BILL NUMBER: SB 275	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

   An act to amend Section 51226 of the Education Code, relating to
career technical education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 275, as introduced, Hancock. Career technical education:
assessments.
   Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
coordinate the development, on a cyclical basis, of model curriculum
standards for a career technical education course of study necessary
to assist school districts with those requirements. Existing law
requires the standards for a career technical education course of
study to be adopted no later than June 1, 2005.
   This bill would additionally require the Superintendent to
coordinate the development, on a cyclical basis, of assessments for a
career technical education course of study necessary to assist
school districts with those requirements. The bill would require that
these assessments be adopted no later than June 1, 2012.
   The bill also would make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 51226 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   51226.  The Superintendent  of Public Instruction
 shall coordinate the development, on a cyclical basis, of
model curriculum standards for the course of study required by
Section 51225.3 and  standards and assessments  for a career
technical education course of study necessary to assist school
districts with complying with subdivision (b) of Section 51228. The
 superintendent   Superintendent  shall set
forth these standards  and assessments  in terms of a wide
range of specific competencies, including higher level skills, in
each academic subject area. The  superintendent 
 Superintendent  shall review currently available textbooks
in conjunction with the curriculum standards  and assessments
 . The  superintendent   Superintendent
 shall seek the advice of classroom teachers, school
administrators, parents, postsecondary educators, and representatives
of business and industry in developing these curriculum standards
 and assessments  . The  superintendent 
 Superintendent  shall recommend policies to the 
State Board of Education   state board  for
consideration and adoption by the  state  board. The
 State Board of Education   state board 
shall adopt these policies no later than January 1, 1985. However,
 neither the superintendent nor the board   the
Superintendent or the state board  shall  not  adopt
rules or regulations for course content or methods of instruction.
   The  superintendent   Superintendent 
shall, to the extent applicable, incorporate the integration of
career technical and academic education into the development of
curriculum standards  and assessments  for career technical
education courses. The standards for a career technical education
course of study shall be adopted no later than June 1, 2005.  The
assessments for a career technical education course of study shall
be adopted no later than June 1, 2012.