California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1099

Introduced by Assembly Member Olsen

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Travis Allen, Bigelow, Chang, Chávez, Dahle, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Grove, Harper, Jones, Lackey, Linder, Mayes, Melendez, Wagner, Waldron, and Wilk)

February 27, 2015

An act to amend Sections 52061 and 52067 of, and add Section 44664.5 to, the Education Code, relating to school accountability.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1099, as introduced, Olsen. School accountability: local control and accountability plans: teacher evaluations.

(1)  Existing law required, on or before July 1, 2014, the governing boards of school districts and county boards of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan using a template adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to update its local control and accountability plan before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires an update to include, among other things, a listing and description of the expenditures for the fiscal year, as specified.

This bill would instead require that the annual update to a school district’s local control and accountability plan include a listing and description of the expenditures at the school district level and by schoolsite for the fiscal year, as specified. The bill would also require that the annual update to a county board of education’s local control and accountability plan include a listing and description of the expenditures at the county level and by schoolsite for the fiscal year, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(2) Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to establish standards of expected pupil achievement at each grade level in each area of study and to evaluate and assess certificated employee performance on a continuing basis as it reasonably relates to the progress of pupils toward the established standards and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments, the instructional techniques and strategies used by the employee, the employee’s adherence to curricular objectives, and the establishment and maintenance of a suitable learning environment, within the scope of the employee’s responsibilities.

This bill would require the superintendent of a school district and a county superintendent of schools to make available to the public, and post on its Internet Web site, if it has one, specified information relating to the evaluation of teachers and principals. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 44664.5 is added to the Education Code,
to read:

44664.5.  

(a) The superintendent of a school district shall make
available to the public, and post on the Internet Web site of the
school district, if it has one, all of the following:

(1) An easily understandable explanation of how the evaluation
of certificated teaching staff is conducted, including, but not limited
to, all blank evaluation forms, all procedures to be used for the
evaluation of certificated teachers contained in the current
collective bargaining agreement, how evaluations include the
progress of pupils toward the locally adopted standards of expected
pupil achievement at each grade level in each area of study, and,
if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as
measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.

(2) Aggregate data on the number of certificated teachers at
each schoolsite that receive satisfactory or unsatisfactory
evaluations, unless the posting of this data would reveal personally
identifiable information.

(3) Whether or not the school district has adopted an evaluation
system for school principals, and how it compares to the standards
set forth in Sections 44670 and 44671.

(b) A county superintendent of schools shall make available to
the public, and post on the Internet Web site of the county office
of education, if it has one, all of the following:

(1) An easily understandable explanation of how the evaluation
of certificated teaching staff is conducted, including, but not limited
to, all blank evaluation forms, all procedures to be used for the
evaluation of certificated teachers contained in the current
collective bargaining agreement, how evaluations include the
progress of pupils toward the locally adopted standards of expected
pupil achievement at each grade level in each area of study, and,
if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as
measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.

(2) Aggregate data on the number of certificated teachers at
each schoolsite that receive satisfactory or unsatisfactory
evaluations, unless the posting of this data would reveal personally
identifiable information.

(3) Whether or not the county office of education has adopted
an evaluation system for school principals, and how it compares
to the standards set forth in Sections 44670 and 44671.

SEC. 2.  

Section 52061 of the Education Code is amended to
read:

52061.  

(a) On or before July 1, 2015, and each year thereafter,
a school district shall update the local control and accountability
plan. The annual update shall be developed using a template
developed pursuant to Section 52064 and shall include all of the
following:

(1) A review of any changes in the applicability of the goals
described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 52060.

(2) A review of the progress toward the goals included in the
existing local control and accountability plan, an assessment of
the effectiveness of the specific actions described in the existing
local control and accountability plan toward achieving the goals,
and a description of changes to the specific actions the school
district will make as a result of the review and assessment.

(3) A listing and description of the expenditures begin insert at the school
district level and by schoolsite end insert for the fiscal year implementing
the specific actions included in the local control and accountability
plan and the changes to the specific actions made as a result of the
reviews and assessment required by paragraphs (1) and (2).

(4) A listing and description of expenditures begin insert at the school district
level and by schoolsite end insert for the fiscal year that will serve the pupils
to whom one or more of the definitions in Section 42238.01 apply
and pupils redesignated as fluent English proficient.

(b) The expenditures identified in subdivision (a) shall be
classified using the California School Accounting Manual pursuant
to Section 41010.

SEC. 3.  

Section 52067 of the Education Code is amended to
read:

52067.  

(a) On or before July 1, 2015, and each year thereafter,
a county board of education shall update the local control and
accountability plan. The annual update shall be developed using
a template developed pursuant to Section 52064 and shall include
all of the following:

(1) A review of any changes in the applicability of the goals
described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 52066.

(2) A review of the progress toward the goals included in the
existing local control and accountability plan, an assessment of
the effectiveness of the specific actions described in the existing
local control and accountability plan toward achieving the goals,
and a description of changes to the specific actions the county
office of education will make as a result of the review and
assessment.

(3) A listing and description of the expenditures begin insert at the county
level and by schoolsite end insert for the fiscal year implementing the specific
actions included in the local control and accountability plan as a
result of the reviews and assessment required by paragraphs (1)
and (2).

(4) A listing and description of expenditures begin insert at the county level
and by schoolsite end insert for the fiscal year that will serve the pupils to
whom one or more of the definitions in Section 42238.01 apply
and pupils redesignated as fluent English proficient.

(b) The expenditures identified in subdivision (a) shall be
classified using the California School Accounting Manual pursuant
to Section 41010.

SEC. 4.  

If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.