BILL NUMBER: AB 1741 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bonilla
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
An act to amend Section 71020.5 of the Education Code, relating to
California Community Colleges.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1741, as introduced, Bonilla. California Community Colleges:
comprehensive accountability system.
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 this 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.
Existing law requires the board of governors, in consultation with
institutional and organizational representatives of the California
Community Colleges, to develop and implement a comprehensive
educational and fiscal accountability system that does specified
things, including, but not limited to, defining and measuring
specified accountability information. That specified accountability
information includes, but is not limited to, occupational preparation
relative to state and local work force needs.
This bill would require the accountability information regarding
occupational preparation to be also relative to regional work force
needs and include student participation in career readiness programs,
and would additionally require the board of governors to define and
measure accountability information regarding the ratio of full-time
to part-time faculty and student access to faculty office hours. To
the extent the bill would impose new duties on community college
districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 71020.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
71020.5. (a) (1) It is the intent of the
Legislature in enacting this section to foster the creation,
implementation, and phase-in of a comprehensive community college
accountability system that describes the performance of community
colleges in meeting the postsecondary educational needs of students.
This educational and fiscal accountability system shall provide
performance data on students, programs, and institutions.
It
(2) It is further the intent of
the Legislature that this accountability system assist all
participants in the community college system, including students,
faculty, staff, administrators, local governing boards, the
chancellor, the state board of governors, the
public, and other interested constituencies, in identifying the
educational and fiscal strengths and weaknesses of community
colleges in order to improve educational quality in community
colleges.
(b) The board of governors shall develop and implement a
comprehensive community college educational and fiscal accountability
system. In developing and implementing this system, the board of
governors shall solicit consultation from institutional and
organizational representatives of the California Community Colleges,
including statewide faculty and staff organizations. At a minimum,
the system shall do all of the following:
(1) Be consistent with the Legislature's intent as expressed in
this act, Chapter 136 of the Statutes of 1987, and Chapter 1465 of
the Statutes of 1986.
(2) Draw from, and build upon, the system proposed in the report
entitled "AB 3409 Community College Accountability Report," prepared
pursuant to Chapter 1465 of the Statutes of 1986.
(3) Be designed to promote student success in community colleges.
(4) Define and measure, quantitatively and qualitatively,
accountability information, including all of the following:
(A) Student access to community colleges.
(B) The extent to which the community college student body
reflects proportionately the adult population of the state.
(C) Student transfer rates and programs.
(D) Academic standards and student achievement.
(E) Student goal satisfaction and success in courses and programs.
(F) Completion rates of courses and programs.
(G) Occupational preparation relative to state ,
regional, and local work force needs and for entry-level
employment, occupational advancement, and career changes of students
, including student participation in career readiness programs
.
(H) Adequacy of basic skills and English as a second language
courses and instruction in preparing students to succeed in
collegiate level work.
(I) Adequacy of, and student satisfaction with, student services.
(J) The extent to which the community college work force reflects
proportionately the adult population of the state.
(K) Fiscal conditions of community college districts.
(L) The ratio of full-time to part-time faculty and student access
to faculty office hours.
(5) Be designed to streamline the use of multiple performance
measures from appropriate sources of data, including, but not limited
to, matriculation evaluations, categorical program evaluations, the
community college management information system, and other existing
data collection and evaluation systems.
(6) Provide feedback to individual colleges in order to improve
access to community colleges, student performance, and educational
programs where needed.
(7) Produce a published report of community college
accountability.
(c) The Legislature finds and declares that successful
implementation of a comprehensive educational and fiscal
accountability system is, in part, dependent upon an adequate data
collection and reporting system. The accountability system developed
and implemented pursuant to this section shall be phased in, to the
extent necessary, with the funding and local implementation of the
community college management information system.
SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.