California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: renewal grants.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on what happens if less than 90% of funds go to renewal grants or how the program handles recipients who fail to meet requirements.

Renewal Grants for Career Technical Education in California

This law changes how renewal grants are given out under the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, ensuring that schools and other education providers who received funding before can automatically get it again for up to three more years if they meet certain requirements.

What This Bill Does

• Removes a rule that limits how much money an applicant can receive based on a formula.
• Requires applicants who received grants in the past to automatically get renewal grants for up to three additional years if they continue to meet specified requirements.
• Sets rules starting from fiscal year 2026-27, where at least 90% of the grant money must go to renewal grants and no more than 10% can be given to new applicants unless decided otherwise by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
• Gives the Superintendent the power to stop funding if a recipient does not follow through with their proposed program.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts
• County offices of education
• Charter schools
• Regional occupational centers or programs

Terms To Know

Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program

A program that gives money to educational institutions in California to support career-focused learning.

Renewal grants

Grants given to schools or other education providers who have already received funding and want to continue their programs.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if the Superintendent decides that less than 90% of funds should go to renewal grants.
• It is unclear how the program will handle situations where a recipient cannot meet the requirements for a renewal grant after receiving one in previous years.

Official Summary Text

AB 1694, as introduced, Carrillo.
California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: renewal grants.
Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs. Existing law requires, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, $300,000,000 to be available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the program. Existing law requires a grant applicant to demonstrate a proportional dollar-for-dollar match and sets that amount at $2 for every $1 received from the program. Existing law prohibits an applicant from being awarded an amount higher than the amount that the allocation formula determines the applicant to be eligible to receive under the program. Existing law authorizes a grant recipient under the program to consist of one or more, or any
combination, of school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, or regional occupational centers or programs operated by joint powers authorities or county offices of education, as provided. Existing law provides that an applicant receiving a grant from the program in a prior fiscal year is eligible to apply to receive a renewal grant if the applicant’s career technical education program continues to meet specified requirements, as provided.
This bill would delete the prohibition against an applicant being awarded more than the amount determined by the allocation formula and would instead provide that an applicant receiving a grant from the program in a prior fiscal year is required to receive a renewal grant for 3 additional years, as provided. The bill would require, beginning with the 2026–27 fiscal year, up to 90% of the grants awarded pursuant to the program to be designated for renewal grants and up to 10% to be designated for grants for new
applicants, unless otherwise determined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent to cease distribution of funding and recover previously distributed funding if certain conditions occur, including, among others, that the grant recipient did not implement the program substantively as was initially proposed, as provided.

Current Bill Text

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