BILL NUMBER: AB 2005	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Arambula

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act relating to school districts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2005, as introduced, Arambula. School districts.
   Existing law establishes school districts as the local
governmental agencies that are responsible for managing and directing
the operation of public schools. Existing law provides that each
school district is under the control of a board of school trustees or
a board of education. Existing law requires the governing board of
each school district to prescribe and enforce rules not inconsistent
with law, or with the rules prescribed by the State Board of
Education, for its own government.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would reaffirm the autonomy of school districts as
separate local government entities and the autonomy of the governing
board and superintendent of a school district to control and manage
the operations of the district, as specified.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would reaffirm the autonomy of school districts as
separate local governmental entities and the autonomy of the
governing board and superintendent of a school district to control
and manage the operations of the district, including, but not limited
to, all of the following:
   (a) The education of pupils in the district.
   (b) Setting policy for the district.
   (c) Controlling and managing school facilities.
   (d) Hiring and firing employees subject to state and federal labor
laws and any collective bargaining agreements.
   (e) The management and oversight of the district's finances.