The completion of a Continuing Course Proposal is required for your course(s) to be offered in the 2010-2011 school year.  Please complete a Continuing Course Proposal (one proposal for each ROP class that you teach) online and submit original hardcopy materials to your Program Specialist by December 4, 2009.

Starting this year all Continuing Course Proposals will be submitted online.

Due Date: Friday, December 4, 2009

If you have any questions or need assistance in completing these forms, please submit a helpdesk ticket using the Continuing Course Proposal category.

 Criteria for Creating or Continuing an ROP Course

ROP courses are reviewed annually with the principal of each school, by the Career Technical Education Advisory Committee and the ROP Metro Area Coordinating Council.  In addition, the San Diego County Office of Education ROP evaluates each course for adequate enrollment and program quality, granting us permission to continue current courses, as well as offer new courses.

• Eleventh and twelfth grade students are given priority in all courses. These students are enrolled through the regular spring articulation process which begins at high schools during March and April.
• Students in ninth or tenth grades are enrolled only if they meet the criteria in Education Code 52314 which limits participation to those students who are at least 16 years of age unless the student meets one or more of the following conditions:
  • The student is enrolled in grade 11 or higher
  • The student received a referral and all of the following conditions have been met:
    • The student is referred to an ROP course as part of a comprehensive high school plan (CHSP). The plan must be approved by a counselor or administrator.
    • The student’s CHSP requires a sequence of Career Technical Education courses.
    • The student is enrolled in a school that maintains any of the grades 9-12 inclusive.
  • The individualized education program (IEP) prescribes occupational training for which the student’s enrollment in ROP is deemed appropriate.
  • The student is enrolled in grade 10 and has a CHSP, that has been approved by a school counselor, and the admission of the student will not result in the denial of admission or displacement of pupils in grades 11 and 12 that would otherwise participate in ROP.
• Adults are enrolled into ROP courses on a space-available basis after high school students have been given an opportunity and only in ROP courses that are not scheduled during a school day on a high school campus. Recent passage of AB 2448 requires that adult students comprise no more that 10% of ROP enrollment by July 1, 2010.

• Site maintains a foundation and/or intermediate career technical courses leading to the ROP class.
• Enrollment is maintained at a minimum of 90% of the County Office of Education ROP contract class size of 26 students.
• All enrolled students that are under age 16 have an approved referral from a counselor or administrator and has the ROP course specified in an Individualized Education Plan or a Comprehensive High School Plan.
• The course enrollment is at least 90% high school students.
• Each course hosts the required annual business/industry advisory committee meeting and the committee recommends continuance of the course.

• The development and implementation of foundation and/or intermediate level career technical courses for one year prior to ROP course implementation.
• Indication of student interest in the new ROP class.
• Adequate facility is provided to house the class.
• A business/industry advisory committee is developed and recommends the course be offered.
• A new course proposal is developed, submitted and approved by the Interdivisional Curriculum Committee and the Metro Coordinating Council. (Current district approved courses do not have to meet this requirement.)
• An appropriately credentialed teacher is available to teach the course.

Excerpts from: Annual Review of Regional Occupational Program (ROP) Enrollment and Recruitment Plan. Presentation to the Board of Education, Fall 2009

Continuing Course Proposal Checklist and Materials