Pupil instruction: dual enrollment: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific information about funding or implementation details, leaving this as an open question.

Dual Enrollment Partnerships

This law changes rules about dual enrollment programs between high schools and community colleges, making it easier for students to take college classes while in high school.

What This Bill Does

• Removes the requirement that a principal must recommend a student to participate in a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership.
• Allows students participating in CCAP partnerships to complete one application form instead of multiple forms for their entire time as special part-time college students.
• Eliminates the limit on how many community college courses a dual enrollment student can take each term, allowing up to 15 units per term without restrictions.
• Changes reporting requirements so that schools and colleges report the number of high school students who complete significant amounts of college coursework or earn certificates by graduation.

Who It Names or Affects

• High school students participating in dual enrollment programs
• Community college districts partnering with high schools, county offices of education, or charter schools

Terms To Know

College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership

An agreement between a community college district and a school district, county office of education, or charter school to offer dual enrollment opportunities for high school students.

Dual Enrollment

A program that allows high school students to take college courses while still in high school.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how the changes will be funded or implemented.
• It is unclear if all schools and colleges will participate in these partnerships.
• There are no details on how the new reporting requirements will affect data collection processes.

Official Summary Text

AB 1871, as introduced, Fong.
Pupil instruction: dual enrollment: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.
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.
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 protocols to only require a high school pupil participating in a CCAP partnership to submit one parental consent form and
principal recommendation for the duration of the pupil’s participation in the CCAP partnership.
This bill would revise the CCAP partnership provisions to eliminate the requirement that the protocols require principal recommendation.
Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to revise the special part-time student application process to allow a pupil to complete one application for the duration of the pupil’s attendance at a community college as a special part-time student participating in a CCAP partnership agreement.
This bill would require a CCAP partnership agreement to also establish protocols that authorize a pupil to complete one application for the duration of the pupil’s attendance at a community college as a special part-time student participating in a CCAP partnership agreement.
Existing law
authorizes a community college district to allow a special part-time student participating in a CCAP partnership agreement to enroll in up to a maximum of 15 units per term in courses offered at the community college campus or the participating high school campus if certain circumstances are satisfied, including that the units constitute no more than 4 community college courses per term.
This bill would eliminate the 4 community college courses per term limit for a special part-time student enrolling in up to 15 units under a CCAP partnership agreement.
Existing law requires, for each CCAP partnership agreement, the affected community college district and school district, county office of education, or charter school to annually report specified information to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, including the total number of community college courses, by course category and type and by
schoolsite, enrolled in by CCAP partnership participants.
This bill instead would require the affected community college district and school district, county office of education, or charter school to annually report the total number of high school pupils who successfully completed 12 or more units of college coursework by graduation, completed a certificate, or completed the courses required for an associate degree or an associate degree for transfer.

Current Bill Text

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