AB 815, as amended, Conway. School intervention: parent empowerment.
Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement one of several specified interventions for a school not identified as a persistently lowest-achieving school that, after one full school year, is subject to corrective action, as specified, and fails to meet specified criteria and has a specified percentage of parents and legal guardians of pupils sign a petition requesting the local educational agency to implement at least one of 5 specified interventions. Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement the intervention option requested by the petition unless the agency makes a specified finding in a regularly scheduled public hearing.
This bill would delete the provision excluding schools identified as persistently lowest-achieving schools, and would also make the provisions applicable to schools ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the Academic Performance Index. The bill would make technical changes by updating cross-references. By imposing additional duties on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 53300 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:
For any school that, after one full school year, is subject
4to corrective action pursuant to Section 6316(b)(7) of the federal
5Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301
6begin delete et seq.)end deletebegin insert et seq.),end insert and continues to fail to make adequate yearly
7progress, and has an Academic Performance Index (API) score of
8less than 800, or any school ranked in any of deciles 1 to 3,
9inclusive, of the API and where at least one-half of the parents or
10legal guardians of pupils attending the school, or a combination
11of at least one-half of the parents or legal guardians of pupils
12attending the
school and the elementary or middle schools that
13normally matriculate into a middle or high school, as applicable,
14sign a petition requesting the local educational agency to implement
15one or more of the four interventions identified pursuant to
16paragraphs (1) to (4),begin delete inclusiveend deletebegin insert inclusive, end insert of subdivision (a) of
17Section 53202 or the federally mandated alternative governance
18arrangement pursuant to Section 6316(b)(8)(B)(v) of the federal
19Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301
20et seq.), the local educational agency shall implement the option
21requested by the parents unless, in a regularly scheduled public
22hearing, the local educational agency makes a finding in writing
23stating the reason it cannot
implement the specific recommended
24option and instead designates in writing which of the other options
25described in this section it will implement in the subsequent school
P3 1year consistent with requirements specified in federal regulations
2and guidelines for schools subject to restructuring under Section
36316(b)(8) of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education
4Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.) and regulations and guidelines
5for the four interventions.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
7this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
8local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
9pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
104 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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