BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SB 379
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 379 (Hancock)
As Amended August 6, 2013
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :34-0
EDUCATION 7-0 APPROPRIATIONS 16-0
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|Ayes:|Buchanan, Olsen, Chávez, |Ayes:|Gatto, Harkey, Bigelow, |
| |Gonzalez, Nazarian, | |Bocanegra, Bradford, Ian |
| |Weber, Williams | |Calderon, Campos, Eggman, |
| | | |Gomez, Hall, Holden, |
| | | |Linder, Pan, Quirk, |
| | | |Wagner, Weber |
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SUMMARY : Reduces the minimum instructional minute requirement
for charter schools that operate as an early college high school
(ECHS) or middle college high school (MCHS) for the purpose of
calculating the school's average daily attendance (ADA) (general
purpose funding). Specifically, this bill :
1)Requires a charter that operates as an ECHS or MCHS to offer
at least 80% of its instructional time at the schoolsite.
Further requires an eleventh or twelfth grade pupil to attend
the school for a minimum of 50% of the instructional time
required for charter schools enrolling pupils in grades 9-12,
if the pupil is also enrolled part-time at the California
State University (CSU) or the University of California (UC),
as specified.
2)Extends the minimum instructional time requirements above to a
pupil enrolled at a charter school that operates as an ECHS or
MCHS who is also a special part-time student enrolled at a
community college, as specified.
3)Provides that if a pupil enrolled at a charter school
operating as an ECHS or MCHS is not enrolled at a CSU, UC, or
community college, he or she is required to attend school for
a minimum of 67% of the charter school instructional time
requirement, as specified.
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4)Requires the requirements of this measure to be subject to
local education agencies' (LEAs) annual fiscal and compliance
audits.
5)Defines an ECHs as a partnership between a charter or
noncharter secondary school and a local community college, the
CSU, or the UC that allow pupils to earn a high school diploma
and up to two years of college credit in four years or less.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, no additional General Fund/Proposition 98 costs to
implement this measure. As long as the charter school operating
as an ECHS or MCHS meets the minimum instructional time
requirements of this measure, it will receive its general
purpose funding. Presumably, the state is currently paying full
ADA funding to educate these pupils.
COMMENTS : SB 1316 (Hancock), Chapter 67, Statutes of 2012,
established the existing 180-minute per day minimum attendance
requirement for early college high schools and middle college
high schools operated by school districts. Otherwise, a minimum
day is 240 minutes. SB 1316 passed the Legislature last year
with no "no" votes. It was assumed that SB 1316 also applied to
charter schools. According to the author's office however,
communications from Legislative Council after the bill was
chaptered indicated that it may not apply to charter schools.
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that charter schools have
the same options as noncharter schools.
Analysis Prepared by : Rick Pratt / ED. / (916) 319-2087
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