Bill Text: CA AB36 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 36 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Public education: basic skills training.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB36 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB36-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 36	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Furutani

                        DECEMBER 1, 2008

   An act relating to public education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 36, as introduced, Furutani. Public education: readiness year
program.
   Under existing law, the public school system of the state
includes, among other schools, secondary and technical schools.
Existing law provides for various career technical and workforce
preparation programs in the public schools.
   Existing law also establishes the University of California, the
California State University, and the California Community Colleges as
the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state.
Existing law declares that it is the intent of the Legislature that
those institutions provide a collegiate experience that gives each
student specified skills and that an undergraduate education prepare
students to have the flexibility to adapt to, among other things, new
workforce needs.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to develop a readiness year program in the public
education system that provides basic skills training for individuals
entering or reentering an academic institution or the workforce and
prepares those individuals to meet California's career technical
education and workforce development needs.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
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 enact
legislation to develop a readiness year program in the public
education system that provides basic skills training for individuals
entering or reentering an educational institution or the workforce
and prepares those individuals to meet California's career technical
education and workforce development needs.