BILL NUMBER: AB 2434	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hernandez

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 52240 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil instruction.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2434, as introduced, Hernandez. Advanced placement program.
   Existing law contains legislative findings and declarations
stating that advanced placement courses, among other things, help to
improve the overall curriculum at schools where they are provided and
provide a cost-effective means for high school pupils to obtain
college-level coursework experience. Existing law states the intent
of the Legislature to provide financial assistance to economically
disadvantaged pupils for the payment of advanced placement
examination fees.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in the
provision described above.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 52240 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   52240.  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
   (1) Advanced placement courses, for which school credit is
awarded, provide rigorous academic coursework opportunities for high
school pupils and help to improve the overall curriculum at schools
where  they   those courses  are provided.
   (2) The successful completion of advanced placement courses and
 the  subsequent advanced placement examinations, which are
conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board and for which
college credit is awarded, provide a cost-effective means for high
school pupils to obtain college-level coursework experience.
   (3) To the extent that economically disadvantaged pupils are
provided financial assistance to take advanced placement
examinations, they will be provided with successful college-level
experience and be encouraged to pursue postsecondary education
opportunities.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature, therefore, that certain
state funding that currently is provided to school districts be made
available to provide financial assistance to economically
disadvantaged pupils  in   for  the payment
of advanced placement examination fees. It is further the intent of
the Legislature that a competitive grant program also be established
for the purpose of awarding grants to economically disadvantaged
pupils to cover the costs of advanced placement examination fees,
thereby creating a second source of financial assistance for
economically disadvantaged pupils taking advanced placement
examinations.