BILL NUMBER: AB 1840 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 10, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Alejo
(Principal coauthor: Senator Cannella)
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
An act to add Section 52055.741 to the Education Code, relating to
education funding.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1840, as amended, Alejo. Quality Education Investment Act of
2006: class size requirements: King City Union School District.
Existing law, the Quality Education Investment Act of 2006,
authorizes school districts and other local educational agencies to
apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to receive funding
to allocate to elementary and secondary schools and charter schools
that are ranked in either decile 1 or 2 on the 2005 Academic
Performance Index for use in performing various specified measures to
improve academic instruction and pupil academic achievement. The act
imposes certain program requirements on each funded school,
including class size requirements, as specified.
This bill would deem the King City Union School District to have
met those class size requirements for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal
years.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the King City Union 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. The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:
(a) The King City Union School District was placed in a unique
fiscal and administrative position before the 2009-10 and 2010-11
fiscal years and responded by making budget reductions that were
necessary to avoid insolvency.
(b) The King City Union School District received a negative
certification for its second interim report of the 2007-08 fiscal
year and for its first and second interim reports of the 2008-09
fiscal year. A negative certification is assigned when a school
district will be unable to meet its financial obligations for the
remainder of the current fiscal year or for the subsequent fiscal
year.
(c) On May 5, 2008, the Monterey County Office of Education
declared the King City Union School District a "lack of going concern"
to indicate that the school district's fiscal health was suspect or
was deemed to have a risk of insolvency and the county office of
education placed a fiscal advisor and a fiscal expert on the school
district's site to assist with a fiscal recovery plan.
(d) In the fiscal review of the King City Union School District
completed on August 13, 2008, the County Office Fiscal Crisis and
Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) recommended that the school
district consider a reduction in force for management, certificated,
and classified employees in the 2008-09 and 2009-10 fiscal years
because of a continued decline in pupil enrollment and reduction in
state revenues.
(e) Facing insolvency, the King City Union School District
implemented budget cuts that were consistent with the recommendations
made by the Monterey County Office of Education fiscal advisor and
the FCMAT, including a reduction in force beginning in 2009 that
resulted in increased class sizes.
(f) In July 2009, the King City Union School District severed its
joint administration agreement with the King City Joint Union High
School District and made budget cuts in order to avoid insolvency and
the costs related to insolvency that would be imposed on the state
and on the school district's pupils.
(g) Also in July 2009, the King City Joint Union High School
District itself moved closer to insolvency and entered into state
trusteeship after receiving an emergency loan from the state.
(h) As a result of its budget reductions, the King City Union
School District was able to move out of negative certification by its
first interim report of the 2009-10 fiscal year and has not since
received a negative certification.
(i) During the time that the King City Union School District
successfully warded off fiscal insolvency, the school district
continued to provide quality instruction to its pupils and to meet
all conditions placed on the district and its schools under the
Quality Education Investment Act of 2006 (Article 3.7 (commencing
with Section 52055.700) of Chapter 6.1 of Part 28 of Division 4 of
Title 2 of the Education Code).
SECTION 1. SEC. 2. Section 52055.741
is added to the Education Code, to read:
52055.741. For the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal years, the King
City Union School District is deemed to have met the requirements for
class size set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section
52055.740.
SEC. 2. SEC. 3. The Legislature
finds and declares that a special law is necessary and that a general
law cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of
Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique
circumstances faced by the King City Union School District, including
the separation in the administrative relationship with the South
Monterey County High School District (formerly known as the King
City Joint Union High School District) and the enhanced impact
of the decrease in Quality Education Investment Act of 2006 (Article
3.7 (commencing with Section 52055.700) of Chapter 6.1 of Part 28 of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code) funds due to the high
percentage of the King City Union School District's schools and
pupils covered by the act.