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          Date of Hearing:   July 1, 2013

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
                    SCR 50 (Hueso) - As Introduced:  June 4, 2013

           SENATE VOTE  :   39-0
           
          SUBJECT  :   Dropout Recovery Week.

           SUMMARY  :   Declares the week of August 4, 2013, to August 10,  
          2013, inclusive, to be Dropout Recovery Week and would state the  
          Legislature's intent to encourage the support of dropout  
          recovery high schools with creative teaching strategies,  
          alternative assessments, and adequate resources.  Specifically,  
           this resolution  makes the following legislative findings:

          1)Research suggests that fewer than 73 percent of 9th grade  
            pupils in California, and in some school districts fewer than  
            50 percent, graduate from high school.

          2)The Alliance for Excellent Education has done research and  
            concludes that if only one-half of the dropouts from a single  
            year were to earn a diploma, the economic benefits to  
            California would be staggering: those recovered dropouts would  
            earn an additional $1.4 billion each year, increase home sales  
            by $4.5 billion during their careers, support an additional  
            8,700 jobs to the midpoint of their careers, and increase  
            state and local tax revenues by $167 million annually.

          3)There are dropout recovery high schools in California that  
            provide significant social, economic, and academic benefits to  
            their pupils and to California's population as a whole by  
            reenrolling over 23,000 former dropouts.

          4)Successful dropout recovery high schools utilize multiple  
            strategies, including state-of-the-art technology, career  
            technical education to reach a variety of learning modalities,  
            accelerated learning pedagogies, competency-based, rather than  
            seat-time-based, instruction, and open entry and open exit  
            enrollment; and these schools attract and retain high-quality  
            staff committed to meeting the instructional needs of the  
            whole pupil and transforming them into successful students.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   None








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           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          Association of California School Administrators
          County School Facilities Consortium
          Government Strategies, Inc.
          Los Angeles County Office of Education
          MVM Strategy Group


           
            Opposition 
           
          None on file

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800