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 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. These provisions are repealed on January 1, 2022. This bill would establish the California College Promise Grant Program, until January 1, 2022, to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for this purpose, to provide planning grants to eligible school districts and community college districts to establish CCAP partnerships. The bill would authorize the Superintendent and the chancellor to establish the grant application process and the criteria for determining the amount of each grant. The bill would set the maximum grant amount under this program at $25,000.
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Existing law establishes the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System, to be administered jointly by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and the Superintendent of Public Instruction for specified purposes, including providing an effective transition into the teaching career for first-year and 2nd-year teachers in California. Existing law requires the Superintendent, each fiscal year, to adjust the allocation made to a school district or consortium of school districts for each beginning teacher participating in a local teacher induction program pursuant to the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System by the inflation factor set forth in a specified statute. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations regarding the teacher shortage in the state and the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System. This bill would make an appropriation of an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the Superintendent and the commission for the 2016–17 fiscal year to fund the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System. The bill would instead require the allocation described above to be adjusted each fiscal year by an inflation factor provided in the annual Budget Act. This bill would also state the intent of the Legislature that future funding for the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System be provided each year in the annual Budget Act. Existing law requires the Superintendent and the commission to award supplemental grants on a competitive basis to California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System teacher induction programs to be expended to assist clusters of teacher induction programs operated by school districts or consortiums of school districts. This bill would delete the requirement to award these grants. Exiting law required the Superintendent and the commission, by December 1, 2007, to report to the Legislature and the Governor on the current state of the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment System. Existing law also required the Superintendent and the commission, by July 1, 2008, to review and revise the Standards of Quality and Effectiveness for Professional Teacher Induction Programs of March 2002. This bill would delete these obsolete reporting requirements. This bill would also make conforming changes, recast certain provisions of existing law, delete other obsolete references, and make other nonsubstantive changes.
(1) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation. This bill would establish the Zero- and Near-Zero-Emission Intermodal Terminals Program to be administered by the state board to fund equipment upgrades and investments at intermodal terminals, as defined, to help transition the state's freight system to be zero- and near-zero-emission operations. The bill would authorize the program to be implemented with moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. (2) Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and requires the commission to administer various programs to award grants and other financial assistance for energy-related projects. This bill would establish the Port Building and Lighting Efficiency Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Program to be administered by the commission for the purpose of funding energy efficiency upgrades and investments at public ports that help reduce electrical load and increase onsite renewable generation. The bill would authorize the program to be implemented with moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the Seed Advisory Board and requires the board to advise the Secretary of Food and Agriculture and make recommendations on matters including, but not limited to, seed law and regulations, seed laboratory diagnostics, and annual budgets required to regulate the seed industry. This bill would require the board to complete a comprehensive review of the seed program, including a review of the seed laboratory, and prepare and submit to the secretary a report on its findings, on or before July 1, 2018.
This measure would declare the month of April 2016 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month, with the theme of "Prosperity Through Education," to raise public awareness about the continuing need for increased financial literacy.
This measure would recognize May 2016 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
This measure would recognize the month of April 2016 as Citrus Strong Month for the purpose of celebrating California's vibrant citrus industry and the benefits it provides to the state's environment, economy, and people, and to affirm that California is citrus strong.
This measure would designate the month of April 2016 as Autism Awareness Month and would encourage residents to show support for autism awareness by lighting their homes, businesses, schools, and places of worship with blue light bulbs.
This measure would commemorate March 30, 2016, as the 85th anniversary of the historic ruling in the case of Roberto Alvarez v. Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District, which invalidated that district's attempt to restrict its pupils of Mexican heritage to an inferior, segregated educational experience.