Early Assessment Program: common core academic content standards.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges and the California State University as 2 of the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law recognizes the establishment of the Early Assessment Program (EAP) at the California State University to enable pupils to learn about their readiness for college-level English and mathematics before their senior year of high school. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the EAP be expanded to include the California Community Colleges. Existing law encourages community college districts participating in the EAP to consult with the Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges to work toward sequencing their precollegiate level courses and transfer-level courses in English and mathematics to the elementary and secondary education academic content standards adopted pursuant to specified law. This bill would instead encourage those courses to be sequenced to the common core academic content standards for language arts and mathematics. This bill would incorporate changes to Section 99301 of the Education Code, proposed by AB 484, to become operative if AB 484 and this bill are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2014, and this bill is chaptered last.