Community colleges: College and Career Access Pathways Grant Program.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership with the governing board of a school district or the governing body of a charter school with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school to community college for career technical education or preparation for transfer, improving high school graduation rates, or helping high school pupils achieve college and career readiness. Existing law requires the partnership agreement to outline the terms of the partnership, as specified, and to establish protocols for information sharing, joint facilities use, and parental consent for high school pupils to enroll in community college courses. Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, on or before January 1, 2021, to prepare a summary report that includes, among other things, an evaluation of the CCAP partnerships and recommendations for program improvements on certain topics. These provisions are repealed on January 1, 2022. This bill would extend the operation of the CCAP partnership laws until January 1, 2027. The bill would require the chancellor's summary report to include recommendations for program improvements on additional specified topics. This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the College and Career Access Pathways Grant Program to be administered by the chancellor to provide grants on a competitive basis with the goal of demonstrating effective models of fully funded CCAP partnerships. The bill would require the chancellor's office, on or before July 1, 2020, to competitively select 3 community colleges, with one located in each of northern, southern, and central California, that have each partnered with at least one school district or charter school, but no more than 5 school districts or charter schools, as provided. The bill would require the chancellor's office to allocate to each selected community college, school district, and charter school a specified grant award for each of the 2020–21 to 2022–23 fiscal years, inclusive, and would impose certain conditions on the receipt of those grant awards.