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Bill No: SB 236
Author: Pavley (D), et al.
Amended: 6/26/13
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
SENATE FLOOR : 36-0, 5/20/13 (Consent)
AYES: Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Block, Calderon, Cannella,
Corbett, Correa, De León, DeSaulnier, Evans, Fuller, Gaines,
Galgiani, Hancock, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson,
Knight, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Monning, Nielsen, Padilla, Pavley,
Roth, Steinberg, Torres, Walters, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Emmerson, Lara, Price, Vacancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 8/19/13 - See last page for vote
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
(MUSD) to operate a four-day school week, beginning in the
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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.
Assembly Amendments add language which updates the funding
calculations to reflect changes made by the implementation of
the local control funding formula (LCFF) and make technical and
clarifying changes.
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:
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.
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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 MUSD 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 specified. The intent of
the bill is to only apply to high schools that have a middle
college program. Specifically, this bill:
1.Authorizes the State Board of Education (SBE) to waive the
five-consecutive-day operating requirements for a middle
college program that operates on a four-day school week,
provided that the MUSD meets the minimum time requirements for
a middle college program.
2.Specifies that if a school in the MUSD operating a four-day
school week fails to achieve its API target, the authority of
that school to operate on a four-day school week shall be
permanently revoked beginning with the following school year.
3.Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to
reduce the MUSD's LCFF allocation by amounts the MUSD would
have received in instructional time incentive funding,
adjusted for cost-of-living since the inception of the
incentive, if the MUSD does not maintain 180 days in a school
year and provide the instructional time required under
existing law.
4.Specifies that if a small school with between 11 and 99 valid
Standardized Testing and Reporting Program test scores
operating on a four-day school week fails to achieve its API
growth target for two consecutive years, the authority of that
school to operate on a four-day school week shall be
permanently revoked beginning with the following school year.
5.Specifies that if the MUSD operates one or more schools on a
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four-day school week, the MUSD shall submit a report to the
California Department of Education and the Senate and Assembly
Education Committees by January 15, 2018. The report shall
include, but not necessarily be limited to, all of the
following:
A. Programs the school district offered on the fifth school
day and their participation rates.
B. If the four-day school week schedule resulted in fiscal
savings.
C. Impact on overall attendance of the schools operating a
four-day school week.
D. Programs for which the SBE waived minimum time and
five-consecutive-day requirements 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
statistics, especially on the day on which school would
otherwise be in session.
F. Information on the API for every year a school in the
MUSD operated on a four-day school week. The information
shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the base
and growth API of each school that operated on a four-day
school week and whether that school met the API growth
targets.
G. Specific outcomes for pupils attending a school
operating on a four-day school week including, but not
limited to, attendance rates, graduation rates, college
entrance and attendance rates, and employment rates of
pupils who do not attend college.
1.Authorizes the MUSD operating one or more schools on a
four-day school week to claim a day of attendance for the
pupils enrolled in a middle college high school operating on a
four-day school week.
2.Specifies that upon a determination that the MUSD equals or
exceeds its LCFF target, the MUSD shall offer 180 days or more
of instruction per year, and shall meet specified minimum
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minute requirements.
3.Becomes inoperative on June 30, 2018, and is repealed on
January 1, 2019, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes
operative on or before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends the
dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, there is no
additional cost to the state General Fund (GF). There may be
potential GF/Proposition 98 savings if the MUSD's LCFF
allocation is reduced (at the discretion of the SPI) due to the
MUSD not meeting instructional minute and day requirements. In
the 2011-12 fiscal year, the MUSD received a total of $35.4
million in revenue limit funding (general purpose), which
equaled approximately $5,403 per average daily attendance (ADA).
Under full implementation of the LCFF, the MUSD is expected to
receive approximately $8,547 per ADA.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/20/13)
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.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 8/19/13
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier,
Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell,
Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden,
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Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mitchell, Morrell,
Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Pan, Patterson, Perea,
Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting,
Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada,
John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Olsen, V. Manuel Pérez, Vacancy, Vacancy
PQ:ej 8/20/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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