Amended in Assembly May 1, 2014

Amended in Assembly April 1, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1950

Introduced by Assembly Member Campos

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(Coauthor: Assembly Member Gonzalez)

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February 19, 2014

An act to add Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 52360) to Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, relating to career education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1950, as amended, Campos. Career education: Career Education Incentive Program.

Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state, and authorizes school districts throughout the state to provide instruction to pupils. Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state, and authorizes community college districts throughout the state to provide instruction to students at the campuses they operate. Existing law establishes various career education programs involving participation by public elementary and secondary schools, community colleges, and other governmental entities.

This bill would express legislative intent to create incentives for school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts to establish regional career education consortia for begin delete the purpose end delete begin insert purposes end insert of coordinating, delivering, and implementing high-quality and cost-efficient career and college preparation programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 14, inclusive.

The bill would establish the Career Education Incentive Program under the administration of the State Department of Education. The bill would authorize school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts to establish career education consortia. The bill would authorize these consortia to be organized as joint powers agencies. The bill would begin delete specify information to be collected and reported annually by the consortia end delete begin insert require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in developing the program, to consider requiring consortia, as a condition of the receipt of funds, to annually report certain information end insert to the governing boards of the member local educational agencies, including member community college districts. The bill would specify criteria for the receipt and expenditure of the state funding to be allocated to these consortia.

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.  

It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish
all of the following:

(a) Create incentives for school districts, county offices of
education, charter schools, and community college districts to
establish regional career education consortia for begin delete the purpose end delete
begin insert purposes end insert of coordinating, delivering, and implementing
high-quality and cost-efficient career and college preparation
programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 14, inclusive.

(b) Promote an integrated career education infrastructure that
builds on the broad range of proven career education approaches,
including, but not limited to, regional occupational centers and
programs, linked learning partnerships, apprenticeship programs,
California Partnership Academies, agricultural vocational
education, specialized secondary programs, and career pathways
trust programs, each of which has improved pupil academic
achievement, reduced dropout rates, increased attendance rates,
and resulted in higher rates of college enrollment.

(c) Establish fiscal incentives for school agencies to offer, or
continue to offer, high-quality career and college-ready programs
that are vital in engaging pupils and helping them prepare for the
transition to higher education and the workforce.

(d) Provide one-to-one matching grant funding to eligible career
education consortia. A career education consortium may be
composed of school districts, county offices of education, charter
schools, and community college districts.

SEC. 2.  

Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 52360) is added
to Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education
Code, to read:

 

Article 3.5.  Career Education Incentive Program

 

52360.  

(a) A career education consortium may be composed
of school districts, county offices of education, charter schools,
and community college districts. A career education consortium
may be organized as a joint powers agency pursuant to Article 1
(commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of
Title 1 of the Government Code.

(b) For purposes of participating in the Career Education
Incentive Program established by this article, a career education
consortium shall enter into an agreement among the local
educational agencies participating in the consortium for begin delete the purpose end delete
begin insert purposes end insert of developing and maintaining career education programs
aligned with begin insert the end insert California Career Technical Education begin delete and end delete begin insert Model
Curriculum Standards adopted pursuant to Section 51226 and the end insert
Common Core State Standards begin insert for California adopted pursuant
to Sections 60605.8 and 60605.10 end insert .

(c) The funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act shall be
available to career education consortia as a matching grant to
accomplish any of the following:

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(1) In any of grades kindergarten to grades 1 to 5, inclusive, or
kindergarten to grades 1 to 7, inclusive, career academies, funds
may be expended for career awareness curriculum focused
activities and projects that center on exposing pupils to career
opportunities that include, but are not necessarily limited to,
researching careers, job shadowing, visiting local industries, and
guest speakers.

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(2)

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begin insert (1) end insert  In grades 7 and 8, funds may be expended for career
exploration activities, including, but not necessarily limited to,
summer and winter career camps, after school precareer
preparation, career mentoring programs, and visits to a community
college campus to explore career pathway programs and career
mentoring programs.

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(3)

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begin insert (2) end insert  In any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, or in community colleges,
funds may be expended for career preparation activities, including,
but not necessarily limited to, developing programs of study in
career pathways, career counseling and mentoring programs, career
portfolios, and career days.

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(4)

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begin insert (3) end insert  Ongoing professional development opportunities to assist
faculty and other staff in achieving greater program integration
that improves pupil outcomes, aligned with the California Career
Technical Education begin insert Model Curriculum end insert Standards begin insert adopted
pursuant to Section 51226 end insert .

(d) For its funding match, a career education consortium may
use revenues from state, local, or private funding sources.

52361.  

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, funds allocated
pursuant to this article may be expended only to ensure the
development and maintenance of a high-quality career education
program.

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(b) As a condition of receipt of funds pursuant to this section,
the governing board of each career education consortium shall do
all of the following:

(1) Develop a plan for establishing a sequence of courses.

(2) Certify to the department that each sequence of courses
specified in the plan required by this subdivision has been
developed.

(3) Report each new sequence of courses and each modification
to existing sequences to the department no later than September
1 of the fiscal year in which the changes are implemented.

(4) Certify to the department that each course within a sequence
is aligned to the California Career Technical Education Standards
for grades 7 to 12, inclusive.

(5) Certify to the department that each course, where
appropriate, is aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

(c) A career education consortium receiving funds pursuant to
this article shall collect and report data as required by the
department and through each participating local educational
agency’s locally developed local control and accountability plan.

(d) To determine the quality and effectiveness of a career
education course of study or sequence of career education courses,
the Superintendent shall incorporate into appropriate state adopted
accountability measures a metric based on California career-ready
standards and program quality indicators contained in the California
State Plan for Career Technical Education.

(e) A career education consortium shall collect and report
annually to the governing boards of the member local educational
agencies, including member community college districts, all of
the following information:

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(b) The Superintendent shall apportion funds appropriated for
purposes of this article to consortia that, as a condition of the
receipt of funds, develop plans for establishing a sequence of
courses in local educational agencies participating in the
consortium that are aligned to the California Career Technical
Education Model Curriculum Standards adopted pursuant to
Section 51226 for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and, where
appropriate, aligned to the Common Core State Standards for
California adopted pursuant to Sections 60605.8 and 60605.10.

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(c) In developing the grant program, the Superintendent shall
consider requiring consortia, as a condition of the receipt of funds,
to report annually to the governing boards of the member local
educational agencies, including member community college
districts, as applicable, the following information:

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(1) The number of industry-recognized certifications offered
and the number of industry-recognized certifications that pupils
complete.

(2) The number of pupils that advance to a community college,
state or private university, trade school, apprenticeship, or military.

(3) The number of pupils that receive paid or unpaid internships
or work opportunities in the pupil’s area of certification.

(4) The number of career technical education classes a pupil
completes that meet the begin delete “A-G” end delete begin insert “a-g end insert begin insert ” end insert admission requirements of
the University of California.

(5) The number of pupils that are enrolled and participate in
one or more career technical education classes.

(6) The number of pupils completing career technical education
courses and programs of study that include a sequence of two or
more career technical education courses.

(7) The number of pupils who gain employment and the types
of businesses in which those pupils are employed.

(8) The number of pupils who participate in a career technical
education pathway during grade 8 and the number of pupils
continuing in the same or another career technical education
pathway in grade 9.

52362.  

(a) A career education consortium may receive state
matching grants intended to leverage the impact of state resources
in support of career technical education begin delete to the greatest extent
possible end delete by encouraging collaboration and articulation among local
educational agencies, community colleges, and private industry
to develop a system of integrated and comprehensive programs
that give begin delete elementary and secondary pupils and adults end delete begin insert pupils
enrolled in middle and secondary end insert begin insert grades end insert the opportunity to begin delete be end delete
begin insert become end insert fully prepared for college begin delete or end delete begin insert and end insert career.

(b) (1) Of the funds appropriated for that purpose, the
Superintendent shall apportion begin insert state matching grants end insert to the school
district, county office of education, charter school, community
college district, or joint powers agency designated as the fiscal
agent for a career education consortium established pursuant to
Section begin delete 52360 state matching grants in accordance with paragraphs
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(2) A career education consortium is eligible to receive a state
matching grant equal to the begin delete prior end delete begin insert current end insert school year actual
expenditures made for the purposes and programs of a participating
school district, county office of education, charter school, or
community college district that support achieving goals for college
and career readiness as described in a school district’s local control
and accountability plan pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph
(4) of subdivision (d) of Section 52060, a county office of
education’s local control and accountability plan pursuant to
subparagraph (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of Section
52066, or a charter school’s plan pursuant to Section 47605,
47605.6, or 47606.5, as applicable.

(3) The matching grant that a career education consortium
receives pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not exceed the sum of the
begin delete amount end delete begin insert amounts end insert calculated pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision
(d) of Section 42238.02 and the amounts received for
apprenticeship programs by begin delete of end delete each of the local educational
agencies that is a member of the career education consortium in
the prior school year.

(c) State matching funds may only be expended to further the
purposes of this article in accordance with a plan annually adopted
by the governing body of the career education consortium. The
fiscal agent of the career education consortium shall provide to
the governing body of the career education consortium no later
than October 1 of each school year a report of the purposes and
programs for which state matching funds were expended begin delete in the
prior school year, end delete and the amount expended for each purpose and
program.