Plain English Breakdown
The official text states the Board of Governors must adopt regulations for support services but does not define what those specific services are.
Changes to College and Career Access Pathways Partnerships
This law changes rules for partnerships between high schools and community colleges by removing the need for a principal's recommendation, allowing one application per student, expanding where online classes can be held, increasing course limits, and changing how success is reported.
What This Bill Does
- Removes the requirement that partnership protocols must include a principal recommendation for students to join these college programs.
- Requires agreements to let students fill out only one application for their entire time in the program instead of applying each term.
- Allows community colleges to offer courses exclusively to high school students if they are taken online or at either campus location, including classes that do not happen live (asynchronous).
- Eliminates the limit on taking four college courses per term for students enrolled up to 15 units under these partnerships.
- Requires schools and colleges to report how many high school graduates earned certificates, degrees, or completed at least 12 units of coursework instead of just counting course enrollments.
Who It Names or Affects
- High school pupils participating in dual enrollment programs
- Community college districts offering partnership courses
- School districts, county offices of education, and charter schools partnering with colleges
Terms To Know
- Dual enrollment
- A program where high school students take community college courses to earn credit.
- CCAP partnership
- An agreement between a community college and a K-12 school system designed to help underrepresented or non-college-bound students access higher education.
- Asynchronous course
- A class where students complete work on their own schedule rather than attending live sessions at the same time as others.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not specify when these changes will officially take effect.
- The exact details of support services for online courses depend on future regulations created by the Board of Governors.
- The text does not state how much funding is provided to implement these new reporting or course requirements.