BILL NUMBER: AB 2449	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Furutani

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act relating to community colleges.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2449, as introduced, Furutani. California community colleges:
financing: incentives.
   Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under
the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary
education in the state. Existing law establishes community college
districts, administered by a governing board, throughout the state,
and authorizes these districts to provide instruction to students at
the community college campuses maintained by the districts.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish a framework of financial incentives to
reward community colleges for improving course completion rates by
community college students.
   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.  This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Community College Student Success Act.
  SEC. 2.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish a framework of financial incentives to
reward California community college districts for improving course
completion rates by community college students.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the framework
described in subdivision (a) should do all of the following:
   (1) Provide financial incentives for colleges to take a more
holistic and programmatic approach to help students move along
academic pathways toward completing coursework.
   (2) Phase in incentives over a period of time that is determined
to be appropriate, allowing at least two years for studying the
effects of the financial incentives.
   (3) Reward community colleges for increasing course completion
rates, but not compare colleges to each other, due to the variety of
reasons for having different course completion rates.
   (4) Include consideration of hard-to-serve students.
   (5) Protect access to the community colleges for underrepresented
students by increasing overall student success.