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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 236
Author: Pavley (D), et al.
Amended: 5/8/13
Vote: 27 - Urgency
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 9-0, 4/3/13
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Hancock, Hueso, Huff,
Jackson, Monning
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 7-0, 4/29/13
AYES: De León, Walters, Gaines, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
SUBJECT : Four-day school week: Moorpark Unified School
District
SOURCE : Moonpark Unified School District
DIGEST : This bill authorizes high schools offering a middle
college program within the Moorpark Unified School District to
operate a four-day school week, beginning in the 2013-14 fiscal
year, if the school district complies with existing minimum
instructional time requirements and meet their Academic
Performance Index (API) growth targets, as specified. The
intent of the bill is to only apply to high schools that have a
middle college program. This bill sunsets January 1, 2019.
ANALYSIS : Existing law authorizes nine school districts to
operate on a four-day school week, provided the school district
meet various criteria, including but not limited to:
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1.Provides that participating school districts may only operate
four-day school weeks if they reach mutual agreement to the
operation in a memorandum of understanding with their
collective bargaining units.
2.Requires a school site council to be involved in the planning
and evaluation of a four-day school week.
3.Requires a participating school district to provide on an
annual basis not less than 560 hours of instructional time for
kindergarten, not less than 700 hours for grades one, two, and
three, and not less than 845 hours for grades four through 12.
4.Prohibits a school day from exceeding eight hours and a school
week from being less than four days.
5.Authorizes the establishment of middle college high schools.
The goal of the middle college high school is to select
at-risk students who are performing below their academic
potential and place them in an alternative high school located
on a community college, in order to reduce the likelihood of
dropping out. The specific design of a middle college high
school may vary depending on the circumstances of the
community college or school district. The basic elements of
the middle college high school shall include, but not be
limited to, the following:
A. A curriculum that focuses on college and career
preparation.
B. A reduced adult-student ratio.
C. Flexible scheduling to allow for work internships,
community service experience, and interaction with
community college student role models.
D. Opportunities for experiential internships, work
apprenticeships, and community service.
This bill authorizes high schools offering a middle college
program within the Moorpark Unified School District to operate a
four-day school week, beginning in the 2013-14 fiscal year, if
the school district complies with existing minimum instructional
time requirements and meet their API growth targets, as
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specified. The intent of the bill is to only apply to high
schools that have a middle college program. Specifically, this
bill:
1.Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to reduce
the base revenue limit for the Moorpark Unified School
District if the district operates high schools offering a
middle college program on a four-day week and the pupils are
provided fewer than 180 days, or fewer than the minimum number
of minutes of instruction for each grade level, of
instruction.
2.Permanently revokes the authority of a high school offering a
middle college program to operate a four-day week if a small
school with between 11 and 99 valid Standard Testing and
Reporting Program test scores fails to achieve its API growth
target for two consecutive years. This bill revokes this
authority beginning with the school year following the second
consecutive year the school failed to achieve its API growth
rate.
3.Requires the Moorpark Unified School District, if it operates
any high schools offering a middle college program on a
four-day week pursuant to this bill, to submit a report to the
California Department of Education and the Senate and Assembly
Education Committees by January 15, 2018. This bill requires
the report to include:
A. Programs the district offered on the fifth school day
and their participation rates.
B. Whether the four-day school week schedule resulted in
any fiscal savings.
C. Impact on overall attendance of the schools operating a
four-day school week.
D. Programs for which the State Board of Education (SBE)
waived requirements regarding operation for a minimum
amount of time and for five consecutive days, and the
operational and educational effects of the programs if they
operated at less time than required.
E. The impact of the four-day school week on crime
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statistics, especially on the fifth day when school is not
in operation.
F. Information on the API for every year a school in the
Moorpark Unified School District operated on a four-day
week, including but not limited to:
(1) The base and growth API of each school
that operated a four-day week.
(2) Whether that school met the API growth
targets.
1.Authorizes the SBE to waive existing requirements to operate
any school on a four-day week.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
This bill is not expected to result in new costs to the state,
as it does not change the Moonpark United School District's
current state apportionment.
SUPPORT : (Verified 5/8/13)
Moonpark Unified School District (source)
Moorpark College
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office, the
traditional five-day school week is not conducive to Moorpark
Unified School District's "middle college" program. The
traditional five-day school week currently required by statute
is not conducive to the advanced pacing of the Middle College
program. Typically, four-day school weeks have been implemented
as a form of budget control. However, allowing Moorpark Unified
School District to convert this one program to a four-day school
week would provide needed flexibility for an academically
intense middle college curriculum.
PQ:ej 5/8/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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