Community colleges: early and middle college high schools.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to admit to any community college under its jurisdiction as a special part-time or full-time student in any session or term any student who is eligible to attend community college pursuant to authorization given by the governing board of a school district, as specified. Existing law requires the governing board of the community college district to assign a low enrollment priority to the special part-time or full-time students, except for a student attending a middle college high school if the student is seeking to enroll in a community college course that is required for the student's middle college high school program. This bill would also except from the low enrollment priority requirement a student attending an early college high school if the student is seeking to enroll in a community college course that is required for the student's early college high school program. Existing law, for purposes of receiving state apportionments, authorizes a community college district to include high school pupils who attend a community college as special part-time or full-time students in its report of full-time equivalent students only if those pupils are enrolled in community college classes that meet certain criteria, including that if the class is a physical education class, no more than 10% of its enrollment may be comprised of special part-time or full-time students. Existing law prohibits a community college district from receiving state apportionments for special part-time and full-time students enrolled in physical education courses in excess of 5% of the community college district's total reported full-time equivalent enrollment of special part-time and full-time students. This bill would, until January 1, 2021, provide that a student attending a middle college high school or early college high school, who is enrolled in a community college physical education course that is required for the student's middle college or early college high school program, is not to be considered as a special part-time or full-time student for purposes of the 10% and 5% limits described above. Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to prepare and submit to the Department of Finance and the Legislature, on or before March 1 of each year, a report on the amount of full-time equivalent students (FTES) claimed by each community college district for special part-time and special full-time students for the preceding academic year in specified class categories. This bill would, until January 1, 2021, additionally require that report to include the amount of FTES claimed by each community college district for students attending a middle college high school or early college high school for the preceding academic year in degree-applicable physical education courses.