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Assembly Bill 428 (Carter - 2007)
Chapter 527, Statutes of 2007
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Requires school districts to include in their annual notification to parents, specified information related to admission requirements for the University of California and the California State University.
According to a report issued by the California Postsecondary Education Commission, "The most significant factor determining whether high school students become eligible for admission for California's public universities is whether they have satisfactorily completed the a-g requirements. In fact, more high school graduates are ineligible for university admission because they lack one or two a-g courses than because of low or missing SAT scores or grade-point averages." In short, if students do not have information concerning college preparatory courses or do not complete those courses, then they cannot meet the eligibility requirements to attend California's public universities.
The author states that various studies have shown that approximately 75% of California's students wish to attend college, and 80% of their parents wish them to attend college; yet fewer than 30% of those same students are aware of the a-g course requirements. In addition, the author notes that high schools enrolling a majority of Latino and Black students offer far fewer a-g courses than schools where the majority of the students are Caucasian or Asian, and that fewer than 25% of American Indian, Black, Latino, and Pacific Islander seniors have completed the a-g course sequence before they graduate from high school. This bill is intended to improve these conditions.