Bill Text: CA AB1950 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Career education: Career Education Incentive Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1950 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB1950-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1950 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 1, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 1, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Campos
( Coauthor: Assembly Member
Gonzalez )
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 the purpose purposes
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 specify
information to be collected and reported annually by the consortia
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 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 the
purpose purposes 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 the purpose
purposes of developing and maintaining career
education programs aligned with the California Career
Technical Education and Model Curriculum
Standards adopted pursuant to Section 51226 and the Common Core
State Standards for California adopted pursuant to Sections
60605.8 and 60605.10 .
(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:
(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.
(2)
(1) 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.
(3)
(2) 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.
(4)
(3) 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 Model Curriculum Standards
adopted pursuant to Section 51226 .
(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.
(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:
(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.
(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:
(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 "A-G" "a-g
" 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 to the greatest
extent possible 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 elementary and secondary
pupils and adults pupils enrolled in middle and
secondary grades the opportunity to
be become fully prepared for college
or and career.
(b) (1) Of the funds appropriated for that purpose, the
Superintendent shall apportion state matching grants 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 52360 state matching grants in accordance with
paragraphs (2) and (3). 52360.
(2) A career education consortium is eligible to receive a state
matching grant equal to the prior current
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
amount amounts calculated pursuant to paragraph
(4) of subdivision (d) of Section 42238.02 and the amounts received
for apprenticeship programs by of 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 in the prior
school year, and the amount expended for each purpose and
program.
