AB 1940, as introduced, Holden. Advanced placement program: pilot grant program: STEM courses.
Existing law contains legislative findings and declarations stating that advanced placement courses, among other things, help to improve the overall curriculum at schools where they are provided and provide a cost-effective means for high school pupils to obtain college-level coursework experience. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually update the information on advanced placement available on the Internet Web site of the State Department of Education to include current information on the various means available to school districts to offer or access advanced placement courses, and to annually communicate with high schools that offer advanced placement courses in fewer than 5 subjects and inform them of the various options for making advanced placement courses and other rigorous courses available to pupils who may benefit from them.
This bill, until July 1, 2017, would establish a pilot grant program overseen by the department for purposes of awarding grants to cover the costs associated with a high school establishing or expanding its advanced placement curriculum in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent and the College Board to submit no later than July 1, 2017, a specified report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature describing the effectiveness of the grant program.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 52245 is added to the Education Code,
2to read:
(a) There is hereby established a pilot grant program
4for the purpose of awarding grants to cover the costs associated
5with a high school establishing or expanding its advanced
6placement curriculum in science, technology, engineering, and
7mathematics.
8(b) A high school may apply to the department for grant funding
9pursuant to this section if all of the following conditions are met:
10(1) The school offers five or fewer advanced placement courses.
11(2) The school lacks advanced placement courses in science,
12technology, engineering, or mathematics.
13(3) The
school has identified pupils who have demonstrated
14through their scores on the preliminary SAT that they have high
15potential to be successful in one or more advanced placement
16courses in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
17(c) (1) No later than July 1, 2017, the Superintendent and the
18College Board shall submit a report to the Legislature describing
19the effectiveness of the pilot grant program established pursuant
20to this section. The report shall include both of the following:
21(A) Number of pupils who have access to advanced placement
22courses in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
23(B) Success rates in the advanced placement courses in science,
24technology, engineering, and mathematics that include core
25demographics, including, but not limited to, gender and race.
26(2) A report submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be
27submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government
28Code.
29(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2017, and,
30as of January 1, 2018, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
P3 1that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2018, deletes or
2extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
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