BILL NUMBER: AB 1435	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member V. Manuel Perez

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 52052.5 of the Education Code, relating to
public school accountability.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1435, as introduced, V. Manuel Perez. Public school
accountability.
   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, by July 1, 2005, 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
growth over time.
   This bill would delete the provisions relating to the
recommendations that were required to be submitted by July 1, 2005,
and instead require the advisory committee, by July 1, 2010, to make
recommendations to the Superintendent regarding the inclusion of the
California English Language Development Test (CELDT) and the
feasibility of including English learner proficiency as part of the
Academic Performance Index (API). The bill would require the
Superintendent, with the approval of the state board, to include
CELDT results and English language proficiency levels and growth of
those levels in the API.
   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 shall provide
staff to the advisory panel.
   (b) By July 1,  2005   2010  , the
advisory committee established pursuant to this section shall make
recommendations to the Superintendent  of Public Instruction
on the appropriateness and feasibility 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 annual academic achievement growth to provide a
more accurate measure of a school's growth over time. If appropriate
and feasible, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the
approval of the State Board of Education, shall thereafter implement
this measurement of academic performance   regarding the
inclusion of the California English Language Development Test
(CELDT) and the feasibility of including English learner proficiency
as part of the Academic Performance Index (API). The Superintendent,
with the approval of the state board, shall include CELDT results and
English language proficiency levels and growth of those levels in
the API  .