(1) Existing law requires the governing board or body of a local educational agency that serves pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to, before the beginning of the 2017–18 school year, adopt a policy on pupil suicide prevention, as specified, that specifically addresses the needs of high-risk groups. Existing law requires the policy to address any training to be provided to teachers of pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, on suicide awareness and prevention.
This bill would require the State Department of Education to identify one or more evidence-based online training programs that a local educational agency, as defined, can use to train school staff and pupils as part of the local educational agency’s policy on pupil suicide prevention.
The bill would require the department to provide a grant to a county office of education to acquire a training program identified by the department and disseminate that training program to local educational agencies at no cost. By requiring county offices of education to acquire and disseminate those training programs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make these requirements contingent on funds being appropriated in the annual Budget Act or another statute for these purposes.
The bill would appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of $1,700,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for these purposes.
(2) Proposition 30, known as The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012, was approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election and, among other things, temporarily increases personal income
tax and sales and use tax rates and provides revenue for public elementary and secondary schools and community colleges. Proposition 55, known as The California Children’s Education and Health Care Protection Act of 2016, was approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, and, among other things, extends the increases to personal income tax rates and continues to provide revenue for elementary and secondary schools and community colleges through the 2030–31 fiscal year.
This bill would make conforming changes to certain provisions of existing law to reflect the extension of those provisions by Proposition 55.
(3) Existing law requires each school district that has one or more pupils who are English learners to assess the English language development of each pupil. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and administer tests to assess the
English language development of pupils whose primary language is a language other than English, and requires that the tests include, but not be limited to, an assessment of achievement of these pupils in English reading, speaking, and written skills, in accordance with specified criteria.
This bill would require the State Department of Education, on or before June 30, 2020, to develop a standardized English language teacher observation protocol for use by teachers in evaluating a pupil’s English language proficiency, as provided. The bill would require the department, in developing this protocol, to consult with teachers and experts, as provided. The bill would also require the department to develop and make available to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, professional development tools to train teachers on the use of the protocol.
(4) Existing law establishes a public
school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires, for the 2013–14 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually calculate a county local control funding formula for each county superintendent of schools, as provided.
Existing law requires the Superintendent to make certain computations for purposes of computing the amount of funding for necessary small high schools, as defined. Existing law requires the Superintendent to add a specified amount to the county local control funding formula for purposes of necessary small high schools.
This bill would delete the provision requiring the Superintendent to add the specified amount to the county local control funding formula for purposes of necessary
small high schools. The bill, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, would require the Superintendent to add a specified amount to the annual apportionment to each county superintendent of schools as part of the county local control funding formula, as provided.
(5) The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, provides that children from infancy to 13 years of age are eligible for federal and state subsidized child development services if their families meet at least one requirement in each of certain areas. The act requires the department to contract with local contracting agencies to provide for alternative payment programs, and authorizes alternative payment programs for services provided in licensed centers and family day care homes and for other types of programs that conform to applicable law. The act requires an alternative payment program, with certain exceptions, to have no less than
36 months to expend funds allocated to that program in any fiscal year, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a process that provides alternative payment programs no less than 36 months to expend funds allocated to that program in any fiscal year.
This bill would instead require those alternative payment programs to have no less than 12 months, and no more than 24 months, to expend funds allocated to that program in any fiscal year, and would require the Superintendent to develop a process that provides alternative payment programs no less than 12 months, and no more than 24 months, to expend funds allocated to that program in any fiscal year.
(6) The Child Care and Development Services Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement a plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates for child care services, as provided. Existing
law makes, commencing July 1, 2017, the standard reimbursement rate $11,360 and makes the full-day state preschool reimbursement rate $11,432.50, and requires these reimbursement rates to be increased by a specified cost-of-living adjustment commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year.
This bill would, commencing July 1, 2018, make the standard reimbursement rate $11,995 and would make the full-day state preschool reimbursement rate $12,070. The bill would instead require these reimbursement rates to be increased by that cost-of-living adjustment commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year.
(7) The Child Care and Development Services Act also provides for an adjustment factor to be applied to units of average daily enrollment if a provider agency serves children who meet specified criteria.
This bill would increase the adjustment factors for infants who are 0 to 18,
inclusive, months of age, and toddlers who are 18 to 36, inclusive, months of age, and are served in a child day care center or a family child care home, as provided. The bill would also increase the adjustment factors for children with exceptional needs who are 0 to 21, inclusive, years of age, and severely disabled children who are 0 to 21, inclusive, years of age, as provided.
(8) Existing law requires the cost of child care services provided to recipients of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under specified law to be governed by regional market rates. Existing law requires, commencing January 1, 2018, and until December 31, 2018, the regional market rate ceilings to be established at the 75th percentile of the 2016 regional market rate survey for that region or at the regional market rate ceiling that existed in that region on December 31, 2017, whichever is greater.
This bill would instead require the regional market rate ceilings to be established indefinitely at the 75th percentile of the 2016 regional market rate survey for that region or at the regional market rate ceiling that existed in that region on December 31, 2017, whichever is greater.
(9) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, which include part-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children, as provided. Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program, as provided.
This bill would authorize a school district or charter school that administers a California state preschool program to place certain 4-year-old children in a transitional kindergarten program that it operates, if the school
district or charter school meets all requirements of the respective programs and adheres to specified requirements for all children in the commingled program. The bill, until July 1, 2019, would require a classroom commingled with children from a California state preschool program and a transitional kindergarten program to be licensed pursuant to specified provisions of the California Child Day Care Facilities Act. If a school district or charter school chooses to commingle a classroom with children from a California state preschool program and a transitional kindergarten program, the bill would prohibit that classroom from also having in attendance children enrolled in transitional kindergarten program for a 2nd year and children enrolled in kindergarten.
(10) Existing law establishes the After School Education and Safety Program (ASES), under which participating schools are awarded grants to operate before and after school programs during
schooldays and summer, intersession, or vacation days in accordance with specified requirements. Existing law provides that a school that establishes specified programs pursuant to ASES is eligible to receive a summer grant, as specified, and establishes a maximum annual award amount pursuant to those provisions.
This bill would make the maximum annual award amount of the summer grant authorized pursuant to those provisions 30% of the total grant amount awarded, per school year, to the school.
(11) The After School Education and Safety Program requires an applicant for a grant to ensure that certain requirements are fulfilled, including that all components of the program have an educational and literacy element in which tutoring or homework assistance is provided in one or more of the areas of language arts, mathematics, history and social science, computer training, or science.
This bill would establish the After School Kids Code Grant Pilot Program under the administration of the State Department of Education to provide one-time grant funds to eligible after school education and safety programs that focus on computer coding as part of their after school program curriculum, as specified. The bill, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation for grants pursuant to the pilot program to be available for the 2018–19, 2019–20, and 2020–21 fiscal years. The bill would repeal the pilot program on January 1, 2023.
(12) The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age.
This bill would establish the Inclusive Early Education Expansion Program. The bill would appropriate $167,242,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to local educational agencies for the purpose of increasing access to inclusive early care and education programs. The bill would require the department to award grants on a competitive basis, and would require the department’s Special Education Division and Early Education and Support Division to work collaboratively to administer the program. The bill would require a grant to be used for one-time infrastructure costs only. The bill would require an applicant to include specified information in its application, including the identification of local resources to contribute 33% of the total award amount.
The bill would also establish the Inclusive Early Care Pilot Program for the purpose of increasing access to inclusive early care and education programs.
The bill, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute for these purposes, would require the Superintendent, in consultation with the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention, to develop a grant program for county offices of education to support the inclusion of children with exceptional needs, including children with severe disabilities, in early care and education settings. The bill would require grants to be awarded on a competitive basis, and would authorize grants to be used for specified purposes.
(13) Existing law requires the Controller to draw warrants on the State Treasury in favor of the county treasurer of each county at specified times in each fiscal year, as prescribed, so as to provide in each warrant a portion of the total amount certified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction as apportioned under specified provisions from the
State School Fund to the school districts under the jurisdiction of the county superintendent of schools of that county, to the county school service fund, and to the county school tuition fund of that county.
This bill would also require the Controller to draw warrants on the State Treasury in favor of the county treasurer of each county at specified times in each fiscal year, as prescribed, so as to provide in each warrant a portion of the total amount certified by the Superintendent as apportioned under additional specified provisions, including the local control funding formula, from the State School Fund to the school districts and charter schools under the jurisdiction of the county superintendent of schools of that county, to the county school service fund of that county, and to the county school tuition fund of that county.
(14) Existing law establishes the Charter Schools Facilities Program to
provide funding to qualifying entities for the purpose of establishing school facilities for charter school pupils. Existing law places various duties on the California School Finance Authority for purposes of administering the program.
Existing law, the Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2016, was approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election as Proposition 51, an initiative statute. The act authorized the issuance of $9,000,000,000 in general obligation bonds for new construction and the modernization of public elementary and secondary school facilities, including $500,000,000 for providing school facilities to charter schools, and for community college facilities, as provided.
This bill would authorize the authority to charge its administrative costs against the bond proceeds for providing school facilities to charter schools, which shall be subject
to the approval of the Department of Finance and which may not exceed 2.5% of the account or amount.
(15) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts, prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition.
This bill would appropriate $100,000,000 for the 2018–19 fiscal year from the General Fund to the State Allocation Board to provide one-time grants to school districts to construct new school facilities or retrofit existing school facilities for the purpose of providing full-day kindergarten classrooms that meet certain requirements, as provided. The bill would require those funds to be deposited in the Full-Day Kindergarten Facilities Account, which this bill would
create in the State Treasury. The bill would establish eligibility requirements for a school district to receive a grant, including that the school district provide 50% of the cost of a new construction project and 40% of the cost of a retrofit project. The bill would require a school district that is awarded a grant pursuant to these provisions to use grant funds only for specified costs. The bill would require the Office of Public School Construction to report to the Director of Finance, and post on its Internet Web site, information regarding the use of grant funds made available to school districts during the fiscal year.
(16) Existing state regulations establish uniform complaint procedures that require each school district, county office of education, and direct-funded charter school to adopt policies and procedures for the investigation and resolution of complaints regarding violations of specified laws governing educational programs.
Existing statutory law provides for specified timelines for a written appeal decision to be completed by the State Department of Education for specified educational programs.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs, and would require the State Department of Education to review those regulations pertaining to uniform complaint procedures and, on or before March 31, 2019, to commence rulemaking proceedings to revise those regulations, as necessary, to conform to specified provisions, including, among others, that a complainant who appeals a decision of a local educational agency under the Uniform Complaint Procedures to the department is required to receive a written appeal decision within 60 days of the department’s receipt of the appeal, except as specified. The bill would authorize the department to
implement these provisions by adopting emergency regulations. To the extent these provisions impose additional requirements on local educational agencies regarding complaint procedures, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(17) Existing law requires a school district to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any deficiencies related to instructional materials, emergency or urgent facilities conditions that pose a threat to the health and safety of pupils or staff, and teacher vacancy or misassignment, as provided, including, among other things, that complaints may be filed anonymously, timelines for completing investigations and providing remedies, and specified reporting and notification requirements.
This bill would apply those same complaint procedure requirements to resolve any deficiencies related to preschool health and safety issues for certain California
state preschool programs, as provided. By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies operating those California state preschool programs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(18) Existing law requires, commencing April 1, 2017, a local educational agency that receives any of specified funds relating to school facilities projects to annually report a detailed list of all expenditures of state funds, including interest, and of the local educational agency’s matching funds for completed projects until all state funds, including interest, all of the local educational agency’s matching funds, and savings achieved, including interest, are expended in accordance with specified requirements.
This bill would require that audit to be completed within one year of project completion.
(19) Existing law requires,
for the 1990–91 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, that moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts, community college districts, and direct elementary and secondary level instructional services provided by the state be distributed in accordance with certain calculations governing the proration of those moneys among the 3 segments of public education. Existing law makes that provision inapplicable to the 1992–93 to 2017–18 fiscal years, inclusive.
This bill would also make that provision inapplicable to the 2018–19 fiscal year.
(20) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition
to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of pupils who are English learners, foster youth, or eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as specified, served by the school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, within 3 business days of the first principal, 2nd principal, and annual apportionments for each fiscal year, to publish on the State Department of Education’s Internet Web site the amount of a county office of education’s, school district’s, or charter school’s funding derived from its local control funding formula allocation that is attributable to the supplemental and concentration grants.
(21) Existing law establishes the Education Audit Appeals Panel and requires the panel to hear specified audit appeals. Existing law requires the Controller to be a
party to all appeals, and authorizes the State Department of Education and the Department of Finance to timely intervene as a party in any appeal.
This bill instead would require the Department of Finance to also be a party to all appeals.
(22) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires, commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent of Public Instruction to calculate a base entitlement for the transition to the local control funding formula for each school district and charter school, as provided. Existing law requires various calculations and adjustments for the transition to the local control funding formula until the Superintendent
determines that a school district or charter school is funded pursuant to the local control funding formula in the prior fiscal year.
This bill instead would require those calculations and adjustments for the transition to the local control funding formula until the Superintendent determines that a school district or charter school is funded pursuant to the local control funding formula.
(23) Existing law establishes the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) for the assessment of certain elementary and secondary pupils, as provided.
This bill would appropriate $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for transfer to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish the Low-Performing Students Block Grant. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate an
equal amount per pupil during the 2018–19 fiscal year to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools for pupils meeting certain criteria, including that the pupil does not meet specified academic achievement standards in English language arts or mathematics based on the most recently available results on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress.
The bill would require, as a condition for receiving grant funds under the Low-Performing Students Block Grant, a school district, county office of education, or charter school to develop a plan describing how the funds will increase or improve evidence-based services for eligible pupils to accelerate increases in academic achievement, and how the effectiveness of the services will be measured. The bill would require grant recipients to report to the Superintendent, on or before specified dates, on their adopted plans and whether the academic performance of eligible pupils
increased, would require the department, on or before specified dates, to submit reports to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the information reported by the grant recipients, and would require the department to update the State Board of Education on the contents of the reports submitted to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature.
(24) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make certain computations for purposes of computing the amount of funding for necessary small high schools. Existing law provides that a necessary small high school is a high school with an average daily attendance of less than 287 pupils that comes within any of certain conditions, including that the projection of its future enrollment on the basis of the enrollment of the elementary schools in the school district shows that within 8 years the enrollment in high school in grades 9 to 12,
inclusive, will exceed 286 pupils, and that the Superintendent has approved the recommendation of a county committee on school district organization designating one of 2 or more schools as necessary isolated schools in a situation where the schools are operated by 2 or more school districts and the average daily attendance of each of the schools is less than 287 pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive.
Existing law provides, until July 1, 2017, that a necessary small high school also includes a high school maintained by a county office of education for the exclusive purpose of educating foster youth under specified conditions, and a high school maintained by a unified school district as the only comprehensive high school if the high school has an average daily attendance of less than 287 pupils and the school district has 50 or fewer pupils per square mile of school district territory, as specified.
This bill would delete the 2
above-mentioned conditions. The bill would also repeal the provision that includes as a necessary small high school a high school maintained by a county office of education for the exclusive purpose of educating foster youth, as provided. The bill would provide that a high school maintained by a unified school district as the only comprehensive high school under those same conditions will continue to be a necessary small high school indefinitely.
(25) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits.
This bill would appropriate $75,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission for the 2018–19 fiscal year to establish the Teacher Residency Grant Program, including $50,000,000 to provide one-time competitive grants to develop new, or expand existing, teacher residency programs
that recruit and support the preparation of special education teachers, and $25,000,000 to provide one-time competitive grants to develop new, or expand existing, teacher residency programs that recruit and support the preparation of bilingual education, science, technology, engineering, or mathematics teachers. The bill would authorize one or more, or any combination of, school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, regional occupational centers or programs operated by a joint powers authority, or nonpublic, nonsectarian schools to apply for grant funding. The bill would require a grant recipient to provide a 100% match of grant funding, as provided. The bill would require applicants to submit an application to the commission to receive a grant, and would require applicants to demonstrate a need for special education teachers, or bilingual education, science, technology, engineering, or mathematics teachers, as applicable.
The bill would require a
candidate in a teacher residency program sponsored by a grant to agree to either (A) work as an education specialist serving a caseload of pupils who receive special education services in a special education setting or (B) be placed in a bilingual education, science, technology, engineering, or mathematics assignment, in a school within the grant recipient that sponsored the candidate for a period of at least 4 school years, as provided. The bill would require a candidate who fails to earn a preliminary credential or complete the period of the placement to reimburse the sponsoring grant recipient the amount of grant funding invested in the candidate’s residency training, as provided.
The bill would authorize the commission to allocate up to $1,500,000 of the $75,000,000 appropriated for the Teacher Residency Grant Program for capacity grants. The bill would require those capacity grants to be awarded on a competitive basis to specified types of local educational
agencies partnering with institutions of higher education to expand or create teacher residency programs that lead to more credentialed special education, or bilingual education, science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, teachers.
(26) This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the 2018–19 fiscal year to establish the Local Solutions Grant Program to provide one-time competitive grants to specified types of local educational agencies to develop and implement new, or expand existing, locally identified solutions that address a local need for special education teachers. The bill would require a grant recipient to provide a 100% match of grant funding, as provided. The bill would require applicants to submit an application to the commission to receive a grant, and would require the commission to require applicants to demonstrate a need for special education teachers. The
bill would require a teacher participant who receives a teacher service scholarship, signing bonus, or student debt payment from a grant recipient to agree to teach at a school of the grant recipient and work as an education specialist serving a caseload of pupils who receive special education services in a special education setting for 4 years, and would provide that the teacher participant has 5 years to meet that obligation. The bill would require a teacher participant who fails to complete the teaching obligation to reimburse the grant recipient the amount of grant funding received as a teacher service scholarship, signing bonus, or student debt payment, as provided.
(27) Existing law requires the average daily attendance for the fiscal year of pupils residing in a county of this state and attending a school in an adjoining state to be computed pursuant to a specified formula.
This bill instead
would require that average daily attendance to be reported using the methodology for reporting 2nd principal apportionment attendance, as provided.
(28) Existing law requires, in the event of a state of emergency declared by the Governor in a county, which causes a decrease in the average daily attendance in the county for a school district, county office of education, or charter school, the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine the length of the period during which average daily attendance has been reduced by the state of emergency. Existing law provides that the period determined by the Superintendent shall not extend into the next fiscal year following the declaration of the state of emergency by the Governor, except upon a showing by a school district, county office of education, or charter school, to the satisfaction of the Superintendent, that extending the period into the next fiscal year is essential to alleviate continued
reductions in average daily attendance attributable to the state of emergency.
This bill would require the Superintendent to extend through the 2018–19 fiscal year the period during which it is essential to alleviate continued reductions in average daily attendance attributable to the state of emergency declared by the Governor in October 2017, for a school district located in a county where no less than 5% of the residences within the school district or school district facilities were destroyed by the qualifying emergency.
(29) Existing law requires the California School Finance Authority to administer the Charter School Facility Grant Program, and provides that the grant program is intended to provide assistance with facilities rent and lease costs for pupils in charter schools. Existing law requires an initial apportionment to a charter school for eligible expenditures by August 31 of each fiscal
year or 30 days after enactment of the annual Budget Act, whichever is later, provided the charter school has submitted a timely application for funding, as determined by the authority.
This bill instead would require the initial apportionment to a charter school for eligible expenditures by October 31 of each fiscal year provided the charter school has submitted a timely application for funding, as determined by the authority.
The bill also would require the authority to verify costs associated with facility rents or leases, as evidenced by an executed rental or lease agreement, and would require the verified facility agreement to be subject to either of 2 specified conditions.
Existing law requires the authority to first use the funding appropriated for this grant program to reimburse eligible charter schools for unreimbursed rent or lease costs for the prior school year.
This bill would remove that requirement and instead would require funds appropriated for this grant program to first be used for costs associated with facilities rents and leases.
(30) Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act, including, among other acts, disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials, or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.
Existing law prohibits the suspension of a pupil enrolled in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 3, inclusive, and recommending the expulsion of a pupil enrolled in kindergarten or any of
grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of those school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties. Existing law makes these prohibitions inoperative on July 1, 2018.
This bill would delete the provision making those prohibitions inoperative on July 1, 2018, thereby extending those prohibitions indefinitely.
(31) Existing law sets the reimbursement a school receives for free and reduced-price meals sold or served to pupils in elementary, middle, or high schools at $0.2306 per meal, and for meals served in child care centers and homes at $0.1717 per meal.
This bill would repeal that provision.
(32) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to
develop an Academic Performance Index (API), consisting of specified indicators, to measure the performance of schools and pupils.
Existing law requires, on or before July 1, 2014, each governing board of a school district and county board of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan using a state template adopted by the state board. Existing law requires, on or before October 1, 2016, the state board to adopt evaluation rubrics for specified purposes. Pursuant to this requirement, the state board adopted evaluation rubrics in September of 2016 and created the California School Dashboard, which is a graphically presented, publicly accessible interface that displays school performance data based on the evaluation rubrics.
This bill would repeal the provision requiring the Superintendent to develop an API. The bill would instead require the single multiple measures public school accountability system
authorized by the provisions requiring the state board to adopt evaluation rubrics to measure the overall performance of numerically significant pupil subgroups in schools, including charter schools, school districts, and county offices of education, as provided.
The bill would also repeal other obsolete provisions relating to the API.
(33) Existing law requires the State Department of Education to establish a statewide system of school support to provide a statewide system of intensive and sustained support and technical assistance for school districts, county offices of education, and schools in need of improvement, as provided.
This bill would repeal that provision and instead would establish a single system for providing support to local educational agencies and schools, as provided, and to be known as the statewide system of support.
(34) Existing law requires every school district to submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction a local plan for the education of all individuals with exceptional needs either on its own, in conjunction with one or more school districts, or with the county office of education, as specified. Existing law requires the service area covered by the local plan to be known as the special education local plan area.
Existing law requires, on or before July 1, 2014, governing boards of school districts and county boards of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan using a state template adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires, before the governing board of a school district or a county board of education considers the adoption of a local control and accountability plan or an annual update to the local control and accountability plan, the governing board of the school
district or the county board of education to take specified actions.
This bill would additionally require, before the governing board of a school district or a county board of education considers the adoption of a local control and accountability plan or an annual update to the local control and accountability plan, the superintendent of the school district or the county superintendent of schools to consult with its special education local plan area administrator or administrators to determine that specific actions for individuals with exceptional needs are included in the local control and accountability plan or annual update to the local control and accountability plan, and are consistent with strategies included in the annual assurances support plan for the education of individuals with exceptional needs. Because the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agency officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(35) Existing law requires, on or before March 31, 2014, the State Board of Education to adopt templates for use by school districts and county superintendents of schools for purposes of the local control and accountability plans. Existing law authorizes the state board to adopt the template in accordance with specified requirements relating to meetings, and makes that provision inoperative on December 31, 2018.
This bill would instead make that provision inoperative on January 31, 2019.
(36) Existing law requires, on or before July 1, 2014, governing boards of school districts and county boards of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan using a state template adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law also requires each charter school to annually prepare and submit, on or before July 1, a local control and
accountability plan and an annual update to the local control and accountability plan to its chartering authority and the county superintendent of schools, or only to the county superintendent of schools if the county board of education is the chartering authority.
This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school, on or before July 1, 2019, and each year thereafter, to develop a summary document to be known as the local control funding formula budget overview for parents. The bill would require the local control funding formula budget overview for parents to be developed in conjunction with, and attached to, the local control and accountability plan and annual update to the local control and accountability plan, and to include specified information relating to the school district’s budget. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to approval by the executive director of the state board, to
develop a template for the local control funding formula budget overview for parents on or before December 31, 2018. Because the bill would increase the duties on school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, $200,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the support and development of the electronic template for the local control funding formula budget overview for parents. The bill would require the department, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the state board, to enter into contracts with the San Joaquin County Office of Education for these purposes. To the extent these contracts would impose additional duties on the San Joaquin County Office of Education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill
would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation during the 2017–18 Regular Session intended to make changes to the template for the local control and accountability plan and the annual update to the local control and accountability plan, as provided, and would further express the intent of the Legislature to appropriate $200,000 from the General Fund to the department in that legislation for this purpose.
(37) Existing law requires a local control and accountability plan to include a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each of certain state priorities. Existing law requires the State Board of Education, on or before October 1, 2016, to adopt evaluation rubrics to, among other things, assist a school district, county office of education, or charter school in evaluating its strengths, weaknesses, and areas that require improvement.
This bill would require, as part of the
evaluation rubrics, the state board to adopt state and local indicators to measure school district and individual schoolsite performance in regard to each of the state priorities. The bill would authorize the state board to adopt alternate methods for calculating the state and local indicators for alternative schools, as described. The bill would require the State Department of Education, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the state board, to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard, a Web-based system for publicly reporting performance data on the state and local indicators. The bill would also require, as part of the evaluation rubrics, the state board to adopt performance criteria for local educational agency assistance and intervention.
(38) Existing law requires, beginning with the 2018–19 fiscal year and in each fiscal year thereafter, a county superintendent of schools to prepare
a summary of how it plans to support school districts and schools within the county in implementing local control and accountability plans and requires it to present the summary to the county board of education.
This bill would require the summary to also include a description of how the county superintendent of schools will support the continuous improvement of all school districts within the county and a description of how he or she will assist each school district identified for technical assistance. The bill would require, commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year and in each fiscal year thereafter, the county superintendent of schools to submit the summary with its local control and accountability plan. The bill would also require the State Department of Education, on or before November 1 of each year, to compile the information provided by county superintendents of schools into a single document and make it available to the public on the department’s Internet
Web site. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on county superintendents of schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(39) Existing law requires, if a county superintendent of schools does not approve a local control and accountability plan or annual update to the local control and accountability plan approved by a governing board of a school district, or if the governing board of a school district requests technical assistance, the county superintendent of schools to provide technical assistance, as provided. Existing law requires technical assistance provided at the request of a school district to be paid for by the school district.
This bill would repeal those provisions and instead require the county superintendent of schools, if the governing board of a school district requests technical assistance, or if a county superintendent of schools does not approve a
local control and accountability plan or annual update to the local control and accountability plan approved by the governing board of a school district, to provide technical assistance, as provided. The bill would authorize the county superintendent of schools to assess the school district a fee, not to exceed the cost of the service, under certain circumstances. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on county superintendents of schools and school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(40) Existing law requires, if the Superintendent of Public Instruction does not approve a local control and accountability plan or annual update to the local control and accountability plan approved by a county board of education, or if the county board of education requests technical assistance, the Superintendent to provide technical assistance, as provided.
This bill would
require the Superintendent, for any county office of education for which one or more of specified pupil subgroups meets the certain performance criteria, to provide technical assistance focused on building the county office of education’s capacity to develop and implement actions and services responsive to pupil and community needs.
(41) Existing law establishes the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to advise and assist school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving their local control and accountability plan goals. Existing law requires the governing board of the collaborative, with the approval of the Department of Finance, to contract with a local educational agency, or consortium of local educational agencies, to serve as the fiscal agent of the collaborative.
This bill would instead require the State Department of Education, in consultation
with the executive director of the State Board of Education and with the approval of the Department of Finance, to contract with a local educational agency, or consortium of local educational agencies, to serve as the administrative agent for the collaborative. The bill would require the governing board of the collaborative to select, and direct the administrative agent to hire, the executive director of the collaborative and provide policy and program direction.
The bill would require, by September 1, 2018, the collaborative and the State Department of Education to establish a process, administered by the department, to select, subject to approval by the executive director of the state board, county offices of education to serve as geographic lead agencies to conduct specified activities, including assisting in building the capacity of county offices of education within the geographic lead agency’s defined geographic area to provide effective assistance and support
to school districts under the state priorities for purposes of a local control and accountability plan. The bill would, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, appropriate $4,000,000 annually to the department from the General Fund to be awarded to county superintendents of schools serving as geographic lead agencies.
The bill would also authorize the collaborative and the department to establish a process, administered by the department, to select, subject to approval by the executive director of the state board, an expert lead agency based on specific expertise in an area of need to conduct activities and build statewide capacity to address that area of need within the statewide system of support. The bill would make that provision subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
The bill would also require the department and the collaborative to establish a process, administered by the department, to select,
subject to approval by the executive director of the state board in consultation with the Department of Finance, special education local plan areas or consortia of special education local plan areas to serve as special education resource leads to work with the lead agencies and other county offices of education to improve pupil outcomes as part of the statewide system of support.
(42) Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging and maintaining the delivery of career technical education programs during implementation of the school district and charter school local control funding formula. Existing law appropriates specified amounts for the program from the General Fund for the 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18 fiscal years, and provides minimum eligibility standards for grant applicants.
This bill would instead specify that the purpose of the program is to encourage and maintain the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs. The bill would specify that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, $150,000,000 shall be made available for the program to the department each year for the 2018–19 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, and would require a grant applicant to demonstrate a proportional dollar-for-dollar match for a grant award for those fiscal years. The bill would, among other things, add to the minimum eligibility standards that a grant applicant must meet, including that it provides opportunities for pupils to participate in leadership development opportunities and career and technical education student organizations, and provides opportunities for pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs to participate in all of the grant applicant’s programs. The bill would revise reporting requirements for program
participants, and would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to evaluate and deem successful a grant recipient’s program as a condition of receiving a renewal grant.
The bill would require the department, commencing July 1, 2018, and before awarding any grants under the program, to report, as specified, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, the Department of Finance, and the Governor on how it will determine that an applicant has met the minimum eligibility standards of the program.
The bill would require the department, commencing July 1, 2019, as part of the application process, to ask applicants to indicate whether they have received a grant under the K–12 component of the Strong Workforce Program. The bill would also require the department, for each fiscal year, to work with the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges to produce a list of grant recipients that
receive funding under this program and through the K–12 component of the Strong Workforce Program, as specified.
Existing law requires the department and the State Board of Education to give positive consideration for specified characteristics when determining grant recipients, including that the applicant did not operate a career technical education program during the 2014–15 fiscal year.
This bill would eliminate the requirement that the department and state board give positive consideration to an applicant that did not operate a career technical education program during the 2014–15 fiscal year. The bill would require, instead of authorize, the Superintendent to take certain actions for purposes of administering the program, and would add certain other actions that the Superintendent is required to take, including that the Superintendent also determine, in collaboration with the executive director of the state board, the
allocation formula, the purposes for which grant funds may be used, and allowable and nonallowable expenditures, and that the Superintendent provide that information in writing to specified entities.
The bill would require the department, on or before January 31, 2024, and on or before January 31 every 5 years thereafter, to submit to the Department of Finance, the Governor, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a report evaluating the progress that local educational agencies have made with respect to specified topics, including, among others, progress in expanding the availability of high-quality, industry-valued career technical training opportunities.
The bill would require the K–12 Workforce Pathway Coordinators and the K–14 Technical Assistance Providers to provide technical assistance and support to grant recipients, as provided.
(43) Existing law requires every school district to submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction a local plan for the education of all individuals with exceptional needs either on its own, in conjunction with one or more school districts, or with the county office of education, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent to establish guidelines for the development of local plans.
Existing law requires each local plan submitted to the Superintendent to include, among other things, an annual budget plan and an annual service plan. Existing law requires the annual service plan to be adopted at a public hearing held by the special education local plan area, and requires notice of this hearing to be posted in each school district in the special education local plan area at least 15 days before the hearing.
This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2019, the State Department of Education to
develop templates that shall be used by special education local plan areas, school districts, and county superintendents of schools to meet the requirements relating to local plans. The bill would require, commencing July 1, 2020, each local plan to include an annual assurances support plan that includes specified elements. The bill would require each local plan submitted to the Superintendent to include the annual assurances support plan. The bill would require the annual service plan and the annual assurances support plan to be adopted at a public hearing held by the special education local plan area, and would require notice of this hearing to be posted in each school in the special education local plan area at least 15 days before the hearing. The bill would revise the components of the annual budget plan, as provided.
The bill would require each school district, in developing a local plan, to cooperate with the county office of education to assure that the
local plan is compatible with the local control and accountability plans adopted for the school district and the county board of education. The bill would require, commencing July 1, 2020, a special education local plan area to review its local plan at least once every 3 years and update as needed to ensure information contained within the plan remains relevant and accurate.
The bill would require the superintendent or other chief administrator of a local educational agency to post on the Internet Web site of the local educational agency any local plan, annual budget plan, annual service plan, and annual assurances support plan upon approval of the special education local plan area, and any updates or revisions to the plans upon approval of the special education local plan area. The bill would require a county superintendent of schools to post any local plan, annual budget plan, annual service plan, and annual assurances support plan upon approval of the county
office of education, and all local plans submitted by special education local plan areas in the county, on the Internet Web site of the county office of education.
By adding to the duties of local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(44) Existing law requires a county office of education to approve or disapprove any proposed local plan for the education of all individuals with exceptional needs submitted by a school district or group of school districts in the county within 45 days.
This bill would require a county office of education to submit an approved local plan to the Superintendent of Public Instruction with comments and recommendations and would require the county office of education to return a disapproved local plan with comments and recommendations to the school district. The bill would authorize a school
district to immediately appeal to the Superintendent to overrule the county office of education’s disapproval. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on county offices of education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(45) Existing law requires each local plan for the education of all individuals with exceptional needs to establish a community advisory committee, as provided. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to establish a parent advisory committee to provide advice to the governing board of the school district and the superintendent of the school district regarding the requirements relating to local control and accountability plans.
This bill would require the community advisory committee to support community involvement in the parent advisory committee to encourage the inclusion of parents of individuals with exceptional needs to the
extent these pupils are also unduplicated pupils for purposes of the local control funding formula.
(46) Existing law sets forth a method for providing special education and related services to pupils with exceptional needs. Existing law also permits, under certain circumstances, contracts to be entered into for the provision of those services by nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies, as defined. Existing law sets forth the certification process and procedures for the nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies that seek certification from the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Existing law prohibits the Superintendent from certifying or renewing the certification of a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency unless specified conditions are met relating to the entity that operates the nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency.
This bill instead would prohibit the Superintendent from certifying
or renewing the certification of a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that also operates a licensed children’s institution, as defined, unless those specified conditions are met relating to the entity that operates the nonpublic, nonsectarian school.
(47) Existing law provides for the calculation of apportionments to fund the provision of special education instruction and services for pupils who qualify for these programs. Existing law requires each special education local plan area to dedicate a portion of the special education funds it receives for regionalized operations and services and the direct instructional support of program specialists.
This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make specified computations for purposes of special education funding.
The bill would require the Superintendent to apportion specified funds for
regionalized services and program specialists to the administrative unit of each special education local plan area. The bill would require the Superintendent, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, to make specified computations to determine the amount of funding for those purposes. The bill would also require, for the 2018–19 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent to calculate an amount of supplemental funds to be apportioned to necessary small special education local plan areas, as provided.
(48) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, commencing with the 2004–05 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, to make certain calculations for, and the State Department of Education to apportion certain amounts to, special education local plan areas, as provided, with respect to children and youth residing in foster family homes, small family homes, foster family
agencies, group homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and community care facilities. Existing law requires the department to calculate an out-of-home care funding amount for each special education local plan area, as provided, for each fiscal year. Existing law requires for purposes of the 2017–18 fiscal year out-of-home care funding amount for group homes, foster family homes, small family homes, and foster family agencies, the Superintendent to use the data received from the State Department of Social Services that was used for the funding for the 2016–17 fiscal year.
This bill would require the Superintendent to also use the data received from the State Department of Social Services that was used for the funding for the 2016–17 fiscal year for purposes of the 2018–19 fiscal year out-of-home care funding amount.
(49) Existing law establishes the California Assessment of
Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) for the assessment of certain elementary and secondary pupils, as provided. Existing law provides that the CAASPP includes, among other things, a consortium summative assessment in English language arts and mathematics for grades 3 to 8, inclusive, and grade 11. Existing law makes these provisions and other related provisions dealing with pupil assessments inoperative on July 1, 2020, and repeals the provisions on January 1, 2021.
This bill would repeal the provision making those provisions inoperative on July 1, 2020, and repealing those provisions on January 1, 2021. To the extent extending the operation of CAASPP and related pupil assessment provisions indefinitely imposes additional duties on local educational agency officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(50) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
develop and administer tests to assess the English language development of pupils whose primary language is a language other than English, and requires that the tests include, but not be limited to, an assessment of achievement of these pupils in English reading, speaking, and written skills, in accordance with specified criteria. Existing law, if no suitable assessment exists, requires the Superintendent, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to either release a request for proposals for the development of an assessment or series of assessments so that it will meet the specified criteria, or contract to modify an existing assessment or series of assessments so that it will meet the specified criteria.
This bill would expressly authorize the Superintendent to amend the contract for the development of specified achievement tests so that an assessment or a series of assessments are developed or modified to meet the specified criteria.
(51) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes the Strong Workforce Program, to provide funding to career technical education regional consortia made up of community college districts, as specified.
This bill would establish a K–12 component of the Strong Workforce Program. The bill would provide, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, the amount appropriated in the annual Budget Act for the K–12 component of the program to create, support, or expand high-quality career technical education programs at the K–12 level that are aligned with the workforce development efforts occurring through the program. The bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges’ office to apportion
$150,000,000 to the fiscal agent of each career technical education regional consortia, which the bill would authorize to include local educational agencies, according to specified weighted factors. The bill would require each consortium to administer a competitive grant program pursuant to these provisions, and would require an applicant to consist of specified entities and satisfy specified criteria, including that it provide matching funds for any grant funding received, as provided. The bill would require each consortium to form a K–12 Selection Committee for purposes of selecting grant recipients and would assign specified duties to the committee.
The bill would require, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, the amount appropriated in the annual Budget Act for support of the K–12 Workforce Pathway Coordinators, as defined, and the K–14 Technical Assistance Providers, as defined, to be used to establish a K–12 Workforce Pathway Coordinator within the
geographical boundaries of each community college district, except as provided, and would assign to those coordinators specified duties relating to the K–12 component of the program. The bill would also require, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, the amount appropriated in the annual Budget Act for support of the K–12 Workforce Pathway Coordinators and the K–14 Technical Assistance Providers to be used to support the activities of the K–14 Technical Assistance Providers, including, among other things, providing leadership, guidance, and technical assistance to create, support, expand, and improve career technical education opportunities for local educational agencies.
(52) The California Constitution prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the state and each local government from exceeding the appropriations limit of the entity of government for the prior year, as adjusted. Existing law defines “proceeds of
taxes” for purposes of those limits for school districts and county superintendents of schools.
This bill, for the 2013–14 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, would revise the statutory definition of “proceeds of taxes” for those purposes.
(53) Existing law requires certain funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for reimbursement for the cost of a new program or increased level of service of an existing program mandated by statute or executive order to be available as a block grant to school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education, to support specified state-mandated local programs. Existing law provides that a school district, charter school, or county office of education that submits a letter requesting funding to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and receives this block grant funding is not eligible to submit a claim for reimbursement for those specified
mandated programs or activities, including the high school exit examination, for the fiscal year in which the block grant funding is received.
This bill would remove the high school exit examination from the list of programs and activities that are authorized for block grant funding in lieu of program-specific reimbursement, as specified.
(54) This bill, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, would appropriate $697,759,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for transfer to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the State Department of Education to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, as specified. The bill would require the funds to first satisfy any outstanding claims for reimbursement of state-mandated local program costs for any fiscal year, but would authorize the governing boards of school districts, county boards of education, and governing bodies of
charter schools to expend these one-time funds for any purpose.
(55) The California Child Day Care Facilities Act provides for the licensure and regulation of child day care facilities, day care centers, and family day care homes. The act exempts from its provisions certain types of these facilities and certain programs, including, among others, a crisis nursery and extended day care programs operated by public or private schools. The act also exempts, commencing with the adoption of specified emergency regulations, or no later than July 1, 2019, whichever comes first, a California state preschool program, as defined, that meets specified conditions and operates in a school building, as defined, under contract through a local educational agency. A violation of the act is a crime.
The Child Care and Development Services Act provides a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care
and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. The act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, that include part-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children, as provided.
This bill would revise the exemption to apply to a California state preschool program operated by a local educational agency under contract with the State Department of Education and that meets specified conditions and operates in a school building. The bill would define a California state preschool program for purposes of the exemption from the California Child Day Care Facilities Act to be any classroom that is funded, in whole or in part, by funds received pursuant to specified provisions of the Child Care and Development Services Act. The bill would
require the State Department of Education to adopt new specified health and safety regulations, on or before July 1, 2019, to apply to California state preschool programs meeting the conditions for an exemption from the California Child Day Care Facilities Act. The bill would provide that a violation of these regulations is not a crime.
(56) The California Clean Energy Jobs Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 39 at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election, made changes to corporate income taxes and, except as specified, provides for the transfer of $550,000,000 annually from the General Fund to the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund for 5 fiscal years beginning with the 2013–14 fiscal year. Existing law provides for the allocation of moneys remaining in the fund after the 2017–18 fiscal year and, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, establishes the Clean Energy Job Creation Program to fund projects that create jobs
in California improving energy efficiency and expanding clean energy generation, and provides for the allocation of moneys appropriated by the Legislature to community college districts and local educational agencies for purposes of the program, including $75,000,000 to be provided to school districts and county offices of education for grants or loans for schoolbus retrofit or replacement through a program administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board.
This bill would authorize joint power authorities currently operating home-to-school transportation programs on behalf of local educational agencies to also be eligible for grants or loans for schoolbus retrofit or replacement through that program.
(57) Existing law sets forth the maximum ratios of administrative employees to each 100 teachers in the various types
of school districts, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine the reduction in state support resulting from excess administrative employees, as provided.
This bill would exempt a school district with average daily attendance of more than 400,000, as of the 2016–17 second principal apportionment, from any penalties calculated resulting from excess administrative employees for the 2018–19 fiscal year.
(58) Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district not paying the annual or monthly salaries of persons employed by the school district in 12 equal monthly payments to withhold, upon election by the individual employee, a designated amount from each payment made to that employee.
This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 to the Controller for transfer to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the State
Department of Education for purposes of the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program. The bill would authorize local educational agencies to elect to participate in the program, and would authorize a classified employee of a participating local educational agency who meets specified requirements to withhold an amount from his or her monthly paycheck during the 2019–20 school year to be paid out during the summer recess period, as provided. The bill would require participating local educational agencies to deposit the amounts withheld from the monthly paychecks of a participating classified employee in accordance with that employee’s choices in an account within its general fund, to be known as the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program Fund.
The bill would require the department to apportion funds to participating local educational agencies to provide a participating classified employee up to $1 for each $1 that a participating classified
employee has elected to have withheld from his or her monthly paychecks. The bill would require the participating local educational agency to pay the participating classified employee from the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program Fund the amounts withheld in accordance with the classified employee’s choices, plus the amount apportioned by the department that is attributable to the amount withheld from that classified employee’s paychecks during the school year, as specified.
(59) Existing law requires a local educational agency, as defined, if it expends funds for professional development for any schoolsite staff, to consider the needs of its classified school employees. Existing law authorizes professional development training for classified school employees to include specified topics.
Existing law provides that school districts and county offices of education are responsible for the
overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools, as provided.
This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 for the 2018–19 fiscal year from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to establish the Classified School Employee Professional Development Block Grant Program. The bill would require the department to apportion block grant funds to local educational agencies, defined to mean school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, based on the number of classified school employees employed by the local educational agency in the immediately preceding fiscal year. The bill would require a local educational agency to expend funds received pursuant to the program for specified purposes relating to the professional development of classified school employees, with first priority being for professional development for the implementation of school safety plans, if applicable.
(60) Existing law establishes the California-Grown Fresh School Meals Grant Program for purposes of incentivizing the purchase of California-grown food by schools and expanding the number of freshly prepared school meals offered within the state that use California-grown ingredients. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide grants to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools for these purposes. Existing law establishes the California-Grown Fresh School Meals Account in the Special Deposit Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, and authorizes the deposit of funds donated from public and private sources into the account for allocation by the Superintendent for purposes of the program.
This bill would appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for the California-Grown Fresh School Meals
Grant Program to provide grants to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools for purposes of the program.
(61) Existing law establishes the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) for the assessment of certain elementary and secondary school pupils, as provided.
This bill would exempt certain school districts, upon receipt of a waiver from the United States Department of Education, from the requirement to administer CAASPP during the 2017–18 school year.
The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for those school districts.
(62) This bill would appropriate $300,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the 2018–19 fiscal year to
update the California School Dashboard interface.
(63) Existing law requires, on or before July 1, 2014, the governing boards of school districts and county boards of education to adopt local control and accountability plans using a state template adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the local control and accountability plan to include, among other things, a description of annual goals for all pupils and specified subgroups of pupils to be achieved for each state priority, as specified, including, among other state priorities, parental involvement and school climate.
This bill would establish the Community Engagement Initiative, as provided. The bill would require the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence and a lead agency to be selected by the State Department of Education and the collaborative, with approval from the executive director of the State Board of
Education, to convene professional learning networks for purposes of improving local pupil outcomes and community engagement, as specified. The bill would require the collaborative, by January 1, 2021, and using funds provided for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, to develop and conduct a statewide training on community engagement based on, but not limited to, the findings of the professional learning networks. The bill would require the collaborative and the lead agency, by June 30, 2024, to submit a report to specified entities based on the initiative. The bill would appropriate $13,274,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation to the collaborative for the initiative.
(64) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and administer tests to assess the English language development of pupils whose primary language is a language other than English, and requires that the
tests include, but not be limited to, an assessment of achievement of these pupils in English reading, speaking, and written skills, in accordance with specified criteria.
This bill would appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, $27,075,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the development of a computer-based English Language Proficiency Assessment for California and a computer-based alternative English Language Proficiency Assessment for California for pupils with disabilities, to be available for the 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, and 2021–22 fiscal years.
(65) Existing law establishes the Educational Telecommunication Fund, moneys in which are available for expenditure upon appropriation for specified purposes relating to establishing telecommunication standards for state, county, and local educational agencies.
This bill would
appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, $716,000 from the Educational Telecommunication Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Standardized Account Code Structure system replacement project.
(66) This bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for transfer to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the Orange County Department of Education. The bill would require the Orange County Department of Education, jointly with the Butte County Office of Education, to contract with a California postsecondary educational institution to expand the state’s Multi-Tiered System of Support framework to foster a positive school climate in both academic and behavioral areas, as provided. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on the Orange County Department of Education and the Butte County Office of Education, the bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.
(67) Existing law provides funding for various career technical education programs, including regional occupational centers and programs.
This bill would appropriate $3,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation to the Southern California Regional Occupational Center for instructional and operating costs for the 2018–19 fiscal year, and would condition the receipt of this money on the Southern California Regional Occupational Center submitting an updated operational plan to the Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst.
(68) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as
specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of pupils who are English learners, foster youth, or eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as specified, served by the school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school. Existing law provides the amount of the base grant in the 2013–14 fiscal year and requires that amount to be adjusted for inflation in subsequent fiscal years, as specified.
This bill, notwithstanding that specified inflation adjustment, would require the inflation adjustment for the 2018–19 fiscal year to be 3.7% for the purposes of calculating local control funding formula targets for school districts and charter schools. The bill would also appropriate the amount of the remaining statewide local control funding formula need in the 2018–19 fiscal year, as determined by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction by a specified calculation, from the General Fund to the Superintendent and would allocate that amount to local educational agencies, as provided.
(69) This bill would appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate these funds to the Special Olympics of Northern and Southern California for purposes of specified programs.
(70) The Community Redevelopment Law authorized the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined. Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved
redevelopment agencies. Existing law requires a successor agency to, among other things, continue to make payments due for enforceable obligations, remit unencumbered balances to the county auditor-controller for distribution, and dispose of assets, as directed.
This bill would, on or before June 30, 2019, appropriate an amount to be determined by the Director of Finance from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction in augmentation of a certain 2018 budget item. The bill would make these funds available only to the extent that revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs from successor agencies are less than the estimated amount determined by the Director of Finance. The bill would require, on or before June 30, 2019, the Director of Finance to determine if the revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs from successor agencies exceed the estimated amount reflected in the
Budget Act of 2018 and, if so, would require the Director of Finance to reduce the specified appropriation in the Budget Act of 2018 by the amount of that excess.
(71) This bill would require, on or before January 30, 2019, an amount to be determined by the Director of Finance to be appropriated from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction in augmentation of a certain 2017 budget item for purposes of backfilling special education programs for fire-related property tax revenue reductions to local educational agencies in areas impacted by the wildfires that began in northern California in October 2017 and in southern California in December 2017.
The bill would require each affected county to submit to the Department of Finance a claim detailing the reductions in fire-related property tax revenues incurred. The bill would require the Department of Finance to determine the special
education program portion of the property tax reduction loss. Upon notification by the Director of Finance to the Controller of the amount needed to address the property tax shortfall, the bill would require the Controller to make those funds available within 5 days, and would require the State Department of Education to work with the Controller to allocate these funds to local educational agencies as soon as practicable.
(72) This bill would require, on or before January 30, 2019, an amount to be determined by the Director of Finance to be appropriated from the General Fund to the Controller to reimburse basic aid school districts for property tax losses incurred in the 2017–18 fiscal year as a result of the 2017 wildfires. Upon notification by the Director of Finance to the Controller of the amount needed to address the property tax shortfall, the bill would also require, on or before January 30, 2020, an amount to be determined by the
Director of Finance to be appropriated from the General Fund to the Controller to reimburse basic aid school districts for property tax losses incurred in the 2018–19 fiscal year as a result of the 2017 wildfires.
The bill would require each county to submit to the Department of Finance a countywide claim detailing the losses incurred by the basic aid school districts located in the county. The bill would require the Controller to make those funds available not sooner than 5 days after notification by the Director of Finance of the amount needed to address the property tax shortfall for the applicable year, and would require the State Department of Education to work with the Controller to allocate those funds to basic aid school districts as soon as practicable.
(73) This bill would appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of $4,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction to allocate to the San Francisco Unified School District. The bill would require the San Francisco Unified School District to use these moneys to support a facilities project at A.P. Giannini Middle School.
(74) This bill would appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate to the Sweetwater Union High School District. The bill would require the Sweetwater Union High School District to use these moneys to support a facility project at Mar Vista High School.
(75) This bill would appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, the sum of $250,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to allocate to the San Diego Unified School District. The bill would require the San Diego Unified School District to use these moneys to support the education of homeless youth, as
provided.
(76) This bill would repeal obsolete provisions, make conforming and clarifying changes, correct and update cross-references, and make other nonsubstantive changes.
(77) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
(78) Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college
districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(79) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.