BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 2306| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: AB 2306 Author: Frazier (D) Amended: 8/17/16 in Senate Vote: 21 SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 9-0, 6/29/16 AYES: Liu, Block, Hancock, Huff, Leyva, Mendoza, Monning, Pan, Vidak SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: 7-0, 8/11/16 AYES: Lara, Bates, Beall, Hill, McGuire, Mendoza, Nielsen ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 76-0, 4/28/16 (Consent) - See last page for vote SUBJECT: Juvenile court school pupils SOURCE: Author DIGEST: This bill requires a school district to exempt a student who transfers from a juvenile court school any time after completion of grade 10 from local graduation requirements that are in addition to the coursework required by the State. Senate Floor Amendments of 8/17/16 correct a drafting error to correctly reference the Division of Juvenile Justice. ANALYSIS: AB 2306 Page 2 Existing law: 1) Requires students to successfully complete specified courses as a condition of graduating from high school, and authorizes school districts to impose coursework requirements that are in addition to those prescribed by the State. (Education Code § 51225.3) 2) Requires school districts to exempt a student in foster care or a student who is homeless, who transfers between schools any time after the completion of the student's second year of high school, from all locally-imposed graduation requirements. (EC § 51225.1(a)) 3) Excludes students from this exemption if the school district makes a finding that the student is reasonably able to complete the local graduation requirements in time to graduate by the end of the student's fourth year of high school. (EC § 51225.1(a)) 4) Requires school districts to notify, within 30 calendar days of the date the foster youth transfers into a school, the student, the person holding educational rights, and the student's social worker or probation officer of the availability of the exemption and whether the student qualifies. (EC § 51225.1(d)) 5) Requires school districts to notify, within 30 calendar days of the date the homeless youth transfers into a school, the student, the person holding educational rights, and the local educational agency (LEA) liaison for homeless youth of the availability of the exemption and whether the student qualifies. (EC § 51225.1(d)) 6) Requires schools to continue to apply the exemption for a foster youth after the termination of the court's jurisdiction, and for a homeless student if the student is no longer homeless, while the student is enrolled in that school or if the student transfers to another school or school district. (EC § 51225.1(j)) 7) Establishes juvenile court schools, administered by county boards of education, to provide public schools in juvenile halls, juvenile homes, day centers, juvenile ranches, AB 2306 Page 3 juvenile camps, regional youth educational facilities or in any group home housing 25 or more youth. (EC § 48645, et seq.) 8) Requires each school district and county office of education to accept for credit full or partial coursework satisfactorily completed by a student while attending a public school, juvenile court school, or non-public school or agency. (EC § 48645.5) 9) Requires the school district of residence to issue a diploma of graduation from the school the student last attended, if a student completes the graduation requirement of his or her school district of residence while being detained. Existing law authorizes, in the alternative, the county superintendent of schools to issue the diploma. (EC § 48645.5) 10)Authorizes a complaint of non-compliance with the above to be filed with the LEA under the Uniform Complaint Procedures. This bill: 1)Requires a school district to exempt a former juvenile court school student who transfers between schools any time after the completion of the student's second year of high school from all coursework and other requirements adopted by the governing board that are in addition to the statewide coursework requirements. 2)Provides that a school district is not required to exempt a former juvenile court school student from local graduation requirements if the school district makes a finding that the student is reasonably able to complete the locally-imposed graduation requirements in time to graduate by the end of the student's fourth year of high school. 3)Requires the exemption to continue to apply after the termination of the court's jurisdiction over the student while he or she is enrolled in school or if the student transfers to another school or school district. 4)Extends existing requirements related to determining if a student is reasonably able to complete the local graduation requirements within the student's fifth year of high school, AB 2306 Page 4 notification of eligibility for the exemption, notification of how the exemption may affect admission to postsecondary education and the prohibition on transferring a student solely to be eligible for the exemption. 5)Requires the county office of education to issue a diploma of graduation to a student who completes the statewide coursework requirements for graduation while attending a juvenile court school, and prohibits the county office of education from requiring the student to complete coursework or other requirements that are in addition to the statewide coursework requirements. 6)Extends to former juvenile court school students existing provisions that prohibit school districts or county offices of education from requiring specified youth to retake a course if the student has satisfactorily completed the course, and that require enrollment in the same or equivalent course when partial credit is awarded. 7)Defines "former juvenile court school pupil" as a student who, upon completion of the student's second year of high school, transfers to a school district from a juvenile court school, excluding a school district operated by the Division of Juvenile Justice of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. 8)States legislative intent that students in juvenile court schools have a rigorous curriculum that includes a course of study preparing them for high school graduation and career entry and fulfilling the requirements for admission to the University of California and California State University. Comments Parity. This bill extends policies and procedures for graduation requirements and completed coursework to students who transfer from a juvenile court school that are currently provided to students who are in foster care or who are homeless. FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.:YesLocal: Yes AB 2306 Page 5 According to the Senate Appropriations Committee: Mandate: Unknown reimbursable state mandate costs, potentially in the hundreds of thousands, related to expanding the areas in which complaints may be made to LEAs under the Uniform Complaint Procedures. Likely minor costs for a county office of education to award a diploma for juvenile court school students fulfilling statewide graduation requirements. (Proposition 98) The California Department of Education indicates costs to implement this bill are minor. SUPPORT: (Verified8/18/16) None received OPPOSITION: (Verified8/18/16) None received ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 76-0, 4/28/16 AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Patterson, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Rendon AB 2306 Page 6 NO VOTE RECORDED: Chávez, Daly, Mathis, Olsen Prepared by:Lynn Lorber / ED. / (916) 651-4105 8/18/16 17:28:26 **** END ****