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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1672
Author: Holden (D), et al.
Amended: 8/22/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 5-1, 6/25/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Correa, Hancock, Monning
NOES: Huff
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-0, 8/14/14
AYES: De Le�n, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Gaines
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 54-17, 5/28/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : School attendance review boards
SOURCE : Attorney General Kamala Harris
DIGEST : This bill requires, beginning June 1, 2015, the
governing boards that have established a SARB to adopt rules and
regulations requiring the school district to gather specified
information for the prior school year.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/24/14 link the designation of
English learners, foster youth and low-income with existing
definitions relative to computations for "unduplicated pupil"
counts for the local control funding formula.
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ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1.Authorizes, but does not require, a county and/or local SARB
to be established. SARB membership must include parents,
school districts, county probation, county welfare, county
superintendent of schools, law enforcement, community-based
youth services, and personnel representing school guidance,
child welfare and attendance, school or county health care,
and mental health.
2.Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
coordinate and administer a state SARB, which is to provide
recommendations annually regarding the needs and services
provided to high-risk youth.
3.Requires the governing board of each school district to direct
school district staff to transmit to the county superintendent
of schools the number and type of referrals to SARBs and the
requests for petitions to juvenile courts.
4.Requires school districts to gather and transmit to the county
superintendent of schools the number and types of referrals to
SARBs and of requests for petitions to the juvenile court.
5.Requires, contingent upon federal funding, the California
Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CalPADS) to
support local educational agencies (LEAs) in their efforts to
identify and support students at risk of dropping out and be
capable of issuing to LEAs periodic reports that include
district, school, class and individual student reports on
rates of absence and chronic absentees. Reporting student
attendance and chronic absentee data for CalPADS is voluntary.
This bill:
1.Requires, beginning June 1, 2015, the governing board of each
school district that has established a local school attendance
review board (SARB) to adopt rules and regulations requiring
employees of the school district to gather all of the
following information for the prior school year:
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A. The number of students in the district referred to a
school-level meeting, such as a student attendance review
team or a student success team.
B. The number of students in the district who are referred
to a SARB, and the reason for the referral.
C. The number of students referred to a SARB who improved
their attendance by at least 50% during the following
semester or trimester after attending the SARB meeting.
D. The number of students and parents referred to the
district attorney, city prosecutor, or probation department
for mediation or prosecution following a SARB meeting.
E. The number of students and parents who are referred to
the community services following a SARB meeting.
F. The number of students referred to an alternative
education placement following a SARB meeting.
G. The number of petitions to the juvenile court.
1.Requires the information described above to be disaggregated
and submitted by the following subgroups:
A. English learner status, as specified.
B. Foster youth status, as specified.
C. Gender.
D. Grade levels.
E. Low income status, as specified.
F. Race or ethnicity.
G. Disability status.
1.Requires the governing board of each school district to make
available, as specified, on its Internet Web site the contents
of the SARB reports no later than September 15 of every year.
2.Requires that the California Department of Education (CDE)
maintain current Internet Web site links to the Web sites of
SARB reports required to be posted, as specified.
3.Provides that the governing board of each school district
posting SARB reports shall provide a current uniform resource
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locator for their Internet Web site to CDE.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
CDE: $200,000 (General Fund) in one-time costs and $50,000
(General Fund) in ongoing costs.
LEAs: Significant costs for school districts that maintain
SARBs.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/22/14)
Attorney General Kamala Harris (source)
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson
Advancement Project
AFSCME
Association of Black Correctional Workers
California Alliance of Child and Family Services
California Federation of Teachers
California State PTA
Continuing the Dream
Disability Rights California
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
Hillsides
Los Angeles City Attorney
Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
Los Angeles Unified School District
Office of the District Attorney for the City and County of San
Francisco
Public Counsel
Rosemead School District
SEIU
Special Needs Network
Stockton Unified School District
Youth Law Center
OPPOSITION : (Verified 8/22/14)
Association of California School Administrators
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : The bill's sponsor, Attorney General
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Kamala Harris, writes that this bill expands the information
that SARBs are currently required to submit annually to county
offices of education and that collecting more complete records
will effectively help district and counties to identify the
effectiveness of its truancy programs at intervening in severe
attendance cases. These records will also help local
governments conduct needs assessments and inform their Local
Control Accountability Plans.
ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION : The Association of California School
Administrators writes, "The amount of information collected
under AB 1672 would become a disincentive for a school district
to create and maintain a local SARB."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 54-17, 5/28/14
AYES: Alejo, Ammiano, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta,
Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez,
Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Hall, Roger
Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal, Medina,
Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea, John A. P�rez, V.
Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Rodriguez, Salas,
Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada,
Atkins
NOES: Allen, Bigelow, Conway, Donnelly, Beth Gaines, Gorell,
Grove, Hagman, Harkey, Jones, Logue, Maienschein, Mansoor,
Nestande, Wagner, Waldron, Wilk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Achadjian, Dahle, Frazier, Linder, Melendez,
Olsen, Patterson, Ridley-Thomas, Vacancy
PQ:MW:nl 8/25/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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