Bill Text: CA SB480 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 480

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: work-based learning: youth apprenticeship programs: high school graduation requirements: pilot program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB480 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB480-Amended.html

Amended IN Senate March 20, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 480

Introduced by Senator Portantino

February 14, 2023

An act to ~~amend Section 200 of~~ add Section 35160.3 to the Education Code, relating to ~~educational equity.~~ school districts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 480, as amended, Portantino. ~~Educational equity.~~ School districts: pilot programs: Korean Meister high school system.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to initiate and carry on any program, activity, or to act in any manner that is not in conflict with or inconsistent with, or preempted by, any law and that is not in conflict with the purposes for which school districts are established. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or a county board of education, on a districtwide or countywide basis or on behalf of one or more of its schools or programs, after a public hearing on the matter, to request the State Board of Education to waive all or part of any section of the Education Code or any regulation adopted by the state board that implements a provision of that code that may be waived, except as otherwise specified.
This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the state board, to select 3 geographically diverse school districts to implement, on a voluntary basis, a pilot program at one high school within the school district based upon the Korean Meister high school system. The bill would require the department and the state board to adopt regulations to implement the pilot programs.
Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state, and states that the purpose of related existing law is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor.
~~This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.~~

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 35160.3 is added to the Education Code, to read:

35160.3.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department, with the approval of the state board, shall select three geographically diverse school districts to implement, on a voluntary basis, a pilot program at one high school within the school district based upon the Korean Meister high school system.
(b) The department and the state board shall adopt regulations to implement the pilot programs established pursuant to subdivision (a).

SECTION 1.Section 200 of the Education Code is amended to read:
200.
It is the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set forth in Section 422.55 of the Penal Code, including immigration status, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. The purpose of this chapter is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies for the commission of those prohibited acts.