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

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text does not specify how the changes will be funded or which types of schools will participate in these partnerships.

Dual Enrollment Partnerships

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

What This Bill Does

• Removes the need for a principal's recommendation for students to join dual enrollment programs.
• Allows students to use one application form throughout their time in a dual enrollment program.
• Increases the number of college courses a student can take each term from four to as many as they want, up to 15 units.
• Changes how schools report information about dual enrollment participants to focus on successful completion of coursework.

Who It Names or Affects

• High school students who participate in dual enrollment programs with community colleges.
• Community college districts and high schools that have partnerships for these programs.

Terms To Know

Dual Enrollment

A program where high school students can take college classes while still in high school.

College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP)

Partnerships between community colleges and schools to offer dual enrollment opportunities.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how the changes will be funded.
• It is unclear if all high schools or only certain types of schools will participate in these partnerships.

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.

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