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2007 CTE Bills in the Legislature
Update: March 17, 2007
Courtesy of California Coalition for Construction
in the Classroom
www.constructcareers.org
Adrienne Monroe (530)867-2511
CTE CURRICULUM
AB 999(Hancock)
Partnership Academies: Green Technology and Goods Movement
(I-02/22/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would establish 2 new categories of partnership academies,
the Green Technology Partnership Academies and the Goods Movement
Partnership Academies. Commencing with the 2008-09 school year, the
State Department of Education, in coordination with the
Superintendent, with funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act,
would be required to issue grants for the establishment of 10
partnership academies dedicated to training young people in the
emerging environmentally sound technologies related to the design
and construction industries, and 4 partnership academies dedicated
to training young people in goods movement occupational areas, such
as port and terminal operations, shipping, logistics, trucking,
rail, air, and security. The selection of school districts to
establish the new partnership academies and the planning and
development of the new partnership academies would be required to
be conducted pursuant to the procedures and requirements
established for traditional partnership academies. However, the
planning grants would be made available in addition to the total
number of grants permitted for traditional partnership academies.
This bill contains other existing laws.
AB 750(Carter)
Pupil Instruction: Technology curriculum.
(I-02/22/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to expand technology curriculum in the public middle
and high schools and to ensure that school districts annually
consult with certain public postsecondary institutions to make sure
that the coursework the secondary school offers is honored by the
postsecondary institutions.
AB 974(Fuller)
ROP and Partnership
Academies
(I-02/22/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would authorize a regional occupational center or program
to plan, establish, and maintain a partnership academy and to offer
academic courses as part of its partnership academy. This bill
contains other existing laws.
AB 400(Nunez)
CTE Accountability
(I-02/15/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Commencing with the 2008-09 fiscal year, would
require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to incorporate,
into the API, high school graduation rates, attendance rates, rates
by which pupils are offered and actually complete a course of study
that fulfills the requirements and prerequisites for admission to
California public institutions of postsecondary education, and
rates by which pupils are offered and actually complete a course of
study that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to attain
entry-level employment in business or industry when they graduate
from high school. This bill contains other existing laws.
SUPPORT
AB 1062(Solorio)
Career technical education.
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to evaluate
successful career technical education programs and expand them or
create new programs based on best practices models, or both.
AB 1027(Caballero)
Required courses of study.
(I-02/22/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would express the Legislature's intent to provide high
school pupils with access to multiple options to pursue careers and
postsecondary education after high school.
SB 949(Wyland)
Definition of CTE
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Existing law requires the adopted course of study for
grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include courses in career technical
education designed and conducted to prepare youth for gainful
employment in the occupations and in the numbers appropriate to the
personnel needs of the state and the community served and relevant
to the career desires and needs of the pupils. Existing law defines
vocational-technical education as having the same meaning as career
technical education. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive
changes to the provision establishing that definition.
SB 314(Wyland)
CTE Advisory Committee:
Require 2+
From Business (I-02/16/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would require the committee to include 2 or more members
of the business community in addition to the representatives of the
general public.
SUPPORT
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007
EDUCATION
SCOTT, Chair 9:30 a.m. - John L. Burton
Hearing Room (4203)
SB 344(Steinberg)
Drop-out Prevention and Intervention (I-02/20/2007 html
pdf)
Summary: Would require school districts to track and report to the
department certain pupils who have failed year-long or 2-semester
courses and certain pupils who have more than 10 unexcused school
absences per semester, thereby imposing a state-mandated local
program. The bill would state that the purpose of this information
is to identify pupils at high risk of dropping out of school, and
would declare the Legislature's intent to create intervention
programs for those pupils. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
SB 675(Torlakson)
Instructional Programs: Technology Integration Curriculum
Plan
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would require the State Department of Education to
conduct a needs assessment survey, including specified components,
of all school districts and county offices of education to
determine the availability and accessibility of courses and
coursework in the areas of career technology education and computer
literacy. The department would be authorized to contract with
another governmental entity or a private nonprofit organization to
conduct the needs assessment survey if department personnel are
unable to do so. The department, with the assistance of the
advisory committee it would be required to appoint, would be
required to provide a comprehensive plan, including specified
components, for integrating technical skills training into the core
curriculum of schools. The department would be required to submit
the results of the survey and its plan for integrating technical
skills training into the core curriculum of schools to the Governor
and the fiscal and appropriate policy committees of the Legislature
on or before January 1, 2009. School districts and county offices
of education would be required to implement the curriculum
integration plan beginning in the 2009-10 school year. The
department would be required to ensure that the districts and
county offices satisfy that requirement. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007
EDUCATION
SCOTT, Chair
9:30 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
COMMUNITY COLLEGES
AB 573(Horton)
Funding and Improvement of Voc
Ed Programs
(I-2/21/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to improve the quality and funding of vocational
education programs at community colleges.
SB 218(Steinberg)
Community Colleges: Offer High School Credit
(I-02/09/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would declare the intent of the Legislature to encourage
and enable community colleges to work with public high schools and
school districts to create greater opportunity for high school
pupils to earn high school credits on community college
campuses.
SB 309(Scott)
Superintendent
Advisory Group
For CTE
"A-G" U.C.
(I-02/16/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would require the Superintendent to convene an advisory
group to develop a sequence of core career and technical education
courses in high-growth, high-need areas based on the career and
technical education curriculum standards and frameworks approved by
the State Board of Education that are intended to meet the subject
requirements for admission to the University of California.
SB 808
(Ridley-Thomas)
California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development
Program: Customer Service Academy:
Public Sector Professional Development Institute.
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would require the chancellor to establish a Customer
Service Academy, the purpose of which would be to provide training
for state and local public agency employees in key areas of
customer service and to equip these workers with skills that can be
applied in the workplace. The bill would specify courses that would
be offered at the academy. The bill would also require the
chancellor to undertake a study of the feasibility of establishing
a Public Sector Professional Development Institute within the
Business Resource Assistance in Innovation Network, which is a
network of projects and programs that comprise the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development
Program.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007
EDUCATION
SCOTT, Chair
9:30 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
CTE TEACHER POLICY
SB 52(Scott)
CTE Teacher Credential
(I-01/08/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would change the name of the credential to the designated
subjects preliminary career technical education teaching credential
and would repeal the authority for the issuance and renewal of
designated subjects teaching credentials for part-time service. The
bill would require the commission to establish a list of authorized
subjects for the designated subjects preliminary and professional
clear career technical education teaching credential and would
require the list to reflect the 15 industry sectors identified in
the California career technical education model curriculum
standards adopted by the State Board of Education. The bill would
require the commission to implement the authorized subjects list by
September 30, 2007. This bill contains other related
provisions.
SB 979(Maldonado)
California State University: California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo.
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would require a pilot program relating to the teaching of
career technical education to be established in the Agricultural
Education and Communication Department of the California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
SUPPORT
OTHER CTE BILLS
AB 32(Fuller)
Work Certification Training
Ages 16-18
(I-12/04/2006 html pdf)
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to provide,
within the public school system, work certification training
options to pupils who are between the ages of 16 and 18 years, have
passed the high school exit examination, and have the consent of
their parents or guardians, with particular emphasis on job
specific skilled labor and technical training. This bill contains
other existing laws.
SUPPORT
AB 284(Smyth)
Definition of Voc Ed and
CTE
(I-02/09/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Existing law defines vocational-technical education as
having the same meaning as career technical education. This bill
would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
AB 876(Davis)
Linked Curricula and Promotion of Apprenticeship
(I-02/22/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to encourage
community college districts and public high schools that offer
courses in career technical education to link their curricula and
courses to trades needed for new public infrastructure. The bill
would authorize community colleges and public high schools that
offer career technical education courses to consult with
appropriate industry representatives in order to provide
opportunities, such as access to apprenticeship programs, to the
community college students or high school pupils enrolled in these
courses. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
SUPPORT
AB 911(Strickland)
High schools:
(I-02/22/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Existing law permits the governing board of any high
school district, as specified, the governing board of any joint
powers regional occupational center or program, or the county
superintendent of schools which conducts any county-operated
regional occupational center or program, to establish and maintain,
in connection with any high school or regional occupational center
or program under its or his or her jurisdiction, cooperative career
technical education programs or community classrooms as part of a
career technical education course in accordance with rules and
regulations prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
AB 1101(Parra)
School Facilities:
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act
of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to
applicant school districts, prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state
funding for construction and modernization of school facilities,
including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site
development and acquisition. This bill would make technical,
nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. This bill contains
other existing laws.
AB 1116(Nava)
Career technical
education.
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to provide coordinated opportunities for students in
California to pursue career technical education and related
employment opportunities.
AB 1414(Hancock)
Course Sequences Defined As
3 or More
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would define "occupational course sequence" as it
relates to career technical education programs, including those
funded pursuant to the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical
Education Act of 2006, to mean 3 or more career technical education
courses that progress from broad industry knowledge to more
specialized technical skills and include work-based learning
opportunities; reinforce the mastery of the content standards
approved by the State Board of Education for academic courses; and
result in a specified certificate, degree, or a bridge to a
certificate or degree program. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
SUPPORT
AB 1544(Richardson)
Availability and Adequate Number of CTE Programs
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would express the intent of the Legislature that all
pupils have the educational opportunity for a productive career
following their education and that there be an adequate number of
career technical education programs available for all interested
pupils.
SB 13(Wyland)
School Facilities Funding
Process
(I-12/04/2006 html pdf)
Summary: Would require the board to include in the application for
new construction funding the questions of whether the funding
sought would be used for facilities related to career technical
education and if not, how the applicant district plans to meet the
needs of pupils related to career technical education. The bill
would require a school district submitting an application for
funding to construct a school to serve any of grades 7 to 12,
inclusive, to answer those questions. The bill also would require
the board to develop regulations that are consistent with the
purposes of the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities
Bond Act of 2006 in order to consider the answers to the specified
questions, when applicable, as part of the decision making process
for whether a request for funding by a school district will be
granted.
SB 15(Wyland) SUPPORT
Creation of Career Technical Education Vision Council
(I-12/04/2006 html pdf)
Summary: Would create the Career Technical Education Vision
Council to make recommendations regarding career technical
education, as specified, and to develop a workforce preparation and
strategic plan on or before December 31, 2008. The bill would
create the Career Technical Education Vision Fund, funds of which
would be continuously appropriated to the council, and would permit
the council to accept private donations for these purposes. The
bill would permit the council to employ staff on a contract basis,
and would require the council to obtain certification from the
Department of Finance that nongovernmental funds in an amount
sufficient to fund the council's activities have been deposited in
the fund, before the council may incur any costs.
SUPPORT
SB 219(Steinberg)
API Reform
Include Drop-out Rate by July 1, 2008
(I-02/09/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Would require the Superintendent, with approval of the
State Board, to revise the API to, among other things, include, by
July 1, 2008, information regarding school and school district
dropout rates for pupils enrolled in the 9th grade.
SB 1008(Hollingsworth)
Career technical education.
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature to
provide qualified students with the opportunity to attend a
technical school or enroll in a career technical or technical
training program, regardless of the geographical location of their
residence in a county or region, and declares that regional
occupational centers and programs will serve the state and national
interests in providing the necessary career technical education to
students, including, but not limited to, high school pupils. This
bill would make technical, non-substantive changes to those
provisions.
SB 1009(Hollingsworth)
Pupil Instruction:
Course of Study: Grades 7 to 12, inclusive.
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Existing law prescribes the course of study that is to be
adopted by school districts for grades 7 to 12, inclusive. That
course of study is required to include, English, social sciences,
foreign language, physical education, science, mathematics, visual
and performing arts, applied arts, career technical education,
automobile driver education, and other studies that the governing
board may prescribe. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive
changes in the provision described above.
SB 1010(Hollingsworth)
Career technical
education.
(I-02/23/2007 html pdf)
Summary: Existing law requires each school district maintaining
any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer to all otherwise
qualified pupils in those grades a course of study that provides an
opportunity for those pupils to attain entry-level employment
skills in business or industry upon graduation from high school and
that meets or exceeds the specified standards for career technical
education curriculum, in addition to offering to all otherwise
qualified pupils in those grades a course of study fulfilling the
requirements and prerequisites for admission to the California
public institutions of postsecondary education. This bill would
make technical, non-substantive changes to those provisions,
including updating an obsolete reference.
S.B. 325 Scott
Postsecondary Education: California Postsecondary
Education Accountability Act of 2007.
67052. The State of California shall establish a statewide
California Postsecondary Education Accountability (CPSEA)
structure
that provides the basis for an annual assessment of the progress
made
by the state's system of postsecondary education in meeting the
educational needs of Californians.
(a) This CPSEA structure shall identify a select number of
key
indicators that measure progress toward four statewide public
policy
goals for postsecondary education in the following areas:
(1) Educational Opportunity:
(A) This goal envisions that all Californians have reasonable
and
equal opportunities to attend college.
(B) To measure progress in achieving this goal, the
California
Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) shall collect and analyze
data on all of the following:
(i) College readiness among high school graduates.
(ii) College readiness among adults, including adult basic
skills
proficiency levels.
(iii) College affordability.
WATCH WED. MARCH 28, 2007
Senate
Ed
SCOTT, Chair
9:30 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room
(4203)
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