BILL NUMBER: SB 1422	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Romero

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act relating to education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1422, as introduced, Romero. Race to the Top.
   The federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
provides for a competitive education grant program that is known as
the Race to Top Program and is designed to encourage and reward
states that are implementing specified educational objectives.
   Existing law states the Legislature's intent to implement
education reforms to, among other things, ensure that California is
positioned to be successful in the Race to the Top competition and
authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the President
of the State Board of Education to enter into a memorandum of
understanding with a local educational agency for the purposes of
implementing the Race to the Top program. The governing board of a
school district, county office of education, or the governing body of
a charter school or its equivalent to implement, is required, except
as specified, to implement for any school identified by the
Superintendent as persistently lowest-achieving, one of 4
interventions for turning around lowest-achieving schools described
in federal regulations and guidelines for the Race to the Top
program. A persistently lowest-achieving school implementing
specified intervention models is authorized to participate in a
school-to-school partnership program by working with a mentor school
that has successfully transitioned from a low-achieving school to a
higher-achieving school.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation with respect to the Race to the Top program.
   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 with respect to the Race to the Top program.