Cerritos Community College District: data sharing.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify that the form for compiling and transmitting data must be developed by the Chancellor's office; it only states that a method approved or developed by the Chancellor’s office is to be used.

Cerritos Community College Data Sharing

AB-1636 allows the Cerritos Community College District to share student data with partner schools and agencies for specific purposes, starting in September 2027.

What This Bill Does

• Allows the governing board of the Cerritos Community College District to enter into a data sharing agreement with school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools that are partners under the California College Promise or CCAP program.
• Requires these agreements to exchange personally identifiable student information for creating community college records and facilitating course enrollment.
• Specifies that shared data must be compiled on a form developed by the Chancellor's office and transmitted to the Chancellor’s office.
• Requires the Cerritos Community College District, in collaboration with the Chancellor’s office, to submit a report to the Legislature about the effectiveness of this bill before January 1, 2031.

Who It Names or Affects

• The governing board of the Cerritos Community College District
• School districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that partner with the district under specific programs

Terms To Know

California College Promise

A program funded by the state to help community colleges waive fees for certain first-time students.

College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) Program

A partnership between community college districts and K-12 schools aimed at expanding dual enrollment opportunities for underrepresented students.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill only applies to the Cerritos Community College District.
• Data sharing agreements must be approved by January 1, 2032, but can start as early as September 30, 2027.
• Effectiveness of data sharing will be reviewed through a report submitted before January 1, 2031.

Official Summary Text

AB 1636, as amended, Solache.
Cerritos Community College District: data sharing.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state, and authorizes them to provide instruction to students at community college campuses. One of these districts is the Cerritos Community College District.
Existing law establishes the California College Promise, under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, to provide funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to each community college meeting prescribed requirements. Existing law authorizes a community college to use that funding to waive some or all of the fees for 2 academic years for certain first-time students
at the college.
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, a county office of education, or the governing body of a charter school for the purpose of offering or expanding dual enrollment opportunities for pupils who may not already be college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education, as provided.
This bill, until January 1, 2032, would
authorize
authorize, beginning on September 30, 2027,
the governing board of the Cerritos Community College District to enter into a data sharing agreement with the governing board of a school district, county office of education, or charter
school that partners with the district under the California College Promise or the College and Career Access Pathways Program to exchange personally identifiable student information for the limited and express purpose of creating a community college student record
to enable a student of the partnering local educational agency to enroll in community college courses offered by the district.
for course enrollment at the California Community Colleges.
The bill would require the
data
personally identifiable student information
to be
shared
exchanged
under the agreement
on a form
to be compiled and transmitted by the district to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges under a method
developed
or approved
by the
office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges,
chancellor’s office,
as provided. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2031, the
chancellor’s office
district, in collaboration with the chancellor’s office,
to submit a report to the Legislature on the effectiveness of the bill, as specified.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Cerritos Community College District.

Current Bill Text

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