BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: April 25, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Julia Brownley, Chair
AB 2662 (Committee on Education) - As Amended: April 18, 2012
SUBJECT : Education
SUMMARY : Makes technical non-controversial revisions to the
Education Code. Specifically, this bill :
1)Specifies that an action to lapse a school district is also
subject to plans and recommendations of the county committee
on school district reorganization (Section 2).
2)Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
reassume, either directly or through an appointed
administrator, all the legal rights, duties, and powers of the
governing board of a school district if the district violates
specified improvement plans during the period of the trustee's
appointment (Section 3).
3)Specifies that for the purpose of the provisions establishing
a process for repaying an apportionment significant audit
exception or to pay a penalty arising from an audit exception,
"local educational agency" includes charter schools (Section
4).
4)Specifies that if a county office of education (COE) receives
a qualified certification from the governing board of a school
district when it determines a negative certification should
have been filed, the county superintendent of schools shall
change the certification, as appropriate (Section 6).
5)Corrects an obsolete citation in the provision requiring an
adjustment of revenue limits for the 1995-96 fiscal year and
fiscal years thereafter by the amount of increased or
decreased employer contributions to the Public Employees'
Retirement System resulting from the enactment of Chapter 330
of the Statues of 1982 (Section 7).
6)Requires the policy regarding promotion and retention of
pupils between specified grades to provide to a person holding
the right to make educational decisions for the pupil, as
specified, an opportunity to consult with the teacher or
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teachers responsible for the decision to promote or retain the
pupil, and requires that this person have an opportunity,
under certain circumstances, to discuss a teacher's
recommendation with the teacher and the principal before any
final determination of pupil retention or promotion is made
(Section 8).
7)Corrects a cross reference in the provisions establishing the
Annual Report on Dropouts in California (Section 9).
8)Specifies that the liability of a parent or guardian of any
minor whose willful misconduct results in the injury or death
to any specified individuals shall be adjusted annually for
inflation. Requires the annual adjustment to be rounded to
the nearest $100 (Section 10).
9)Deletes the requirement that a school has not been awarded
federal startup funds to initiate a school breakfast program
or a summer food service program as eligibility for limited
financial assistance to encourage the startup of School
Breakfast Programs and expansion into all qualified schools
(Section 11).
10)Expands the authority to approve supplemental instructional
materials other than those approved by the State Board of
Education to COEs (Section 12).
11)Makes a conforming change in the Revenue and Taxation Code
regarding basic aid funding (Section 13).
12)Makes non-substantive, technical corrections (Sections 1 and
5).
EXISTING LAW assigns various duties to state and local
educational agencies and governs the operation of public
schools.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : This bill is the annual K-12 education clean-up bill
that makes various non-controversial revisions to statute. The
majority of the provisions were identified by the California
Department of Education and make technical corrections to the
statute, such as correcting a section citation, grammatical
corrections, or striking obsolete language. By tradition,
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objection to any provision by the agency affected, the
Department of Finance, or any of the four legislative caucuses
prevents that provision from being included in this bill.
Committee amendment . Section 8 of the bill, which authorizes a
person holding the right to make educational decisions for a
pupil an opportunity to consult with the teacher or teachers
responsible for the decision to promote or retain the pupil, was
inadvertently left in the April 18th amendments to the bill.
Staff recommends striking Section 8 of the bill.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Sophia Kwong Kim / ED. / (916) 319-2087