Bill Text: CA AB1523 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Career technical education: transportation for the 21st
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-25 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1523 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB1523-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1523 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 2, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 17, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 9, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Perea
JANUARY 18, 2012
An act to add Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 54755) to
Chapter 9 of Part 29 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
relating to career technical education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1523, as amended, Perea. Career technical education:
transportation for the 21st century partnership academies.
Existing law provides for the establishment of partnership
academies by participating school districts and establishes criteria
qualifying pupils in grades 10, 11, and 12 for enrollment in the
academies. Existing law establishes the parameters for the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue grants to school
districts maintaining high schools that meet the partnership academy
eligibility requirements.
This bill would establish one new category of partnership
academies, the transportation for the 21st century partnership
academy. Commencing with the 2012-13 2013-14
school year, when funds become available for additional
partnership academies, as specified, the Superintendent would be
required to issue grants for the establishment of partnership
academies in each geographical area of the California High-Speed Rail
Project's planned 10 project sections, and would be required to give
priority to partnership academies dedicated to educating pupils in
transportation for the 21st century. The selection of school
districts to establish the new partnership academies and the planning
and development of the new partnership academies would be required
to be conducted pursuant to the procedures and requirements
established for all partnership academies under existing law. The
bill would provide that the funding priorities it creates may be
satisfied when the specified number of transportation for the 21st
century partnership academies are funded, as specified.
The bill, in the event a school district applies to convert an
existing school program to a transportation for the 21st century
partnership academy and meets all the specified criteria for that new
partnership academy, would authorize the department
State Department of Education , in coordination
with the Superintendent, to provide that academy with first-year
implementation funds. In order to be eligible for funding for a
transportation for the 21st century partnership academy, the bill
would require the coursework and internship or preapprenticeship
programs of the proposed academy to focus on the use of
environmentally sound technologies and practices. This
The bill would require staff development
opportunities to be included in the academy plans.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 54755) is added to
Chapter 9 of Part 29 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
to read:
Article 7.6. Transportation for the 21st Century Partnership
Academies
54755. (a) Commencing with the 2012-13
2013-14 school year, when funds become available for additional
partnership academies within the total number of grants available
for all partnership academies pursuant to Section 54691, the
Superintendent shall issue grants for the establishment of
partnership academies and shall give priority to the establishment of
partnership academies dedicated to educating pupils in
transportation for the 21st century until no less than one
transportation for the 21st century partnership academy has been
established in each geographical area of the California High-Speed
Rail Project's planned 10 project sections. The academies may
include, but are not limited to, educating pupils in construction,
engineering, operations, maintenance, manufacturing of rolling stock,
mechanical functions, equipment operations, and information
technology.
(b) (1) The selection of school districts to establish the
transportation for the 21st century partnership academies and the
planning and development of the transportation for the 21st century
partnership academies shall be conducted pursuant to the procedures
and requirements established in Section 54691 for all partnership
academies. The planning grants shall be made available for academies
pursuant to this article from the total number of grants established
pursuant to Section 54691.
(2) In the event a school district applies to convert an existing
school program to a partnership academy and meets all the criteria
for a partnership academy pursuant to Section 54692 and paragraph
(3), the department, in coordination with the Superintendent, may
provide that academy with first-year implementation funds, as
appropriate.
(3) (A) In order to be eligible for funding pursuant to this
article, the coursework and internship or preapprenticeship programs
of the proposed academy shall focus on the use of environmentally
sound technologies and practices. The proposed academy shall
demonstrate this through its efforts to obtain input from
environmental industry, utilities, and professional trade
organizations.
(B) Staff development opportunities also shall be included in the
academy plans to ensure that teaching staff has the opportunity to be
educated in the use of emerging technologies and to become familiar
with new materials and current practices in the field.
(c) The priority established in this section may be satisfied when
the specified number of transportation for the 21st century
partnership academies meeting the requirements of this article are
funded by any of, or a combination of, funds appropriated for the
establishment of partnership academies.
