BILL NUMBER: AB 429	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   An act to amend Section 52052.5 of the Education Code, relating to
the Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 429, as introduced, Brownley. The Public Schools Accountability
Act of 1999: advisory committee.
   Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
establish an advisory committee to advise on all appropriate matters
relative to the creation of the Academic Performance Index and the
implementation of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools
Program and the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. Existing
law requires the committee to make recommendations to the
Superintendent on the appropriateness and feasibility of a
methodology for generating a measurement of academic performance by
using unique pupil identifiers and annual academic achievement growth
to provide a more accurate measure of a school's academic
achievement growth over time.
   This bill would require the committee, by July 1, 2011, to make
recommendations to the Superintendent for the establishment of a
methodology for generating a measurement of academic performance
using unique pupil identifiers and for developing a longitudinally
valid assessment system in which annual academic growth can provide a
more accurate and valid measure of a school's academic achievement
growth and a pupil's academic achievement growth over time.
   This bill would provide that specific provisions of the bill would
not be implemented unless and until funds are appropriated by the
Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute.
   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 52052.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   52052.5.  (a) The Superintendent  of Public Instruction
 shall establish a broadly representative and diverse
advisory committee to advise the Superintendent  of Public
Instruction  and the  State Board of Education
  state board  on all appropriate matters relative
to the creation of the Academic Performance Index and the
implementation of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools
Program and the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. Members of
the advisory committee shall serve without compensation for terms not
to exceed two years. The  State Department of Education
  department  shall provide staff to the advisory
panel.
   (b) By July 1,  2005   2011  , the
advisory committee established pursuant to this section shall make
recommendations to the Superintendent  of Public Instruction
on   for  the  appropriateness and
feasibility   establishment  of a methodology for
generating a measurement of academic performance  by
 utilizing unique pupil identifiers for pupils in
kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and  for
developing a longitudinally valid assessment system in which 
annual academic  achievement  growth  to
  can  provide a more accurate  and valid 
measure of a school's  academic achievement growth and a pupil's
academic achievement  growth over time.  If appropriate
and feasible, the   The advisory committee shall use
the pilot study of academic growth measures, pursuant to Provision 10
of Item 6110-113-0890 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2007, in
making recommendations to the  Superintendent  of Public
Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education,
shall thereafter implement this measurement of academic performance
  for this pur   pose. The Superintendent shall
forward the recommendations of the advisory committee to the state
board, the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the
Legislature, and the Department of Finance. The Superintendent shall
include a cost estimate for each recommendation and a timeline for
implementation  . 
   (c) No recommendation made pursuant to subdivision (b), or any
other proposal to develop a longitudinally valid assessment system,
may be implemented unless and until funds are appropriated by the
Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute specifically
for that purpose.