BILL NUMBER: AB 1935	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Kim

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2016

   An act to amend  Section 52065   Sections
47606.5 and 52065  of the Education Code, relating to school
accountability.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1935, as amended, Kim. Local control and accountability
 plans:   plans and charter school goals and
actions updates:  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. 
   Existing law requires charter schools to update the charter
schools' goals and actions to achieve those goals annually. 

   This bill would require, each year, a charter school to post on
its Internet Web site the annual update of goals and actions in
English and, if 15% or more of the pupils enrolled in the charter
school speak a single primary language other than English, in each of
those primary languages, thereby imposing 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 47606.5 of the  
Education Code   is amended to read: 
   47606.5.  (a) On or before July 1, 2015, and each year thereafter,
a charter school shall update the goals and annual actions to
achieve those goals identified in the charter pursuant to
subparagraph (A) of paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 47605
or subparagraph (A) of paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section
47605.6. The annual update shall be developed using the template
adopted pursuant to Section 52064 and shall include all of the
following:
   (1) A review of the progress toward the goals included in the
charter, an assessment of the effectiveness of the specific actions
described in the charter toward achieving the goals, and a
description of changes to the specific actions the charter school
will make as a result of the review and assessment.
   (2) A listing and description of the expenditures for the fiscal
year implementing the specific actions included in the charter as a
result of the reviews and assessment required by paragraph (1).
   (b) The expenditures identified in subdivision (a) shall be
classified using the California School Accounting Manual pursuant to
Section 41010.
   (c) For purposes of the review required by subdivision (a), a
governing body of a charter school may consider qualitative
information, including, but not limited to, findings that result from
school quality reviews conducted pursuant to subparagraph (J) or
paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 52052 or any other
reviews.
   (d) To the extent practicable, data reported pursuant to this
section shall be reported in a manner consistent with how information
is reported on a school accountability report card.
   (e) The charter school shall consult with teachers, principals,
administrators, other school personnel, parents, and pupils in
developing the annual update. 
   (f) Each year, a charter school shall post on its Internet Web
site the annual update of goals and actions developed pursuant to
subdivision (a) in English and, if 15 percent or more of the pupils
enrolled in the charter school speak a single primary language other
than English, in each of those primary languages. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   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, 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, 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, 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.   SEC. 3.   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.