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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2548
Author: Ting (D)
Amended: 8/18/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 6-0, 6/25/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-0, 8/14/14
AYES: De Le�n, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Gaines
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 5/28/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Postsecondary education: eligibility studies
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires the California Department of
Education (CDE) to periodically conduct studies of the
percentages of California public high school graduates estimated
to be eligible for admission into the University of California
(UC) and the California State University (CSU), no more than
once every four years and within 18 months of receiving funding
for this purpose.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
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1.Requires each local education agency (LEA) to offer a course of
study that prepares prospective pupils for admission to state
colleges and universities.
2.Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to assist
school districts to ensure that all public high school pupils
have access to a core curriculum that meets the admission
requirements of the UC and CSU.
3.Identifies the intent of the Legislature that each public high
school provide the full pre-collegiate program, provide
adequate course sections in pre-collegiate programs to
accommodate all of its pupils, and regularly counsel pupils to
enter those programs and courses.
4.Establishes the California Postsecondary Education Commission
(CPEC) to be responsible for the coordinating public,
independent and private postsecondary education in California
and to provide independent policy analyses and recommendations
to the Legislature and the Governor on postsecondary education
issues. Among the many products that CPEC produced was the
eligibility study, and was additionally charged, among other
things, with reviewing proposals for new academic and
vocational programs, and expansion of campuses or the creation
of new satellite campuses, and act as a clearinghouse for
postsecondary education information and maintain a
comprehensive database on students based on unique student
identifiers.
This bill requires the CDE to periodically conduct studies of
the percentages of California public high school graduates
estimated to be eligible for admission into the UC and the CSU.
In addition, this bill:
1.Requires the CDE to work collaboratively with the UC and CSU
to determine the specific role of each entity in conducting
the study, ensure that work is not duplicated, and utilize
existing vendors familiar with the scope of previous studies
to conduct the study as efficiently as possible.
2.Requires the eligibility study to be conducted no more
frequently than every four years, and be completed within 18
months from when state or nonstate funds are made available
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for this purpose.
3.Includes legislative findings and declarations in support of
the need for periodic eligibility studies, as specified.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, the total cost
for one eligibility study will likely be approximately $1.5 - $2
million.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/18/14)
American Nurses Association\California
San Francisco Unified School District
Western Association for College Admission Counseling
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office, this
bill implements the Legislative Analyst's Office recommendation
to authorize an updated freshman eligibility study, a valuable
tool that measures whether the state's public university systems
are accessible to the students they are supposed to serve, and
helps determine whether the UC and CSU are properly budgeted to
ensure student access and success. This bill designates CDE to
periodically conduct the eligibility study in light of CPEC's
defunding, and since CDE had assisted CPEC in the past to
implement the study in previous years.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 5/28/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Grove,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones,
Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein,
Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. P�rez, V.
Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,
Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,
Weber, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Frazier, Beth Gaines, Wilk, Vacancy
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PQ:k 8/18/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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