BILL NUMBER: SB 1270	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Romero

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 53300 of the Education Code, as added by
Section 2 of Chapter 3 of the Statutes of the Fifth Extraordinary
Session of 2010, relating to public schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1270, as introduced, Romero. Public schools: parent
empowerment.
   Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement one
of several specified reforms for a school not identified as a
persistently lowest achieving school that, after one full school
year, fails to meet specified criteria and has a specified amount of
parents and guardians of pupils sign a petition requesting the local
educational agency to implement at least on fo the alternative
governance arrangements.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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.  Section 53300 of the Education Code, as added by
Section 2 of Chapter 3 of the Statutes of the Fifth Extraordinary
Session of 2010, is amended to read:
   53300.  For any school not identified as a persistently
lowest-achieving school under Section 53201  which 
 ,   that  after one full school year, is
subject to corrective action pursuant to paragraph (7) of Section
1116(b) of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20
U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.)  and   , 
continues to fail to make adequate yearly progress, and has an
Academic Performance Index score of less than 800, and where at least
one-half of the parents or legal guardians of pupils attending the
school, or a combination of at least one-half of the parents or legal
guardians of pupils attending the school and the elementary or
middle schools that normally matriculate into a middle or high
school, as applicable, sign a petition requesting the local
educational agency to implement one or more of the four interventions
identified pursuant to paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive of
subdivision (a) of Section 53202 or the federally mandated
alternative governance arrangement pursuant to Section 1116(b)(8)(B)
(v) of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C.
Sec. 6301 et seq.), the local educational agency shall implement the
option requested by the parents unless, in a regularly scheduled
public hearing, the local educational agency makes a finding in
writing stating the reason it cannot implement the specific
recommended option and instead designates in writing which of the
other options described in this section it will implement in the
subsequent school year consistent with requirements specified in
federal regulations and guidelines for schools subject to
restructuring under Section 1116(b)(8) of the federal Elementary and
Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.) and regulations
and guidelines for the four interventions.