BILL NUMBER: AB 2319 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 22, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 28, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bonilla
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 60130) to Chapter
1 of Part 33 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
relating to school finance.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2319, as amended, Bonilla. School finance: Innovation,
Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund.
Existing law requires the Academic Content Standards Commission to
develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt or reject,
academic content standards in language arts and mathematics that are
internationally benchmarked and built toward college and career
readiness by high school graduation, and requires at least 85% of
these standards to be the common core academic content standards
developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative consortium or
any association or related interstate collaboration, except as
specified.
This bill would establish the Innovation, Training, and Common
Core Implementation Fund Act, to be implemented if funds are received
in the annual Budget Act or another statute, as specified. The bill
would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate
funds for the 2014-15 fiscal year to local educational agencies
, as defined, on the basis of an equal amount per pupil based on the
prior year's enrollment for specified purposes relating to the
integration of common core academic content standards in schools,
including, among others, the professional development of teachers,
administrators, and paraprofessional educators. The bill would
require a local educational agency that receives funds to meet
specified requirements, including reporting detailed expenditure
information to the State Department of Education, and would require
the department to summarize and submit the information to the
appropriate budget subcommittees and policy committees of the
Legislature on or before July 3, 2016.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Article 8 (commencing with Section 60130) is added to
Chapter 1 of Part 33 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
to read:
Article 8. Innovation, Training, and Common Core
Implementation Fund
60130. This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund Act.
60131. (a) For purposes of implementing the common core academic
content standards adopted pursuant to Sections 60605.8, 60605.85, as
that section read on June 30, 2014, and 60811.3, as that section read
on June 30, 2013, there is hereby established the Innovation,
Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund. It is the intent of
the Legislature that local educational agencies use funds allocated
pursuant to subdivision (b) to support the integration of common core
academic content standards in instruction for kindergarten and
grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for purposes of establishing quality
instructional programs for all pupils.
(b) For the 2014-15 fiscal year, subject to subdivision (d), the
Superintendent shall allocate funds to local educational agencies on
the basis of an equal amount per pupil based on the prior
year year's enrollment. The allocated
funds shall be available for encumbrance through the 2015-16 fiscal
year.
(c) A local educational agency shall expend funds allocated
pursuant to this section for any of the following purposes:
(1) Professional development for teachers, administrators, and
paraprofessional educators that is aligned to the common core
academic content standards adopted as specified in subdivision (a).
(2) Integration of the common core academic content standards
through technology-based instruction for purposes of improving the
academic performance of pupils, including, but not limited to,
administering computer-based assessments.
(3) Infrastructure upgrades to increase Internet bandwidth.
(4) Science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics
(STEAM) programs.
(5) Career technical education.
(6)
(4) Instructional materials aligned to the common core
academic content standards adopted pursuant to Sections 60605.8,
60605.85, as that section read on June 30, 2014, and 60811.3, as that
section read on June 30, 2013, including, but not limited to,
supplemental instructional materials as provided in Sections
60605.86, 60605.87, and 60605.88, as those sections read on June 30,
2014.
(d) As a condition of receiving funds allocated pursuant to this
section, the governing board or body of the local educational agency
shall do both of the following:
(1) Develop and adopt a plan delineating how funds allocated
pursuant to this section shall be spent. The plan shall be explained
in a regularly scheduled public meeting of the governing board or
body of the local educational agency before its adoption in a
subsequent regularly scheduled public meeting.
(2) On or before January 1, 2016, report detailed expenditure
information to the department, including, but not limited to,
specific purchases made and the number of teachers, administrators,
or paraprofessional educators that received professional development.
The department shall determine the format for this report.
(e) The department shall summarize the information reported
pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) and shall submit the
summary to the appropriate budget subcommittees and policy committees
of the Legislature on or before July 3, 2016.
(f) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under
subdivision (e) is inoperative on January 1, 2019, pursuant to
Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
60132. For purposes of this article, "local educational agency"
means a school district, county office of education, or charter
school.
60133. This article shall not be implemented unless funding is
provided for the Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation
Fund in the annual Budget Act or another statute.