SECTIONS 54760 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 54760

54760. (a) Commencing with the 2009-10 school year, when funds
become available for additional partnership academies within the
total number of grants available for all partnership academies
pursuant to Section 54691, the Superintendent shall issue grants for
the establishment of partnership academies and shall give priority to
the establishment of partnership academies dedicated to educating
pupils in goods movement occupational areas, such as port and
terminal operations, pollution prevention, performance and
low-emission vehicle technology, transportation computer systems,
fleet conversion, and the servicing and maintenance of those
technologies, shipping, logistics, trucking, rail, air, and security,
until no less than one goods movement partnership academy has been
established in each of the four transportation corridors established
by the state.
(b) (1) The selection of school districts to establish the goods
movement partnership academies and the planning and development of
the goods movement partnership academies shall be conducted pursuant
to the procedures and requirements established in Section 54691 for
all partnership academies. The planning grants shall be made
available for academies pursuant to this article from the total
number of grants established pursuant to Section 54691.
(2) In the event a school district applies to convert an existing
school program to a partnership academy and meets all the criteria
for a partnership academy pursuant to Section 54692 and paragraph
(3), the department, in coordination with the Superintendent, may
provide that academy with first-year implementation funds, as
appropriate.
(3) (A) In order to be eligible for funding pursuant to this
article, the coursework and internship or preapprenticeship programs
of the proposed academy shall focus significant time on the use of
emerging technologies and state-of-the-art equipment. The proposed
academy shall demonstrate this through its efforts to obtain input
from industry and professional trade organizations.
(B) Staff development opportunities also shall be included in the
academy plans to ensure that teaching staff has the opportunity to be
educated in the use of emerging technologies and to become familiar
with new equipment and current practices in the field.
(c) The priority established in this section may be satisfied when
the specified number of goods movement partnership academies meeting
the requirements of this article are funded by any of, or a
combination of, funds appropriated for the establishment of
partnership academies.