BILL NUMBER: AB 203	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley

                        JANUARY 27, 2011

   An act to amend Section 53300 of the Education Code, relating to
school intervention.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 203, as introduced, Brownley. Public schools: parent
empowerment: school intervention.
   Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement one
of several specified interventions 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 percentage
of parents and legal guardians of pupils sign a petition requesting
the local educational agency to implement at least one of the
specified interventions.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   The bill also would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish parameters for these provisions to
ensure that parents and legal guardians of pupils have access to
information regarding these provisions, and to establish a uniform
process for gathering and verifying signatures.
   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 establish parameters for the Parent
Empowerment Program to ensure that parents and legal guardians of
pupils have access to appropriate and adequate information regarding
the program and the options for reforms, and to establish a uniform
process for gathering and verifying signatures.
  SEC. 2.  Section 53300 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   53300.  For any school not identified as a persistently
lowest-achieving school under Section 53201 which, 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  and legal guardians  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  identified pursuant
to paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, of subdivision (a) of Section
53202  .