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Best Case Scenario -- Signed on March 24:  $400 million cut to the base, taken as a workload reduction  $10 increase in per-unit fees, which will mitigate the base cut  Rejection of the Governor’s census change and 1.9% growth proposals  New inter-year deferral ($129 million)  One-time reduction of the 2% Financial Aid Svcs. categorical program

If no tax extensions, LAO suggests:  $1 billion cut to the base offset by - $40 increase in per-unit fees ($66/unit) Net reduction of $805 million  Equivalent to 14% of the new Prop. 98 cuts, after K-12 took none of the original cuts  K-12 proposals also draconian: reduce school year by 20 days Waiting for May Revise: Expected May 16

What’s next?  Governor and Legislature are on the stump in Republican districts  Rumored options:  Temporary extension of taxes with later voter ratification  Late summer ballot with a correspondingly late budget  Direct legislative vote for tax extensions (with reforms)  All-cuts budget  Mostly-cuts budget with some smoke and mirrors

If cuts are deep: Ideas on the table  Reduce funding for credit basic skills to the non- credit rate  Lower minimum quals for Basic Skills faculty  Allow contracting out of Basic Skills instruction  Extend/expand categorical flexibility  Adopt statewide registration priorities  Cap state-funded units

Ideas on the table - 2  Eliminate state funding for repeats in physical education or other activity courses  Move counselors and librarians to the instructional side of the 50% Law or eliminate it  Suspend the 75/25 full time faculty ratio  Suspend funding for intercollegiate athletics

Principles: Policy should  be simple so that it can be clearly explained to policymakers and the public and the cost of administering it is minimized  focus on the system’s core priorities: Career Technical Education, Transfer Preparation and Basic Skills  promote student success  recognize the need for student equity and protect access to success for underserved populations  allow districts flexibility where possible and enable them to add enrollments as capacity allows

Who should have enrollment priority?  Continuing students in good standing who are making progress toward a certificate, degree, transfer or career advancement goal  First-time students who complete orientation, assessment and develop an education plan toward a certificate, degree, transfer or career advancement objective  To address student equity goals, current statutory and regulatory provisions requiring or encouraging priority registration for active duty military and recent veterans, DSPS students and EOPS students should be retained and foster youth should be added.

Who should be last to enroll ?  Students who have completed 100 units  Students placed for two consecutive terms on Academic Probation (GPA below 2.0) or Progress Probation (failure to successfully complete at least 50% of their classes)  Students enrolling in PE or activity courses only unless they can demonstrate that the courses are needed to complete a certificate, degree, transfer or career advancement objective  Concurrently enrolled high school students, except those in formal Middle College High School and Early College High School programs

More measures to improve efficiency and promote success  Cap apportionment for repeats (including withdrawals) at  Replicate models that provide orientation, assessment and college counseling in high schools for seniors to ensure them enrollment priority and spread out workload on campus  Encourage and incentivize full-time enrollment through financial aid and other policies

AB 1341 (Furutani) Will be amended to address enrollment priorities  First: returning students who are fully matriculated, making progress toward a degree, certificate or transfer; and veterans  Next: first-time students who have participated in the matriculation process  Then: All others

AB 1341 (Furutani) – 2  Give the BOG the authority to determine fees; limit increases to10% in any given year  Require all fee waiver students to complete a FAFSA  Charge students who accumulate more than 100 units the full cost of instruction  Charge full cost of instruction for “activity courses” that are repeated

 Common Assessment – AB 743 (Block)  Would support CCCAssess  Amendments to reduce cost  K-12 Common Core Standards/Common Assessment in the mix  e-Tran California – AB 1056 (Fong)  Requires Chancellor’s Office to implement by Jan. 1, 2012  Requires districts to participate by Jan. 1, 2013 if new one-time funding is provided

Implementing SB 1443 – Guaranteed Transfer to CSU  Implementation and Oversight Committee is meeting monthly:  Challenges in dealing with impacted campuses and programs  Tremendous progress in developing Transfer Model Curricula; first degrees approved  Relationship to C-ID (Common Course Numbering approach)  Need to ID and certify degrees

Early Assessment Program  48 CCCs accepting “college-ready” result for placement  2/3 of 11 th -graders who took EAP released results to CCCs  Students directed to CCC/CSU joint Web site:  Database available to participating colleges  Grant funds used for training, evaluation, STEPS pilot, micro-grants

AB 160 (Portantino) – Concurrent Enrollment  Permit school-college partnerships  Require notification to HS principle vs. obtaining permission  Permit concurrent enrollment for basic skills  Remove 5% summer cap  Raise priority from “low” to none; i.e., allow participation in open enrollment

AB 230 (Carter) – Middle College High School  Exempt students enrolled in Middle College High Schools from the requirement that concurrently enrolled high school students receive low enrollment priority AB 288 (Fong) – Student Expulsion  Allow districts to deny or limit enrollment for students expelled from another district within 5 years; allow information-sharing; require students to disclose; require due process

AB 194 (Beall) – Priority Registration for current and former foster youth AB 515 (Brownley) – Credit Extension Programs  Allow districts to establish fee-supported credit programs to supplement state-funded instruction AB 532 (Hernandez) – IB Program Credit  Require districts to grant equivalent credit for an IB score of 5, 6, or 7 to that given for Advance Placement score of 4 or 5

AB 216 (Swanson) – Inmate Education  Allow districts to provide “closed” courses in correctional institutions AB 130 and AB 131 (Cedillo) – Financial Aid for AB 540 students  AB 130 would allow AB 540 students to receive non-state funded scholarships. AB 131 would allow AB 540 students to receive state-funded financial aid. AB 91 (Portantino) – Financial Aid Pilot Program  Require the Chancellor’s Office to administer a voluntary pilot program to increase the number of students receiving financial aid

Veterans and Military  AB 372 (Hernandez) – Require colleges to do a prior learning assessment for military service personnel and veterans, trade apprentices and journey-level professionals, granting academic credit consistent with standards of the American Council on Education, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, or other equivalent standards.

Veterans and Military -2  AB 35 (Knight) – Reclassify “fees” as “tuition” for the purpose of veterans education benefits.  AB 636 (Knight) – Require colleges to refund fees for a military withdrawal at any point in the term or, if the student elects a credit for a future term, require the credit be equal to 100% of the tuition charged.

Veterans and Military -3  AB 649 (Harkey) – Increase the priority registration entitlement for veterans from 2 years to 5 years.  SB 813 (Veterans Affairs Committee) – Increase the priority registration entitlement for veterans from 2 years to 4 years.  AB 853 (Blumenfield) – Extend resident classification for fee purposes as long as a member of the military or dependent remains continuously enrolled.  SB 251 (Correa) – Require the DMV to facilitate Selective Service Registration.

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