Educational finance: regional occupational centers or programs.

Existing law authorizes the establishment of regional occupational centers or programs to provide career technical education and technical training to students. Existing law provides a system for the funding of regional occupational centers or programs that includes provision for the apportionment of state funds to these centers or programs. Existing law requires that, for the 2011–12 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, a regional occupational center or program may claim no more than 10% of the state-funded average daily attendance for which the center or program is eligible, for services provided to students who are not enrolled in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, and up to an additional 5% for CalWORKs, Temporary Assistance Program, or Job Corps participants and participants under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 who are enrolled in Intensive Training services. This bill would instead require that this 10% limit commence with the 2013–14 fiscal year and continue each fiscal year thereafter.