SECTIONS 78017-78017.3 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 78017-78017.3

78017. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Agriculture is one of the most important industries in
California, contributing over sixty-five billion dollars
($65,000,000,000) annually to the state's economic activity.
(b) Agricultural education programs within the California
Community Colleges system can, and do, play an important role in
providing relevant workforce training as well as college and
university transfer options for students.
(c) Among the purposes of the California Community Colleges
Agriculture and Natural Resources Advisory Committee is the
development of recommendations for improving and enhancing community
college agricultural education programs on a statewide basis.
(d) It is in the best interests of the public that programs in
agricultural education that exist within the California Community
Colleges system be measured annually against uniform, objective
quality criteria indicators.

78017.3. (a) The California Community Colleges Agriculture and
Natural Resources Advisory Committee shall identify and develop
quality program criteria that may be used to uniformly evaluate the
effectiveness of the agricultural education programs in community
colleges throughout California. These criteria shall be developed in
consultation with instructors, administrators, students, industry
representatives, and other interested parties, and shall build upon
the local program evaluation document previously developed by the
advisory committee. These criteria shall be submitted, no later than
June 30, 2007, in a written report to the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges and the Legislature.
(b) The California Community Colleges Agriculture and Natural
Resources Advisory Committee shall perform all of the activities
specified in subdivision (a) within the allotment of funding provided
to the advisory committee under the federal Carl D. Perkins
Vocational and Technical Education Act (VTEA). Under no circumstances
shall these activities result in a state operations request for
General Fund support or displace any other VTEA-funded state
operations activities within the office of the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges.