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          ASSEMBLY THIRD READING


          AB  
          1153 (Calderon)


          As Amended  April 20, 2015


          Majority vote


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          |Committee       |Votes |Ayes                |Noes                  |
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          |Education       |6-0   |O'Donnell, Chávez,  |                      |
          |                |      |Kim, Santiago,      |                      |
          |                |      |Thurmond, Weber     |                      |
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          |Appropriations  |17-0  |Gomez, Bigelow,     |                      |
          |                |      |Bloom, Bonta,       |                      |
          |                |      |Calderon, Chang,    |                      |
          |                |      |Daly, Eggman,       |                      |
          |                |      |Gallagher, Eduardo  |                      |
          |                |      |Garcia, Holden,     |                      |
          |                |      |Jones, Quirk,       |                      |
          |                |      |Rendon, Wagner,     |                      |
          |                |      |Weber, Wood         |                      |
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          SUMMARY:  Requires the State Board of Education (SBE), by January  
          31, 2017, to consider revising the template for the local control  








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          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  








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          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