Bill Text: CA AB160 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Concurrent enrollment in secondary school and community
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-08-25 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB160 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB160-Amended.html
Bill Title: Concurrent enrollment in secondary school and community
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-08-25 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB160 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB160-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 160 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 27, 2011
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 9, 2011
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY FEBRUARY 28, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Portantino
JANUARY 19, 2011
An act to amend Section 48800 of, and to add
Sections 48803 and 76002.5 to, Section 48803
to the Education Code, relating to public schools.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 160, as amended, Portantino. Concurrent enrollment in secondary
school and community college.
(1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school
district to allow pupils whom the district has determined would
benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work to attend
community college as special part-time students, subject to parental
permission. Existing law makes the authority of a school principal to
recommend a pupil for community college summer session contingent
upon a determination that the pupil meets various criteria and
prohibits the principal from recommending more than 5% of the total
number of pupils from any particular grade level who completed that
grade immediately prior to the time of recommendation for summer
session attendance, except as specified.
This bill instead would authorize the governing board of a school
district to authorize those pupils to attend a community college upon
notification that the secondary school pupil has exhausted all
opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course at the high school of
attendance, adult education program, continuation school, regional
occupational center or program, or any other program offered by that
district, as specified.
The
This bill would authorize the governing
board of a community college district to enter into a formal
partnership with a school district or school districts located within
its immediate service area to allow secondary school pupils to
attend a community college if those pupils have exhausted all
opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course at the high school of
attendance, adult education program, continuation school, regional
occupational center or program, or any other programs offered by the
local governing board of the school district, and
if those pupils may benefit from advanced scholastic,
career-technical, or vocational coursework. The bill would require
the partnership agreement to outline the terms of the partnership, as
specified. The bill would require, for each partnership entered into
under the bill, the affected community college district and school
district to file an annual report, containing specified data, with
the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
(2) Existing law requires the governing board of a community
college district to assign a low enrollment priority to a pupil
attending community college pursuant to a recommendation from his or
her principal or school district or a petition from his or her
parents, in order to ensure that these pupils, admitted as special
students, do not displace regularly admitted students.
This bill also would prohibit
authorize the governing board of a community
college district from assigning to assign
an enrollment priority to students attending community college
pursuant to a partnership agreement established under the bill
to ensure that they do not displace regularly admitted
students .
This
The bill would prohibit a community college
district from receiving an allowance or apportionment for an
instructional activity for which a school district has been, or will
be, paid.
This bill would require the governing board of a community college
district to limit enrollment of special part-time or full-time
students for summer session attendance to no more than 5% of the
total number of pupils who completed a grade immediately prior to the
time of attendance, except as specified.
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. The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) Campuses of the California Community Colleges are located
throughout California and provide an educational resource for all
communities.
(b) Existing law allows certain high school pupils to take classes
at community colleges. These pupils are known as special-admits and
the programs in which they participate are known as concurrent
enrollment programs. The main target of these programs is advanced
education and the work completed in them is primarily defined as
college-level work.
(c) Existing law imposes strict limits on concurrent enrollment
programs. Only 5 percent of the pupils in any high school class may
enroll in a community college during summer sessions. In addition,
the types of classes pupils may take pursuant to these programs are
generally limited to advanced education classes.
(d) A serious abuse of concurrent enrollment programs by a few
school districts and community college districts several years ago
resulted in statutory reform and restrictions on this type of
enrollment.
(e) The current restrictions inhibit the ability of school
districts and their pupils to make maximum use of community college
facilities and opportunities. The time has come to encourage and
expand these valuable programs, but with appropriate statutory
prohibitions to guard against a repeat of the abuses of the past.
(f) Allowing high school pupils to take community college courses
could provide benefits to pupils and to the state in numerous ways,
including more opportunities for advanced scholastic work,
career-technical partnerships and coursework, basic skills
remediation, preparation for the high school exit examination,
English as a second language, and dropout prevention.
(g) Exposure to college classes and the college environment while
in high school improves college participation rates.
(h) Concurrent enrollment saves money for both the state and the
pupils and provides for more effective use of facilities.
SEC. 2. Section 48800 of the Education Code is
amended to read:
48800. (a) The governing board of a school district may determine
which pupils would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational
work. The intent of this section is to provide educational enrichment
opportunities for a limited number of eligible pupils, rather than
to reduce current course requirements of elementary and secondary
schools, and also to help ensure a smoother transition from high
school to college for pupils by providing them with greater exposure
to the collegiate atmosphere. The governing board may authorize those
pupils, upon notification to the principal of the pupil's school of
attendance that the secondary school pupil has exhausted all
opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course at the high school of
attendance, adult education program, continuation school, regional
occupational center or program, or any other programs offered by the
governing board of that school district, and with parental consent,
to attend a community college during any session or term as special
part-time or full-time students and to undertake one or more courses
of instruction offered at the community college level.
(b) If the governing board denies a request for a special
part-time or full-time enrollment at a community college for any
session or term for a pupil who is identified as highly gifted, the
governing board shall issue its written recommendation and the
reasons for the denial within 60 days. The written recommendation and
denial shall be issued at the next regularly scheduled board meeting
that falls at least 30 days after the request has been submitted.
(c) A pupil shall receive credit for community college courses
that he or she completes at the level determined appropriate by the
governing boards of the school district and community college
district.
(d) (1) Upon notification to the principal of a pupil's school of
attendance that he or she has exhausted all opportunities to enroll
in an equivalent course at the high school of attendance, adult
education program, continuation school, regional occupational center
or program, or any other programs offered by the governing board of
that school district, a pupil may enroll in a community college
summer session only if that pupil meets both of the following
criteria:
(A) Demonstrates adequate preparation in the discipline to be
studied.
(B) Exhausts all opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course,
if any, at his or her school of attendance.
(2) For any particular grade level, no more than 5 percent of the
total number of pupils who completed that grade immediately prior to
the time of recommendation may attend a community college summer
session. The school principal shall notify the local community
college district when 5 percent of the pupils in a particular grade
level have notified the principal that they intend to attend a
community college during summer session.
(3) A high school pupil shall not be included in the 5-percent
limitation of pupils allowed to enroll pursuant to paragraph (2) if
the course in which the pupil is enrolled meets one of the criterion
listed in subparagraphs (A) to (C), inclusive, and the high school
principal provides the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges, upon the request of that office, with the data required for
purposes of paragraph (4).
(A) The course is a lower division, college-level course for
credit that is designated as part of the Intersegmental General
Education Transfer Curriculum or applies toward the general education
breadth requirements of the California State University.
(B) The course is a college-level, occupational course for credit
assigned a priority code of "A," "B," or "C," pursuant to the Student
Accountability Model, as defined by the Chancellor of the California
Community Colleges and reported in the management information
system, and the course is part of a sequence of vocational or career
technical education courses leading to a degree or certificate in the
subject area covered by the sequence.
(C) The course is necessary to assist a pupil who has not passed
the California High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE), does not offer
college credit in English language arts or mathematics, and the pupil
meets both of the following requirements:
(i) The pupil is in his or her senior year of high school.
(ii) The pupil has completed all other graduation requirements
prior to the end of his or her senior year, or will complete all
remaining graduation requirements during a community college summer
session, which he or she is recommended to enroll in, following his
or her senior year of high school.
(4) On or before March 1 of each year, the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges shall report to the Department of
Finance the number of pupils recommended pursuant to paragraph (3)
who enroll in community college summer session courses and who
receive a passing grade. The information in this report may be
submitted with the report required by subdivision (c) of Section
76002.
(5) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
shall not include enrollment growth attributable to paragraph (3) as
part of its annual budget request for the California Community
Colleges.
(6) Notwithstanding Article 3 (commencing with Section 33050) of
Chapter 1 of Part 20 of Division 2, compliance with this subdivision
shall not be waived.
(e) Paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) of subdivision (d) shall become
inoperative on January 1, 2014.
SEC. 3. SEC. 2. Section 48803 is
added to the Education Code, to read:
48803. (a) (1) The governing board of a community college
district may enter into a formal partnership with a school district
or school districts located within its immediate service area in
order to provide secondary school pupils who have exhausted all
opportunities to enroll in an equivalent course at the high school of
attendance, adult education program, continuation school, regional
occupational center or program, or any other programs offered by the
local governing board of the school district with
the opportunity to benefit from advanced scholastic,
career-technical, or vocational coursework. A secondary school pupil,
upon notification of the principal of the pupil's school of
attendance that the pupil has exhausted all opportunities to enroll
in an equivalent course at the high school of attendance, adult
education program, continuation school, regional occupational center
or program, or any other program offered by the local
governing board of the school district, and with parental
consent if the pupil is under 18 years of age, may attend a community
college during any session or term as a special part-time or
full-time student.
(2) A participating community college district shall adopt a
partnership agreement with each school district partner. The
partnership agreement shall be approved by the governing board of the
community college district and the governing board of the school
district.
(3) (A) The partnership agreement shall outline the terms of the
partnership , and may include, but not necessarily
be limited to, the scope, nature, and schedule of courses offered.
The partnership agreement may establish protocols for information
sharing and joint facilities use.
(B) A copy of the partnership agreement shall be filed with the
department and with the office Office
of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges prior
to before the start of a program authorized by
this article.
(4) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this section,
to provide a smoother transition from high school to college for
pupils by providing them with greater exposure to the collegiate
atmosphere , and to maximize the educational
opportunities available to California's secondary school pupils by
encouraging programs and partnerships between school districts and
community college districts, including advanced scholastic,
vocational, and career-technical coursework, summer school
opportunities, and dropout intervention.
(5) A community college district shall not provide physical
education course opportunities to secondary school pupils pursuant to
this section.
(6) A pupil shall receive credit for community college courses
that he or she completes at the level determined to be appropriate by
the governing boards of th e school district
and community college governing boards the
community college district pursuant to the partnership
agreement as described in paragraph (2).
(b) (1) A community college district shall not receive a state
allowance or apportionment for an instructional activity for which a
school district has been, or shall be, paid an allowance or
apportionment.
(2) The attendance of a pupil at a community college as a special
part-time or full-time student pursuant to this section is authorized
attendance for which the community college shall be credited or
reimbursed pursuant to Section 48802 or 76002, provided that no
school district has received reimbursement for the same instructional
activity. Credit for courses completed shall be at the level
determined to be appropriate by the governing boards of the school
district and the community college district pursuant to the
partnership agreement as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision
(a).
(c) For purposes of this section, a special part-time student may
enroll in up to, and including, 11 units per semester, or the
equivalent thereof, at the community college he or she attends.
(d) Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 76001, for purposes
of this section, the governing board of a community college district
shall not may assign an enrollment
priority to pupils admitted as special part-time or full-time
students under this section in order to ensure that these
students do not displace regularly admitted students.
section.
(e) Community college districts and school districts that enter
into a partnership pursuant to this section shall be exempt from
concurrent enrollment provisions pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b)
of, and paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (d) of, Section
48800.
(f) (1) For each partnership entered into pursuant to this
section, the affected community college district and school district
shall report annually to the Office of the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges all of the following information:
(A) The total number of secondary school pupils enrolled in each
program, classified by the school district.
(B) The total number of successful course completions of secondary
school pupils enrolled in each program, classified by the school
district.
(C) The total number of successful course completions of students
in courses equivalent to those courses tracked under subparagraph (B)
in the general community college curriculum.
(2) The annual report required by this subdivision shall be
transmitted to all of the following:
(A) The Legislature.
(B) The Director of Finance.
(C) The Superintendent.
(D) The governing board of each participating community college
district.
(E) The governing board of each participating school district.
SEC. 4. Section 76002.5 is added to the
Education Code, to read:
76002.5. Pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 48800, the
governing board of a community college district shall limit
enrollment of special part-time or full-time students for summer
session attendance to no more than 5 percent of the total number of
pupils who completed that grade immediately prior to the time of
attendance, except as provided in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of
paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 48800.
