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AB-806 Career technical education.(2007-2008)

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 25, 2007
Amended  IN  Assembly  March 27, 2007

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2007–2008 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 806

Introduced  by  Assembly Member De La Torre
 (Coauthor(s): Assembly Member Hancock)

February 22, 2007

An act to amend Section 88532 of, and to add Section 47605.4 to, the Education Code, relating to career technical education.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 806, as amended, De La Torre. Career technical education.

(1)The Charter Schools Act of 1992 prescribes the requirements for establishing and operating a charter school.

This bill would authorize a school district to establish a joint powers adult occupational training center to be operated as a charter school. Those centers would receive funding from adult block entitlement funds and other revenue sources for which each center would be allowed to apply separately.

(2)Existing

Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to assist economic and workforce regional development centers and consortia, including middle and junior high schools or high schools and regional occupational centers and programs, to improve linkages and career technical education pathways between high schools and community colleges for the benefit of pupils and students in both education systems. The board of governors also is required to ensure that elementary and secondary school educators strongly collaborate with college faculty in implementing those requirements.
This bill would require the board of governors to provide the same types of assistance to adult schools as generally are provided to, and between, high schools and community colleges. The board of governors also would be required to ensure that adult school educators strongly collaborate with college faculty in implementing those requirements.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that adult education programs, in conjunction with high schools, regional occupational centers and programs, and community colleges, be a full partner in the collaborative effort to provide a full range of training opportunities in skilled technical careers to the entire population of students in California.
(b) It is further the intent of the Legislature that career technical education programs in our adult education programs serve a unique and important student population that should be able to gain further technical training for our most important careers and, as a result, should not be excluded from participation in the career technical education grant programs of our state.
SEC. 2.Section 47605.4 is added to the Education Code, to read:
47605.4.

A school district may establish a joint powers adult occupational training center to be operated as a charter school. Funding for centers established pursuant to this section shall be provided from adult block entitlement funds pursuant to Section 52616 and other revenue sources for which each center may apply separately.

SEC. 3.SEC. 2.

 Section 88532 of the Education Code is amended to read:

88532.
 (a) The board of governors shall assist economic and workforce regional development centers and consortia, including middle and junior high schools or senior high schools, adult schools, and regional occupational centers and programs, to improve linkages and career technical education pathways between high schools and community colleges and adult schools and community colleges for the benefit of pupils and students in all of those education systems. This assistance shall include all of the following:
(1) Expanding certificate programs in identified economic development program strategic priority areas.
(2) Aligning existing technical preparation programs and career technical education curriculum between high schools and community colleges and adult schools and community colleges to more targeted industry-driven programs through the models consistent with economic and workforce development strategic priority areas.
(3) Promoting the successful integration, by the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program, of business and emerging industries with career technical programs provided in high schools and adult schools.
(4) Creating new articulated courses between high schools and community colleges and, where appropriate, four-year institutions, and between adult schools and community colleges and, where appropriate, four-year institutions.
(5) Accelerating education and training for those students who choose to be prepared for career and technical employment opportunities in less traditional and more expeditious methods while maintaining and or improving student competencies.
(6) Exploring new and more relevant career and technical practicum models that integrate coursework and pupil and student internship.
(7) Improving the quality of career exploration and career outreach materials.
(8) Disseminating materials and curriculum to all middle schools, junior high schools, senior high schools, and adult schools.
(b) The chancellor shall develop an implementation strategy for the program objectives delineated in this section as a part of the annual expenditure plan submitted to the advisory committee for the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program and the board of governors.
(c) This section shall be operative only in fiscal years for which funds have been appropriated by the Legislature expressly for the purposes of this section.
(d) The board of governors shall ensure that elementary, secondary, and adult school educators strongly collaborate with college faculty in implementing this section.