(a) Contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute, the department, in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, shall, beginning on or before January 1, 2023, administer a competitive grant program to do all of the following: (1) Enable more local educational agencies to establish either middle college or early college high schools or programs that provide pupils with access to obtain college credits while enrolled in high school. (2) Provide incentives for local educational agencies to establish dual enrollment course opportunities that are consistent with the requirements of Section 76004. (3) Enable local educational agencies with existing middle college or early college high schools or programs or College and Career Access Pathways partnerships established pursuant to Section 76004 to couple robust pupil advising and success supports with dual enrollment opportunities and establish outreach campaigns to promote dual enrollment for new or existing middle college or early college high schools or programs or College and Career Access Pathways partnerships established pursuant to Section 76004. For local educational agencies with College and Career Access Pathways partnerships, outreach shall be focused toward families and pupils who may not be college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education. (b) (1) Of the funds appropriated in support of this grant program, the Superintendent shall provide approved applicants with either or both of the following, as applicable: (A) A one-time grant of up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to support the costs to plan for, and start up, a middle college or early college high school or program that is located on the campus of a local educational agency, a partnering community college, or other location determined by the local partnership, and that is consistent with the specifications of Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 11300) of Part 7 of Division 1 of Title 1. (B) A one-time grant of up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to establish a College and Career Access Pathways dual enrollment partnership agreement that is consistent with the requirements of Section 76004 and to enable pupils at the participating high school to access dual enrollment opportunities pursuant to the College and Career Access Pathways partnership agreement. (2) Nothing shall preclude a local educational agency from using any unexpended funds received for the purposes of subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from using those funds to collaborate with their partner community college to access pupil advising and success support services offered by the partner community college district. (3) A local educational agency may request grants from either or both of the opportunities specified in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1). (c) The funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act or other statute for purposes of this section shall be distributed, approximately, in the following manner: (1) Up to 50 percent shall be available for the purposes of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b). (2) Up to 50 percent shall be available for the purposes of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b). (d) (1) A local educational agency seeking a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Superintendent at a time, in a manner, and with any appropriate information, as the Superintendent may reasonably require, including, but not limited to, evidence of an existing or planned partnership with an institution of higher education for the creation of the dual enrollment program. (2) The Superintendent shall give priority to available grant funds to support applications from local educational agencies that display any of the following characteristics: (A) Fifty percent or more of the enrolled pupils at the local educational agency are unduplicated pupils, as defined in S
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