreement entered into pursuant
38to this section, the affected community college district and school
39district shall report annually to the office of the Chancellor of the
40California Community Colleges all of the following information:
P6 1(1) The
total number of high school pupils by schoolsite enrolled
2in each CCAP partnership.
3(2) The total number of community college courses by course
4category and type and by school site enrolled in by CCAP
5partnership participants.
6(3) The total number and percentage of successful course
7completions, by course category and type and by schoolsite, of
8CCAP partnership participants.
9(4) The total number of full-time equivalent students generated
10by CCAP partnership community college district participants.
11(o) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code,
12the annual report required by this subdivision shall also be
13transmitted to all of the following:
14(1) The Legislature, in compliance
with Section 9795 of the
15Government Code.
16(2) The Director of Finance.
17(3) The Superintendent.
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