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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 2063
Author: Gallagher (R)
Amended: 4/13/16 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 9-0, 6/8/16
AYES: Liu, Block, Hancock, Huff, Leyva, Mendoza, Monning, Pan,
Vidak
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 79-0, 5/5/16 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT: Work-based learning opportunities: work experience
education and job shadowing
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill establishes an additional option by which a
student who is at least 14 years old may participate in work
experience education, and increases the time a student may
participate in job shadowing from 25 to 40 hours per semester if
certain conditions are met.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law:
1)Provides for various career technical education programs for
the purpose of integrating academic and vocational education
and motivating students to stay in school and graduate with
the skills necessary to advance into postsecondary education,
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advanced workforce training, or the workforce. (Education
Code § 54690, et seq. and § 52300, et seq.)
2)Authorizes the governing board of school districts maintaining
a high school to establish work-based learning or work
experience education programs for the purpose of providing
students with instruction in skills, attitudes, and
understandings necessary for employment success, including
providing guidance and supervision, arranging credit for work
experience education courses, and authorizing the district to
purchase liability insurance for students enrolled in programs
of study involving work experience or vocational education at
locations off school grounds. (EC § 51760)
3)Requires the governing board of any school district offering
work experience education to grant credit to students
satisfactorily completing a work experience education program,
in an amount not to exceed a total of 40 semester credits, of
which no more than 10 credits may be conferred in any one
semester, provided the student meets all of the following
requirements:
a) At the time of enrollment, the student is at least 16
years of age.
b) During the course of the student's enrollment, the
student receives as a minimum the equivalent of one
instructional period per week of classroom instruction or
counseling by a certificated employee.
c) The work experience education program meets all of the
requirements of law governing these programs. (EC §
51760.3)
4)Authorizes students under the age of 16 years to receive
credit for work experience education under the following
conditions:
a) The student is in grade 11 or higher.
b) The principal of the school certifies that the student
is in need of immediate work experience in order to pursue
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employment opportunities.
c) The principal of the school certifies that there is a
probability that the student will no longer be enrolled as
a full-time student without being provided the opportunity
to enroll in a work experience education program.
d) The student's individualized education program
prescribes the type of training for which participation in
work experience education is deemed appropriate. (EC §
51760.3)
5)Provides that the school district, county superintendent of
schools, or any school administered by the California
Department of Education, under whose supervision work
experience education, cooperative vocational education,
community classrooms, a job shadowing experience, or student
apprenticeship programs, to be considered the employer of
students receiving this training unless the student is being
paid a cash wage or salary by a private employer (except in
the case of registered student apprentices, as specified).
(EC § 51769)
6)Defines a "job shadowing experience" as a visit to a workplace
for the purpose of career exploration for no less than three
hours and no more than 25 hours in one semester, intersession,
or summer school session. (EC § 51769)
Existing regulations require work experience education to
consist of one or more of the following paid and unpaid types of
on-the-job experiences which the school district may offer
through a formal training agreement with each employer: career
technical work experience education, general work experience
education, and exploratory work experience education.
(California Code of Regulations, Title 5, § 10071)
This bill:
1)Authorizes a student to receive credit for work experience
education if the student is at least 14 years of age and the
principal of the school in which the student is enrolled
certifies that it is necessary for the student's participation
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in a career technical education program.
2)Notwithstands the existing cap of 25 hours per semester for
participation in job shadowing to authorize a student to
participate in a job shadowing experience for up to 40 hours
in one semester, intersession, or summer school session if the
principal of the school in which the student is enrolled
certifies that it is necessary for the student's participation
in a career technical education program.
Comments
Work experience education. According to the California
Department of Education's Web site, work experience education is
a course of study that may be established by a governing board
of any local educational agency to provide paid or unpaid
on-the-job experiences for high school students through training
agreements with employers. Work experience education programs
combine an on-the-job component with related classroom
instruction designed to maximize the value of the on-the-job
experiences. Local educational agencies may offer any one or
more of the following types of work experience education
programs:
1)Exploratory Work Experience Education: The goal of this
program is to provide career guidance and ascertain their
interests and aptitudes for specific careers through
opportunities to observe and sample a variety of conditions of
work. Exploratory work experience education includes a
combination of job observations and related classroom
instruction in work experience education. Students enrolled
in this program may be as young as 12 years of age.
2)General Work Experience Education: The purpose of this
program is to provide students with opportunities for applying
the basic skills of reading, writing, and computation through
a combination of supervised paid employment in any
occupational field and related classroom instruction.
3)Career Technical Work Experience Education: The purpose of
this program is to reinforce and extend vocational learning
opportunities for students through a combination of related
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classroom instruction and supervised paid employment in the
occupation for which their career technical course prepares
the student.
Age of students participating in work experience education.
Existing law authorizes students under the age of 16 years to
receive credit for work experience education if:
1)The student is enrolled in grade 11 or higher.
2)The school principal certifies that the student needs to
participate to pursue employment or that the student would
otherwise not be enrolled in school full-time.
3)The student's individualized education program specifies that
type of training.
This bill provides an option that recognizes the modern nature
of work experience by referencing career technical education.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified6/20/16)
California School Boards Association
Kern County Superintendent of Schools
Los Angeles County Office of Education
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/20/16)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 79-0, 5/5/16
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker,
Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke,
Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley,
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Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier,
Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson,
Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger
Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey,
Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes,
McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte,
O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez,
Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting,
Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Rendon
NO VOTE RECORDED: Beth Gaines
Prepared by:Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916) 651-4105
6/22/16 15:15:01
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