Public education: reporting requirements.

(1) The California Constitution provides for the election of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and existing statutory law prescribes the Superintendent's powers and duties. Existing law also establishes the segments of the public postsecondary education system in the state, which include the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, which is administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent to convene a working group of adult education and data experts to review adult education and noncredit instruction data systems and to report on the feasibility, design, and cost of a common data set in adult education. This bill would delete that requirement. (2) Existing law authorizes a school district to authorize pupils to attend a community college as special part-time or full-time students, and authorizes the principal of a school to recommend a pupil for a community college summer session only if the pupil meets prescribed criteria. Existing law, until January 1, 2014, requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to report, on or before November 1, 2007, and by January 1 of each year thereafter, to the Department of Finance the number of pupils recommended for a summer session that enroll in summer session courses and receive a passing grade. This bill instead, would, require the chancellor to provide the report by March 1 of each year and would authorize the information in that report to be consolidated with another specified report. (3) Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to prepare and submit to the Department of Finance and the Legislature, on or before March 1, 2004, and March 1 of each year thereafter, a report on the amount of full-time equivalent students claimed by each community college district for special part-time and special full-time students for the preceding academic year in specified class categories. This bill would authorize information required by another specified report to be consolidated with this report. (4) Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to prepare and submit to the Department of Finance and the Legislature, by May 1 of each year, a specified report on career development and college preparation classes that are eligible for apportionment funding. This bill would change the due date of that report from May 1 of each year to July 1 of each year.