California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: annual adjustment: renewal grants.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on how much funding will be available each year, only that it is adjusted based on previous years' appropriations.

California Career Technical Education Grant Program Changes

This bill changes how grants for career technical education programs are awarded in California by removing the limit on grant amounts and requiring renewal grants for up to three additional years if certain requirements are met.

What This Bill Does

• Removes the limit on grant amounts based on a formula, allowing applicants to receive more money if they qualify.
• Requires that schools or districts receiving grants before get renewed grants for three additional years if they meet specified requirements.
• Changes how much of the total grant funding goes to new and existing programs each year. It sets aside up to 90% for renewal grants and up to 10% for new applicants.
• Gives the Superintendent of Public Instruction the power to stop funding or take back money if a program does not follow its original plan.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts, county offices of education, charter schools, regional occupational centers, and programs operated by joint powers authorities in California.
• Students who benefit from career technical education programs funded through these grants.

Terms To Know

Career Technical Education

Programs that prepare students for careers in specific fields like technology or healthcare, often combining classroom learning with hands-on training.

Grant

Money given by the government to support a project or program.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much funding will be available each year, only that it is adjusted based on previous years' appropriations.
• It's unclear what happens if there are changes in state budget allocations that affect the total amount of money available for these grants.

Official Summary Text

AB 401, as amended, Muratsuchi.
California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program:
4-year
annual adjustment: 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 them 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
latter provision.
prohibition against an applicant being awarded more than the amount determined by the allocation formula and would provide, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, that the amount to
be made available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the program to be the amount appropriated in the prior fiscal year as adjusted by a specified percentage, as provided. The bill 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
instead require the department to, commencing
require, beginning
with the
2026–27
2025–26
fiscal year,
designate a portion
up to 90%
of the grants awarded pursuant to the program
as 4-year grants,
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
authorize
require
the
department
Superintendent
to
revoke a 4-year grant for specified reasons, including if the department determines that
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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