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Bill No: SB 379
Author: Hancock (D)
Amended: 8/30/13
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 9-0, 4/24/13
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Hancock, Hueso, Huff,
Jackson, Monning
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 7-0, 5/6/13
AYES: De Le�n, Walters, Gaines, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
SENATE FLOOR : 34-0, 5/13/13 (Consent)
AYES: Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Block, Cannella, Corbett,
Correa, De Le�n, DeSaulnier, Emmerson, Evans, Fuller,
Galgiani, Hancock, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson,
Knight, Lara, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Monning, Nielsen, Padilla,
Pavley, Roth, Steinberg, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Gaines, Price, Walters, Vacancy,
Vacancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 75-0, 9/3/13 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : School attendance: early and middle college
programs
SOURCE : University Preparatory High School in Visalia
DIGEST : This bill reduces the minimum instructional minute
requirement for charter schools that operate as an early college
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high school (ECHS) or middle college high school (MCHS) for the
purpose of calculating the school's average daily attendance
(ADA) (general purpose funding), as specified.
Assembly Amendments (1) delete language that references minutes
for purposes of yearly time requirements for charter schools and
insert language that specifies percentages of yearly time
requirements for charter schools, and (2) make technically and
clarifying changes.
ANALYSIS : ECHS are small, autonomous schools that blend high
school and college into a coherent educational program. MCHS
programs are also small, autonomous schools that blend high
school and college into a coherent educational program but have
a career preparation/work experience component. Both programs
focus on students from communities underrepresented in
postsecondary education, first generation college goers, and
English learners.
Existing law specifies that the minimum school day in any high
school is 240 minutes. However, evening high schools, ECHS,
MCHS, regional occupational centers, opportunity schools and
opportunity classes, continuation high schools, and
occupationally organized vocational training programs are exempt
from this 240 minute minimum day requirement. The minimum
school day for pupils engaged in vocational training and work
experience or those attending school in a regional occupational
center or program is 180 minutes per day.
Existing law also provides that a day of attendance in grades 11
and 12 is 180 minutes if the pupil is also enrolled part time in
classes of the California State University (CSU) or the
University of California (UC). A day of attendance for a pupil
who is also a special part-time student enrolled in a community
college and who will receive academic credit upon satisfactory
completion of enrolled courses is 180 minutes. For purposes of
computing ACA for these pupils, existing law specifies that the
180 minute minimum is computed as three-quarters of a full 240
minute day.
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.
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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 CSU or the 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/she is required to attend school for a
minimum of 67% of the charter school instructional time
requirement, as specified.
4.States the requirements of this measure to be subject to local
education agencies' 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.
6.Provides that the bill's provisions do not change the
requirement for charter schools to offer a minimum number of
annual instructional minutes, as specified.
7.Provides that for a pupil enrolled in a charter school
operated ECHS or MCHS who does not satisfy the attendance and
enrollment requirements as specified, attendance shall be
claimed by the charter school.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 9/3/13)
University Preparatory High School in Visalia (source)
California Charter Schools Association Advocates
Sequoias Community College District
OPPOSITION : (Verified 9/3/13)
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Charter School Development Center
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 75-0, 9/3/13
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth
Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray,
Grove, Hagman, Harkey, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine,
Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina,
Melendez, Mitchell, Morrell, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez,
Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting,
Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada,
John A. P�rez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Donnelly, Hall, Roger Hern�ndez, Vacancy,
Vacancy
PQ:ej 9/3/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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