Regional occupational centers and programs: employer advisory boards.

(1) Existing law authorizes the county superintendent of schools of each county, with the consent of the State Board of Education, to establish and maintain, or with one or more counties to establish and maintain a regional occupational center or regional occupational program in the county to provide education and training in career technical courses. Existing law also authorizes the governing board of any school district maintaining high schools in a county, with the consent of the state board and of the county superintendent of schools, to cooperate in the establishment and maintenance of a regional occupational center or program, except as specified. Existing law requires the governing board of each regional occupational center or program to establish and maintain an employer advisory board or boards pursuant to guidelines developed by the State Department of Education. Existing law requires an employer advisory board to perform various duties, including, among others, approving measures, criteria, and methods to evaluate whether pupils acquired the skills and knowledge identified in their skill certificates and assisting a regional occupational center or program in creating college scholarships for pupils participating in occupational course sequences. This bill instead would require an employer advisory board to recommend measures, criteria, and methods to evaluate pupils' skills and knowledge. In addition to creating college scholarships, the bill would require an employer advisory board to assist a regional occupational center or program in identifying scholarships. (2) Existing law prescribes calculations that limit the percentage of state-funded average daily attendance which a regional occupational center or program is authorized to claim for services provided to students not enrolled in grades 9 to 12, inclusive. Existing law excludes adult average daily attendance attributable to continuously enrolled grade 12 pupils who have not passed the high school exit examination from those calculations. Existing law requires that amounts that become available from reductions resulting from those calculations shall be redirected to other regional occupational centers or programs to serve additional secondary pupils. This bill would prohibit the redirection of adult average daily attendance funding for a regional occupational center or program that has entered into a corrective action plan to other regional occupational centers or programs to serve additional secondary pupils for up to 3 years while the regional occupational center or program is in corrective action.