Concurrent enrollment in secondary school and community college.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to allow pupils whom the district has determined would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work to attend community college as special part-time or full-time students, subject to parental permission. This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district to authorize a pupil, at the recommendation of a community college dean of a computer science department or other appropriate community college career computer science administrator, and with parental consent, to attend a community college during any session or term and to undertake one or more courses of computer science offered at the community college. Existing law makes the authority of a school principal to recommend a pupil for community college summer session contingent upon a determination that the pupil meets various criteria and prohibits the principal from recommending more than 5% of the total number of pupils from any particular grade level who completed that grade immediately prior to the time of recommendation for summer session attendance, except as specified. This bill would add specified computer science courses to the list of courses exempted from this 5% limitation. This bill would also authorize the governing board of a community college district to enter into a formal partnership with a school district or school districts located within its immediate service area to allow secondary school pupils to undertake one or more courses of computer science at a community college if those pupils have exhausted all opportunities to enroll in an equivalent computer science course at the high school of attendance.