UCD Wheelhouse Briefs on Student Parents
UC Davis researchers recently published a brief titled “A Portrait of California Community College Students with Dependent Children” which captures the most comprehensive portrait yet of California college and university students who are parenting and applied for financial aid. The brief includes details about how student parents differ from their non-parenting peers in their demographics, their course taking patterns, and their performance and degree completion. Read the full brief here.
A companion brief by scholars from USC, UCLA and Long Beach City College titled “Like a Juggler: The Experiences of Racially Minoritized Student Parents in a California Community College”, details the experience of student parents of color at an anonymized community college. Read the full brief here.
Strengthening Rural Community Colleges – An ACCT Report
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) recently released a paper titled “Strengthening Rural Community Colleges: Innovations and Opportunities” detailing the needs of rural colleges throughout the United States. The initiative, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, identified in the paper the top three challenges facing rural community college as: 1) Local, state and federal funding disparities; 2) access to broadband internet; and 3) student basic needs and mental health resources. Read the full report here.
Chancellor Houston Appoints Acting Chancellor
Chancellor Houston has appointed Dr. Art Pimentel, Woodland Community College President, to serve as Acting Chancellor during the time between his departure in mid-April and the start of the Interim Chancellor appointed through the Board appointment process. Dr. Pimentel has served as President at WCC since July 2019.
State Budget Update
The Department of Finance released their monthly Finance Bulletin which indicates that revenues for the month of February were over $3 billion above projections. For the fiscal year, actual revenues are approximately $14 billion above the Governor’s forecast. The Department of Finance will release one more finance bulletin prior to introducing the May Revise around the middle of May.
Legislative Update
Bills of Interest
ACR 8 (Weber) – This would honor the late civil rights pioneer and icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther Kind, Jr. Day.
AB 34 (Muratsuchi) – This bill was amended to provide for $10 billion in bonds for public broadbands infrastructure. The measure would appear on the November 8, 2022 statewide ballot. Among the provisions, it would authorize local educational agencies including community colleges for apply for the funding. The bill was previously a spot bill.
AB 102 (Holden) – This bill passed out of Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would extend CCAP partnership provisions indefinitely and authorizes a county office of education to enter into a CCAP partnership with a community college.
AB 269 (Medina) – This bill would shorten the maximum length of a prescribed period of probation for classified employees to 6 months or 130 days of paid service, whichever is longer. This change would not apply to a conflicting collective bargaining agreement entered into before January 1, 2022, until the expiration or renewal of that collective bargaining agreement.
AB 295 (Jones-Sawyer) – This bill would establish a working group consisting of representatives from the State Department of Education, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University, and the Regents of the University of California to consider the creation of a pilot program that would provide free postsecondary education in the state by replacing the system of charging students tuition and fees for enrollment at a public postsecondary institution. The bill would require the working group to submit a report to the Legislature on the pilot program.
AB 299 (Villapudua) – This bill was amended to place the Apprenticeship Grant Program that it would create under the supervision of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, rather than the oversight of the California Student Aid Commission.
AB 306 (O’Donnell) – This bill passed out of Assembly Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would exempt housing for K-12 teachers and community college faculty from the Field Act.
AB 337 (Medina) – This bill passed out of Assembly Higher Education and will go to the Assembly floor. The bill would eliminate the prohibition against a student member of the California Community College Board of Governors voting during the student member’s first year on the board.
AB 340 (Ward) – This bill passed out of Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would add expenses associated with participation in a registered apprenticeship program and payment on the principal or interest of a qualified education loan to the definition of “qualified higher education expenses” under the Golden State Scholar Share Trust.
AB 375 (Medina) – This bill passed out of Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. This bill would require that community colleges, as a condition of receiving funding allocated for the Student Equity and Achievement Program, to negotiate in good faith with the exclusive representatives for part-time, temporary faculty on the terms of the reemployment preference for part-time, temporary faculty. It would require that negotiation on reemployment preference for part-time, temporary faculty assignments be based on the minimum standards not exceeding 80% to 85% of a full-time equivalent load.
AB 396 (Gabriel) – This bill would require a program that meets the eligibility standards established by the department for CalFresh local educational programs that increase employability at a campus of the California State University, the California Community College, vocational school, or graduate school, and would request each campus of the University of California, to submit an application for certification to the department on or before June 1, 2022. To the extent that this provision would impose new duties on community college districts to submit an application for certification to the department, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.
AB 403 (Kalra) – This bill would establish the Fair Access to College Textbooks Act as part of the Donahoe Higher Education Act. The act would prohibit a campus of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and independent institution of higher education, or a private postsecondary educational institutions for assessing an automatic charge for instructional materials to a student, or enter into an agreement with a book publisher or other entity to assess the charge, and would prohibit those institutions from calculating an automatic charge to be assessed under these provisions on the basis of the number of credit hours in which the student enrolls, number of courses in which the student enrolls, a student’s major or program, or any other basis other than the cost of the specific instructional materials required or recommended for a specific course or course section in which the student enrolls, unless certain conditions are met. The bill would request each campus of the University of California to comply with these provisions. The bill would provide that these provisions only apply to a contract entered into or renewed after January 1, 2022.
AB 410 (Fong) – This bill would enact the Nurse Licensure Compact, under which the Board of Registered Nursing and the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians would be authorized to issue a multistate license that would authorize the holder to practice as a registered nurse or a licensed vocational nurse, as applicable, in all party states under a multistate licensure privilege, as specified. The bill would designate the Board of Registered Nursing as the licensing board for registered nurses for purposes of the compact and would designate the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians as the licensing board for vocational nurses for purposes of the compact. The bill would require the boards to participate in a coordinated licensure information system that would include all of the licensure and disciplinary history of all licensed registered nurses and licensed vocational nurses.
AB 417 (McCarty) – This bill passed out of Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would authorize the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish a program, named the Rising Scholars Network, to enter into agreements with up to 50 community colleges to provide additional funds for services in support of postsecondary education for justice-involved students, as defined. The bill would require a community college district that wishes to participate in the Rising Scholars Network to apply to the board of governors for funding pursuant to these provisions, as provided, and would require the board of governors to adopt regulations for the Rising Scholars Network that fulfill certain goals and guidance.
AB 421 (Ward) – This bill passed out of Assembly Higher Education Committee and will go to Assembly Appropriations and would change the accounting procedures for career development and college preparation courses from positive attendance to census date.
AB 438 (Reyes)– This bill would revise and recast provisions relating to the layoff of classified employees of school districts and community college districts to require certain notices and opportunities for a hearing when a classified employee’s services will not be required for the ensuing year due to lack of work or lack of funds. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature in enacting the bill to provide classified school employees with the same rights to notice and hearing with respect to layoffs as is provided to certificated employees of school districts, including teachers and administrators, and academic employees of community college districts. If, after January 1, 2021, the Legislature provides certificated or academic employees with any additional rights to notice or hearing as to layoffs, the bill would require the respective classified employees to be afforded the same rights by the school district or community college district, as applicable.
AB 576 (Maienschein) – this bill passed out of Assembly Higher Education Committee and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would waive open course provisions for service members and their dependents to take courses on a military base.
AB 595 (Medina) – This bill passed Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would require, or request, as applicable, if either the trustees or the regents approve a change in student eligibility policy that adds new eligibility requirements that impact students across its segment, that an implementation committee, with members selected as designated, be convened to develop a multiyear plan for that segment to work with the public elementary and secondary school system, the California Community Colleges, and the governing body of the other segment to implement the change, and would require those circumstances annual progress reports to the Governor, the Legislature, and the governing body of the other segment. If such a change in student eligibility requirements is approved by either the trustees or the regents between January 1, 2021, and the operative date of this bill, the bill would additionally require the trustees or request the regents to commission an independent study by a third-party research organization to assess the actual impact of this change.
AB 635 (Low) – This bill passed out of Assembly Higher Education and will go to Assembly Appropriations. The bill would specify that the requirement under the California Educational Facilities Authority Act for a grant deed restriction does not apply to a project for student, faculty, or staff housing located on property within the boundary of a campus or on property located outside the campus boundary and owned by the applicable institution.
AB 703 (Rubio) – This bill would declare the Legislature’s intent, consistent with the Governor’s Executive Order N-29-20, to improve and enhance public access to local agency meetings into the future, and considering the digital age, by allowing broader access through teleconferencing options.
AB 750 (Jones-Sawyer) – This bill would make a non-substantive change to the provisions defining “parent” for purposes of student residency requirements for postsecondary education.
AB 775 (Berman) – This bill would require each campus of the California Community Colleges, no later than July 1, 2022, to establish the position of Basic Needs Coordinator and designate a staff person as the Basic Needs Coordinator. The bill would require a basic needs coordinator to act as a broker in identifying, supporting, and linking students to on- and off-campus housing, food, mental health, and other basic needs services and resources. The bill would also require each campus, no later than July 1, 2022, to establish a Basic Needs Center, which would be a central location on campus where basic needs services, resources, and staff would be made available to students. The bill would require each Basic Needs Center to help students to have the information needed to enroll in CalFresh and other relevant government benefit programs. The bill would require campuses to endeavor, to the extent feasible, to use a portion of any funds directly to students to address urgent needs. This bill would further require each campus, no later than February 1, 2022, to develop a document to be made available to students online that clearly lists all on- and off-campus basic needs services and resources. The bill would also require each campus, no later than February 1, 2022, to streamline the application and intake process for basic needs services, to develop and implement a plan to identify and provide outreach to students who have basic needs insecurity, and to develop a student basic needs tab that is clearly visible and easily accessible from a drop-down menu on the home page of the internet website of the campus.
AB 846 (Low) – This bill would extend the sunset date of the Job Order Contracting statute to 2027. The bill would require an entity awarded a job order contract in excess of $25,000 to provide an enforceable commitment to the school district or community college district that the entity and its subcontractors at every tier will use a skilled and trained workforce to perform all work on the job order contract that falls within an apprenticeable occupation in the building and construction trades, as specified, unless a project labor agreement already specifies that a skilled trained workforce will perform the job order contract.
AB 886 (Bonta) – This bill would require that if a public record has been reproduced onto optical disk, that the original record be retained for at least 16 months before destruction.
AB 890 (Cervantes) – This is a spot bill that would make non-substantive changes in a provision that, for purposes of the Donahoe Higher Education Act, designates the segments of public postsecondary education as the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California, as specified, and defines the independent institutions of higher education for these purposes.
AB 927 (Medina) – This bill would make the 15 current community college baccalaureate degree programs permanent and would establish a process through the state chancellor’s office for the extension, application, and approval of more baccalaureate degree programs.
AB 928 (Berman) – This is a spot bill that would express findings and declarations of the Legislature related to the process of transfer from community colleges to 4-year institutions. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to a student-centered transfer process.
AB 949 (Mullin) – This bill was amended to require the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges to establish a grant program to provide funding to interested community colelges that, through a public-private partnership, establish a biological sciences incubator, as defined, on their campuses for the participation and benefit of their students. The bill would require the chancellor’s office to establish specific requirements for community colleges that are interested in the program. The bill would also require the chancellor’s office to convene a group of stakeholders to obtain and provide the information that will be necessary to enable interested community colleges to implement the program. The bill was previously a spot bill.
AB 1040 (Muratsuchi) – This bill would, commencing with the 2022-23 academic year, require each community college district to offer courses in ethnic studies at each of its campuses. The bill would require that the units earned by students for successful completion of these courses would be eligible for transfer and, if applicable, would meet ethnic studies graduation requirements at the California State University. The bill would also, commencing with the 2024-25 academic year, require each community college district to require the completion of at least one course in ethnic studies of at least 3 units as a requirement for a student to obtain an associate degree for transfer.
AB 1019 (Holden) – This bill would prohibit state trust moneys from being used to make additional or new investments or to renew existing investments in investment vehicles issued or owned by the government of Turkey, unless the government adopts a policy to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and embark on a path of affording justice to its victims. The bill would define “state trust moneys” to mean funds administered by specified state employee retirement funds, including the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund and the Legislators’ Retirement Fund.
AB 1040 (Muratsuchi) – This bill would, commencing with the 2022-23 academic year, require each community college district to offer courses in ethnic studies at each of its campuses. The bill would require that the units earned by students for successful completion of these courses would be eligible for transfer and, if applicable, would meet ethnic studies graduation requirements at the California State University. The bill would also, commencing with the 2024-25 academic year, require each community college district to require the completion of at least one course in ethnic studies of at least 3 units as a requirement for a student to obtain an associate degree for transfer.
AB 1041 (Wicks) – This bill would expand the population that an employee can take leave to care for to include any other individual related by blood or whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship. This bill would also expand eligibility for benefit under the paid family leave program to include individuals who take time off work to care for a seriously ill individual by blood or whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship.
AB 1073 (Berman) – This bill would require the governing board of each community college district to waive the fee requirement for any student enrolled in certain child development courses who has declared a specified child development major and who has completed and submitted either a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or a California Dream Act application.
AB 1111 (Berman) – This bill was amended to require the California Community Colleges to adopt, at all community colleges and for each community college campus catalog, a common course numbering system, starting with courses included int eh Course Identification Numbering System (C-ID) and expanding to general education requirements and transfer pathway courses, as specified. By requiring community college campuses to incorporate the common course numbers in their catalogs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill had previously dealt with an unrelated issue.
AB 1113 (Medina) – This bill would prohibit the Board of Directors of the Hastings College of the Law, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, the Trustees of the California State University, and, if they adopt an appropriate resolution, the Regents of the University of California from collecting mandatory systemwide tuition and fees from any qualifying surviving spouse or surviving child of a deceased person who was a resident of this state, who was employed as a licensed physician or a licensed nurse by a health facility regulated and licensed by the State Department of Public Health or as a first responder and who died of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic state of emergency in California.
AB 1115 (Choi) – This bill would extend the California Community College Baccalaureate Degree sunset date by one year.
AB 1118 (Low) – This is a spot bill that would make non-substantive changes to the provisions pertaining to the appointment, compensation, duties, and responsibilities of the chancellor.
AB 1133 (Chen) – This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a hybrid retirement benefit, consisting of a defined benefit pension and a defined contribution program, within the Public Employees’ Retirement System, that state employees would have the option of electing.
AB 1152 (Rubio) – This bill would stated the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would create clarity on a standard of care on COVID-19 safety and a temporary and targeted limited on COVID-19 liability at postsecondary educational institutions in the state as they work to reopen for in-person instruction.
AB 1153 (Boerner Horvath) – This is a spot bill that would make non-substantive changes to the provision naming the act that establishes the Community College Strong Workforce Program.
AB 1185 (Cervantes) – This bill would require that, in a state of emergency, as defined, resulting from the COVID-19 public health crisis, specified Cal Grant Program eligibility requirements related to time limits for award eligibility and to the age of an award recipient would not apply. This bill would also authorize a student otherwise eligible to receive a California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Award who attended a California community college in the 2019-20 academic year to use the award for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years.
AB 1187 (Irwin) – This bill would provide that supervised tutoring for basic skills, and for degree applicable and transfer-level courses, as authorized pursuant to regulations adopted by the board of governors by July 31, 022, is eligible for state apportionment funding.
AB 1216 (Salas) – This bill would give each student member of a governing board of a community college district an advisory vote. This bill would also entitle each student member of the governing board to make and second motions, attend closed sessions, and to receive the same compensation as a regular board member without further authorization of the governing board.
AB 1269 (Garcia) – This bill would require the California Community College’s Chancellor’s Office to conduct a comprehensive study of part-time faculty, to be completed by July 1, 2023. The bill would also require, as part of the study, the chancellor’s office to collect and report part-time faculty parity data from each community college district and report the data, and identify specific policy and fiscal recommendations that would enable the California Community Colleges to achieve a compensation schedule that achieves pay equity for part-time faculty by January 1, 2027. The bill would also require the chancellor’s office, in conducting the study, to convene a working group including representatives of community college faculty unions, and consult various representatives of the education community, for the purposes of identifying a statewide definition of part-time faculty parity that could be applied locally. This bill would also require that a person who is employed to teach adult or community college classes for fewer than the hours per week considered a full-time assignment for regular employees having comparable duties shall receive compensation in an amount that bears the same ratio to the amount provided to full-time employees as the time actually served by the part-time employees bears to the time actually served by full-time employees with comparable duties.
AB 1290 (Lee) – This bill would require the Student Aid Commission to include 4 student members, one from each of the following: the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and a California private postsecondary educational institution.
AB 1377 (McCarty) – This bill would establish the California Student Housing Revolving Loan Fund Act of 2021 to provide loans to qualifying applicants of the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges for the purpose of constructing affordable student housing.
AB 1383 (Carrillo) – This bill would specify that the 90-day period for the employer to complete its investigation of the accused misconduct and initiate disciplinary proceedings against, or reinstate, the academic employee is a 90-working-day period, would exclude from the calculation of that period any vacation days of the employee that were authorized by the employer before placing the employee on involuntary paid administrative leave, and would provide that the period of paid administrative leave may be extended by agreement of the parties.
AB 1417 (Frazier) – This bill would express findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to the need in this state for well-trained providers of care for individuals with developmental disabilities. The bill would require the chancellor’s office to develop a model curriculum for a certification program for providers of care for individuals with developmental disabilities, designed to be offered at community college campuses where there is sufficient student interest and a properly qualified faculty to sustain such a program.
AB 1421 (Nguyen) – This bill would require the trustees and the board of governors, and request the regents, to: (1) identify the students in their respective systems who, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were obliged to stay away from the campuses at which they were enrolled during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic years; (2) ascertain the amounts of campus fees collected from each of the students identified under subdivision (a), and calculate from those amounts of campus fees, the amounts from which the students received no value because of their enforced absence from campus and which should therefore be refunded to the students; and (3) submit the total amounts ascertained and calculated to the Department of Finance and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
AB 1432 (Low) – This bill would make the California Online Community College Act inoperative at the end of 2022-23 academic year.
AB 1456 (Medina) – This bill would enact the Cal Grant Reform Act, which would revise and recast the provisions establishing and governing the existing Cal Grant programs and the Middle Class Scholarship Program into a new Cal Grant Program. The bill would authorize the commission to adopt emergency regulations to implement the Cal Grant Reform Act. The new Cal Grant Program would also include a Cal Grant 2 Program and a Cal Grant 4 Program, with eligibility requirements.
ACR 18 (Kamlager)– This action would recognize February 2021 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice. The measure would also recognize the significance in protecting citizens’ right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting.
SB 100 (Hurtado) – This bill passed out of Senate Human Services and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to convene a working group to examine the extended foster care program, make recommendations for improvements to the program within six months. The bill would require that working group include representatives from specified state agencies and stakeholders. The bill would require the working group to evaluate on and provide recommendations to the overall functioning of the extended foster care system, higher education opportunities, and supports for nonminor dependents, job training and employment opportunities and supports for nonminor dependents, housing access, and transition support for nonminor dependents exiting care.
SB 108 (Hurtado) – This bill would declare that it is the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to access sufficient healthy food. The bill would require all relevant state agencies, including the State Department of Social Services, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and the State Department of Public Health, to consider this state policy when revising, adopting, or establishing policies, regulations, and grant criteria when those policies, regulations, and grant criteria are pertinent to the distribution of food and nutrition assistance.
SB 205 (Leyva)– This bill was placed in the Senate Appropriations suspense file. The bill would require a certificated or classified school employee, and an academic or classified community college employee, who exhausts all available sick leave and continues to be absent from duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of 5 months to receive the employee’s full salary during those 5 months.
SB 228 (Leyva) – This bill passed out of Senate Human Services and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would extend this requirement and request for enrollment priority for certain foster youth or former foster youth to those whose dependency was established or continued by the court on or after the youth’s 13th birthday. The bill would also authorize the program to provide direct financial support to enrolled students who meet all eligibility requirements but whose courses have not yet commenced, and who have completed required matriculation activities as described, if those services are deemed necessary to enable the student to be successful upon the commencement of the academic term.
SB 246 (Leyva) – This bill would require the Superintendent to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates that would vary with additional factors, including a quality adjustment factor to address the cost of staffing ratios. By November 10, 2022, and annually thereafter, the bill would require the reimbursement system plan, including methodology and standards, to be submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. The bill would require that plan to include a formula for annually adjusting reimbursement rates. By July 1, 2022, and annually thereafter, the bill would require the department to establish a reimbursement rate target for each contracting agency that meets specific quality standards based on specified elements, including quality adjustment factors for the age range of children proposed to be served by the contracting agency. The bill would make these provisions subject to an appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would also, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, for the 2022 calendar year, require the regional market rate ceilings to be established at the 75th percentile of the 2018 regional market survey for that region or the regional market rate ceiling that existed in that region on December 31, 2017, whichever is greater. Subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, commencing January 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the bill would require the annual regional market ceilings to be established at the 85th percentile of the 2018 regional market survey for that region or the regional market rate ceiling that existed in that region on December 31, 2017, whichever is greater.
SB 274 (Wieckowski) – This bill passed out of Senate Governance and Finance and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require a local agency with an internet website, or its designee, to email a copy of, or website link to, the agenda or a copy of all the documents constituting the agenda packet if the person requests that the items be delivered by email. If a local agency determines it to be technologically infeasible to send a copy of the documents or link to a website that contains the documents by mail or by other electronic means, the bill would require the legislative body or its designee to send by mail a copy of the agenda or a website link to the agenda and to mail a copy of all other documents constituting the agenda packet. By requiring local agencies to comply with these provisions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
SB 290 (Skinner) – This bill would among other provisions, require a unit designated to satisfy the inclusionary zoning requirements of a city or county to be included in the total number of units on which a density bonus and the number of incentives or concessions are based. The bill would require a city or county to grant one incentive or concession for a student housing development project that will include at least 20% of the total units for lower income students.
SB 294 (Leyva) – This bill would remove the 12-year limitation for service credit earned on an employer-approved compensated leave.
SB 457 (Portantino) – This bill would require the boards of administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System to provide employers that are school districts and cities that participate in the systems an option to elect an investment portfolio that does not contain investment vehicles that are issued or owned by the government of the Republic of Turkey.
SB 622 (Roth) – This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would develop a statewide program to support workforce development opportunities for post-undergraduate students who are pursuing advanced degrees to become probation officers.
SB 634 (Committee on Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement) – This bill passed out of Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill is the annual CalSTRS cleanup that makes various changes to the teachers’ retirement code.
SB 647 (Laird) – this is a spot bill that would make non-substantive change to provisions of law establishing the California Community Colleges as one of the segments of postsecondary education in the state.
SB 659 (Becker) – This bill would change the $46 community college enrollment fee from mandatory to optional, at the will of the districts. It would also authorize community college districts to use their own funding to provide students with financial support to address the total cost of attendance for the student.
SB 673 (Portantino) – This bill passed out of Senate Education and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require the Chancellor and the Superintendent to convene a task force that include certain representatives to review the Adult Education Block Grant reporting requirements, develop findings and recommendations based on its review, and submit its findings and recommendations to the Department of Finance and the Legislature no later than January 1, 2023.
SB 785 (Glazer) – This bill passed Senate Education and will go to Senate Appropriations. The bill would require, commencing with the 2022-23 academic year, that at least 5% of each incoming class at each participating campus of the California State University be a participant in the California Promise program, and that at least 70% of those participating students be either low-income students, first-generation students, or students from communities that are underrepresented in postsecondary education.
SB 795 (Roth) – This bill would make a non-substantive change to the provision that establishes the Cal Grant Program.
SJR 1 (Allen) – Passed Senate Education and will go to the Senate Floor. The bill would urge the President of the United States to protect student loan borrowers by taking executive action to cancel $50,000 of student loan debt per borrower.
SCR 10 (Bradford) – This action would recognize February 2021 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, and encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice. The measure would also recognize the significance in protecting citizens’ right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting.
SCR 6 (Bradford) – This resolution would honor the late civil rights pioneer and icon Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Chancellor’s Calendar
April 2021
1 & 2 – Spring Break (Holiday)
1 – ACCCA Executive Committee Meeting
6 – Chancellor’s Cabinet
6 – CCLC CEO Webinar
8 – Board Retreat (includes walking tour of Yuba College Facilities)
8 – Regular Meeting of the Governing Board
9 – SCFF Task Force Meeting
12 – Meeting with Board President & VP
13 – Chancellor’s Cabinet
13 – Handoff Meeting on Legislative Advocacy with Board President & Acting Chancellor
13 – District Farewell Event
14 – District Management Council (DMC)
15 – CCCCO Consultation Council
19 to 23 – Vacation Leave
26 to 30 – Vacation Leave
