BILL NUMBER: SCR 34	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 26, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Ducheny
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Padilla
  ) 
    (   Coauthors:  Assembly Members  
Buchanan,   Furutani,   Gilmore,  
Harkey,   Hayashi,   Huffman,   Jeffries,
  Monning,   and Torlakson   ) 

                        APRIL 20, 2009

   Relative to  Educational   Extended 
Opportunity Programs and Services Month.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 34, as amended, Ducheny. Community colleges: 
educational   extended  opportunity programs.
   This measure would designate the month of October 2009 as 
Educational   Extended  Opportunity Programs and
Services Month to honor the mission and purposes of the Extended
Opportunity Programs and Services through the celebration and
coordination of activities that advance educational equity
principles.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, In the California Community Colleges system the Extended
Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) was established in 1969 to
initiate access and retention efforts for first-generation,
low-income, educationally disadvantaged, and historically
underrepresented students; and
   WHEREAS, EOPS has served over 2,500,000 students at 110 campuses
of the California Community Colleges, and these students have made a
positive impact on the business, economic, educational, and cultural
fabric of the State of California; and
   WHEREAS, EOPS provides academic and transitional support services
for nearly 110,000 students, and these services ensure educational
access and justice, financial and academic support, opportunities to
attain a college degree, and strategies that enable community college
students to transfer to baccalaureate institutions; and
   WHEREAS, EOPS has provided dynamic and innovative services in
early outreach programs serving hundreds of thousands of potential
EOPS applicants and summer bridge learning communities, and community
building efforts that retain program students who impact the larger
campus communities; and
   WHEREAS, The Cooperative Agencies Resources for Education (CARE)
Program was added in 1982 to expand services for welfare-dependent,
single-parent EOPS students, and CARE has provided higher education
access and supportive services, such as counseling, book services,
tutoring, peer support, child care, transportation, school supplies,
classes, and other activities addressing the special needs of 160,000
low-income, single-parent students; and
   WHEREAS, EOPS and CARE are successful programs that bring hope,
vision, guidance, and activism to underserved communities, that
heighten the awareness of educational pathways and sociocultural
opportunities, and that invest in developing the leaders of tomorrow;
and
   WHEREAS, EOPS trains, develops, and produces expertise in faculty
and staff, thus enhancing the quality of services, organizational
structures, and research on low-income, first-generation, and
historically underrepresented students; and
   WHEREAS, EOPS has successfully developed local partnerships among
community-based organizations, public agencies, legislative
institutions, universities, and kindergarten and grades 1 to 12,
inclusive, public school systems; and
   WHEREAS, EOPS ensures a diverse and representative voice for
thousands of community members whose goal is to participate in, and
enrich, the public education of California; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby expresses its
congratulations and appreciation to the California Community Colleges
Extended Opportunity Programs and Services, for its historic and
continued success in realizing the intent of landmark legislation,
and the vision of the California Master Plan for Higher Education, in
attaining educational equity goals and objectives; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Legislature declares October 2009 as 
Educational   Extended  Opportunity Programs and
Services Month to honor the mission and purposes of the Extended
Opportunity Programs and Services through the celebration and
coordination of activities that advance educational equity
principles; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the governing board of each community college district
in the state.