AB 943, as amended, Travis Allen. Charter schools: California Collaborative for Educational Excellence.
Existing law establishes the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to advise and assist school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving their local control and accountability plan goals, and requires individuals and entities contracted bybegin insert the fiscal agent ofend insert the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for those purposes to have expertise, experience, and a record of success in certain areas.begin delete Existing law authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to assign the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to provide advice and assistance to a charter school that, for 3 out of 4 consecutive school years, fails to improve pupil outcomes for one or more priorities identified in the school’s charter, as specified.end delete
This bill would require thebegin insert fiscal agent of theend insert California Collaborative for Educational Excellence tobegin delete give priority to a contractor withend deletebegin insert also consider, for charter schools, whether a potential contractor hasend insert a record of success in working with charter schools in improving pupilbegin delete outcomes, provided that the contractor meets specified conditions.end deletebegin insert outcomes.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
begin insertSection 52074 of the end insertbegin insertEducation Codeend insertbegin insert is amended
2to read:end insert
(a) The California Collaborative for Educational
4Excellence is hereby established.
5(b) The purpose of the California Collaborative for Educational
6Excellence is to advise and assist school districts, county
7superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving the
8goals set forth in a local control and accountability plan adopted
9pursuant to this article.
10(c) The Superintendent shall, with the approval of the state
11board, contract with a local educational agency, or consortium of
12local educational agencies, to serve as the fiscal agent for the
13California Collaborative for Educational Excellence. The
14Superintendent shall apportion funds appropriated for the California
15Collaborative for
Educational Excellence to the fiscal agent.
16(d) The California Collaborative for Educational Excellence
17shall be governed by a board consisting of the following five
18members:
19(1) The Superintendent or his or her designee.
20(2) The president of the state board or his or her designee.
21(3) A county superintendent of schools appointed by the Senate
22Committee on Rules.
23(4) A teacher appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.
24(5) A superintendent of a school district appointed by the
25Governor.
26(e) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insertAt the direction of the governing board of the California
27Collaborative for Educational Excellence, the fiscal agent shall
28contract with individuals, local educational agencies, or
29organizations with the expertise, experience, and a record of
30success to carry out the purposes of this article. The areas of
31expertise, experience, and record of success shall include, but are
32not limited to, all of the following:
33(1)
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P3 1begin insert(A)end insert State priorities as described in subdivision (d) of Section
252060.
3(2)
end delete4begin insert(B)end insert Improving the quality of teaching.
5(3)
end delete
6begin insert(C)end insert Improving the quality of school district and schoolsite
7leadership.
8(4)
end delete
9begin insert(D)end insert Successfully addressing the needs of special pupil
10
populations, including, but not limited to, English learners, pupils
11eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal, pupils in foster
12care, and individuals with exceptional needs.
13(2) For charter schools, the fiscal agent shall also consider
14whether a potential contractor has a record of success in working
15with charter schools in improving pupil outcomes.
16(f) The Superintendent may direct the California Collaborative
17for Educational Excellence to advise and assist a school district,
18county superintendent of schools, or charter school in any of the
19following circumstances:
20(1) If the governing board of a school district, county board of
21education, or governing bodybegin delete orend deletebegin insert
ofend insert a charter school requests the
22advice and assistance of the California Collaborative for
23Educational Excellence.
24(2) If the county superintendent of schools of the county in
25which the school district or charter school is located determines,
26following the provision of technical assistance pursuant to Section
2752071 orbegin delete 47607.3end deletebegin insert 47607.3,end insert as applicable, that the advice and
28assistance of the California Collaborative for Educational
29Excellence is necessary to help the school district or charter school
30accomplish the goals described in the local control and
31accountability plan adopted pursuant to this article.
32(3) If the Superintendent determines that the
advice and
33assistance of the California Collaborative for Educational
34Excellence is necessary to help the school district, county
35superintendent of schools, or charter school accomplish the goals
36set forth in the local control and accountability plan adopted
37pursuant to this article.
Section 47607.3 of the Education Code is
39amended to read:
(a) If a charter school fails to improve outcomes for
2three or more pupil subgroups identified pursuant to Section 52052,
3or, if the charter school has less than three pupil subgroups, all of
4the charter school’s pupil subgroups, in regard to one or more state
5or school priorities identified in the charter pursuant to
6subparagraph (A) of paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section
747605 or subparagraph (A) of paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of
8Section 47605.6, in three out of four consecutive school years, all
9of the following shall apply:
10(1) Using an evaluation rubric adopted by the state board
11pursuant to Section 52064.5, the chartering authority shall provide
12technical assistance
to the charter school.
13(2) The Superintendent may assign, at the request of the
14chartering authority and with the approval of the state board, the
15California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to provide
16advice and assistance to the charter school pursuant to Section
1752074. The California Collaborative for Educational Excellence
18shall give priority to a contractor with a record of success in
19working with charter schools in improving pupil outcomes,
20provided that the
contractor meets all of the conditions in
21subdivision (e) of Section 52074.
22(b) A chartering authority shall consider for revocation any
23charter school to which the California Collaborative for Educational
24Excellence has provided advice and assistance pursuant to
25subdivision (a) and about which it has made either of the following
26findings, which shall be submitted to the chartering authority:
27(1) That the charter school has failed, or is unable, to implement
28the recommendations of the California Collaborative for
29Educational Excellence.
30(2) That the inadequate performance of the charter school, based
31upon an evaluation rubric adopted pursuant to Section 52064.5, is
32either so persistent or so acute as to
require revocation of the
33charter.
34(c) The chartering authority shall consider increases in pupil
35academic achievement for all pupil subgroups served by the charter
36school as the most important factor in determining whether to
37revoke the charter.
38(d) A chartering authority shall comply with the hearing process
39described in subdivision (e) of Section 47607 in revoking a charter.
P5 1A charter school may not appeal a revocation of a charter made
2pursuant to this section.
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