Bill Text: CA SB148 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: School districts: reorganization: local control funding formula.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-10-02 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 448, Statutes of 2015. [SB148 Detail]
Download: California-2015-SB148-Amended.html
Bill Title: School districts: reorganization: local control funding formula.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-10-02 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 448, Statutes of 2015. [SB148 Detail]
Download: California-2015-SB148-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 148 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 2, 2015
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 7, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Senators McGuire and Leyva
(Principal coauthor: Senator Huff)
(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Burke and Wood)
(Coauthors: Senators Allen, Hall, Mendoza, and Vidak)
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Dodd)
JANUARY 29, 2015
An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 52465) to Chapter
9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
relating to career technical education, and making an
appropriation therefor. education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 148, as amended, McGuire. Career technical education: Career
and Job Skills Education Act.
(1) Existing
Existing law establishes the office of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction, and specifies that the
Superintendent is the ex officio Director of the State Department of
Education. Under existing law, the State Department of Education
administers numerous programs relating to elementary and secondary
education.
Existing law authorizes, among other things, the governing board
of any high school district to establish and maintain, in connection
with any high school or regional occupational center or program under
its jurisdiction, cooperative career technical education programs or
community classrooms as part of a career technical education course,
as specified.
This bill would establish the Career and Job Skills Education Act,
which would authorize the governing board of one or more school
districts, county offices of education, direct-funded charter
schools, and regional occupational centers or programs operated by
joint powers authorities with the written consent from each
participating local education educational
agency, that operate any state-approved career technical
education sequence of courses, to apply to the Superintendent for a
grant for the development and enhancement of high-quality career
technical education programs. The bill would require each grant
recipient to, among other things, adopt certain policies and
procedures and establish a career technical education program that
satisfies specified criteria. The bill would establish the Career and
Job Skills Education Fund in the State Treasury, and would also
require the Superintendent to, among other things, administer the
fund and distribute awards through an annual application process to
applicants that meet certain requirements. The bill would further
require the Superintendent and the State Board of Education to
incorporate appropriate metrics into state-adopted accountability
measures to determine career readiness of California's high school
pupils.
The bill would appropriate $600,000,000 from the General
Fund would, to the extent that funds are appropriated
in the annual Budget Act of 2015, allocate funds to
the Superintendent, for deposit in the Career and Job Skills
Education Fund, for purposes of the Career and Job Skills Education
Act, and would express the intent of the Legislature that
additional funds be appropriated from the General Fund, as
necessary, for those purposes in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal
years.
(2) Funds appropriated by the bill for purposes of funding this
act would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for
school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8
of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes 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) Section 51220 of the Education Code states that the adopted
course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, shall offer courses in
the following areas of study:
(1) Applied arts, including instruction in the areas of consumer
and homemaking education, industrial arts, general business
education, or general agriculture.
(2) Career technical education designed and conducted for the
purpose of preparing youth for gainful employment in the occupations
and in the numbers that are appropriate to the personnel needs of the
state and the community served and relevant to the career desires
and needs of the pupils.
(b) Section 51224 of the Education Code states, "The governing
board of any school district maintaining a high school shall
prescribe courses of study designed to provide the skills and
knowledge required for adult life for pupils attending the schools
within its school district. The governing board shall prescribe
separate courses of study, including, but not limited to, a course of
study designed to prepare prospective pupils for admission to state
colleges and universities and a course of study for career technical
training."
(c) California has invested $500 million in Proposition 1D funding
for purposes of modernizing and building new career technical
education facilities for high school pupils.
(d) California has invested $90 million in the purchase of new
career technical education equipment for high school pupils.
(e) California has invested $500 million in the California Career
Pathways Trust for the development of robust career pathways aligned
with regional economies.
(f) California needs to satisfy maintenance of effort requirements
to continue to receive funds pursuant to the federal Carl D. Perkins
Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C.
Sec. 2301 et seq.), for the improvement of career technical education
programs.
(g) To help the state remain a competitive economy, California
high schools need to provide resources that promote career readiness
and 21st century career technical skills for pupils.
(h) California needs to use limited resources more efficiently to
do a better job of preparing pupils for an economy that demands
workers to have strong academic and career knowledge and skills, to
be adaptable to change, and prepared for college and careers.
(i) The rapid growth of California's population and the labor
force depends on attracting, supporting, and retaining businesses
that pay sustainable wages to highly skilled and qualified workers.
Therefore, improvement in the overall quality of California's
workforce is a vital component to the state's continued economic
development.
(j) California needs to develop and sustain educational programs
that can provide youth with career readiness, organizational help in
their pursuit of career opportunities, leadership skills, networks of
support, and the academic and technical skills necessary to serve as
a foundation for successful careers.
(k) The average high school graduation rate in the United States
for pupils concentrating in career technical education programs is
90.18 percent, compared to an average national freshman graduation
rate of 74.9 percent.
(l) Eighty-one percent of high school dropouts in the United
States say relevant, real-world learning opportunities would have
kept them from dropping out of high school.
(m) In the United States, more than 70 percent of secondary career
technical education concentrators pursued postsecondary education
shortly after graduating from high school.
(n) According to the United States Census Bureau for the year
2010, 70 percent of pupils will not go on to receive a four-year
postsecondary education degree.
(o) California's future of providing high-quality education and
training programs requires greater public-private collaboration and
cooperation.
(p) California's policies and methods that provide elementary and
secondary education to prepare young people for lifelong learning,
higher educational opportunities, and high-skilled careers leading to
sustainable wages are major components to California's continued
economic growth.
(q) California's continued economic development and growth is
critically linked to providing pupils with educational opportunities
that prepare those pupils for lifelong learning, higher education,
and high-skilled, high-wage careers.
(r) Sustaining and developing a strong system for the delivery of
career technical education should be a top priority of California's
educational systems and must be addressed at the local, regional, and
state levels to establish a seamless system from career technical
education to employment.
(s) California's career pathways system is a long-term investment
in developing human capital by supplying the demand for a highly
skilled and adaptable workforce. By successfully matching the skills
of the emerging workforce with the needs of California's growth
economies, high-quality career pathways will provide essential
components to ensure the state's competitive edge in the growing
global economy.
(t) Career pathway programs are an educational approach that is
designed to improve academic rigor through relevant, real-world
experiences by integrating appropriate academic and essential career
technical education knowledge and skills focused around a career
pathway.
(u) High-quality and coordinated career pathways provide a much
needed nexus between those preparing the future workforce and those
employing the future workforce. The collaboration of educators,
business, and labor fosters the use of contextual and applied
teaching strategies that provide opportunities for all pupils to gain
exposure to career-related coursework, workplace experiences,
internships, and jobsite mentoring.
(v) A rigorous high-quality education curriculum encompasses a
range of subjects and grade levels. Incorporating career technical
education into that curriculum can strengthen pupils' understanding
of career opportunities, provide pupils with direction for education
beyond high school, and produce better informed citizens in the
state.
SEC. 2. Article 8 (commencing with Section 52465) is added to
Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
to read:
Article 8. Career and Job Skills Education Act
52465. This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Career and Job Skills Education Act.
52466. The Career and Job Skills Education Fund is hereby
established in the State Treasury. The moneys in the fund shall be
available to the Superintendent, upon appropriation by the
Legislature pursuant to Section 52471, for the implementation and
administration of this article.
52467. (a) The governing board of one or more school districts,
county offices of education, direct-funded charter schools, including
pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 47605.1, or regional
occupational centers or programs operated by joint powers authorities
with the written consent from each participating local
education educational agency, that operate any
state-approved career technical education sequence of courses may
apply to the Superintendent for a grant for the development and
enhancement of high-quality career technical education courses.
(b) The Superintendent shall award grants to applicants that
contribute an amount of funds equal to the amount of the grant for
use in career technical education programs as defined by the
California State Plan for Career Technical Education and that satisfy
the requirements outlined in Section 52469.
52469. Each governing board of an applicant that receives a grant
or accepts other funds made available for purposes of this article
shall, in consultation with the county office of education, as
applicable, local workforce investment boards, and community colleges
serving the geographic area of the grant recipient
recipient, adopt a career technical education
program that includes all of the following criteria:
(a) The program shall provide a series of career technical
education courses aligned with the California Career Technical
Education Model Curriculum Standards adopted by the state board, and
offer a coherent sequence of career technical education courses
leading to specific competencies that will enable pupils to
transition to postsecondary education on a career pathway or attain
entry level employment in business or industry upon their graduation
from high school.
(b) The program shall include plans, developed and implemented by
the grant recipient for articulation of career technical education
courses with community colleges or apprenticeship programs in the
geographic area of the grant recipient to continue the sequence of
career technical education courses through grades 13 and 14 and for
the acquisition of high-quality industry certifications, credentials,
and licenses.
(c) The program shall include assessments of local business and
industry needs to ensure that the program provides pupils with the
competency, knowledge, and skills necessary to pursue employment
opportunities.
(d) The program shall provide counseling and guidance services to
pupils to help them satisfy all of the requirements for high school
graduation and make informed career preparation choices. Counseling
and guidance services provided for purposes of this subdivision may
include counseling for pupils in grades 6 to 12, inclusive.
(e) The program shall involve business and industry in cooperative
projects with schools in the geographic area of the grant recipient
to provide internships for pupils, externships for teachers, paid or
nonpaid work experience, job shadowing or mentoring opportunities,
instructors from business and industry, assistance with needs
assessments and program evaluations, and access to business and
industry employment placement services to help graduating pupils
obtain employment.
(f) The program shall include a system for data collection to be
reported annually that shall comply with the requirements established
by the Superintendent in terms of all of the following:
(1) Number of pupils enrolled in career technical education
courses.
(2) Number of pupils completing high school.
(3) Pupils earning industry recognized certifications,
credentials, or licenses as determined by a list approved by the
Superintendent, or who passed third-party career technical education
pathway specific assessments.
(4) Pupils securing employment, particularly in jobs related to
the area of their career technical preparation in high school.
(5) Pupils proceeding to advanced education or training at the
postsecondary educational level.
(6) Pupils proceeding to advanced education or training at the
postsecondary educational level in the same career pathway as their
career technical preparation in high school.
(7) Number and types of career technical courses offered and the
number of those courses that qualify as alternative means to complete
the prescribed course of study requirements as described in
subdivision (b) of Section 51225.3.
52470. The Superintendent shall do all of the following:
(a) Develop a system of accountability, data collecting, and
reporting to ensure the goals of career technical education programs
are satisfied.
(b) Develop data metrics that are aligned with the core metrics
required by the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act,
common metrics adopted by the Office of the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges, any career-ready standards adopted
pursuant to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20
U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.) seq.), and
the 11 quality indicators described in the California State Plan for
Career Technical Education.
(c) Adopt and provide grant recipients with a list of approved
high-quality industry certifications and licenses and approved
third-party career technical education pathway assessments in each
career technical education pathway for use in program development.
(d) Provide technical and professional assistance to all grant
award recipients.
52471. (a) The amount of six hundred
million dollars ($600,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the
General Fund To the extent that funds are
appropriated in the Budget Act of 2015, those funds shall be
allocated to the Superintendent, for deposit in the Career and
Job Skills Education Fund, for purposes of this article.
(b) The department shall retain up to 2 percent of the total funds
apportioned to the grant recipient pursuant to this article, to
provide all of the following to that grant recipient for the purposes
of this article:
(1) Technical assistance.
(2) Professional development.
(3) Accountability services and local monitoring.
(c) An amount equal to 2 percent of the total funds appropriated
pursuant to this article shall be set aside and distributed
separately to applicants of rural school districts, as defined by the
state board, and regions with higher than average rates of high
school dropouts, as defined by the California Longitudinal Pupil
Achievement Data System.
(d) Funds may be used by each grant recipient for purposes of this
article for any or all of the following purposes:
(1) Matching pupils with work-based learning opportunities.
(2) Using intermediaries as liaisons between educators,
businesses, parents, and community partners.
(3) Providing technical assistance to help employers and educators
design comprehensive career technical education course sequences and
programs.
(4) Providing technical assistance to help teachers integrate
academic, career technical education, and work-based learning
activities.
(5) Encouraging active business involvement in a grant recipient's
work-based learning activities and providing teacher externships.
(6) Assisting pupils in finding appropriate work, continuing
education or training, and linking pupils to other community
services.
(7) Evaluating postcareer technical education program outcomes for
pupils to assess the success of those programs, particularly with
reference to special populations, as that term is defined in the
federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement
Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.).
(8) Linking youth development activities with employer and
industry strategies to upgrade worker skills.
(9) Funding career technical education pupil organizations and
activities.
(10) Funding costs incurred through career technical education
program-related planning, development, validation, and
accountability.
(11) Funding career technical education curriculum development and
alignment with postsecondary educational institutions.
(12) Funding career technical education professional development,
including industry externships for teachers.
(13) Funding career technical education instructional equipment
and material purchases.
(14) Providing support in career technical education programs to
pupils of special populations, as that term is defined in the federal
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of
2006 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.).
(15) Funding costs incurred through the expansion of career
technical education programs in effect as of January 1, 2016, or the
establishment of new career technical education programs or pathways,
including the cost of salaries for additional career technical
education staff. Salary expenditures for career technical education
staff shall be capped at 50 percent of the annual amount apportioned
to the grant recipient.
52472. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, funds allocated
pursuant to this article may be expended only to ensure the
development, enhancement, and improvement of high-quality career
technical education courses and programs pursuant to the quality
indicators described in the California State Plan for Career
Technical Education.
(b) As a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this article,
each grant recipient shall do all of the following:
(1) Develop a plan for establishing aligned course sequences for
its career technical education programs.
(2) Certify to the department that each career technical education
pathway has been developed with input from an industry-based career
pathway advisory committee and includes a logical sequence of career
technical education courses pursuant to the California State Plan for
Career Technical Education.
(3) Submit new or revised career technical education programs or
pathways to the department for approval no later than September 1 of
the fiscal year in which those changes are implemented pursuant to
requirements developed by the department, for purposes of determining
the annual funding award to the grant recipient.
(4) Certify to the department that each course within a sequence
of career technical education courses is aligned with the California
Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards, adopted by the
state board, for grades 7 to 12, inclusive.
(5) Certify to the department that each course, where appropriate,
is aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
(6) Certify to the department that each of its career technical
education teachers has the appropriate credential authorizing him or
her to teach his or her assigned career technical education course.
(7) Except as provided in paragraph (15) of subdivision (f) of
Section 52471, certify to the department that no grant funds awarded
to the grant recipient pursuant to this article are used for staff
salaries, benefits, or both.
(8) Collect and report data as required by the department and the
applicable local control and accountability plan.
52473. The Superintendent and the state board shall incorporate
appropriate metrics into state-adopted accountability measures to
determine career readiness of California's high school pupils. These
metrics shall be aligned with the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and
Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et
seq.), California's Standards for Career Ready Practice, and the
quality indicators described in the California State Plan for Career
Technical Education.
SEC. 3. It is the intent of the Legislature that
additional funds be appropriated from the General Fund, as
necessary, to the Superintendent, for deposit in the Career and Job
Skills Education Fund, for purposes of Article 8 (commencing with
Section 52465) of Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Education Code, in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years.
SEC. 4. For purposes of making the computations
required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution,
the funds appropriated pursuant to this act shall be deemed to be
"General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts," as defined
in subdivision (c) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the
fiscal year for which the funds are appropriated, and included within
the "total allocations to school districts and community college
districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant
to Article XIII B," as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202 of
the Education Code, for the fiscal year for which the funds are
appropriated.
