AB 1672, as amended, 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 wouldbegin delete alsoend deletebegin insert
insteadend insert require thebegin insert governing board of each school district that has established a local school attendance review board to adopt rules and regulations to require appropriate officers and employees of the school district to gather and transmit thatend insert informationbegin delete to be transmitted to theend deletebegin insert for the prior school year to the county superintendent of schools and theend insert Superintendent of Public Instruction,begin insert by September 15 of every year,end insert 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:
(a) The governing board of each school districtbegin insert that
4has established a local school attendance review boardend insert shall adopt
5rules and regulations to require the appropriate officers and
6employees of the school district to gather and transmit to the county
7superintendent of schools
and the Superintendentbegin insert, by September
815 of every year,end insert all of the followingbegin delete information:end deletebegin insert information for
9the prior school year:end insert
10(1) The number of pupils enrolled in the schoolbegin delete district that the begin insert district.end insert
11school attendance review board represents.end delete
P3 1(2) The number of chronic absentees, as defined in Section
260901, in the schoolbegin delete district that the school attendance review begin insert
district.end insert
3board represents.end delete
4(3) The percentage of chronic absentees, as defined in Section
560901, in the schoolbegin delete district that the school attendance review begin insert district.end insert
6board represents.end delete
7(4) The number of pupils in the school district referred to a
8school-level meeting, such as a student attendance review team or
9a student success team.
10(5) The number of pupils in the school district referred to a
11school attendance review board meeting.
12(6) The number of pupils
referred to a school attendance review
13board who improved their attendance by at least 50 percent during
14the following semester or trimester after attending the school
15attendance review board meeting.
16(7) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to
17the district attorney, city prosecutor, or probation department for
18mediation or prosecution following a school attendance review
19board meeting.
20(8) The number of pupils and parents or guardians referred to
21the community services referenced in Section 48320 following a
22school attendance review board meeting.
23(9) The number of pupils referred to alternative education
24placement following a school attendance review board meeting.
25(10) The number of petitions to the juvenile court requested
26pursuant to Section 48263.
27(b) The information listed in subdivision (a) shall be
28disaggregated and submitted by the following subgroups:
29(1) English learner status.
30(2) Foster youth status.
31(3) Gender.
32(4) Grade levels.
33(5) Low income status.
34(6) Race or ethnicity.
begin insert35(7) Disability status.
end insert
36(c) The county office of education shall make available on its
37Internet Web site, if one is available, the contents of the school
38attendance review board reports it receives from local school
39attendance review boards, or that summarize the results of those
40reports, or that the county office of education creates, if the county
P4 1school attendance review board accepts referrals. The information
2shall be made available in an anonymized format that is easy for
3the public to access and understand.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
5this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
6local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
7pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
84 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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