BILL NUMBER: SB 463	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Blakeslee

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2011

   An act to amend Section 42260 of the Education Code, relating to
school districts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 463, as introduced, Blakeslee. School districts: Year-Round
School Grant Program.
   Existing law establishes the Year-Round School Grant Program for
the purposes of providing financial assistance to school districts to
operate multitrack year-round educational programs. The
Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to administer the
program, and to award grants to qualifying school districts for the
establishment and operation of these programs.
   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 42260 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   42260.  (a) There is hereby established the Year-Round School
Grant Program to provide financial assistance to both school
districts implementing new multitrack year-round educational programs
and school districts that currently operate those programs.
   (b) The grant program shall be administered by the Superintendent
 of Public Instruction  . The 
superintendent   Superintendent  shall award grants
separately under this article for the implementation of multitrack
year-round school programs and for year-round operation purposes.
   (c) The Superintendent  of Public Instruction 
shall establish criteria for the selection of implementation grant
applicants to be funded. The criteria shall include, but not be
limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Severity of school district overcrowding in excess of State
Allocation Board or court-mandated pupil loading standards.
   (2) The amount of overcrowding that would be alleviated by the
implementation of multitrack year-round educational programs, as
proposed in the school district's grant application proposal.
   (3) The lack of other educationally sound alternatives to
multitrack year-round educational programs to reduce overcrowding in
the applicant school district.
   (d) For the purposes of this section, "multitrack year-round
school" means a school that the applicant  school  district
demonstrates has satisfied both of the following criteria:
   (1) The pupils are divided into three or more groups or tracks
that rotate attendance so that for a majority of the schooldays
during the school year, at least one group or track is not in
attendance at the school while all other groups or tracks are in
attendance.
   (2) The operation of the school on a multitrack year-round
calendar has increased the enrollment capacity of the school.