BILL NUMBER: AB 1848	CHAPTERED  05/29/02

	CHAPTER  49
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  MAY 29, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  MAY 29, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 16, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 7, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Diaz
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Alquist, Aroner, and Cardoza)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Costa and Morrow)

                        JANUARY 28, 2002

   An act to add Section 54204 to the Education Code, relating to
school desegregation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1848, Diaz.  School desegregation:  Targeted Instructional
Improvement Grants.
   Existing law combines the funding for court-ordered desegregation
programs and for voluntary integration programs to form the Targeted
Instructional Improvement Grant Program and requires a school
district receiving these funds to expend them to fund the costs of
any court-ordered desegregation program if the order exists and is
still in force or to provide instructional improvement for the lowest
achieving pupils in the district.
   This bill would, notwithstanding this provision, authorize a
school district or multidistrict consortium or collaborative to
expend the funds to continue operating a voluntary or court-ordered
desegregation program that was established before the enactment of
the Targeted Instructional Improvement Grant Program, including a
court-ordered program that the district continues operating after the
court order establishing the program is dissolved.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 54204 is added to the Education Code, to read:

   54204.  Notwithstanding Section 54203, a school district, or
multidistrict consortium or collaborative, receiving funds pursuant
to this chapter may expend the funds to continue operating a
voluntary or court-ordered desegregation program that was established
before the enactment of this chapter, including a court-ordered
program that the district continues operating after the court order
establishing the program is dissolved.