Career technical education: career pathways.

Existing law establishes various career technical education programs, including the Career Technical Education Pathways Program, which requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to assist economic and workforce regional development centers and consortia, community colleges, middle schools, high schools, and regional occupational centers and programs to improve linkages and career technical education pathways between high schools and community colleges, as specified. Existing law provides that the program becomes inoperative on July 1, 2017, and is repealed as of January 1, 2018. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to career pathways for training from high school to the workforce and prison to the workforce.