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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 66
Author: Leyva (D) and McGuire (D)
Amended: 1/14/16
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 6-0, 1/13/16
AYES: Liu, Block, Hancock, Mendoza, Monning, Vidak
NO VOTE RECORDED: Runner, Leyva, Pan
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: 7-0, 1/19/16
AYES: Lara, Bates, Beall, Hill, Leyva, Mendoza, Nielsen
SUBJECT: Career technical education
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill aligns performance accountability outcome
measures for the Economic and Workforce Development program with
the outcome measures for the federal Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act, and authorizes the Department of Consumer
Affairs to make specified licensure information available to the
California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor's Office for
purposes of evaluating outcomes for students who participate in
CCC career technical education programs.
ANALYSIS:
Existing federal law, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Act (WIOA) reauthorizes the nation's employment, training, adult
education, and vocational rehabilitation programs created under
the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. WIOA, among other things,
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requires states to strategically align workforce development
programs, promote accountability and transparency and foster
regional collaboration. (Title 29 United States Code, Chapter
32, § 3101, et seq.)
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Existing state law:
1)Establishes the California Community Colleges Economic and
Workforce Development (EWD) Program to be implemented and
administered by the Chancellor's Office of the CCC in those
fiscal years for which funds are appropriated for this
purpose.
2)Requires the Chancellor to implement performance
accountability outcome measures to annually provide the
Governor, Legislature, and public with information that
quantifies employer and student outcomes for program
participants. (Education Code § 88600, § 88650)
This bill:
1)Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) to make
available any licensure information it has in electronic
format for its boards, bureaus, commissions, or programs to
the CCC Chancellor's Office to enable the CCC to:
a) Measure employment outcomes of students who participate
in CCC career technical education programs.
b) Recommend improvements in CCC career technical education
programs.
2)Authorizes DCA to make available the confidential information
outlined in (1) only to the extent that such disclosure is in
compliance with state and federal privacy laws.
3)Requires, to the extent possible, the alignment of performance
accountability outcome measures for the economic and workplace
development program with the performance accountability
measures of the federal WIOA. It also:
a) Deletes existing statutorily prescribed performance
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measures.
b) Reduces data collection requirements.
Comments
1)Source of the bill. In December 2014, the Board of Governors
of the CCC commissioned the Task Force on Workforce, Job
Creation and a Strong Economy to consider strategies and
recommend policies and practices to meet California's
anticipated shortage of one million industry-valued, middle
skill credentials. According to the report of the Task Force,
California's education pipeline is not keeping pace with the
higher levels of skills and education required by employers
and must significantly increase the number of individuals with
industry-valued degrees, certificates and credentials.
The Task Force was comprised of representatives from community
college faculty, staff, administration, trustees and students,
the employer community, labor, public agencies involved in
workforce training and economic development, K-12 education
policy and community based organizations. The work of the task
force involved regional college conversations, town hall
meetings, and task force meetings. After almost a year of
public meetings and stakeholder input, the Task Force issued
25 recommendations which were presented to the Board of
Governors in September 2015 and adopted in November 2015.
Implementation of these recommendations requires statutory,
regulatory and administrative changes.
This bill, sponsored by the Chancellor's Office of the CCC,
implements statutory changes recommended by the Task Force in
two areas in an effort to improve and streamline Career
Technical Education (CTE) programs. These include
recommendations to:
a) Develop, streamline, and align common outcome metrics
for all state funded CTE programs and to ensure
compatibility with federal reporting requirements.
b) Authorize the sharing of third-party
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licenses/certification data across government entities.
2)Middle skills jobs. Middle skills jobs are defined as those
that require more education and training than a high school
diploma but less than a four-year college degree. According to
the National Skills Coalition (NSC), a national advocacy
organization governed and advised by a coalition drawn from
business, labor, community colleges, community-based
organizations, and the public workforce system, while middle
skills jobs make up the largest part of California's labor
market, key industries are unable to find enough sufficiently
trained workers to fill these jobs. NSC reports that in 2012,
50 percent of all jobs in California were middle skills but
only 40 percent of the workforce was trained to the level
necessary to fill those positions.
3)Streamlining/alignment of outcome metrics. Currently,
workforce development program funds for community college
Career Technical Education (CTE) offerings come from the
federal Carl Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, the
Economic and Workforce Development Program, and the Career
Technical Education Pathways Program. The Chancellor's Office
reports that state and national policy shifts have made these
programs more similar in scope. However, each of these funding
streams requires distinct metrics to be reported, creating
duplicative administrative burdens for both the Chancellor's
Office staff and local data collectors. With the enactment of
the federal WIOA, another source of funding for workforce
development programs, a single set of common measures has been
adopted for programs serving both adults and youths under the
Act.
This bill replaces existing accountability language under the
Economic and Workforce Development Program with performance
accountability outcome measures consistent with that required
under WIOA. Staff notes that the Legislature has also recently
provided funding for the development of metrics to evaluate
outcomes for Adult Education programs and that these metrics
are also expected to align with the federal WIOA where
applicable. Enactment of these provisions reduces the burden
of data collection and reporting, establishes common reporting
across districts and inter-segmentally, and eases the overall
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administrative burden associated with workforce development
programs.
4)Data sharing and privacy protections. This bill requires the
DCA to share licensing data with the CCC. Information on
licensure has not historically been a data element collected
by the community colleges. The ability to reliably collect
this data is impacted by the fact that these are industry
licenses generally awarded by certifying bodies, and not the
schools that provided the training.
The CCC report that they have already gathered similar data on
apprenticeship, POST (Peace Officers Standards and Training)
certification, and CompTIA (Computer Technology Industry
Association) certification with the intent that this
information be used for the Student Success Scorecard as one
measure of a successful completion in CTE pathways and
programs.
The CCC report that they have already entered into several
memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with various state
agencies to facilitate data sharing. These include the
Employment Development, the Department of Social Services, the
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, the
California Student Aid Commission and California's public
4-year universities. While these agencies interpret federal
and state law to allow such sharing of information, according
to the CCC, the DCA believes that state and federal privacy
laws restrict their ability to share licensing information.
The provisions of this bill provide the statutory clarity
necessary to facilitate the sharing of licensure data for the
purpose of evaluating programmatic outcomes. In addition, the
bill incorporates the broader conditions applicable to most of
the MOU agreements governing the use, exchange, maintenance,
and destruction of confidential data.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, the DCA
indicates that workload to provide the CCC Chancellor's Office
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licensure information is minor and absorbable. However, the DCA
will incur one-time administrative costs of about $100,000 to
make the data system changes necessary to maintain
confidentiality of the information. The CCC Chancellor's Office
indicates that costs to align the outcome measures are minor and
absorbable.
SUPPORT: (Verified 1/19/16)
Board of Governors
California Chamber Commerce
Los Rios Community College District
San Bernardino Community College District
San Diego Community College District
OPPOSITION: (Verified 1/19/16)
None received
Prepared by:Kathleen Chavira / ED. / (916) 651-4105
1/20/16 15:40:05
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