California Assembly Bill AB705 Latest Draft

 BILL NUMBER: AB 705INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bill Berryhill FEBRUARY 26, 2009 An act to amend Section 52372.1 of the Education Code, relating to career technical education. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 705, as introduced, Bill Berryhill. Career technical education. Existing law permits the governing board of a high school district, as specified, the governing board of a joint powers regional occupational center or program, or the county superintendent of schools that conducts a county-operated regional occupational center or program to establish and maintain cooperative career technical education programs or community classrooms as part of a career technical education course. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt rules and regulations relating to cooperative career technical education programs and community classrooms, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 52372.1 of the Education Code is amended to read: 52372.1. (a) The Superintendent  of Public Instruction  shall adopt rules and regulations for cooperative career technical education programs and community classrooms. The rules and regulations shall include, but need not necessarily be limited to, all of the following: (1) Selection and approval of work and training stations. (2) Related classroom instruction. (3) Supervision of  students   pupils  while in training. (4) Joint venture training agreements and plans. (5)  Student   Pupil  teacher ratios. (6) Paid and unpaid on-the-job experiences. (7) Credit for participation in cooperative career technical education programs and community classrooms. (b) As used in this section, "cooperative career technical education programs" includes cooperative agreements between schools and employers to provide  students   pupils  with paid on-the-job experiences, as well as career technical education instruction contributing to the  student's   pupil's  education and employability. (c) As used in this section, "community classrooms" includes instructional methodologies  which   that  are part of a career technical education course, and  which  that  may utilize the facilities and equipment of a public agency or private business to provide  students   pupils  the opportunity to expand competencies developed in a career technical course in unpaid on-the-job experiences. (d) Joint venture agreements shall be entered into between the director and the management of the community classroom site to ensure that  students   pupils  will be provided, through unpaid on-the-job experiences, the opportunity to expand the competencies developed in the classroom instruction portion of their training. Each instructor, in cooperation with the business or agency in which the  student   pupil  will be placed, shall develop an individualized training plan for each pupil enrolled in a community classroom. (e) All statutes and regulations applicable to minors in employment relationships apply to cooperative career technical education programs and to community classrooms. (f) For purposes of this section, "public agency" means any public agency capable of providing unpaid on-the-job experience meeting all of the following requirements: (1) The on-the-job experiences are in occupations for which there is a local job market. (2) The on-the-job experiences are equivalent to those  which   that  could be received for each specific occupational area as if they were held at a private business site.