BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 1153 (Calderon) - School accountability: local control and
accountability plans: posting: evaluation rubrics.
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|Version: April 20, 2015 |Policy Vote: ED. 8 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: Yes |
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|Hearing Date: June 29, 2015 |Consultant: Jillian Kissee |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: This bill requires the State Board of Education
(Board) to consider revising the local control and
accountability plan (LCAP) template to include a section or
appendix sufficient to monitor a school district's or county
office of education's progress on outcomes related to the
evaluation rubric adopted by the Board. If the Board does not
make this revision, this bill requires the populated evaluation
rubric of a school district or county office of education to be
posted on their respective websites, if it is available.
Fiscal
Impact:
Department costs: The State Department of Education (SDE)
estimates that it would cost approximately $70,000 General
Fund to revise the LCAP template.
Mandate costs: Potential, minor state mandate costs to school
districts and county offices of education to post available
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populated evaluation rubrics, if the Board does not revise the
template. If the template is revised, potentially more
significant mandated costs could instead be incurred by school
districts and county offices of education through additional
reporting of actual progress. These additional reporting
costs would ultimately depend on the revised template adopted
by the Board. (Proposition 98)
Background: AB 97 (Committee on Budget, Chapter 47, Statutes of 2013) and
subsequent legislation created the Local Control Funding Formula
(LCFF), which consolidated most of the state's categorical
programs with general purpose revenue limit funding, with
additional funding to be phased in over the coming years. One
of the main principles behind the LCFF is that English learners
and low-income students require more attention and resources in
the classroom than students who do not have these same
challenges.
In addition to the LCFF, the 2013 Budget established a new
system for school accountability. Under the new system, school
districts, county offices of education, and charter schools are
required to complete an LCAP. The LCAP must include a
district's annual goals in each of the following eight state
priority areas: 1) student achievement; 2) student engagement;
3) other student outcomes; 4) school climate; 5) implementation
of the Common Core State Standards; 6) course access; 7) basic
services; and 8) parental involvement. Districts are required
to consult with stakeholders on their plans and hold at least
two public hearings before adopting or updating their LCAP.
The LCFF legislation also requires that on or before October 1,
2015, the Board adopt evaluation rubrics for the following
purposes: 1) to assist a school district, county office of
education, or charter school in evaluating its strengths,
weaknesses, and areas that require improvement; 2) to assist a
county superintendent of schools in identifying school districts
and charter schools in need of technical assistance; and 3) to
assist the Superintendent of Public Instruction in identifying
school districts for which state intervention is warranted. The
evaluation rubrics are required to reflect a holistic,
multidimensional assessment of school district and individual
school site performance and to address all of the state
priorities described in the LCAP. Additionally, as part of the
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evaluation rubrics, the Board is required to adopt standards for
school district and individual school site performance and
expectation for improvement with regard to each of the state
priorities.
Proposed Law:
This bill requires the Board to consider a revision to the
LCAP template to include a section or appendix sufficient to
monitor actual progress with respect to the Board-adopted
standards and expectations for improvement, as specified.
This bill also requires the superintendent of a school district
to post on the school district's website its populated
evaluation rubric, if it is available, unless the Board revises
the template to include a section or appendix to monitor actual
progress on outcomes. Similarly, this bill requires a county
superintendent of schools to post on the website of the county
office of education its populated evaluation rubric, if
available.
Staff
Comments: This bill would set forth in law two possible
scenarios for tracking local educational agency progress on
outcomes. First, the Board is required to consider revising the
LCAP template to include a section or appendix to monitor actual
progress in the context of the Board-adopted standards and
expectations for improvement which are currently in development.
If the Board does not make this revision, this bill requires
school districts and county offices of education to post
populated evaluation rubrics, if available, on their respective
websites.
If the Board decides to revise the LCAP template pursuant to
this bill, the SDE estimates costs of about $70,000 to redirect
existing staff. Activities required to update the template
would include, staff time to collaborate with the Board to
determine revisions, attorney staff time to review the revised
template, updating the electronic LCAP and associated user
manual, implementation of the regulations process to remove the
existing template from regulations and adopting the revised
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template via the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, and providing
technical assistance to the field on the template modifications.
Existing law requires that if any activities related to the
implementation of the LCAP provisions and regulations are found
to be a state reimbursable mandate, funding provided to local
educational agencies through the Local Control Funding Formula
must be used to directly offset any mandated costs. To the
extent the Commission on State Mandates determines LCAP
activities are a state reimbursable mandate, this bill could
potentially expand the mandated costs. Costs would be related
to posting populated evaluation rubrics online, if they are
available, or if the template is revised, additional reporting
required of local educational agencies in their LCAP. The
extent of additional reporting would depend on the Board-adopted
revised template.
Staff notes that Chapter 13, Statutes of 2015 (AB 104), the
education omnibus trailer bill, extends the date by which the
Board must adopt evaluation rubrics by one year to October 1,
2016. The SDE has indicated that the work required by this bill
would likely take one year from the date the Board takes action
to adopt the rubrics.
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