20250SB__043899INT INTRODUCED 2025-02-18 2025 SB INT Introduced by Senator Cabaldon LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Cabaldon

An act to amend

Section 46146.5 of the Education Code, relating to school attendance. school attendance School attendance: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships. 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 or a county office of education, or the governing body of a charter school, as provided.

Existing law provides that the minimum schoolday in any high school is minutes, except as provided, including that a day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in grades and at an early college high school or middle college high school is minutes of attendance if the pupil is also enrolled in a community college, classes of the California State University, or classes of the University of California, as specified.

This bill would additionally reduce the 240-minute minimum schoolday to instead be minutes of attendance for a pupil enrolled under a CCAP partnership if the pupil is also enrolled in a community college, as specified. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 46146.5 of the Education Code is amended to read: 46146.5. (

a) A day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in grade or at an early college high school or middle college high school is minutes of attendance if the pupil is also enrolled part time in courses of the California State University or the University of California for which academic credit will be provided upon satisfactory completion of enrolled courses. (

b) A day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in an early college high school, a middle college high school, or enrolled under a College and Career Access Pathways partnership agreement, who is also a special part-time student enrolled in a community college under

Article 1 (commencing with

Section 48800) of

Chapter of

Part 27, and who will receive academic credit upon satisfactory completion of enrolled courses, is minutes of attendance. (

c) A day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in an early college high school, a middle college high school, or enrolled under a College and Career Access Pathways partnership agreement who does not satisfy subdivision (

a) or (

b) is minutes of attendance. (

d) For a charter school that is an early college high school or middle college high school, for purposes of calculating classroom-based average daily attendance for classroom-based instruction apportionments, at least percent of the instructional time offered by the charter school shall be at the schoolsite, and the charter school shall require the attendance of a pupil enrolled in grade or for a minimum of percent of the minimum instructional time required to be offered pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (

a) of

Section 47612.5 if the pupil is also enrolled part time in courses of the California State University or the University of California for which academic credit will be provided upon satisfactory completion of enrolled courses. (

e) For a charter school that is an early college high school or middle college high school, for purposes of calculating classroom-based average daily attendance for classroom-based instruction apportionments, at least percent of the instructional time offered by the charter school shall be at the schoolsite, and the charter school shall require the attendance of a pupil for a minimum of percent of the minimum instructional time required to be offered pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (

a) of

Section 47612.5 if the pupil is also a special part-time student enrolled in a community college under

Article 1 (commencing with

Section 48800) of

Chapter of

Part 27, and who will receive academic credit upon satisfactory completion of enrolled courses. (

f) For a pupil enrolled in a charter school that is an early college high school or middle college high school and who does not satisfy the attendance and enrollment requirements of subdivision (

d) or (e), for purposes of calculating classroom-based average daily attendance for classroom-based instruction apportionments, at least percent of the instructional time offered by the charter school shall be at the schoolsite, and the charter school shall require the attendance of the pupil for a minimum of percent of the minimum instructional time required to be offered pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (

a) of

Section 47612.5. (

g) For purposes of this section, the following

definitions apply: (1) “College and Career Access Pathways partnership agreement” means the same as described in

Section 76004. (2) “Middle college high school means the same as described in

Section and early college high school means the same as described in

Section 11302. (

h) The requirements of this

section shall be subject to annual audits, which shall be conducted pursuant to

Section 41020.