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          Bill No:  SCR 18
          Author:   Liu (D)
          Amended:  As introduced
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE RULES COMMITTEE  :  3-1, 6/8/11
          AYES:  Steinberg, Alquist, de Leon
          NOES:  Harman
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Fuller


           SUBJECT  :    Public schools:  pupil, teacher, and parent 
          surveys

           SOURCE  :     Children Now


           DIGEST  :    This resolution states the intent of the 
          Legislature to pursue every means necessary to ensure that 
          the California School Climate, Health and Learning 
          (CAL-SCHLS) survey remains viable and urges the state to 
          pursue federal funding, grants, or other sources to ensure 
          that school districts receive the necessary funding to 
          support the CAL-SCHLS.

           ANALYSIS  :    

          This resolution finds:

          1.School climate and safety are an important priority and 
            significantly contribute to, or detract from, the overall 
            success of pupils, schools, and the general well-being of 
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            our children.

          2.The California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) is an 
            anonymous, comprehensive, confidential, and self-reported 
            data collection system that addresses youth resiliency, 
            school climate, health risks, and behaviors, and is 
            administered to pupils in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11.

          3.The California School Climate Survey (CSCS) is an online 
            staff survey that provides a means to confidentially 
            obtain staff perceptions about learning and teaching 
            conditions for both general and special education, in 
            order to regularly inform decisions about professional 
            development, instruction, the implementation of learning 
            supports, and school reform.

          4.The California School Parent Survey (CSPS) assesses the 
            perceptions of parents related to school climate, parent 
            outreach, and pupil achievement, and is designed to 
            provide teachers, administrators, and other school staff 
            with information directly from parents that can be used 
            to foster positive learning and teaching environments, 
            parent involvement, and pupil achievement, health, and 
            well-being.

          5.Together, the CHKS, CSCS, and CSPS form the CAL-SCHLS 
            comprised of three interrelated surveys that secure the 
            critical information with respect to pupil, staff, and 
            parental perceptions of the teaching and learning 
            environments in California public schools.

          6.These surveys provide all of the following: a critical 
            lens into the environments and outcomes of our schools, 
            an important tool for planning, addressing, and 
            monitoring problematic conditions, a meaningful tool for 
            transparency and accountability, and an important 
            mechanism to support parental, civic, and community-based 
            engagement efforts.

          7.These surveys provide all of the following: a critical 
            lens into the environments and outcomes of our schools, 
            an important tool for planning, addressing, and 
            monitoring problematic conditions, a meaningful tool for 
            transparency and accountability, and an important 

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            mechanism to support parental, civic, and community-based 
            engagement efforts.

          8.These surveys provide all of the following: a critical 
            lens into the environments and outcomes of our schools, 
            an important tool for planning, addressing, and 
            monitoring problematic conditions, a meaningful tool for 
            transparency and accountability, and an important 
            mechanism to support parental, civic, and community-based 
            engagement efforts.

          9.Funding received pursuant to the federal Safe and 
            Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, or for tobacco use 
            prevention education, has been curtailed, and absent 
            reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary 
            Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.), the 
            collection of this critical information will no longer be 
            required.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Fiscal Com.:  No

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  6/8/11)

          Children Now (source)
          Boys & Girls Club, California Alliance
          California Family Resources Association
          California School Health Centers
          California State PTA
          Equality California
          Fight Crime Invest in Kids
          Partnership for Children and Youth
          PICO California

           ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT  :    According to the author's office, 
          "In addition to providing useful information on trends at 
          the state and county levels, the data collected also allows 
          local education agencies to measure the learning 
          environment and target interventions to improve learning 
          conditions.  Given the high correlation between academic 
          performance and learning conditions, this data is 
          especially useful to districts that wish to improve school 
          and community supports based on data."



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                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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