BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 1153 Page 1 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING AB 1153 (Calderon) As Amended April 20, 2015 Majority vote ------------------------------------------------------------------- |Committee |Votes |Ayes |Noes | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------+------+--------------------+----------------------| |Education |6-0 |O'Donnell, Chávez, | | | | |Kim, Santiago, | | | | |Thurmond, Weber | | | | | | | |----------------+------+--------------------+----------------------| |Appropriations |17-0 |Gomez, Bigelow, | | | | |Bloom, Bonta, | | | | |Calderon, Chang, | | | | |Daly, Eggman, | | | | |Gallagher, Eduardo | | | | |Garcia, Holden, | | | | |Jones, Quirk, | | | | |Rendon, Wagner, | | | | |Weber, Wood | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Requires the State Board of Education (SBE), by January 31, 2017, to consider revising the template for the local control AB 1153 Page 2 and accountability plan (LCAP) to include a 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: According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee: 1)General Fund administrative costs to COE 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 (1988)/General Fund 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: 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 its Internet Web site, if it has 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. 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 AB 1153 Page 3 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. Existing law provides that LEAs may use the evaluation rubrics for self-assessment and in identifying schools and districts in need of technical assistance. Accordingly, there is no requirement that districts or COEs use the evaluation rubrics on a routine, annual basis to monitor their performance. This bill provides that, if available, a school district or COE shall post its populated evaluation rubric on its Internet Web site. If the SBE revises the LCAP template to include this information, then this provision would be redundant, because LCAPs are already required to be posted online. Analysis Prepared by: Rick Pratt / ED. / (916) 319-2087 FN: 0000424