Education.

(1) Existing law requires the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to conduct an extraordinary audit of the Compton Community College District and file a written status report at regular intervals with specified persons, including the Secretary for Education. This bill would require that written status report to be filed with the Governor instead of the Secretary for Education. (2) Existing law establishes the Education Technology Professional Development Program to provide teacher training on the use of technology in the classroom. This bill would repeal that program. (3) Existing law requires reports submitted to the Legislature by the University of California, the California State University, the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and the California Postsecondary Education Commission to be delivered to specified entities, including the Office of the Secretary for Education. This bill would require those reports to be delivered to the Office of the Governor instead of the Office of the Secretary for Education. (4) Existing law requires the California Postsecondary Education Commission to convene an intersegmental working group to determine state funding priorities consistent with the institutional missions of the systems of higher education. This bill would eliminate the working group. (5) Existing law establishes the Scholarshare Investment Board to administer the Golden State Scholarshare College Savings Trust to provide financial aid for postsecondary education costs of participating students. The board is composed of specified members, including the Secretary for Education. This bill would replace the Secretary for Education with the executive director of the State Board of Education as a member of the board. (6) Existing law, the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, establishes that the California State University is required to guarantee admission with junior status to any community college student who meets the requirements for the associate degree for transfer. A student admitted to the California State University pursuant to the act is entitled to receive priority over all other community college transfer students, excluding community college students who have entered into a transfer agreement between a community college and the California State University prior to the fall term of the 2012–13 academic year. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that specified categories be followed, insofar as practicable, in numeric order for the purposes of enrollment planning and admission priority practice at the undergraduate resident student level for the California State University and the University of California, and that, within each of the enrollment categories, groups of applicants receive priority consideration in admissions practice in a specified numeric order. This bill would require that transfer students admitted to the California State University pursuant to the act receive priority for purposes of enrollment planning and admissions, if the students have met the requirements of an approved transfer agreement consistent with this priority. (7) The Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Act establishes the Cal Grant entitlement awards and the California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards, under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. Existing law provides that if a federal law permits the administration of a scholarship or grant program by a state agency, the Student Aid Commission is to administer the program if it is determined that the participation by the state in the federal scholarship or grant program would not interfere with or jeopardize the continuation of a Cal Grant scholarship program established pursuant to specified provisions of state law. This bill would change obsolete references in law to refer to the current Cal Grant program. (8) Existing law authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to authorize the chancellor to suspend the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Compton Community College District to exercise any powers or responsibilities or to take any official actions with respect to management of the district. Existing law also authorizes the board of governors to authorize that suspension for a specified period of time plus a period lasting until specified persons, including the Secretary for Education, concur that the district has met specified requirements. This bill would instead provide that the Governor, instead of the Secretary for Education, would be required to concur that the district has met those requirements. (9) Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to develop guidelines for design-build projects by June 30, 2003. This bill would repeal that requirement. (10) Existing law, the Community College Part-Time Faculty Office Hours Program, provides students equal access to academic advice and assistance without regard to whether a course at a community college is taught by a full-time or a part-time faculty member. The governing board of each community college district that establishes such a program is required to negotiate, or meet and confer, to establish a program to provide part-time faculty office hours. This bill would correct a cross-reference in the latter provision. (11) Existing law provides that a dependent of a peace officer who is killed in the performance of duty or who dies or is totally disabled as a result of an accident or an injury that is compensable, as defined, is entitled to a Cal Grant scholarship at a specified institution. Existing law provides that a dependent of a peace officer who is a recipient of a scholarship shall not be precluded from receiving a Cal Grant award, as specified. This bill would change obsolete references in law to refer to the current Cal Grant program.