The Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, part of the Donahoe Higher Education Act, ensures that students with an associate degree for transfer can seamlessly enter a California State University (CSU) bachelor’s program if they meet specific requirements. Currently, students must complete a set number of transferable units, including the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) or CSU General Education-Breadth Requirements.
SB 619 provides that starting in the fall term of the 2025-26 academic year, students must complete the new California General Education Transfer Curriculum. Students who began under the IGETC or CSU General Education-Breadth Requirements before this change can still meet the requirements through their original plan with proper certification.
The bill also renames the Foster Care Education Program funded by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to the Foster and Kinship Care Education Program. Instead of focusing solely on foster parent and relative/kinship care provider education, the funds will support education for “resource families,” as newly defined. “Resource family” means an individual or family that has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and the permanency assessment criteria adopted pursuant to specified law for child placement.
(SB 619 amends Sections 48800, 66721.7, 66739.5, 66746, 79420, and 79500 of, and amends the heading of Article 8 (commencing with Section 79420) of Chapter 9 of Part 48 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code.)
