This part shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Career Passport Program.
Part 53.8California Career Passport Program
Section § 88780
This section establishes the name of the program as the California Career Passport Program. It means the program can be officially referred to by this name.
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Section § 88781
This section defines key terms used in a specific part of the Education Code. "Chancellor's office" refers to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. "Program" refers to the California Career Passport Program.
For purposes of this part, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:
(a)CA Education Code § 88781(a) “Chancellor’s office” means the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
(b)CA Education Code § 88781(b) “Program” means the California Career Passport Program established pursuant to this part.
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Section § 88782
The California Career Passport Program is a new initiative that offers a secure digital tool to help individuals showcase their skills and educational achievements to potential employers. It's managed by the chancellor’s office, with collaboration from state data and workforce agencies. The tool lets users display validated skills, including those gained from military service, in a format suitable for skills-based hiring.
This program leverages existing tools like eTranscript California to document both academic and non-academic achievements. The goals include ensuring data security, protecting privacy, and providing access at low or no cost. Various stakeholders, including employers, will be involved in developing and implementing this program to ensure its usefulness and compliance with privacy laws.
(a)Copy CA Education Code § 88782(a)
(1)Copy CA Education Code § 88782(a)(1) The California Career Passport Program is hereby established. The program shall be administered by the chancellor’s office, in partnership with the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, for the purpose of developing a Career Passport that provides an individual a secure digital tool displaying their preparation for employment, academic records, and credit for prior learning, which may include, but is not limited to, military service.
(2)CA Education Code § 88782(a)(2) An individual may use their Career Passport to curate their relevant validated skills, which may include skills attributable to verifiable credentials and academic records, in a shareable format for skills-based and competency-informed
hiring by employers. An individual may share all or part of their Career Passport with outside entities.
(b)CA Education Code § 88782(b) The program shall be developed by leveraging existing statewide tools for documenting academic learning, including, but not limited to, eTranscript California and other electronic transcript tools, and existing tools for validating learning in nonacademic contexts, including, but not limited to, providing credit for prior learning and the California Mapping Articulated Pathways Initiative, and combining those tools into the Career Passport that can be integrated with employer-based hiring systems to support skills-based hiring.
(c)CA Education Code § 88782(c) The program shall at least accomplish all of the following goals:
(1)CA Education Code § 88782(c)(1) Enable the linkage, management, and monitoring of information of an individual’s verified academic and
third-party records of education, training, and development of validated skills for the purposes of hiring by employers.
(2)CA Education Code § 88782(c)(2) Ensure that information contained in, and available through, the secure digital tool is kept secure and that individual privacy, including, but not limited to, personally identifiable information, is protected.
(3)CA Education Code § 88782(c)(3) Provide individuals access to their aggregated information for use in applying for employment and in training at no or low cost to the individual.
(d)CA Education Code § 88782(d) The chancellor’s office, in collaboration with the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data, shall convene agency and employer representatives to identify technical and policy considerations for building the secure digital tool described in subdivision (a).
(e)CA Education Code § 88782(e) The chancellor’s
office, in collaboration with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, shall engage with business and industry leaders collaboratively to ensure Career Passports are useful to, and used by, California’s employers, and shall work closely with the Department of Human Resources as a possible early adopter of Career Passports.
(f)CA Education Code § 88782(f) The program shall serve the public good and remain accountable to it.
(g)CA Education Code § 88782(g) The program shall comply with federal and state laws to protect individual privacy, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(1)CA Education Code § 88782(g)(1) The federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-380, as amended).
(2)CA Education Code § 88782(g)(2) The federal Higher Education Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-329, as amended).
(3)CA Education Code § 88782(g)(3) The federal Privacy Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-579, as amended).
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