BILL NUMBER: AB 2518	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dababneh

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2518, as introduced, Dababneh. School intervention: parent
empowerment.
   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, is subject to corrective action and 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 5 specified interventions.
Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement the
intervention option requested by the petition unless the local
educational agency makes a specified finding in a regularly scheduled
public hearing.
   This bill would specify that if the intervention identified in the
petition is the restart model, as specified, and the petitioners opt
to solicit charter school or educational management organization
proposals for the selection of a specific charter school or
educational management organization operator, then all parents and
legal guardians of pupils attending the school have the right to
participate in the selection of the charter school or educational
management organization operator, regardless of whether they signed
the petition. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes by
updating cross-references. By imposing additional duties on local
educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 53300 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   53300.   (a)    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)   6316(b)(7)  of
the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec.
6301 et  seq.)   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  
inclusive,  of subdivision (a) of Section 53202 or the federally
mandated alternative governance arrangement pursuant to Section
 1116(b)(8)(B)(v)   6316(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)   6316
(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. 
   (b) If the intervention identified in the petition is the restart
model, as specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section
53202, and the petitioners opt to solicit charter school or
educational management organization proposals for the selection of a
specific charter school or educational management organization
operator, all parents and legal guardians of pupils attending the
school, regardless of whether they signed the petition, shall have
the right to participate in the selection of the charter school or
educational management organization operator, including the right to
vote on the intervention proposals. 
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.