SB 1200, as amended, Padilla. Public postsecondary education: academic standards.
The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California’s public and independent segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of higher education. Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, and the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as 2 of the public segments of postsecondary education in this state. A provision of the act requires the California State University and requests the University of California to establish a uniform set of model academic standards for high school courses for pupils who wish to attend those institutions.
This bill would require the Trustees of the California State
University, and would request the Regents of the University of California, to begin deleteestablish a uniform set of academic standards end deletebegin insertcreate guidelines end insertfor high school computer science coursesbegin delete, end deletebegin insert to satisfy the “a-g” subject requirements, as defined, for the area of mathematics end insertfor purposes of begin deleterecognition for end deleteundergraduate admission at their respective institutions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 66205.55 is added to the Education Code,
2to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert The Trustees of the California State University
4shall, and the Regents of the University of California are requested
5to,begin delete establish a uniform set of academic standardsend deletebegin insert create guidelinesend insert
6 for high school computer science coursesbegin insert to satisfy the “a-g”
7subject requirements for the area of mathematicsend insert,
for purposes of
8begin deleterecognition for end deleteundergraduate admission to the California State
9University and to the University of California, respectively.
10 (b) As used in this section, the “a-g” subject requirements
11constitute the pattern of college preparatory courses drawn from
12the areas of history/social science, English, mathematics,
13laboratory science, languages other than English, visual and
14performing arts, and college-preparatory electives required for
15entrance as a first-year student at the University of California.
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