CA SB716

County probation departments must ensure juveniles with a high school diploma or California high school equivalency certificate detained in or committed to juvenile halls, ranches, camps, or forestry camps have access to online postsecondary academic and career technical courses for which they are eligible.

County probation departments may use juvenile court school classrooms and computers in coordination with county offices of education to implement these programs, and are encouraged to develop additional partnerships with local public postsecondary campuses.

The Division of Juvenile Facilities must ensure eligible youth detained in or committed to its facilities have access to the same postsecondary education programs to the extent feasible using available resources.

Effective July 1, 2020, references to the Division of Juvenile Facilities are replaced with the Department of Youth and Community Restoration to reflect the abolishment of the Division of Juvenile Justice.

The bill does not preclude students who have not yet completed high school graduation requirements from participating concurrently in postsecondary academic and career technical education programs.