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• Providing school-based mental and
physical health services to ensure that
students get the care they need and come to
school healthy, alert and ready to learn.
• Expanding access to early education
and after school programs to help reduce
the achievement gap.
• Making college and career pathways
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to be fully prepared to thrive in the 21st
century. Location and socio-economic con-
ditions should not be a barrier – regardless
of whether you reside in the Central Valley,
South Central LA, or East Palo Alto. All
students deserve to be exposed to the same
building blocks for success. We are proud
to work with Assembly member Berman to
take tangible steps that will provide access
to new career opportunities for California
students, and create a diverse and skilled
accessible to all students.
• Alleviating the teacher shortage so
that all schools have highly trained and
certified teachers.
• Improving the type of student data
available to allow better research and analy-
sis of student learning.
• Renewing the commitment to helping
English learners acquire the language skills
they need rapidly, while retaining their
native language.
employee pipeline that will attract and de-
velop new companies in the Golden State.”
The Instructional Quality Commission
and the Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion are expected to recommend a draft
CSSIP to the State Board of Education in
March. The plan is based on recommen-
dations made by an advisory panel earlier
this year. The State Board of Education is
required to consider adopting the plan on
or before July 15.
“TechNet is proud to co-sponsor
Assembly Bill 20 and Assembly Bill 52,”
said Courtney Jensen, executive director
for TechNet. “To prepare our students for
the jobs of the future, it is essential that
computer science must be taught in every
California school. The U.S. faces a signif-
icant and growing computer science skills
gap that is leaving too many of our young
people unable to secure the high-paying
job opportunities available to them in the
innovation economy.”
There are nearly 571,000 open comput-
ing jobs nationwide according to Code.org.
However, only slightly more than 49,000
students graduated with computer science
degrees last year.
Statistics indicate that young women
who take an Advanced Placement com-
puter science course in high school are 10
times as likely to major in computer science
in college. African American and Latino
students are more than then seven times
more likely to do so.