Amended in Assembly June 30, 2016

Amended in Assembly June 16, 2016

Amended in Senate March 17, 2016

Senate Bill No. 911

Introduced by Senator Hertzberg

(Coauthors: Senators Block, Glazer, and McGuire)

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bigelow, Cristina Garcia, and Waldron)

January 26, 2016

An act to amend Section 33384 of, and to repeal Section 33385 of, the Education Code, relating to American Indian education programs.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 911, as amended, Hertzberg. California American Indian education centers.

Existing law, to be repealed on January 1, 2017, provides for the establishment of a California American Indian education center by any tribal group or incorporated American Indian association to meet specified objectives, and further provides for the administration of grants, upon application, by the State Department of Education for those purposes in accordance with specified provisions. Existing law requires begin insert each center to annually submit specified data to the department that reflects each center’s ability to meet its stated objectives, and requires end insert the department, on or before January 1, 2011, and again on or before January 1, 2016, to report consolidated results for all California American Indian education centers, provide information required to evaluate the results, and make recommendations for program improvement.

This bill would instead require begin insert each center to submit data that reflects the center’s progress toward meeting its stated objectives and any other objectives chosen by the center. The bill would require end insert the department to report the information on or before January 1, 2021, and every 5 years thereafter, and would specify that the information shall be reported to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would also delete the January 1, 2017, repeal date.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 33384 of the Education Code is amended
to read:

33384.  

(a) (1) Each center shall annually submit a report to
the department that includes appropriate data, presented in a format
developed jointly with the department, that reflects each center’s
begin delete ability to meet end delete begin insert progress toward meeting end insert its stated objectives,
begin delete measure end delete begin insert including end insert pupil academic performance, begin delete and meets end delete begin insert meeting end insert
the continued educational and cultural needs of the community
that the center begin delete serves. end delete begin insert serves, and any other objectives chosen by
the center. end insert

(2) On or before January 1, 2021, and every five years thereafter,
the department shall report all of the following information to the
appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature:

(A) Consolidated results for all begin delete centers. end delete begin insert centers, consistent with
federal law regarding the privacy of pupil information. end insert

(B) Information required to evaluate the consolidated results.

(C) Recommendations for program improvement.

(b) The centers shall maintain sound fiscal policies. The
department shall provide technical assistance and training to the
centers in order to assist the centers to maintain sound fiscal
policies. The department may require an annual program audit,
however, if the department deems it fiscally unsound for the centers
to provide an annual audit, a fiscal review shall suffice.

(c) The department shall provide technical assistance and
professional development to the directors of the California
American Indian education centers throughout the year that shall
include timely documented responses and professional guidance
meant to improve center programs.

SEC. 2.  

Section 33385 of the Education Code is repealed.