Official Summary Text
AB 2178, as amended, Quirk-Silva.
Community colleges: county probation departments: instructional service agreements.
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 operate campuses and provide instruction.
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 authorizes the office of the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish the Rising Scholars Network to enter into agreements with community colleges to provide additional funds for services in support of postsecondary education for justice-involved students, as defined.
This bill, the Juvenile Justice Education Access and Equity Act, would authorize a home community college district, as defined, or
an eligible institution associated with
a college that is part of
the home community college district, to enter into an instructional services agreement with a county probation department to provide academic or career technical education courses at a juvenile justice facility operated by the county probation department. The bill would authorize a
non-home community college district, or an eligible institution associated with the non-home community college district,
community college district outside of the home community college district, or a college that is part of that district outside of the home district,
to enter into an instructional services agreement with a county probation department if the home community college district
and associated
eligible institutions are unable, unwilling, or fail to provide requested academic or career technical education courses to a juvenile justice facility within 90 days of a written request from the administrator of the juvenile justice facility.
has declined or failed to take action on a request by the county probation department to either (1) enter into an instructional services agreement or (2) approve the community college district outside of the home community college district, or a college that is part of that district outside of the home district, to enter into an instructional services agreement.
The bill would prohibit the home community college district and
associated eligible institutions
colleges that are part of that
district
from prohibiting, blocking, or otherwise interfering with the ability of the
non-home
community college
outside of the home community college
district, or
an eligible institution associated with the non-home community college
a college that is part of that district outside of the home
district, to provide instruction at the juvenile justice facility, as provided.