(a) As used in this section, the following definitions apply: (1) âChancellorâs officeâ means the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. (2) âCommunity collegeâ means a college of the California Community Colleges system or a community college district that maintains the college. (3) âConcurrent supportsâ includes, but is not limited to, corequisite courses, support-enhanced transfer-level mathematics or English courses, supervised tutoring, embedded tutoring, coteaching courses, tutoring, or any other academic supports offered by a community college. (4) âEquitable placement and completion policies and practicesâ means the placement and completion policies and practices described in Section 78213. (5) âProgramâ means the California Community College Equitable Placement and Completion Grant Program established pursuant to this section. (b) (1) The California Community College Equitable Placement and Completion Grant Program is hereby established under the administration of the chancellorâs office. Grants awarded to community colleges pursuant to this section are intended to ensure the implementation of equitable placement and completion policies and practices. (2) The chancellorâs office shall distribute grants to community colleges that satisfy the requirements of this section, and any programmatic criteria and administrative guidelines developed by the chancellorâs office to implement the program. (c) The chancellorâs office shall award grants to community colleges from the funds described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) as follows: (1) Thirty-four percent of funds as a base allocation to all community colleges. (2) Thirty-three percent of funds to community colleges with below average enrollment in transfer-level mathematics or English courses. (3) Thirty-three percent of these funds shall be awarded to community colleges with below average success rates of students successfully completing transfer-level mathematics or English courses within one year of their first attempt in the discipline. (d) Before the chancellorâs office may award a grant to a community college, the college shall demonstrate its commitment to implement equitable placement and completion policies and practices by submitting a detailed plan, on or before May 1, 2023, documenting changes in placement practices and curricular structures that the college will implement to reach the goal of full implementation of Sections 78212 and 78213. (e) A community college may use the grant to implement equitable placement and completion policies and practices for limited-term purposes, including, but not limited to, any or any combination of the following: (1) Faculty release time to design, implement, and evaluate corequisite transfer-level mathematics/quantitative reasoning and English courses at scale. (2) Professional development for faculty, including subject pedagogy, classroom climate, and corequisite implementation, including evaluation and iterative improvement of the effectiveness of the professional development. (3) Creation, implementation, and evaluation of concurrent supports or support services to increase throughput rates for transfer-level mathematics/quantitative reasoning and English courses. (4) Faculty release time to redesign, implement, and evaluate certificate and associate degree pathways to ensure mathematics/quantitative reasoning and English courses associated with the pathways are transfer-level courses. (5) Any other services suggested by community colleges and approved by the chancellorâs office for which there is evidence of their likelihood of improving the successful completion of transfer-level mathematics/quantitative reasoning and English courses by students within a one year timeframe of their initial attempt in the discipline. (f) A community college that receives the grant shall use 10 percent of their grant for professional development in inclusive teaching practices
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