BILL NUMBER: AB 1935	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Kim

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2016

   An act to amend Section 52065 of the Education Code, relating to
school accountability.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1935, as introduced, Kim. Local control and accountability
plans: posting in different languages.
   Existing law requires the governing board of each school district
and county board of education to adopt a local control and
accountability plan using a state template adopted by the State Board
of Education and to update their local control and accountability
plans before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires the local
control and accountability plan to include, among other things, a
description of annual goals for all pupils and specified subgroups of
pupils to be achieved for each state priority, as specified, and a
description of the specific actions the school district or county
superintendent of schools will take to achieve those goals.
   Existing law requires superintendents of school districts and
county superintendents of schools to post on the Internet Web site of
school districts or county offices of education, as appropriate,
local control and accountability plans approved by the governing
board of the school district or the county board of education, as
appropriate, and any updates or revisions to local control and
accountability plans approved by the appropriate governing bodies.
Existing law also requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction
to post links to all local control and accountability plans approved
by the governing boards of school districts and county boards of
education on the Internet Web site of the State Department of
Education.
   Existing law provides that, when 15% or more of the pupils
enrolled in a public school speak a single primary language other
than English, all notices, reports, statements, or records sent to
the parent or guardian of any such pupil by the school or school
district shall, in addition to English, be written in their primary
language, and may be responded to either in English or their primary
language.
   This bill would require these multilingual notice requirements to
apply to a local control and accountability plan or update or
revision posted to the Internet Web site of a school district, a
county of office of education, or the Superintendent of Pubic
Instruction.
   To the extent this bill would impose additional requirements on
school districts and county offices of education, it would impose a
state-mandated local program.
   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 52065 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   52065.  (a) The superintendent of a school district shall post on
the Internet Web site of the school district any local control and
accountability plan approved by the governing board of the school
district, and any updates or revisions to a local control and
accountability plan approved by the governing board of the school
 district.   distri   ct, in English
and each language required pursuant to Section 48985. 
   (b) A county superintendent of schools shall do all of the
following:
   (1) Post on the Internet Web site of the county office of
education any local control and accountability plan approved by the
county board of education, and any updates or revisions to a local
control and accountability plan approved by the county board of
 education.   education, in English and each
language required pursuant to Section 48985. 
   (2) Post all local control and accountability plans submitted by
school districts, or links to those plans, on the Internet Web site
of the county office of education.
   (3) Transmit or otherwise make available to the Superintendent all
local control and accountability plans submitted to the county
superintendent of schools by school districts and the local control
and accountability plan approved by the county board of education.
   (c) The Superintendent shall post links to all local control and
accountability plans approved by the governing boards of school
districts and county boards of  education  
education, in each language posted on the Internet Web site of the
school district or county office of education,  on the Internet
Web site of the department.
  SEC. 2.  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.