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a) As used in this section, the following

definitions apply: (1) “Chancellor’s office” means the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. (2) “Community college” means a college of the California Community Colleges system or a community college district that maintains the college. (3) “Concurrent supports” includes, but is not limited to, corequisite courses, support-enhanced transfer-level mathematics or English courses, supervised tutoring, embedded tutoring, coteaching courses, tutoring, or any other academic supports offered by a community college. (4) “Equitable placement and completion policies and practices” means the placement and completion policies and practices described in

Section 78213. (5) “Program” means the California Community College Equitable Placement and Completion Grant Program established pursuant to this section. (b)

(1) The California Community College Equitable Placement and Completion Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the chancellor’s office. Grants awarded to community colleges pursuant to this

section are intended to ensure the implementation of equitable placement and completion policies and practices.

(2) The chancellor’s office shall distribute grants to community colleges that satisfy the requirements of this section, and any programmatic criteria and administrative guidelines developed by the chancellor’s office to implement the program. (

c) The chancellor’s office shall award grants to community colleges from the funds described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (

b) as follows:

(1) Thirty-four percent of funds as a base allocation to all community colleges.

(2) Thirty-three percent of funds to community colleges with below average enrollment in transfer-level mathematics or English courses.

(3) Thirty-three percent of these funds shall be awarded to community colleges with below average success rates of students successfully completing transfer-level mathematics or English courses within one year of their first attempt in the discipline. (

d) Before the chancellor’s office may award a grant to a community college, the college shall demonstrate its commitment to implement equitable placement and completion policies and practices by submitting a detailed plan, on or before May 1, 2023, documenting changes in placement practices and curricular structures that the college will implement to reach the goal of full implementation of Sections and 78213. (

e) A community college may use the grant to implement equitable placement and completion policies and practices for limited-term purposes, including, but not limited to, any or any combination of the following:

(1) Faculty release time to design, implement, and evaluate corequisite transfer-level mathematics/quantitative reasoning and English courses at scale.

(2) Professional development for faculty, including subject pedagogy, classroom climate, and corequisite implementation, including evaluation and iterative improvement of the effectiveness of the professional development.

(3) Creation, implementation, and evaluation of concurrent supports or support services to increase throughput rates for transfer-level mathematics/quantitative reasoning and English courses.

(4) Faculty release time to redesign, implement, and evaluate certificate and associate degree pathways to ensure mathematics/quantitative reasoning and English courses associated with the pathways are transfer-level courses.

(5) Any other services suggested by community colleges and approved by the chancellor’s office for which there is evidence of their likelihood of improving the successful completion of transfer-level mathematics/quantitative reasoning and English courses by students within a one year timeframe of their initial attempt in the discipline. (

f) A community college that receives the grant shall use percent of their grant for professional development in inclusive teaching practices and subject pedagogy. All faculty are encouraged to attend the professional development and it is the Legislature’s intent for community colleges to require faculty who teacher remedial mathematics/quantitative reasoning or English to attend the professional development courses offered pursuant to this subdivision. (g)

(1) The chancellor’s office shall report to the Director of Finance and the Legislature, pursuant to

Section of the Government Code, as follows: (

A) On or before September 1, 2023, a

summary of the plans received by the chancellor’s office pursuant to subdivision (d). (

B) On or before July 1, 2025, provide an updated

summary of each community colleges’ progress in implementing its plan developed pursuant to subdivision (d). (

C) On or before July 1, 2027, provide an additional updated

summary of each community colleges’ progress in implementing its plan developed pursuant to subdivision (d).

(2) Each report submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) may include recommendations on any statutory or regulatory changes necessary to improve the ability of community colleges to implement their locally developed guided pathways programs.