BILL NUMBER: AB 1811	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 5, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to amend Section 47633 of the Education Code, relating to
charter schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1811, as amended, Bonilla. Charter schools: funding.
   Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that each
charter school be provided with operational funding that is equal to
the total funding that would be available to a similar school
district serving a similar pupil population and requires the
Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually compute a
general-purpose entitlement, funded from a combination of state aid
and local funds for each charter school. Existing law requires
revenue limit funding that is computed in the general-purpose
entitlement and attributable to pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive,
to be equal to the statewide average revenue limit funding per unit
of average daily attendance received by high school districts.
   This bill instead would require the revenue limit funding
attributable to pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, that is computed
in the general-purpose entitlement for a charter school that was
under the jurisdiction of a unified school district before it
converted to charter status to equal the revenue limit funding per
unit of average daily attendance received by the unified school
district of which it was a part before it converted to charter status
 and to be adjusted in proportion to increases and decreases in
the amount of revenue limit funding received by the school district
 .
   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 47633 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   47633.  The Superintendent shall annually compute a
general-purpose entitlement, funded from a combination of state aid
and local funds, for each charter school as follows:
   (a) The Superintendent shall annually compute the statewide
average amount of general-purpose funding per unit of average daily
attendance received by school districts for each of four grade level
ranges: kindergarten and grades 1, 2, and 3; grades 4, 5, and 6;
grades 7 and 8; and, grades 9 to 12, inclusive. For purposes of
making these computations, the following conditions shall apply:
   (1) Revenue limit funding attributable to pupils in kindergarten
and grades 1 to 5, inclusive, shall equal the statewide average
revenue limit funding per unit of average daily attendance received
by elementary school districts; revenue limit funding attributable to
pupils in grades 6, 7, and 8, shall equal the statewide average
revenue limit funding per unit of average daily attendance received
by unified school districts; and revenue limit funding attributable
to pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, shall equal the statewide
average revenue limit funding per unit of average daily attendance
received by high school districts.
   (2) Revenue limit funding received by school districts shall
exclude the value of any benefit attributable to the presence of
necessary small schools or necessary small high schools within the
school district.
   (3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), for a charter school that was
under the jurisdiction of a unified school district before it
converted to charter status, revenue limit funding attributable to
pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, shall equal the revenue limit
funding per unit of average daily attendance received by the unified
school district of which it was a part before it converted to charter
status.  If the revenue limit funding the unified school
district receives increases or decreases from the amount received in
the fiscal year before the school converted to charter status, the
amount of revenue limit funding for the charter school shall be
adjusted in proportion to the increase or decrease. 
   (b) The Superintendent shall multiply each of the four amounts
computed in subdivision (a) by the charter school's average daily
attendance in the corresponding grade level ranges. The resulting
figure shall be the amount of the charter school's general-purpose
entitlement, which shall be funded through a combination of state aid
and local funds. From funds appropriated for this purpose pursuant
to Section 14002, the Superintendent shall apportion to each charter
school this amount, less local funds allocated to the charter school
pursuant to Section 47635.
   (c) General-purpose entitlement funding may be used for any public
school purpose determined by the governing body of the charter
school.