BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 20, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Richard Gordon, Chair
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(Weber) - As Introduced July 8, 2015
SUBJECT: Dropout Recovery Month.
SUMMARY: Declares the month of August 2015 as Dropout Recovery
Month, and would state that the Legislature intends 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)The America's Promise Alliance found that pupils drop out of
high school because they are overwhelmed by the effects of
toxic living conditions such as homelessness, violent
surroundings, abuse or neglect, and catastrophic family health
events.
2)The 2013 and 2014 Building a Grad Nation reports found that
the nation cannot achieve its graduation goals without
increasing California's graduations rate for Latino and
African American pupils.
3)The Alliance for Excellent Education concluded after research
that if only one-half of the dropouts from a single year were
to earn a diploma, the economic benefits to California would
include an additional $1.4 billion in earnings annually for
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the pupils and an annual increase in state and local tax
revenues of $167 million.
4)Research shows that reengaged learners demonstrate higher
levels of civic engagement, contribute to the cultural
strength of their communities, and are significantly less
likely to be unemployed, on public assistance, or arrested for
a violent crime.
5)Successful dropout recovery high schools utilize multiple
strategies, including accelerated learning pedagogies,
competency-based instruction, and alternative rate cohorts and
these schools retain high-quality staff committed to
transforming their pupils from being at risk of failure to
being at promise of success.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
California Association of Latino Superintendents and
Administrators
California Charter School Association
California County Superintendents Educational Services
Association
County School Facilities Consortium
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California State Conference, NAACP
John Muir Charter Schools
Kids Alliance, John Burton Foundation
Los Angeles Unified School District
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Riverside County Office of Education
San Diego Unified School District
School Energy Coalition
SIATech
Opposition
None on file
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Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800