Amended in Senate June 2, 2015

Amended in Senate April 7, 2015

Senate Bill No. 148

Introduced by Senators McGuire and Leyva

(Principal coauthor: Senator Huff)

(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Burke and Wood)

(Coauthors: Senators Allen, Hall, Mendoza, and Vidak)

(Coauthor: Assembly Member Dodd)

January 29, 2015

An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 52465) to Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, relating to career technical begin delete education, and making an appropriation therefor. end delete begin insert education. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 148, as amended, McGuire. Career technical education: Career and Job Skills Education Act.

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(1) Existing

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begin insert Existing end insert law establishes the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and specifies that the Superintendent is the ex officio Director of the State Department of Education. Under existing law, the State Department of Education administers numerous programs relating to elementary and secondary education.

Existing law authorizes, among other things, the governing board of any high school district to establish and maintain, in connection with any high school or regional occupational center or program under its jurisdiction, cooperative career technical education programs or community classrooms as part of a career technical education course, as specified.

This bill would establish the Career and Job Skills Education Act, which would authorize the governing board of one or more school districts, county offices of education, direct-funded charter schools, and regional occupational centers or programs operated by joint powers authorities with the written consent from each participating local begin delete education end delete begin insert educational end insert agency, that operate any state-approved career technical education sequence of courses, to apply to the Superintendent for a grant for the development and enhancement of high-quality career technical education programs. The bill would require each grant recipient to, among other things, adopt certain policies and procedures and establish a career technical education program that satisfies specified criteria. The bill would establish the Career and Job Skills Education Fund in the State Treasury, and would also require the Superintendent to, among other things, administer the fund and distribute awards through an annual application process to applicants that meet certain requirements. The bill would further require the Superintendent and the State Board of Education to incorporate appropriate metrics into state-adopted accountability measures to determine career readiness of California’s high school pupils.

The bill begin delete would appropriate $600,000,000 from the General Fund end delete begin insert would, to the extent that funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act of 2015, allocate end insert begin insert funds end insert to the Superintendent, for deposit in the Career and Job Skills Education Fund, for purposes of the Career and Job Skills Education Act, and would express the intent of the Legislature that begin delete additional end delete funds be appropriated from the General Fund, as necessary, for those purposes in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years.

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(2) Funds appropriated by the bill for purposes of funding this act 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.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation:  begin delete yes end delete begin insert no end insert . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:

(a) Section 51220 of the Education Code states that the adopted
course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, shall offer courses in
the following areas of study:

(1) Applied arts, including instruction in the areas of consumer
and homemaking education, industrial arts, general business
education, or general agriculture.

(2) Career technical education designed and conducted for the
purpose of preparing youth for gainful employment in the
occupations and in the numbers that are appropriate to the
personnel needs of the state and the community served and relevant
to the career desires and needs of the pupils.

(b) Section 51224 of the Education Code states, “The governing
board of any school district maintaining a high school shall
prescribe courses of study designed to provide the skills and
knowledge required for adult life for pupils attending the schools
within its school district. The governing board shall prescribe
separate courses of study, including, but not limited to, a course
of study designed to prepare prospective pupils for admission to
state colleges and universities and a course of study for career
technical training.”

(c) California has invested $500 million in Proposition 1D
funding for purposes of modernizing and building new career
technical education facilities for high school pupils.

(d) California has invested $90 million in the purchase of new
career technical education equipment for high school pupils.

(e) California has invested $500 million in the California Career
Pathways Trust for the development of robust career pathways
aligned with regional economies.

(f) California needs to satisfy maintenance of effort requirements
to continue to receive funds pursuant to the federal Carl D. Perkins
Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (20
U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.), for the improvement of career technical
education programs.

(g) To help the state remain a competitive economy, California
high schools need to provide resources that promote career
readiness and 21st century career technical skills for pupils.

(h) California needs to use limited resources more efficiently
to do a better job of preparing pupils for an economy that demands
workers to have strong academic and career knowledge and skills,
to be adaptable to change, and prepared for college and careers.

(i) The rapid growth of California’s population and the labor
force depends on attracting, supporting, and retaining businesses
that pay sustainable wages to highly skilled and qualified workers.
Therefore, improvement in the overall quality of California’s
workforce is a vital component to the state’s continued economic
development.

(j) California needs to develop and sustain educational programs
that can provide youth with career readiness, organizational help
in their pursuit of career opportunities, leadership skills, networks
of support, and the academic and technical skills necessary to serve
as a foundation for successful careers.

(k) The average high school graduation rate in the United States
for pupils concentrating in career technical education programs is
90.18 percent, compared to an average national freshman
graduation rate of 74.9 percent.

(l) Eighty-one percent of high school dropouts in the United
States say relevant, real-world learning opportunities would have
kept them from dropping out of high school.

(m) In the United States, more than 70 percent of secondary
career technical education concentrators pursued postsecondary
education shortly after graduating from high school.

(n) According to the United States Census Bureau for the year
2010, 70 percent of pupils will not go on to receive a four-year
postsecondary education degree.

(o) California’s future of providing high-quality education and
training programs requires greater public-private collaboration and
cooperation.

(p) California’s policies and methods that provide elementary
and secondary education to prepare young people for lifelong
learning, higher educational opportunities, and high-skilled careers
leading to sustainable wages are major components to California’s
continued economic growth.

(q) California’s continued economic development and growth
is critically linked to providing pupils with educational
opportunities that prepare those pupils for lifelong learning, higher
education, and high-skilled, high-wage careers.

(r) Sustaining and developing a strong system for the delivery
of career technical education should be a top priority of California’s
educational systems and must be addressed at the local, regional,
and state levels to establish a seamless system from career technical
education to employment.

(s) California’s career pathways system is a long-term
investment in developing human capital by supplying the demand
for a highly skilled and adaptable workforce. By successfully
matching the skills of the emerging workforce with the needs of
California’s growth economies, high-quality career pathways will
provide essential components to ensure the state’s competitive
edge in the growing global economy.

(t) Career pathway programs are an educational approach that
is designed to improve academic rigor through relevant, real-world
experiences by integrating appropriate academic and essential
career technical education knowledge and skills focused around a
career pathway.

(u) High-quality and coordinated career pathways provide a
much needed nexus between those preparing the future workforce
and those employing the future workforce. The collaboration of
educators, business, and labor fosters the use of contextual and
applied teaching strategies that provide opportunities for all pupils
to gain exposure to career-related coursework, workplace
experiences, internships, and jobsite mentoring.

(v) A rigorous high-quality education curriculum encompasses
a range of subjects and grade levels. Incorporating career technical
education into that curriculum can strengthen pupils’ understanding
of career opportunities, provide pupils with direction for education
beyond high school, and produce better informed citizens in the
state.

SEC. 2.  

Article 8 (commencing with Section 52465) is added
to Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education
Code, to read:

 

Article 8.  Career and Job Skills Education Act

 

52465.  

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Career and Job Skills Education Act.

52466.  

The Career and Job Skills Education Fund is hereby
established in the State Treasury. The moneys in the fund shall be
available to the Superintendent, upon appropriation by the
Legislature pursuant to Section 52471, for the implementation and
administration of this article.

52467.  

(a) The governing board of one or more school districts,
county offices of education, direct-funded charter schools,
including pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 47605.1, or
regional occupational centers or programs operated by joint powers
authorities with the written consent from each participating local
begin delete education end delete begin insert educational end insert agency, that operate any state-approved
career technical education sequence of courses may apply to the
Superintendent for a grant for the development and enhancement
of high-quality career technical education courses.

(b) The Superintendent shall award grants to applicants that
contribute an amount of funds equal to the amount of the grant for
use in career technical education programs as defined by the
California State Plan for Career Technical Education and that
satisfy the requirements outlined in Section 52469.

52469.  

Each governing board of an applicant that receives a
grant or accepts other funds made available for purposes of this
article shall, in consultation with the county office of education,
as applicable, local workforce investment boards, and community
colleges serving the geographic area of the grant begin delete recipient end delete begin insert recipient, end insert
adopt a career technical education program that includes all of the
following criteria:

(a) The program shall provide a series of career technical
education courses aligned with the California Career Technical
Education Model Curriculum Standards adopted by the state board,
and offer a coherent sequence of career technical education courses
leading to specific competencies that will enable pupils to transition
to postsecondary education on a career pathway or attain entry
level employment in business or industry upon their graduation
from high school.

(b) The program shall include plans, developed and implemented
by the grant recipient for articulation of career technical education
courses with community colleges or apprenticeship programs in
the geographic area of the grant recipient to continue the sequence
of career technical education courses through grades 13 and 14
and for the acquisition of high-quality industry certifications,
credentials, and licenses.

(c) The program shall include assessments of local business and
industry needs to ensure that the program provides pupils with the
competency, knowledge, and skills necessary to pursue
employment opportunities.

(d) The program shall provide counseling and guidance services
to pupils to help them satisfy all of the requirements for high school
graduation and make informed career preparation choices.
Counseling and guidance services provided for purposes of this
subdivision may include counseling for pupils in grades 6 to 12,
inclusive.

(e) The program shall involve business and industry in
cooperative projects with schools in the geographic area of the
grant recipient to provide internships for pupils, externships for
teachers, paid or nonpaid work experience, job shadowing or
mentoring opportunities, instructors from business and industry,
assistance with needs assessments and program evaluations, and
access to business and industry employment placement services
to help graduating pupils obtain employment.

(f) The program shall include a system for data collection to be
reported annually that shall comply with the requirements
established by the Superintendent in terms of all of the following:

(1) Number of pupils enrolled in career technical education
courses.

(2) Number of pupils completing high school.

(3) Pupils earning industry recognized certifications, credentials,
or licenses as determined by a list approved by the Superintendent,
or who passed third-party career technical education pathway
specific assessments.

(4) Pupils securing employment, particularly in jobs related to
the area of their career technical preparation in high school.

(5) Pupils proceeding to advanced education or training at the
postsecondary educational level.

(6) Pupils proceeding to advanced education or training at the
postsecondary educational level in the same career pathway as
their career technical preparation in high school.

(7) Number and types of career technical courses offered and
the number of those courses that qualify as alternative means to
complete the prescribed course of study requirements as described
in subdivision (b) of Section 51225.3.

52470.  

The Superintendent shall do all of the following:

(a) Develop a system of accountability, data collecting, and
reporting to ensure the goals of career technical education programs
are satisfied.

(b) Develop data metrics that are aligned with the core metrics
required by the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Act, common metrics adopted by the Office of the Chancellor of
the California Community Colleges, any career-ready standards
adopted pursuant to the federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et begin delete seq.) end delete begin insert seq.), end insert and the 11
quality indicators described in the California State Plan for Career
Technical Education.

(c) Adopt and provide grant recipients with a list of approved
high-quality industry certifications and licenses and approved
third-party career technical education pathway assessments in each
career technical education pathway for use in program
development.

(d) Provide technical and professional assistance to all grant
award recipients.

52471.  

(a) begin delete   end delete begin delete The amount of six hundred million dollars
($600,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund end delete begin insert   end insert begin insert To
the extent that funds are appropriated in the Budget Act of 2015,
those funds shall be allocated end insert to the Superintendent, for deposit
in the Career and Job Skills Education Fund, for purposes of this
article.

(b) The department shall retain up to 2 percent of the total funds
apportioned to the grant recipient pursuant to this article, to provide
all of the following to that grant recipient for the purposes of this
article:

(1) Technical assistance.

(2) Professional development.

(3) Accountability services and local monitoring.

(c) An amount equal to 2 percent of the total funds appropriated
pursuant to this article shall be set aside and distributed separately
to applicants of rural school districts, as defined by the state board,
and regions with higher than average rates of high school dropouts,
as defined by the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data
System.

(d) Funds may be used by each grant recipient for purposes of
this article for any or all of the following purposes:

(1) Matching pupils with work-based learning opportunities.

(2) Using intermediaries as liaisons between educators,
businesses, parents, and community partners.

(3) Providing technical assistance to help employers and
educators design comprehensive career technical education course
sequences and programs.

(4) Providing technical assistance to help teachers integrate
academic, career technical education, and work-based learning
activities.

(5) Encouraging active business involvement in a grant
recipient’s work-based learning activities and providing teacher
externships.

(6) Assisting pupils in finding appropriate work, continuing
education or training, and linking pupils to other community
services.

(7) Evaluating postcareer technical education program outcomes
for pupils to assess the success of those programs, particularly
with reference to special populations, as that term is defined in the
federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
Improvement Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.).

(8) Linking youth development activities with employer and
industry strategies to upgrade worker skills.

(9) Funding career technical education pupil organizations and
activities.

(10) Funding costs incurred through career technical education
program-related planning, development, validation, and
accountability.

(11) Funding career technical education curriculum development
and alignment with postsecondary educational institutions.

(12) Funding career technical education professional
development, including industry externships for teachers.

(13) Funding career technical education instructional equipment
and material purchases.

(14) Providing support in career technical education programs
to pupils of special populations, as that term is defined in the
federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
Improvement Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.).

(15) Funding costs incurred through the expansion of career
technical education programs in effect as of January 1, 2016, or
the establishment of new career technical education programs or
pathways, including the cost of salaries for additional career
technical education staff. Salary expenditures for career technical
education staff shall be capped at 50 percent of the annual amount
apportioned to the grant recipient.

52472.  

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, funds allocated
pursuant to this article may be expended only to ensure the
development, enhancement, and improvement of high-quality
career technical education courses and programs pursuant to the
quality indicators described in the California State Plan for Career
Technical Education.

(b) As a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this article,
each grant recipient shall do all of the following:

(1) Develop a plan for establishing aligned course sequences
for its career technical education programs.

(2) Certify to the department that each career technical education
pathway has been developed with input from an industry-based
career pathway advisory committee and includes a logical sequence
of career technical education courses pursuant to the California
State Plan for Career Technical Education.

(3) Submit new or revised career technical education programs
or pathways to the department for approval no later than September
1 of the fiscal year in which those changes are implemented
pursuant to requirements developed by the department, for purposes
of determining the annual funding award to the grant recipient.

(4) Certify to the department that each course within a sequence
of career technical education courses is aligned with the California
Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards, adopted
by the state board, for grades 7 to 12, inclusive.

(5) Certify to the department that each course, where
appropriate, is aligned with the Common Core State Standards.

(6) Certify to the department that each of its career technical
education teachers has the appropriate credential authorizing him
or her to teach his or her assigned career technical education course.

(7) Except as provided in paragraph (15) of subdivision (f) of
Section 52471, certify to the department that no grant funds
awarded to the grant recipient pursuant to this article are used for
staff salaries, benefits, or both.

(8) Collect and report data as required by the department and
the applicable local control and accountability plan.

52473.  

The Superintendent and the state board shall incorporate
appropriate metrics into state-adopted accountability measures to
determine career readiness of California’s high school pupils.
These metrics shall be aligned with the federal Carl D. Perkins
Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (20
U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.), California’s Standards for Career Ready
Practice, and the quality indicators described in the California State
Plan for Career Technical Education.

SEC. 3.  

It is the intent of the Legislature that begin delete additional end delete funds
be appropriated from the General Fund, as necessary, to the
Superintendent, for deposit in the Career and Job Skills Education
Fund, for purposes of Article 8 (commencing with Section 52465)
of Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education
Code, in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years.

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SEC. 4.  

For purposes of making the computations required by
Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the funds
appropriated pursuant to this act shall be deemed to be “General
Fund revenues appropriated for school districts,” as defined in
subdivision (c) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the
fiscal year for which the funds are appropriated, and included
within the “total allocations to school districts and community
college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated
pursuant to Article XIII B,” as defined in subdivision (e) of Section
41202 of the Education Code, for the fiscal year for which the
funds are appropriated.

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