BILL NUMBER: AB 886	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Daucher

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2001

   An act to add Section 52056.6 to the Education Code, relating to
school accountability.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 886, as introduced, Daucher.  School accountability:  Academic
Performance Index.
   Existing law establishes the Public Schools Accountability Act of
1999 under which an Academic Performance Index (API) is required to
be developed to measure the performance of schools and a statewide
API performance target is required to be adopted.  Existing law
requires the adoption of expected annual percentage growth targets
for all schools.  Existing law requires the State Board of Education
to establish a Governor's Performance Award Program as part of the
Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 to provide monetary and
nonmonetary awards to schools that meet or exceed API performance
growth targets and demonstrate comparable improvement in academic
achievement by all numerically significant ethnic and
socioeconomically disadvantaged subgroups within schools.
   This bill would establish an incentive program for school
districts maintaining grade 7 or grade 8, or both, under which a
school district that exceeds its annual API growth target by 50%
every year in which it participates in the program would receive the
statewide average base revenue limit per unit of average daily
attendance for high school districts as long as it continues to
participate in the incentive program.  A school district that fails
to exceed its annual API growth target by 50% would be ineligible to
participate in the program in the next school year and would not
receive the incentive funding but may elect to participate in the
year following the next school year.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 52056.6 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   52056.6.  (a) A school district maintaining grade 7 or grade 8, or
both, may elect to participate in the incentive program set forth in
this section.
   (b) A school district that elects to participate in the incentive
program set forth in this section shall exceed its annual API growth
target by 50 percent every year in which it participates in the
program.
   (c) A school district that exceeds its annual API growth target by
50 percent shall receive the statewide average base revenue limit
per unit of average daily attendance for high school districts as
long as it continues to participate in the incentive program set
forth in this section.
   (d) If a school district fails to exceed its annual API growth
target by 50 percent, it may not participate in the program in the
next school year and will not receive the incentive set forth in
subdivision (c), but may elect to participate in the year following
the next school year.