Bill Text: CA SB650 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Postsecondary education: the College Promise Partnership

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 633, Statutes of 2011. [SB650 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB650-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 650	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Sections 76001.5, 76002.1, 76003, and
76004 of, and to add and repeal Article 1.5 (commencing with Section
48810) of Chapter 5 of Part 27 of Division 4 of Title 2 of, the
Education Code, relating to the College Promise Partnership Act.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 650, as introduced, Lowenthal. Postsecondary education: the
College Promise Partnership Act.
   Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under
the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes the establishment of
community college districts under the administration of community
college governing boards, and authorizes these districts to provide
instruction at community college campuses throughout the state.
   Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district
to authorize pupils, with parental permission, who would benefit from
advanced scholastic or vocational work to attend community college
as special part-time students to undertake one or more courses of
instruction at the community college level. Existing law authorizes
the parent or guardian of a pupil to petition the governing board of
a school district to authorize the attendance of the pupil at a
community college as a full-time student on the ground that the pupil
would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work. Existing
law further authorizes the governing board of a community college
district to admit those students to any community college under its
jurisdiction.
   This bill would enact the College Promise Partnership Act, and
authorize the Long Beach Community College District and the Long
Beach Unified School District to enter into a partnership, as
specified, to provide participating pupils with an aligned sequence
of rigorous high school coursework leading to capstone college
courses, as defined, with consistent and jointly established
eligibility for college courses. The act would authorize the
governing board of the community college district to admit specified
students to any community college under its jurisdiction as a special
part-time or full-time student pursuant to the act, and to assign
priority for enrollment and course registration to certain students.
   Existing law authorizes a community college district, for the
purposes of receiving state apportionments, to include special
part-time and full-time students in the district's report of
full-time equivalent students if those students are enrolled in
community college classes that are open to the general public.
   This bill would authorize the Long Beach Community College
District to include high school students who attend a community
college within the district who participate in a partnership under
the act to receive state apportionments on the same basis as other
community college districts.
   The bill would require the Long Beach Community College District
to report to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges the
moneys utilized for the partnership by no later than November 1 of
each year the partnership is in operation.
   The provisions of this bill would become inoperative on June 30,
2018, and, as of January 1, 2019, would be repealed, unless the Board
of Governors of the California Community Colleges and the State
Board of Education jointly certify before that date that the Long
Beach College Promise partnership has achieved at least 4 of 6
specified goals.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Long Beach Unified School
District and the Long Beach Community College District.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) In order to attain and surpass the education levels of some of
the most competitive economies in the world, the number of students
earning college degrees in California each year would have to
increase by more than one million by 2020, nearly tripling the number
of annual completions today.
   (b) Research by the Institute for Higher Education Policy shows
that only 30 percent of the students who in enroll in California
community colleges successfully complete a certificate degree or
transfer within six years. Only 25 percent of African American
students, and 18 percent of Hispanic students, achieve the same
result.
   (c) The Long Beach College Promise partnership, which includes the
Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD), the Long Beach City
College (LBCC), and the California State University, Long Beach
(CSULB), is a nationally recognized partnership that is committed to
increasing college success for students in greater Long Beach.
   (d) The Long Beach College Promise partnership provides early and
sustained outreach to students and families through college
transition, academic support and guidance, guaranteed admission to
CSULB, and a tuition-free first semester for every local high school
graduate who enrolls at LBCC the fall following graduation. Together,
these efforts have proven to have a positive impact on students'
college attendance, persistence, and college readiness rates.
   (e) The Long Beach College Promise partnership has increased the
number of LBUSD students who attend college and significantly
increased the acceptance rate of Long Beach kindergarten and grades 1
to 12, inclusive, students desiring to go directly to CSULB.
   (f) The Long Beach College Promise partnership has allowed CSULB
to accept over 80 percent of LBUSD applicants.
   (g) LBCC's student success initiative requires students in key
gateway courses to compete directed learning activities with
assistance from learning specialists and has increased the overall
success rates in these courses. Students who complete the activities
are three times more likely to successfully complete the course.
   (h) A 2010 report by McKinsey & Company, entitled "How the World's
Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better," identifies LBUSD
as one of the world's top 20 school systems in terms of sustained and
significant improvements, and as having made significant
improvements in elementary math scores from 2004 to 2009, inclusive.
   (i) The McKinsey & Company report ranks LBUSD as one of the top
three school districts in the United States. The McKinsey & Company
report concludes that the best school systems partner with higher
education, have community and parental support, and communicate well
with stakeholders.
   (j) Innovative and creative programs that involve the
collaboration of each of the state's education systems provide the
most promise for student success and ensure future competitiveness of
California's economy and workforce.
   (k) A 2009 survey by the Legislative Analyst's Office found that
for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, categorical
flexibility has had a positive impact on many school districts'
ability to implement their strategic plan, and made it easier to
develop and balance a budget, dedicate resources to local education
priorities, make staffing decisions, and fund programs for struggling
students.
   (l) The state's ongoing economic crisis necessitates providing
flexibility to educational institutions that agree to partner in
order to effectively utilize resources, improve student academic
successes, and provide a seamless bridge to college for all pupils.
   (m) The Long Beach College Promise will allow the public education
institutions in Long Beach, which have a proven track record of
success in improving outcomes for all students, to move their
partnership to a new level and to help create a model through which
California can begin to increase completions at a scale and pace to
meet President Obama's 2020 completion goals.
  SEC. 2.  Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 48810) is added to
Chapter 5 of Part 27 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
to read:

      Article 1.5.  College Promise Partnership Act


   48810.  This article shall be known and may be cited as the
College Promise Partnership Act.
   48810.5.  The Long Beach Community College District and the Long
Beach Unified School District may enter into a partnership to provide
participating pupils with an aligned sequence of rigorous high
school coursework leading to capstone college courses, with
consistent and jointly established eligibility for college courses.
As used in this article, "capstone college course" means a community
college course described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (3)
of subdivision (d) of Section 48800.
   48811.  (a) The purpose of the partnership authorized by Section
48810.5 shall be to provide a seamless bridge to college for pupils
not already college bound and to reduce the time needed for advanced
students to complete programs.
   (b) A pupil who elects to participate in the partnership
authorized by Section 48810.5 shall complete the augmented California
Standards Test in grade 11 to determine readiness for college-level
coursework, and shall enroll in coursework during grade 12 to remedy
any deficiencies diagnosed by the augmented test.
   (c) Article 1 (commencing with Section 48800) does not apply to
pupils enrolled in a partnership operating pursuant to this article.
   48812.  (a) The Long Beach Community College District and the Long
Beach Unified School District shall design focused curricular
pathways leading to credit in general education or a career technical
certificate or degree, including at least one capstone college
course.
   (b) The partnership shall coordinate the delivery of student
support services, including counseling, to participating pupils.
   (c) The Long Beach Community College District shall not be
eligible to enter into a partnership unless it participates in the
Early Assessment Program (EAP) as described in Section 99301.
   48813.  (a) For purposes of allowances and apportionments from
Section B of the State School Fund, the Long Beach Community College
District shall be credited with additional units of full-time
equivalent students (FTES) attributable to the attendance of
partnership pupils at the Long Beach City College.
   (b) Pupils of the Long Beach Unified School District who attend
Long Beach City College pursuant to this article shall, for purposes
of allowances and apportionments from Section A of the State School
Fund, continue to receive credit for attendance by those pupils
computed in the manner prescribed by law, and a pupil's attendance at
school for the minimum schoolday shall be deemed a day of attendance
for purposes of making the computation.
   (c) The Long Beach Community College District shall not receive an
allowance or an apportionment for an instructional activity for
which a school district has been, or shall be, paid an allowance or
an apportionment.
   48814.  This article shall become inoperative and, as of January
1, 2019, is repealed on June 30, 2018, unless the Board of Governors
of the California Community Colleges and the State Board of Education
jointly certify before that date the Long Beach College Promise
partnership has achieved at least four of the following goals:
   (a) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
attend college directly from high school.
   (b) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
are determined, by assessment or other means, to be prepared for
college-level English and mathematics by the commencement of their
first regular semester at the college.
   (c) An increase in the average number of college units completed
prior to first semester enrollment by entering freshmen from the
school district.
   (d) An increase in the number of students who successfully
complete college-level English and mathematics in their first year.
   (e) An increase in the number of students who complete 25
transferable units in their first year.
   (f) An increase in the number of school district students who earn
a degree or certificate at the college, or successfully transfer to
a four-year university, within four years of graduating from high
school.
  SEC. 3.  Section 76001.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   76001.5.  (a) The governing board of a community college district
may admit to any community college under its jurisdiction as a
special part-time or full-time student, in any session or term, any
student who is eligible to attend community college pursuant to
Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 48810) of Chapter 5 of Part 27
of Division 4 of Title 2.
   (b) The attendance of a student at a community college pursuant to
this section is authorized attendance, for which the community
college shall be credited or reimbursed pursuant to Sections 48802
and 76002, provided that no school district has received
reimbursement for the same instructional activity. Credit for courses
completed shall be at the level determined to be appropriate by the
school district and community college district governing boards.
    (c) This section shall only apply to the Long Beach Community
College District.
   (d) This section shall become inoperative, on June 30, 2018, and,
as of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless the Board of Governors of
the California Community Colleges and the State Board of Education
jointly certify before that date that the Long Beach College Promise
partnership has achieved at least four of the following goals:
   (1) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
attend college directly from high school.
   (2) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
are determined, by assessment or other means, to be prepared for
college-level English and mathematics by the commencement of their
first regular semester at the college.
   (3) An increase in the average number of college units completed
prior to first semester enrollment by entering freshmen from the
school district.
   (4) An increase in the number of students who successfully
complete college-level English and mathematics in their first year.
   (5) An increase in the number of students who complete 25
transferable units in their first year.
   (6) An increase in the number of school district students who earn
a degree or certificate at the college, or successfully transfer to
a four-year university, within four years of graduating from high
school.
  SEC. 4.  Section 76002.1 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   76002.1.  (a) For the purposes of receiving state apportionments
pursuant to Section 76002, the Long Beach Community College District
may include high school students who attend a community college
within the district that participate in a partnership pursuant to the
College Promise Partnership Act (Article 1.5 (commencing with
Section 48810) of Chapter 5 of Part 27 of Division 4 of Title 2).
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2018, and,
as of January 1, 2019, is repealed unless the Board of Governors of
the California Community Colleges and the State Board of Education
jointly certify before that date that the Long Beach College Promise
partnership has achieved at least four of the following goals:
   (1) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
attend college directly from high school.
   (2) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
are determined, by assessment or other means, to be prepared for
college-level English and mathematics by the commencement of their
first regular semester at the college.
   (3) An increase in the average number of college units completed
prior to first semester enrollment by entering freshmen from the
school district.
   (4) An increase in the number of students who successfully
complete college-level English and mathematics in their first year.
   (5) An increase in the number of students who complete 25
transferable units in their first year.
   (6) An increase in the number of school district students who earn
a degree or certificate at the college, or successfully transfer to
a four-year university, within four years of graduating from high
school.
  SEC. 5.  Section 76003 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   76003.  (a) The Long Beach Community College District shall report
to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges the moneys
utilized for the partnership pursuant to Article 1.5 (commencing with
Section 48810) of Chapter 5 of Part 27 of Division 4 of Title 2 by
no later than November 1 of each year the partnership is in
operation.
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2018, and,
as of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless the Board of Governors of
the California Community Colleges and the State Board of Education
jointly certify before that date that the Long Beach College Promise
partnership has achieved at least four of the following goals:
   (1) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
attend college directly from high school.
   (2) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
are determined, by assessment or other means, to be prepared for
college-level English and mathematics by the commencement of their
first regular semester at the college.
   (3) An increase in the average number of college units completed
prior to first semester enrollment by entering freshmen from the
school district.
   (4) An increase in the number of students who successfully
complete college-level English and mathematics in their first year.
   (5) An increase in the number of students who complete 25
transferable units in their first year.
   (6) An increase in the number of school district students who earn
a degree or certificate at the college, or successfully transfer to
a four-year university, within four years of graduating from high
school.
  SEC. 6.  Section 76004 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   76004.  (a) The Long Beach Community College District may assign
priority for enrollment and course registration to any of the
following:
   (1) Students pursuing and making satisfactory academic progress
toward a degree, certificate, transfer, or basic skills objective
that is declared or reaffirmed upon enrollment in each academic term.

   (2) Students pursuing and making satisfactory academic progress
pursuant to an approved individual education plan toward a career
development objective that is declared or reaffirmed upon enrollment
in each academic term.
   (3) Students registering for precollegiate basic skills courses in
which they have been placed based upon the diagnostic results of the
Early Assessment Program (EAP) described in Section 99301 or the
equivalent.
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2018, and,
as of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless the Board of Governors of
the California Community Colleges and the State Board of Education
jointly certify before that date that the Long Beach College Promise
partnership has achieved at least four of the following goals:
   (1) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
attend college directly from high school.
   (2) An increase in the percentage of school district students who
are determined, by assessment or other means, to be prepared for
college-level English and mathematics by the commencement of their
first regular semester at the college.
   (3) An increase in the average number of college units completed
prior to first semester enrollment by entering freshmen from the
school district.
   (4) An increase in the number of students who successfully
complete college-level English and mathematics in their first year.
   (5) An increase in the number of students who complete 25
transferable units in their first year.
   (6) An increase in the number of school district students who earn
a degree or certificate at the college, or successfully transfer to
a four-year university, within four years of graduating from high
school.
  SEC. 7.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because the Long Beach College Promise partnership has been
successful in providing quality education for pupils from the Long
Beach Unified School District and there is a need to continue this
partnership into the future with the Long Beach Community College
District.