California Senate Bill SB148 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 148AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 2, 2015 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 7, 2015 INTRODUCED BY Senators McGuire and Leyva (Principal coauthor: Senator Huff) (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Burke and Wood) (Coauthors: Senators Allen, Hall, Mendoza, and Vidak) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Dodd) JANUARY 29, 2015 An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 52465) to Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, relating to career technical  education, and making an appropriation therefor.   education.  LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 148, as amended, McGuire. Career technical education: Career and Job Skills Education Act.  (1) Existing   Existing  law establishes the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and specifies that the Superintendent is the ex officio Director of the State Department of Education. Under existing law, the State Department of Education administers numerous programs relating to elementary and secondary education. Existing law authorizes, among other things, the governing board of any high school district to establish and maintain, in connection with any high school or regional occupational center or program under its jurisdiction, cooperative career technical education programs or community classrooms as part of a career technical education course, as specified. This bill would establish the Career and Job Skills Education Act, which would authorize the governing board of one or more school districts, county offices of education, direct-funded charter schools, and regional occupational centers or programs operated by joint powers authorities with the written consent from each participating local  education   educational  agency, that operate any state-approved career technical education sequence of courses, to apply to the Superintendent for a grant for the development and enhancement of high-quality career technical education programs. The bill would require each grant recipient to, among other things, adopt certain policies and procedures and establish a career technical education program that satisfies specified criteria. The bill would establish the Career and Job Skills Education Fund in the State Treasury, and would also require the Superintendent to, among other things, administer the fund and distribute awards through an annual application process to applicants that meet certain requirements. The bill would further require the Superintendent and the State Board of Education to incorporate appropriate metrics into state-adopted accountability measures to determine career readiness of California's high school pupils. The bill  would appropriate $600,000,000 from the General Fund   would, to the extent that funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act of 2015, allocate   funds  to the Superintendent, for deposit in the Career and Job Skills Education Fund, for purposes of the Career and Job Skills Education Act, and would express the intent of the Legislature that  additional  funds be appropriated from the General Fund, as necessary, for those purposes in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years.  (2) Funds appropriated by the bill for purposes of funding this act would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.  Vote: majority. Appropriation:  yes   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) Section 51220 of the Education Code states that the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, shall offer courses in the following areas of study: (1) Applied arts, including instruction in the areas of consumer and homemaking education, industrial arts, general business education, or general agriculture. (2) Career technical education designed and conducted for the purpose of preparing youth for gainful employment in the occupations and in the numbers that are appropriate to the personnel needs of the state and the community served and relevant to the career desires and needs of the pupils. (b) Section 51224 of the Education Code states, "The governing board of any school district maintaining a high school shall prescribe courses of study designed to provide the skills and knowledge required for adult life for pupils attending the schools within its school district. The governing board shall prescribe separate courses of study, including, but not limited to, a course of study designed to prepare prospective pupils for admission to state colleges and universities and a course of study for career technical training." (c) California has invested $500 million in Proposition 1D funding for purposes of modernizing and building new career technical education facilities for high school pupils. (d) California has invested $90 million in the purchase of new career technical education equipment for high school pupils. (e) California has invested $500 million in the California Career Pathways Trust for the development of robust career pathways aligned with regional economies. (f) California needs to satisfy maintenance of effort requirements to continue to receive funds pursuant to the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.), for the improvement of career technical education programs. (g) To help the state remain a competitive economy, California high schools need to provide resources that promote career readiness and 21st century career technical skills for pupils. (h) California needs to use limited resources more efficiently to do a better job of preparing pupils for an economy that demands workers to have strong academic and career knowledge and skills, to be adaptable to change, and prepared for college and careers. (i) The rapid growth of California's population and the labor force depends on attracting, supporting, and retaining businesses that pay sustainable wages to highly skilled and qualified workers. Therefore, improvement in the overall quality of California's workforce is a vital component to the state's continued economic development. (j) California needs to develop and sustain educational programs that can provide youth with career readiness, organizational help in their pursuit of career opportunities, leadership skills, networks of support, and the academic and technical skills necessary to serve as a foundation for successful careers. (k) The average high school graduation rate in the United States for pupils concentrating in career technical education programs is 90.18 percent, compared to an average national freshman graduation rate of 74.9 percent. (l) Eighty-one percent of high school dropouts in the United States say relevant, real-world learning opportunities would have kept them from dropping out of high school. (m) In the United States, more than 70 percent of secondary career technical education concentrators pursued postsecondary education shortly after graduating from high school. (n) According to the United States Census Bureau for the year 2010, 70 percent of pupils will not go on to receive a four-year postsecondary education degree. (o) California's future of providing high-quality education and training programs requires greater public-private collaboration and cooperation. (p) California's policies and methods that provide elementary and secondary education to prepare young people for lifelong learning, higher educational opportunities, and high-skilled careers leading to sustainable wages are major components to California's continued economic growth. (q) California's continued economic development and growth is critically linked to providing pupils with educational opportunities that prepare those pupils for lifelong learning, higher education, and high-skilled, high-wage careers. (r) Sustaining and developing a strong system for the delivery of career technical education should be a top priority of California's educational systems and must be addressed at the local, regional, and state levels to establish a seamless system from career technical education to employment. (s) California's career pathways system is a long-term investment in developing human capital by supplying the demand for a highly skilled and adaptable workforce. By successfully matching the skills of the emerging workforce with the needs of California's growth economies, high-quality career pathways will provide essential components to ensure the state's competitive edge in the growing global economy. (t) Career pathway programs are an educational approach that is designed to improve academic rigor through relevant, real-world experiences by integrating appropriate academic and essential career technical education knowledge and skills focused around a career pathway. (u) High-quality and coordinated career pathways provide a much needed nexus between those preparing the future workforce and those employing the future workforce. The collaboration of educators, business, and labor fosters the use of contextual and applied teaching strategies that provide opportunities for all pupils to gain exposure to career-related coursework, workplace experiences, internships, and jobsite mentoring. (v) A rigorous high-quality education curriculum encompasses a range of subjects and grade levels. Incorporating career technical education into that curriculum can strengthen pupils' understanding of career opportunities, provide pupils with direction for education beyond high school, and produce better informed citizens in the state. SEC. 2. Article 8 (commencing with Section 52465) is added to Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, to read: Article 8. Career and Job Skills Education Act 52465. This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Career and Job Skills Education Act. 52466. The Career and Job Skills Education Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The moneys in the fund shall be available to the Superintendent, upon appropriation by the Legislature pursuant to Section 52471, for the implementation and administration of this article. 52467. (a) The governing board of one or more school districts, county offices of education, direct-funded charter schools, including pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 47605.1, or regional occupational centers or programs operated by joint powers authorities with the written consent from each participating local  education   educational  agency, that operate any state-approved career technical education sequence of courses may apply to the Superintendent for a grant for the development and enhancement of high-quality career technical education courses. (b) The Superintendent shall award grants to applicants that contribute an amount of funds equal to the amount of the grant for use in career technical education programs as defined by the California State Plan for Career Technical Education and that satisfy the requirements outlined in Section 52469. 52469. Each governing board of an applicant that receives a grant or accepts other funds made available for purposes of this article shall, in consultation with the county office of education, as applicable, local workforce investment boards, and community colleges serving the geographic area of the grant  recipient   recipient,  adopt a career technical education program that includes all of the following criteria: (a) The program shall provide a series of career technical education courses aligned with the California Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards adopted by the state board, and offer a coherent sequence of career technical education courses leading to specific competencies that will enable pupils to transition to postsecondary education on a career pathway or attain entry level employment in business or industry upon their graduation from high school. (b) The program shall include plans, developed and implemented by the grant recipient for articulation of career technical education courses with community colleges or apprenticeship programs in the geographic area of the grant recipient to continue the sequence of career technical education courses through grades 13 and 14 and for the acquisition of high-quality industry certifications, credentials, and licenses. (c) The program shall include assessments of local business and industry needs to ensure that the program provides pupils with the competency, knowledge, and skills necessary to pursue employment opportunities. (d) The program shall provide counseling and guidance services to pupils to help them satisfy all of the requirements for high school graduation and make informed career preparation choices. Counseling and guidance services provided for purposes of this subdivision may include counseling for pupils in grades 6 to 12, inclusive. (e) The program shall involve business and industry in cooperative projects with schools in the geographic area of the grant recipient to provide internships for pupils, externships for teachers, paid or nonpaid work experience, job shadowing or mentoring opportunities, instructors from business and industry, assistance with needs assessments and program evaluations, and access to business and industry employment placement services to help graduating pupils obtain employment. (f) The program shall include a system for data collection to be reported annually that shall comply with the requirements established by the Superintendent in terms of all of the following: (1) Number of pupils enrolled in career technical education courses. (2) Number of pupils completing high school. (3) Pupils earning industry recognized certifications, credentials, or licenses as determined by a list approved by the Superintendent, or who passed third-party career technical education pathway specific assessments. (4) Pupils securing employment, particularly in jobs related to the area of their career technical preparation in high school. (5) Pupils proceeding to advanced education or training at the postsecondary educational level. (6) Pupils proceeding to advanced education or training at the postsecondary educational level in the same career pathway as their career technical preparation in high school. (7) Number and types of career technical courses offered and the number of those courses that qualify as alternative means to complete the prescribed course of study requirements as described in subdivision (b) of Section 51225.3. 52470. The Superintendent shall do all of the following: (a) Develop a system of accountability, data collecting, and reporting to ensure the goals of career technical education programs are satisfied. (b) Develop data metrics that are aligned with the core metrics required by the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, common metrics adopted by the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, any career-ready standards adopted pursuant to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et  seq.)   seq.),  and the 11 quality indicators described in the California State Plan for Career Technical Education. (c) Adopt and provide grant recipients with a list of approved high-quality industry certifications and licenses and approved third-party career technical education pathway assessments in each career technical education pathway for use in program development. (d) Provide technical and professional assistance to all grant award recipients. 52471. (a)    The amount of six hundred million dollars ($600,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund     To the extent that funds are appropriated in the Budget Act of 2015, those funds shall be allocated  to the Superintendent, for deposit in the Career and Job Skills Education Fund, for purposes of this article. (b) The department shall retain up to 2 percent of the total funds apportioned to the grant recipient pursuant to this article, to provide all of the following to that grant recipient for the purposes of this article: (1) Technical assistance. (2) Professional development. (3) Accountability services and local monitoring. (c) An amount equal to 2 percent of the total funds appropriated pursuant to this article shall be set aside and distributed separately to applicants of rural school districts, as defined by the state board, and regions with higher than average rates of high school dropouts, as defined by the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System. (d) Funds may be used by each grant recipient for purposes of this article for any or all of the following purposes: (1) Matching pupils with work-based learning opportunities. (2) Using intermediaries as liaisons between educators, businesses, parents, and community partners. (3) Providing technical assistance to help employers and educators design comprehensive career technical education course sequences and programs. (4) Providing technical assistance to help teachers integrate academic, career technical education, and work-based learning activities. (5) Encouraging active business involvement in a grant recipient's work-based learning activities and providing teacher externships. (6) Assisting pupils in finding appropriate work, continuing education or training, and linking pupils to other community services. (7) Evaluating postcareer technical education program outcomes for pupils to assess the success of those programs, particularly with reference to special populations, as that term is defined in the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.). (8) Linking youth development activities with employer and industry strategies to upgrade worker skills. (9) Funding career technical education pupil organizations and activities. (10) Funding costs incurred through career technical education program-related planning, development, validation, and accountability. (11) Funding career technical education curriculum development and alignment with postsecondary educational institutions. (12) Funding career technical education professional development, including industry externships for teachers. (13) Funding career technical education instructional equipment and material purchases. (14) Providing support in career technical education programs to pupils of special populations, as that term is defined in the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.). (15) Funding costs incurred through the expansion of career technical education programs in effect as of January 1, 2016, or the establishment of new career technical education programs or pathways, including the cost of salaries for additional career technical education staff. Salary expenditures for career technical education staff shall be capped at 50 percent of the annual amount apportioned to the grant recipient. 52472. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, funds allocated pursuant to this article may be expended only to ensure the development, enhancement, and improvement of high-quality career technical education courses and programs pursuant to the quality indicators described in the California State Plan for Career Technical Education. (b) As a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this article, each grant recipient shall do all of the following: (1) Develop a plan for establishing aligned course sequences for its career technical education programs. (2) Certify to the department that each career technical education pathway has been developed with input from an industry-based career pathway advisory committee and includes a logical sequence of career technical education courses pursuant to the California State Plan for Career Technical Education. (3) Submit new or revised career technical education programs or pathways to the department for approval no later than September 1 of the fiscal year in which those changes are implemented pursuant to requirements developed by the department, for purposes of determining the annual funding award to the grant recipient. (4) Certify to the department that each course within a sequence of career technical education courses is aligned with the California Career Technical Education Model Curriculum Standards, adopted by the state board, for grades 7 to 12, inclusive. (5) Certify to the department that each course, where appropriate, is aligned with the Common Core State Standards. (6) Certify to the department that each of its career technical education teachers has the appropriate credential authorizing him or her to teach his or her assigned career technical education course. (7) Except as provided in paragraph (15) of subdivision (f) of Section 52471, certify to the department that no grant funds awarded to the grant recipient pursuant to this article are used for staff salaries, benefits, or both. (8) Collect and report data as required by the department and the applicable local control and accountability plan. 52473. The Superintendent and the state board shall incorporate appropriate metrics into state-adopted accountability measures to determine career readiness of California's high school pupils. These metrics shall be aligned with the federal Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.), California's Standards for Career Ready Practice, and the quality indicators described in the California State Plan for Career Technical Education. SEC. 3. It is the intent of the Legislature that  additional  funds be appropriated from the General Fund, as necessary, to the Superintendent, for deposit in the Career and Job Skills Education Fund, for purposes of Article 8 (commencing with Section 52465) of Chapter 9 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years.  SEC. 4.   For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the funds appropriated pursuant to this act shall be deemed to be "General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts," as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the fiscal year for which the funds are appropriated, and included within the "total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B," as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the fiscal year for which the funds are appropriated.