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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 923
Author: Pavley (D), et al.
Amended: 5/27/14
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 8-0, 4/2/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Correa, Galgiani, Hancock, Hueso, Huff,
Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 7-0, 5/23/14
AYES: De Le�n, Walters, Gaines, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
SUBJECT : Educational apprenticeships
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill establishes the Educational Apprenticeship
Innovation Act (EdPrize) whereby competitive grants would be
awarded to applicant school districts, county offices of
education, charter schools, and California Community Colleges
(CCCs) for purposes of promoting apprenticeships,
preapprenticeships, and career pathways.
ANALYSIS : AB 86 (Assembly Budget Committee, Chapter 48,
Statutes of 2013) created the California Career Pathways Trust
and provided $250 million to school districts, county
superintendents of school, charter schools, and CCC districts in
the form of one-time competitive grants. Grants are available
for K-14 career pathways programs that accomplish the following:
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1.Fund specialists in work-based learning, as defined in Section
51760.1 of the Education Code, to convene, connect, measure,
or broker efforts to establish or enhance a locally defined
career pathways program that connects school districts, county
superintendents of schools, charter schools, and CCCs with
business entities.
2.Establish regional collaborative relationships and
partnerships with business entities, community organizations,
and local institutions of postsecondary education.
3.Develop and integrate standards-based academics with a
career-relevant, sequenced curriculum following
industry-themed pathways that are aligned to high-need,
high-growth, or emerging regional economic sectors.
4.Provide articulated pathways to postsecondary education
aligned with regional economies.
5.Leverage and build on specified elements, including existing
structures, requirements, and resources of the Carl D.
Perkins, California Partnership Academies, and regional
occupational programs, including staff knowledge, community
relationships, and course development.
Existing law establishes the Career Technical Education Pathways
Program until June 30, 2015, and requires the CCC Board of
Governors to assist economic and workforce regional development
centers and consortia, CCCs, including middle schools, high
schools, and regional occupational centers and programs (ROCPs)
to improve linkages and career technical education pathways
between high schools and CCCs.
Existing law establishes various career technical education
programs for public schools including ROCPs that allow students
from multiple schools or districts to participate in career
technical training programs regardless of the geographical
location of their residence in a county or region. Existing law
authorizes the following types of ROCP operational models:
county ROCP, joint powers agency ROCP, and a single district
ROCP.
This bill:
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1. Provides various findings and declarations of the
Legislature, including reference to a report by the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics that the unemployment rate
of Californians between 16 and 24 years of age stood at
20.2%, which is the fourth highest in the nation.
2. Establishes the Educational Apprenticeship Innovation Prize
(EdPrize) for purposes of promoting apprenticeships,
preapprenticeships, and career pathways between local
educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and
businesses of importance to local economies. Grants for the
EdPrize are required to be distributed on a competitive basis
to an entity by the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(SPI) subject to funding being made available in the annual
Budget Act.
3. Requires the SPI to use, at minimum, all of the following
criteria to determine the competitive value of an
application:
A. The ability of the proposed grant program to provide at
least two years of apprenticeship, preapprenticeship, or
other forms of workforce training to eligible high school
pupils in grades 11 and 12 or the ability to provide
eligible high school pupils with a career and educational
pathways to a campus of the CCCs.
B. The ability to place eligible high school pupils in
apprenticeships, preapprenticeships, internships, and
work-place learning environments in fields determined to be
of local economic importance, as determined through data
and evidence-driven analysis.
C. The ability of the proposed grant program to provide
eligible high school pupils with the opportunity to work in
an economic sector with gainful employment opportunities or
academic pathways that lead to either a certificate or an
associate degree.
D. The ability of the proposal to address the needs of the
local or regional labor market and help competitive and
emerging industry sectors and industry clusters, or to
address the state's need to fill skills gaps and skills
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shortages in the economy, including skills gaps and
shortages at the regional level.
E. An assessment of the past performance of the applying
entities if the agency has been awarded other economic and
workforce development grants or other state grants,
including an assessment of whether the grantee's previous
awards produced project deliverables specified in prior
grant applications.
F. The ability to create a written agreement among the
applicant entities, the participating eligible high school
pupils or their parents, and participating employers in
order to ensure commitment to the pupil's academic and
professional success, and ensure the successful completion
of the apprenticeship, preapprenticeship, work-based
learning program, or educational pathway.
G. The ability to provide participating eligible high
school pupils with a worksite mentor to help train, guide,
and supervise the pupil.
1. Defines "eligible high school pupil" as a pupil in grade 11
or 12 who passed, or is exempt from, the high school exit
exam and is satisfactorily meeting the requirements to
receive a diploma of graduation.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Grants: Substantial ongoing costs, likely in the millions
to tens of millions of dollars; to the extent funds are
appropriated in the annual Budget Act.
Program administration: Approximately $85,000 (General
Fund) in annual CDE costs to administer the program.
SUPPORT : (Verified 5/27/14)
American Association of University Women - California
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
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City of Pasadena
Construction Employers Association
Las Virgenes Unified School District
Moorpark Unified School District
Oak Park Unified School District
Santa Monica College
Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce
Superintendent Tim Taylor, Butte County Office of Education
United Chambers of Commerce
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office, youth
unemployment is one of the most serious challenges to
California's economic recovery. Job prospects are especially
dim for those who have not yet earned a college degree, those
who do not plan on going to college, or who lack practical work
experience. This lack of opportunity holds young people back
from fully participating in society and can result in greater
reliance on social welfare and higher public safety costs. The
author's office indicates that youth individuals need
opportunities to learn vital job skills and succeed
professionally. Further, they indicate that one of the best
ways to equip young people with professional skills is to
incorporate apprenticeships, pre-apprenticeships, and other
forms of work-based learning into the school curriculum.
PQ:MW:nl 5/27/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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