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          Date of Hearing:  May 13, 2015


                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS


                                 Jimmy Gomez, Chair


          AB  
          1153 (Calderon) - As Amended April 20, 2015


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          Urgency:  No  State Mandated Local Program:  YesReimbursable:   
          Yes


          SUMMARY:


          This bill requires the State Board of Education (SBE), by  
          January 31, 2017, to consider revising the template for the  
          local control and accountability plan (LCAP) to include a  








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          section or appendix sufficient to monitor actual progress on  
          outcomes related to the evaluation rubric adopted by the SBE.   
          Also requires each school district and county office of  
          education (COE) to post on its Internet Web site its populated  
          evaluation rubric, if available. 


          FISCAL EFFECT:


          1)General Fund administrative costs to CDE and SBE staff of  
            approximately $70,000 to revise the LCAP template and the  
            instructions to the template.  These costs include legal  
            review, stakeholder and public meetings, and technology  
            services workload related to revising the LCAP electronic  
            template. 



          2)Unknown, likely minor, Proposition 98/GF reimbursable state  
            mandated costs for school districts and COEs to post the  
            populated evaluation rubric on the district or COE's website,  
            to the extent a website is available.  
          COMMENTS:


          Purpose. LCAPs and the evaluation rubrics provide accountability  
          under the local control funding formula (LCFF).  School  
          districts and COEs are required to identify specific performance  
          goals in their LCAPs, then, in the updated LCAP for the  
          subsequent year, report on the extent to which they achieved the  
          prior year goals.  Existing law requires each district and COE  
          to develop its LCAP using the SBE-adopted template and post it  
          on their Internet Web site, if they have one.  Meanwhile, the  
          SBE is required to adopt standards for achievement and  
          expectations for improvement in each of the eight state  
          priorities.  However, the goals in each LCAP are locally set and  
          need not reflect the state level standards and expectations  
          adopted by the SBE.  








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          This bill requires the SBE, by January 31, 2017, to consider a  
          revision to the LCAP template to include a section or appendix  
          to monitor each district's or COEs progress with respect to the  
          SBE-adopted standards and expectations for improvement.  If the  
          SBE adopts such a revision, then the LCAP of each district and  
          COE will reflect how well it has performed relative to state  
          goals as well as to its own locally-set goals.  


          Analysis Prepared by:Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081