BILL NUMBER: AB 1811	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 3, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 5, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to amend Section 47660 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 general purpose entitlement of
a charter school that is established through the conversion of an
existing public  high  school within a unified school
district on or after January 1, 2013, to be calculated based on the
amount of the actual unrestricted revenues expended per unit of
average daily attendance for that school in the year prior to its
conversion to, and operation as, a charter school, adjusted as
specified, and commencing with the 2013-14 fiscal year, based on the
prior fiscal year allocation.
   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 47660 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   47660.  (a) For purposes of computing eligibility for, and
entitlements to, general purpose funding and operational funding for
categorical programs, the enrollment and average daily attendance of
a sponsoring local educational agency shall exclude the enrollment
and attendance of pupils in its charter schools funded pursuant to
this chapter.
   (b) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), and commencing with the
2005-06 fiscal year, for purposes of computing eligibility for, and
entitlements to, revenue limit funding, the average daily attendance
of a unified school district, other than a unified school district
that has converted all of its schools to charter status pursuant to
Section 47606, shall include all attendance of pupils who reside in
the unified school district and who would otherwise have been
eligible to attend a noncharter school of the school district, if the
school district was a basic aid school district in the prior fiscal
year, or if the pupils reside in the unified school district and
attended a charter school of that school district that converted to
charter status on or after July 1, 2005. Only the attendance of the
pupils described by this paragraph shall be included in the
calculation made pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (h) of
Section 42238.
   (2) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), for the 2005-06 fiscal year
only, for purposes of computing eligibility for, and entitlements to,
revenue limit funding, the average daily attendance of a unified
school district, other than a unified school district that has
converted all of its schools to charter status pursuant to Section
47606 and is operating them as charter schools, shall include all
attendance of pupils who reside in the unified school district and
who would otherwise have been eligible to attend a noncharter school
of the unified school district if the pupils attended a charter
school operating in the unified school district  prior to
  before  July 1, 2005. Only the attendance of
pupils described by this paragraph shall be included in the
calculation made pursuant to Section 42241.3. The attendance of the
pupils described by this paragraph shall be included in the
calculation made pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (h) of
Section 42238.
   (c) (1) For the attendance of pupils specified in subdivision (b),
the general-purpose entitlement for a charter school that is
established through the conversion of an existing public school
within a unified school district on or after July 1, 2005, but before
January 1, 2010, shall be determined using the following amount of
general-purpose funding per unit of average daily attendance, in lieu
of the amount calculated pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section
47633:
   (A) The amount of the actual unrestricted revenues expended per
unit of average daily attendance for that school in the year prior to
its conversion to, and operation as, a charter school, adjusted for
the base revenue limit per pupil inflation increase adjustment set
forth in Section 42238.1, if this adjustment is provided, and also
adjusted for equalization, deficit reduction, and other state
general-purpose increases, if any, provided for the unified school
district in the year of conversion to, and operation as a charter
school.
   (B) Commencing with the 2013-14 fiscal year, the general-purpose
entitlement shall be determined based on the amount per unit of
average daily attendance allocated in the prior fiscal year adjusted
for the base revenue limit per pupil inflation increase adjustment
set forth in Section 42238.1, if this adjustment is provided, and
also adjusted for equalization, deficit reduction, and other state
general-purpose increases or decreases, if any, provided for the
unified school district in that fiscal year.
   (2) This subdivision shall not apply to a charter school that is
established through the conversion of an existing public  high
 school within a unified school district on or after January 1,
2010, but on or before December 31, 2012, which instead shall receive
general-purpose funding pursuant to Section 47633. This paragraph
does not preclude a charter school or unified school district from
agreeing to an alternative funding formula.
   (d) The general purpose entitlement of a charter school that is
established through the conversion of an existing public  high
 school within a unified school district on or after January 1,
2013, shall be calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision
(c).
   (e) Commencing with the 2005-06 fiscal year, the general-purpose
funding per unit of average daily attendance specified for a unified
school district for purposes of paragraph (7) of subdivision (h) of
Section 42238 for a school within the unified school district that
converted to charter status on or after July 1, 2005, shall be deemed
to be the amount computed pursuant to subdivision (c).
   (f) A unified school district that is the sponsoring local
educational agency as defined in subdivision (j) of Section 47632 of
a charter school that is subject to paragraphs (1) and (2) of
subdivision (c) shall certify to the Superintendent the amount
specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) prior to the approval
of the charter petition by the governing board of the school
district. This amount may be based on estimates of the unrestricted
revenues expended in the fiscal year prior to the school's conversion
to charter status and the school's operation as a charter school,
provided that the amount is recertified when the actual data becomes
available.
   (g) For the purposes of this section, "basic aid school district"
means a school district that does not receive from the state an
apportionment of state funds pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section
42238.
   (h) A school district may use the existing Standardized Account
Code Structure and cost allocation methods, if appropriate, for an
accounting of the actual unrestricted revenues expended in support of
a school pursuant to subdivision (c).
   (i) For purposes of this section and Section 42241.3, "operating"
means that pupils are attending and receiving instruction at the
charter school.