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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                           Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair

                                           147 (DeSaulnier)
          
          Hearing Date:  05/28/2009           Amended: 05/19/2009
          Consultant:  Dan Troy           Policy Vote: ED 7-0
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          BILL SUMMARY:   SB 147 would require the Trustees of the  
          California State University (CSU), on or before January 1, 2014,  
          to develop and implement a procedure for allowing students to  
          satisfy a general elective course requirement for purposes of  
          admission to CSU by completing a high school career technical  
          education (CTE) course that meets criteria established by the  
          State Board of Education, subject to the approval of the  
          Academic Senate.
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                            Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions         2011-12      2012-13       2013-14     Fund
           CSU/CTE                $450       $230        $230       General
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          STAFF COMMENTS: SUSPENSE FILE.
          
          The State Board of Education (SBE) adopted Model Curriculum  
          Standards for Career Technical Education (CTE) in May 2005 and  
          adopted the curriculum frameworks for those standards in January  
          2007.  The standards are organized in 15 industry sectors of  
          interrelated occupations and identify 58 different career  
          pathways and the academic and technical courses required for  
          each pathway.  

          The California State University (CSU) and the University of  
          California (UC) have established common high school coursework  
          requirements for undergraduate admissions.  Students who take  
          courses that meet these minimum subject area requirements and  
          who meet other specified criteria are eligible to apply and be  
          considered for admission to campuses within these institutions.   
          Currently, these standards are established by UC.  

          Existing law (SB 1543, Alarcon, Chapter 669, Statutes of 2006)  
          requires the CSU and requests the UC to adopt model uniform  










          academic standards for CTE that satisfy the completion of  
          general elective ("g") course requirements for the purposes of  
          admission.  SB 1543 specified if the model academic standards  
          were not adopted by July 1, 2008, the Trustees of the CSU would  
          have been required and the Regents of the UC would have been  
          requested to recognize the completion of all high school courses  
          that meet the CTE standards adopted by the SBE as satisfying the  
          completion of the general elective course requirement.  The CSU  
          and UC satisfied the requirements of SB 1543 in spring 2008.  

          This bill would bifurcate the current standards for admission to  
          CSU and UC by requiring CSU to adopt it's own standards for  
          admission in regard to CTE courses, based on model curriculum  
          standards adopted by the State Board of Education.  The 
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          bill would allow CSU to modify these standards as recommended by  
          the Academic Senate.

          This bill would generate new costs for CSU for the development  
          of new CTE standards that would meet requirements for admission.  
           CSU estimates these costs to be over $450,000 for initial  
          development and approximately $230,000 thereafter to review and  
          approve courses.  While the bill specified that the costs should  
          be covered by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education  
          Improvement Act funds, however it is unlikely that CSU would  
          have access to these funds which generally are used for K-14  
          institutions.