In September 2005 Senator Scott's
Vocational Education legislation, SB 70, was chaptered into the Education Code
section 88532. The bill focuses on improving the linkages and career-technical
pathways between high school and California
community colleges. Most of the community college response to the legislation
will occur through programs coordinated directly from the System Office, and
personnel there have begun to inform colleges about some of their plans.
However, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges will design and
implement one project called Statewide Career Pathways: Creating School to
College Articulation.
Statewide Career Pathways:
Creating School to College Articulation will provide an opportunity for high
school and college faculty to meet, collaborate and develop articulation
agreements. Agreements that result will vary by discipline and may include
alignment of course skills, concepts and sequences, advanced placement
possibilities and credit by examination options. While our schools and colleges
have already participated in many efforts to align curriculum and develop
articulation agreements especially through Tech Prep programs, faculty have
indicated several unmet needs which this project will address. Learn
more at: http://statewidepathways.org/index.html