BILL ANALYSIS Ó
AB 2259
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Date of Hearing: April 13, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
AB
2259 (Medina) - As Introduced February 18, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill extends, from January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2020, a
requirement that the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI)
and the State Board of Education (SBE) allow no more than 10
dropout recovery high schools to report the results of an
individual pupil growth model as part of the alternative
accountability system for schools or any successor system.
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FISCAL EFFECT:
Ongoing administrative costs of approximately $104,000 GF if 10
schools submit a growth model for approval. To date, no models
have been submitted. If CDE were to approve a growth model, the
department would need to review performance indicators, compile
data, and display results on the CDE website.
COMMENTS:
1)Purpose. Dropout recovery high schools serve students whose
skills are generally far below grade-level, and enter and exit
high school on an irregular schedule. Traditional
accountability systems use annual "point in time" measures to
gauge the performance of schools. This does not provide useful
data for dropout recovery schools. To get a more accurate
picture of student and school achievement, current law
authorizes the state to instead use an individual pupil growth
model, which measures student growth over time relative to
grade level content standards, using nationally normed
assessments.
The CDE has not yet certified an individual pupil growth model
authorized by current law. The School for Integrated Academics
and Technologies (SIATech) is sponsoring this bill to extend
the sunset on these provisions of law to ensure that an
individual growth model strategy remains an available option
while the SBE and the Legislature complete deliberations on
appropriate accountability measures.
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2)New state accountability system. The SBE is in the process of
designing a new accountability system for traditional schools,
built on the foundation of the Local Control Funding Formula
(LCFF). The SBE also intends to align this new system with
the requirements of the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act
(ESSA). Under current law, the SBE must adopt evaluation
rubrics by October 1, 2016. It is likely the SBE will
complete their work on this new accountability system for
traditional schools before designing an alternative
accountability system for dropout recovery schools.
Analysis Prepared by:Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916) 319-2081