Legislative Watch
Updated: June 7, 2010
ConnectEd seeks to inform state and local policy by conducting research studies, distributing reports, sharing expertise, and convening stakeholders. The bills listed below have potential to impact the expansion of multiple pathways in California high schools. Bills are grouped by the policy areas addressed in the ConnectEd policy guide (PDF, 64 KB). Since ConnectEd is not a lobbying organization, we do not formally support or oppose pending legislation.
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Senate Bills | Assembly Bills
| Bill # | Bill Summary | Fiscal | Author | Sponsor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support for Multiple Pathway/Linked Learning Development | |||||
| ACR 88 | STEM Task Force – Establishes, until January 1, 2014, the California Task Force on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education for the purpose of advising the California Legislature on critical research, best practices, and models for building a future California workforce educated in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. The taskforce would generate discussion on policy that would improve the teaching of these subject areas for the state's pupils, promoting the improvement of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology education across the state. | Non Fisc | Assembly-member Torlakson | Author | Senate Education |
| AB 2172 | Multiple Pathway / Linked Learning Report – Requires the Superintendent to convene an advisory group to review the recommendations of the Multiple Pathway feasibility report submitted pursuant to 52372.5 of Education Code, and to advise on the implementation of recommendations. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Carter | LA Area Chamber/California Dept of Education |
HELD Assembly Approps. Suspense |
| AB 2445 | Multiple Pathway / Linked Learning Report – Requires State Superintendent to report to the Legislature on the status of the advisory board to be established pursuant to AB 2172. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Furutani | LA Area Chamber/California Dept of Education |
HELD Assembly Approps. Suspense |
| AB 2721 | Multiple Pathways – Encourages school districts to fulfill college preparation and career technical education offering requirements by developing industry-focused multiple pathway programs. | Non-Fisc | Assembly-member Blakeslee | Author |
Passed Assembly Senate Education |
| AB 2306 | Multiple Pathways – Makes technical non-substantive changes to education code pertaining to multiple pathways. | Non Fisc | Assembly-member Blakeslee | Author | Assembly Rules |
| Curriculum and Instruction | |||||
| AB 2437 | Green Technology Training – Appropriate $15,000,000 from the fund to the California Community Colleges for the purpose of providing green technology training through career technical and vocational programs. The bill also authorizes the Energy Commission to allocate to the California Community Colleges up to $15,000,000 from specified economic recovery funds received from the federal government in lieu of the appropriation from the fund. The bill requires that an amount equal to that allocation revert back to the fund if the Energy Commission makes that allocation. | Fiscal | Assembly-member M. Perez | Author | Assembly Rules |
| Work Based Learning | |||||
| AB 2211 | Work Based Learning – Authorizes school districts that maintain high schools to establish work-based learning programs, and to purchase liability insurance for pupils enrolled in programs of study involving work-based learning, off school grounds. The bill also authorizes partnership academies, regional occupational programs, and other educational programs to deliver work-based learning opportunities for pupils that may include work experience education, community classrooms, cooperative career technical education programs, and job shadowing experience, as specified. The bill requires the Superintendent, in conjunction with specified education stakeholders, to develop principals and guidelines for the establishment of work-based learning programs. The bill also encourages school districts to submit specified information relating to work based learning to the department, and would encourage the department to post this information on its Internet Web site. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Fuentes | Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce |
Passed Assembly Approps. Assembly Floor |
| AB 1707 | Apprenticeships – Makes non-substantive changes to the existing law promoting apprenticeship as a form of on-the-job training when such training is cost effective. | Non Fisc | Assembly-member Conway | Author | Assembly Rules |
| Support Services | |||||
| AB 2178 | After School Programs – Authorizes local educational agency grantees funded pursuant to the After School Education and Safety Program to submit specified data to each operator of an after school program. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Torlakson | Author |
Passed Assembly Approps. Assembly Floor |
| Teacher and Counselor Credentialing and Preparation | |||||
| AB 1223 | Linked Learning Recognition of Study – Defines "linked learning programs," and authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to convene a workgroup consisting of specified members to develop program standards for the issuance of a recognition of study, as defined, for linked learning competence for holders of a single subject teaching credential who will be teaching pupils enrolled in linked learning programs, as specified. The bill would authorize the commission to work with the Superintendent of Public Instruction to gather and post, on an appropriate Internet Web site, best practices from school districts and schools on curriculum development and professional development relating to implementing and sustaining multiple pathway programs. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Block | Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce |
Passed Assembly Senate Education June 16 |
| AB 2306 | California STEM Teaching Fellowship – Establishes the California Teaching Fellowship for the purpose of encouraging graduates of postsecondary institutions and professional with backgrounds in mathematics and science to teach in the fields of mathematics and science. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Blakeslee | Author |
Assembly Education Hearing cancelled at Request of Author |
| AB 2040 | Teacher Credntialing Preparation – Extends the deadline to Nov. 1, 2011 the existing requirement for CTC to have reported to the education policy committees in each house of the Legislature on the success of the integrated program of professional development toward preparing teacher candidates. | Non Fisc | Assembly-member Brownley | Author |
Passed Assembly Approps. Assembly Floor |
| State and Local Leadership | |||||
| AB 2089 | Education Governance – Establishes the Education Governance Commission, composed of 12 members to be appointed as specified, and require the commission to convene on February 1, 2011, and meet until October 1, 2011, in order to create a plan for the governance of the state's public elementary and secondary school system. The bill would require the commission to complete and present its plan to the Legislature in time for legislative action during the 2nd year of the 2011-12 Regular Session of the Legislature. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Coto | Author | Assembly Rules |
| Scheduling and Instructional Time | |||||
| AB 2027 | On-Line Education – Beginning with the 2011-12 fiscal year, provides that school districts and county offices of education that offer online education courses may claim one day of attendance toward average daily attendance on the basis of the attendance at a class or classes in a classroom-based setting of a pupil taking at least one high-quality online course that satisfies prescribed criteria. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Blumenfield | Author |
Passed Assembly Approps. Assembly Floor |
| AB 2446 | High School Graduation Requirements – Adds to the current high school graduation requirements completion of a course in career technical education, as defined, as an alternative to the requirement that a pupil complete a course in visual or performing arts or foreign language. | Non Fisc | Assembly-member Furutani | State Building Trades | Passed Assembly Approps. |
| AB 1741 | STEM High School Graduation Requirements – Beginning with the 2014-15 school year, requires a pupil to complete 3 courses in mathematics, at least one of which meets or exceeds the rigor of the content standards for algebra II, trigonometry, precalculus, calculus, or statistics and probability, as adopted by the state board and also requires a pupil to complete 3 courses in science, at least one of which meets or exceeds the rigor of the content standards for chemistry, engineering, physics, or computer science, as adopted by the state board. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Coto | Silicon Valley Education Foundation | Assembly Rules |
| AB 2359 | Minimum School Day – Makes technical, non-substantive changes in education code related to the 240 minute minimum school day. | Non Fisc | Assembly-member Conway | Author | Assembly Rules |
| Alignment with Post-Secondary Education | |||||
| AB 35 | Workforce Preparation – This bill would require the California Postsecondary Education Commission to develop a strategic plan for connecting education and workforce development in the state. The bill would require the commission to cooperate with the State Department of Education, the California Workforce Investment Board, and representatives from education, business, and labor organizations to make specified recommendations in the strategic plan. The bill would require that the strategic plan include specified provisions. The bill would require the commission to report its recommendations for the strategic plan to the Governor and the Legislature on or before July 1, 2011. | Yes | Assembly-member Furutani | Author |
Passed Assembly Senate Education June 16 |
| AB 1673 | Adult Education – Require the Legislative Analyst's Office, by January 1, 2012, to report to the Legislature on various issues concerning adult education program funding, as specified. | Yes | Assembly-member Mendoza | Author | Assembly Rules |
| AB 1901 | Master Plan for Education – Adds a needs assessment conducted by the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education to the list of prescribed planning process. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Ruskin | Author |
Passed Assembly Senate Education |
| AB 1895 | Master Plan for Education – Makes technical, non-substantive changes to those expressions of legislative intent relative to attaining the goals of the Master Plan for Higher Education. | Non Fisc | Assembly-member Ruskin | Author | Assembly Rules |
| Assessment, Accountability and Evaluation | |||||
| AB 2013 | Alternative School Performance – Includes independent study programs in the alternative schools for which the Superintendent is required to develop an alternative accountability system and require all alternative schools serving high-risk pupils to participate in the alternative accountability system, regardless of the percentage of high-risk pupils enrolled. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Arambula | Author |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| AB 2273 | California Education Opportunity Index – Adds the California Education Opportunity (CEO) Index to the Public Schools Accountability Act, which would require the Superintendent to develop the CEO Index to measure performance and offerings of both elementary and secondary schools in preparing students for graduation and to become responsible and contributing community members after graduation, as specified. The Superintendent would be required to establish an advisory committee, composed as specified, to advise the Superintendent and the state board on the CEO Index. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Torlakson | Author |
HELD Assembly Approps. |
| AB 2307 | API – Provides that as part of the alternative accountability system for schools, the Superintendent and the state board shall allow a dropout recovery high school as defined, to use an individual pupil growth model that meets specified criteria. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Carter | Author |
Passed Assembly Senate Rules |
| Funding | |||||
| AB 2335 | Education Financing – Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to study prescribed topics relating to the regulatory, ministerial, and programmatic changes that would be necessary to support the development, implementation, and use of comprehensive school-level financial data and to make findings and recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor about these topics on or before December 1, 2011. | Fiscal | Assembly-member Brownley | Author |
Passed Assembly Approps. Assembly Floor |
