SECTIONS 99200-99206 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 99200-99206

99200. (a) With funds appropriated therefor, and with the approval
of the Concurrence Committee, the Regents of the University of
California shall establish and maintain cooperative endeavors
designed to accomplish the following:
(1) Develop and enhance teachers' subject matter and content
knowledge in the subject matter areas specified in Section 99201.
(2) Develop and enhance teachers' instructional strategies to
improve student learning and academic performance as measured against
State Board of Education standards adopted pursuant to Section 60605
and, where applicable, to standards adopted pursuant to Section
60811.
(3) Provide teachers with instructional strategies for working
with English learners.
(4) Provide teachers with access to and opportunity to examine
current research that is demonstrably linked to improved student
learning and achievement as measured by performance levels on state
tests administered pursuant to Section 60605 or on English language
development assessments developed, pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing
with Section 60810) of Part 33 of Division 4 of Title 2, for English
language learners.
(5) Maintain subject-specific professional communities that create
and encourage ongoing opportunities for teacher learning and
research.
(6) Develop and deploy as teacher leaders, teachers with
demonstrated levels of expertise in the classroom and certifiable
levels of content knowledge.
(b) The duties of the Concurrence Committee shall include, but
need not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) Ensuring that the statewide and local subject matter projects
comply with requirements of this chapter.
(2) Developing rules and regulations for the statewide subject
matter projects.
(3) Providing a final report to the Governor and to appropriate
policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before January
1, 2011, on the subject matter projects. The report shall include,
but need not be limited to, all of the following information,
compiled for a four-year period:
(A) The number, and level of experience, of participants in each
subject matter project.
(B) The total amount of funds expended, on an annual basis, for
each subject matter project.
(C) An explanation of the type of professional development
activities offered pursuant to each subject matter project.
(D) A list including the name and location of each school
affiliated with a subject matter project.
(c) Grants to establish local sites of statewide subject matter
projects shall be available to institutions of higher education,
county offices of education and school districts, or any combination
thereof, with a subject matter proposal approved pursuant to this
article. Once established, each subject matter project shall be
administered by the University of California in cooperation with the
Concurrence Committee. Local sites of statewide subject matter
projects shall be distributed throughout the state so that
elementary, secondary, and postsecondary school personnel located in
rural, urban, and suburban areas may avail themselves of subject
matter projects.
(d) The Concurrence Committee shall be composed of individuals who
are affiliated with leadership, management, or instruction, in
education or education policy entities and shall be selected as
follows:
(1) One representative selected by the Regents of the University
of California.
(2) One representative selected by the Board of Trustees of the
California State University.
(3) Two representatives selected by the State Board of Education,
at least one of whom has significant experience with direct classroom
instruction.
(4) One representative selected by the Governor.
(5) One representative selected by the Commission on Teacher
Credentialing.
(6) One representative selected by the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission.
(7) One representative of the California Community Colleges
selected by the Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges.
(8) One representative of an independent postsecondary institution
selected by the Association of Independent California Colleges and
Universities.

99200.5. The statewide subject matter projects shall accomplish all
of the following goals:
(a) Create opportunities for researchers, higher education
faculty, and elementary and secondary school faculty to work together
to accomplish all of the following:
(1) Identify exemplary teaching practices.
(2) Examine and develop research on learning, knowledge, and
educational materials.
(3) Provide support to teachers to develop and enhance the content
knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary to implement State Board
of Education standards adopted pursuant to Section 60605.
(b) Collect the necessary data to perform the evaluation required
by subdivision (c) of Section 99200.

99201. The following subject matter projects shall be authorized
pursuant to this chapter:
(a) The California Writing Project.
(b) The California Reading and Literature Project.
(c) The California Mathematics Project.
(d) The California Science Project.
(e) The California History-Social Science Project.
(f) The World History and International Studies Project.

99201.5. Nothing in this chapter shall preclude the University of
California from establishing other subject matter projects in subject
areas not specified in Section 99201. However, no funds allocated in
the annual Budget Act for the purposes of this chapter shall be used
for subject matter projects in subject areas not specified in
Section 99201.

99202. (a) Within each subject matter project, a project advisory
board shall be established to do all of the following:
(1) Set guidelines for project sites.
(2) Review and recommend site proposals for funding.
(3) Monitor project activities to ensure that they adequately
reflect the priorities of the project and that projects comply with
the requirements of this chapter.
(4) Perform other duties as determined by the Concurrence
Committee rules and regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (b)
of Section 99200.
(b) The composition of each advisory board shall be as follows:
(1) One representative selected by the California Postsecondary
Education Commission.
(2) Two representatives selected by the President of the
University of California, one of whom is a member of the faculty in
the discipline addressed by the project.
(3) Two representatives selected by the Chancellor of the
California State University, one of whom is a member of the faculty
in the discipline addressed by the project.
(4) Three representatives selected by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, one of whom is a classroom teacher in the subject areas
addressed by the project.
(5) Two representatives of the State Board of Education, one of
whom is a classroom teacher in the subject areas addressed by the
subject.
(6) One representative selected by the Governor.
(7) One representative selected by the Commission on Teacher
Credentialing.
(8) One representative of the statewide professional organization
of teachers in the subject matter addressed by the project, to be
selected by the president of that organization. If there is more than
one statewide professional organization of teachers in that subject
area, the members of the advisory board may choose which organization
shall select the representative and may choose to include a
representative of one or more of the other organizations as nonvoting
members of the advisory board.
(9) Two representatives of the California community colleges
selected by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, one
of whom is a faculty member in the subject matter area addressed by
the project.
(10) Two representatives of an independent postsecondary
institution selected by the Association of Independent California
Colleges and Universities, one of whom is a member of the faculty in
the discipline addressed by the project.

99203. The project advisory board of each statewide subject matter
project shall use the following criteria in recommending funding for
local project sites:
(a) The proposed site is designed to provide support to teachers
to develop and enhance the content knowledge and pedagogical skills
necessary to implement State Board of Education standards adopted
pursuant to Section 60605.
(b) The proposed site allocates a minimum of 75 percent of program
slots to teachers from schools achieving scores on the state tests
administered pursuant to Section 60605 that rank the school in the
bottom 40 percent of all California schools.
(c) The proposed site develops formal partnerships with
high-priority schools that achieve scores on the state tests
administered pursuant to Section 60605 that rank the school in the
bottom 40 percent of all California schools.
(d) The proposed site maintains evaluation data as required by
subdivision (c) of Section 99200.
(e) The proposed site gives attention to instructional strategies
that make use of educational technology to support the instructional
program.
(f) The proposed site involves various levels and segments of
education in a cooperative approach.
(g) Participating school districts, colleges, and universities
provide financial and personnel support for the proposed site.
(h) The proposed site uses participants as professional
development providers in school districts, colleges, and
universities.
(i) The proposed site provides continuing professional development
to project participants.
(j) The proposed site addresses the need to integrate existing
standards of competence in the subject matter into the curriculum at
the grade level taught by each participating teacher.
(k) The proposed site contributes to the effectiveness of school
and district development plans and coordinates with existing agencies
or entities, such as the resource agency or consortia established
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 44680) of Chapter 3.1
of Part 25.
(l) Neighboring institutions have worked collaboratively to
develop a proposal which clearly indicates their intention to
continue to work cooperatively throughout the duration of the local
project.

99204. This chapter shall be operative, and shall apply to the
University of California, only for such times as the Legislature has
appropriated funds therefor and the Regents of the University of
California have accepted the funds. No provision of this chapter
shall apply to the University of California unless the Regents of the
University of California, by resolution, makes that provision
applicable.

99206. This article shall become inoperative on June 30, 2012, and,
as of January 1, 2013, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute
that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends the dates
on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.