CSBA explores college and career readiness
New state budget requires MOU on existing ROC/Ps
Published: August 1, 2013
After CSBA’s Executive Committee observed the regional occupational program-based Linked Learning site at the Sacramento City Unified School District’s School of Engineering and Science earlier this summer, the association’s Linked Learning Task Force decided to focus its activities on college and career readiness by embarking on a series of other site visits.
As Sacramento City Career Technical Education Director Theresa McEwen told the Executive Committee, “We like to think of our program as ROP-plus-plus.” Indeed, ROC/P, partnership academies and Linked Learning all provide approaches to career-themed and college-ready instructional pathways.
The new state budget safeguards existing ROC/Ps, the most time-honored approach outside of college-preparatory study to readying students for success in future careers. Most of the funding that local educational agencies receive for ROC/Ps and adult education is now unrestricted, but LEAs that ran the two programs in 2012-13 must maintain their level of effort on them through 2014-15.
The budget also contains a separate $250 million in one-time funds for a new Career Pathways program, a competitive grant that’s under development to strengthen the connections between CTE programs with higher education and local businesses.
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