SB 1222: Career Technical Education Technical Assistance and Equity Pilot Program Act.

This bill establishes a 3-year pilot program to provide technical assistance and equity support to career technical education (CTE) programs in California. The program will focus on improving equity and inclusion in CTE, with a focus on serving historically underserved populations. The program will designate a lead agency and two pilot regions to receive intensive technical assistance services. The lead agency will be responsible for developing and disseminating exemplary models for inclusive CTE pathways, creating scalable frameworks and toolkits for industry-education partnerships, and providing technical assistance and capacity building support to participating county offices of education. The program will also require participating county offices of education to designate staff to coordinate CTE technical assistance and to implement recommendations and improvement strategies develop…