AB 1846, as introduced, Lopez. Adult education consortium program.
Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the State Department of Education, pursuant to funding made available in the annual Budget Act, to jointly provide 2-year planning and implementation grants to regional consortia of community college districts and school districts for developing regional plans to better serve the educational needs of adults. Existing law requires the grant funds provided under this program to be used by each regional consortium to create and implement a plan to better provide adults in its region with certain skills, classes, courses, and programs, including, among other things, programs for apprentices.
This bill would appropriate $250,000,000 every fiscal year from the General Fund to the California Community Colleges and the State Department of Education for ongoing support of the adult education consortium program.
The funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
The sum of two hundred fifty million dollars
2($250,000,000) is appropriated every fiscal year from the General
3Fund to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and
4the State Department of Education for ongoing support of the adult
5education consortium program implemented pursuant to Section
684830 of the Education Code.
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