What is CAPP?

CAPP's Mission

The California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP) was established by the California State Legislature in 1984 for the purpose of developing "cooperative efforts to improve the academic quality of public secondary schools with the objective of improving the preparation of all students for college."

To achieve this end, CAPP supports the establishment of academic partnerships between secondary schools and community colleges, public or private baccalaureate degree-granting institutions, and business enterprises aimed at:

• Transforming the relationships between educational institutions in ways that directly benefit students;
  
• Improving curriculum in subject areas required for admission to college;
  
• Strengthening teachers' capacities to enable all students to learn the curriculum;
  
• Enhancing the ability of students to benefit from these changes; and
  
• Improving postsecondary and business partners' understanding of these students' unique needs.
  

Successful academic partnerships supported by CAPP are intended to be real, durable and effective.

Real partnerships are those in which secondary and postsecondary educators and participants from community and business partnerships recognize their common interest in public school students and work together as equals to meet these students' educational needs.

Durable partnerships are those whose value to the partner institutions has been internalized to the point that maintenance of the collaborative relationship does not depend on supplementary funding from external sources.

Effective partnerships are those that result in significant improvement in the academic achievement of all students, particularly of those most dependent upon the performance of the institution to enable them to fulfill their individual educational potential.

Q: Does CAPP really make a difference?

A: Independent research has shown that students enrolled in courses modified through CAPP curriculum projects or academic support programs enroll in college preparatory courses and enter college at rates significantly higher than students not served by these programs.

More that 300,000 California students in 60 school districts have benefited from CAPP partnerships.

AB 2398 (Hughes), CAPP's Originating Legislation Statement of Intent

¤ Section 11000. Establishment of program; purpose; project distribution.

There is hereby established the California Academic Partnership Program, to be administered by the Trustees of the California State University, in cooperation with the Regents of the University of California, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The purpose of the program shall be to develop cooperative efforts to improve the academic quality of public secondary schools with the objective of improving the preparation of all students for college. Projects funded under the provisions of this chapter may address improvements in secondary school curriculum and the ability of students to benefit from these improvements. Academic partnership projects shall be distributed throughout the state in order to provide *** schools located in rural , urban, and suburban areas with access to these services. (Added by Stats, 1983, c. 498, ¤ 8, eff. July 28, 1983, operative July 1, 1984. Amended by Stats. 1984, c. 620, ¤ 1, eff. Aug. 15, 1984.)

Go to entire document: California Education Code, Chapter 11