Education
Pupil instruction: dual enrollment: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships
AB 1871 streamlines California community-college dual enrollment through CCAP partnerships and removes the four-course cap.
High school students in eligible College and Career Access Pathways programs can face fewer approval and application hurdles while taking college coursework. The law also shifts reporting toward student college-credit, certificate, and degree outcomes.
What the law does
- Eliminates the principal-recommendation requirement for CCAP students.
- Requires CCAP agreements to let participating students use one community-college application for their full period of special part-time attendance.
- Allows eligible CCAP students to take up to 15 college units per term without a separate four-course-per-term limit.
- Requires annual reporting on students who complete at least 12 college units by high school graduation, earn a certificate, or finish coursework for an associate degree or associate degree for transfer.
Who it affects
- High school students participating in CCAP dual-enrollment programs.
- Community college districts, school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and regional occupational centers or programs that operate CCAP partnerships.
Context
CCAP partnerships provide dual-enrollment pathways for students who may not already be college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education.