AB 1672, as introduced, Holden. Pupil attendance: truancy.
Existing law authorizes the establishment of county and local school attendance review boards, and authorizes a school district to refer a pupil to a school attendance review board or the probation department for, among other things, truancy. Existing law, under specified circumstances, authorizes a school attendance review board or probation officer to direct the county superintendent of schools to request a petition on behalf of the pupil in the juvenile court of the county. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to adopt rules and regulations to require appropriate officers and employees of the school district to gather and transmit to the county superintendent of schools the number and types of referrals to school attendance review boards and of requests for petitions to the juvenile court.
This bill would also require the information to be transmitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and would expand the information required to be gathered and submitted to include, among other things, the number and percentage of chronic absentees in the school district, the number of pupils referred to a school attendance review board who improved their attendance, and the number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to community services, as specified. The bill would require the information to be disaggregated by specified subgroups, including gender, ethnicity, and foster youth status. The bill would require a county office of education to make available on its Internet Web site, if one is available, certain reports and information received from school attendance review boards. By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies, 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 48273 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert The governing board of each school district shall
4adopt rules and regulations to require the appropriate officers and
5employees of thebegin insert schoolend insert district to gather and transmit to the county
6superintendent of schoolsbegin delete the number and types of referrals to begin insert
and the
7school attendance review boards and of requests for petitions to
8the juvenile court pursuant to Section 48263.end delete
9Superintendent all of the following information:end insert
10(1) The number of pupils enrolled in the school district that the
11school attendance review board represents.
12(2) The number of chronic absentees, as defined in Section
1360901, in the school district that the school attendance review
14board represents.
15(3) The percentage of chronic absentees, as defined in Section
1660901, in the school district that the school attendance review
17board represents.
18(4) The number of pupils in the school district referred to a
19school-level meeting, such as a student attendance review team
20or a student success team.
21(5) The number of pupils in the school district referred to a
22school attendance review board meeting.
P3 1(6) The number of pupils referred to a
school attendance review
2board who improved their attendance by at least 50 percent during
3the following semester or trimester after attending the school
4attendance review board meeting.
5(7) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to
6the district attorney, city prosecutor, or probation department for
7mediation or prosecution following a school attendance review
8board meeting.
9(8) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to
10the community services referenced in Section 48320 following a
11school attendance review board meeting.
12(9) The number of pupils referred to alternative education
13placement following a school attendance review board meeting.
14(b) The information listed in subdivision (a) shall be
15disaggregated and submitted by the following subgroups:
16(1) English learner status.
end insertbegin insert17(2) Foster youth status.
end insertbegin insert18(3) Gender.
end insertbegin insert19(4) Grade levels.
end insertbegin insert20(5) Low income status.
end insertbegin insert21(6) Race or ethnicity.
end insertbegin insert
22(c) The county office of education shall make available on its
23Internet Web site, if one is available, the contents of the school
24attendance review board reports it receives from local school
25attendance review boards, or that summarize the results of those
26reports, or that the county office of education creates, if the county
27school attendance review board accepts referrals. The information
28shall be made available in an anonymized format that is easy for
29the public to access and understand.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
31this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
32local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
33pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
344 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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