California Assembly Bill AB668 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 668INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Block FEBRUARY 17, 2011 An act to amend Section 66015.5 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 668, as introduced, Block. Public postsecondary education: quality instruction. Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's public and independent segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of higher education. Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, and the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as 2 of the public segments of postsecondary education. Existing law expresses the Legislature's intent that quality classroom instruction be continually improved and that courses required for normal progress to a baccalaureate degree be provided in sufficient numbers. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this intent provision. 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 66015.5 of the Education Code is amended to read: 66015.5. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that quality  classroom  instruction be continually improved and that courses required for normal progress to a baccalaureate degree be provided in sufficient numbers. (b) It is the further intent of the Legislature that where necessary the average teaching responsibilities of tenured and tenure track faculty be sufficiently increased to meet the goals described in this section.