Bill Text: CA AB2019 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Early and middle college high schools and programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2019 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2019-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 16, 2024 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 21, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Vince Fong |
January 31, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law provides that the minimum schoolday in any high school is 240 minutes, except as provided, including that a day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in grades 11 and 12 at an early college high school or middle college high school is 180 minutes of attendance if the pupil is also enrolled in a community college, classes of the California State University, or classes of the University of California, as specified.
This bill would additionally exempt a pupil enrolled in an early college program or a middle college program from the 240-minute minimum schoolday if the pupil is also enrolled in a community college, classes of the California State University, or classes of the University of California, as specified.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a)The Legislature finds and declares that middle college high schools have proven to be a highly effective collaborative effort between local school districts and community colleges. The goal of the middle college high school or program is to select at-promise high school pupils who are performing below their academic potential and place them in an alternative high school located on a community college campus or colocated on an existing high school campus in order to reduce the likelihood that they will drop out of school before graduation.
(b)Each middle college high school or program shall be structured as a broad-based, comprehensive instructional program focusing on college preparatory and school-to-work curricula, career education, work experience, community service, and support and motivational activities.
(c)The specific design of a middle college high school or program may vary depending on the circumstances of the community college or school district, and may include programs established within a high school. The basic elements of the middle college high school or program shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(1)A curriculum that focuses on college and career preparation.
(2)A reduced adult-student ratio.
(3)Flexible scheduling to allow for work internships, community service experience, and interaction with community college student role models.
(4)Opportunities for experiential internships, work apprenticeships, and community service.
The Legislature finds and declares that early college high schools are innovative partnerships between charter or noncharter public secondary schools and a local community college, the California State University, or the University of California that allow pupils to earn a high school diploma and up to two years of college credit in four years or less. Early college high schools or programs are small schools or programs established within a high school that blend high school and college into a coherent educational program. In early college high schools or programs, pupils begin taking college courses as soon as they demonstrate readiness and the college credit earned may be applied toward completing an associate or bachelor’s degree, transfer to a four-year
university, or obtaining a skills certificate.
SECTION 1.
Section 11303 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 11302, to read:11303.
(a) Each school district, county office of education, or charter school with a middle college high school or program or an early college high school or program, shall, beginning on or before(4)Course and program outcomes for pupils, disaggregated by grade level, gender, socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and other disproportionately impacted groups.
(a)A day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in grade 11 or 12 at an early college high school or program or a middle college high school or program is 180 minutes of attendance if the pupil is also enrolled part time in courses of the California State University or the University of California for which academic credit will be provided upon satisfactory completion of enrolled courses.
(b)A day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in an early college high school or program or a middle college high
school or program, who is also a special part-time student enrolled in a community college under Article 1 (commencing with Section 48800) of Chapter 5 of Part 27, and who will receive academic credit upon satisfactory completion of enrolled courses, is 180 minutes of attendance.
(c)A day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in an early college high school or program or
a middle college high school or program,
who does not satisfy subdivision (a) or (b) is 240 minutes of attendance.
(d)For a charter school that is an early college high school or middle college high school, for purposes of calculating classroom-based average daily attendance for classroom-based instruction apportionments, at least 80 percent of the instructional time offered by the charter school shall be at the schoolsite, and the charter school shall require the attendance of a pupil enrolled in grade 11 or 12 for a minimum of 50 percent of the minimum instructional time required to be offered pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 47612.5 if the pupil is also enrolled part time in courses of the California State University or the University of California for which academic credit will be provided upon satisfactory completion of enrolled courses.
(e)For a charter school that is an early college high school or middle college high school, for purposes of calculating classroom-based average daily attendance for classroom-based instruction apportionments, at least 80 percent of the instructional time offered by the charter school shall be at the schoolsite, and the charter school shall require the attendance of a pupil for a minimum of 50 percent of the minimum instructional time required to be offered pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 47612.5 if the pupil is also a special part-time student enrolled in a community college under Article 1 (commencing with Section 48800) of Chapter 5 of Part 27, and who will receive academic credit upon satisfactory completion of enrolled courses.
(f)For a pupil enrolled
in a charter school that is an early college high school or middle college high school and who does not satisfy the attendance and enrollment requirements of subdivision (d) or (e), for purposes of calculating classroom-based average daily attendance for classroom-based instruction apportionments, at least 80 percent of the instructional time offered by the charter school shall be at the schoolsite, and the charter school shall require the attendance of the pupil for a minimum of 67 percent of the minimum instructional time required to be offered pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 47612.5.
(g)For purposes of this section, “middle college high school or program” means the same as described in Section 11300 and
“early college high school or program” means the same as described in Section 11302.
(h)The requirements of this section shall be subject to annual audits, which shall be conducted pursuant to Section 41020.