AB 1866, as amended, Bocanegra. Pupil attendance: California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System.
(1) Existing law establishes the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, as provided. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst’s Office, and contingent upon the receipt of federal funds, to prepare the system to include data on pupil attendance, as specified. Existing law requires the system to support local educational agencies in their efforts to identify and support pupils at risk of dropping out and that it be capable of issuing periodic reports to local educational agencies that include district, school, class, and individual pupil reports on the rates of absence and chronic absentees.
This bill would,begin delete contingent upon the receipt of federal funds,end deletebegin insert
subject to an appropriation,end insert require the State Department of Education to enhance the system, as provided. The bill would require the periodic reports to local educational agencies to include reports on the rates of absence, rates of chronic absenteeism and the number of chronic absentees, rates of truancy and the number of truants, rates of habitual truancy and the number of habitual truants, and rates of chronic truancy and the number of chronic truants. The bill would delete class information from the periodic reports. The bill would establish a definition for “rates of absence.”begin insert The bill also would delete the federal funding requirement for these provisions.end insert
(2) Existing law, once the system is prepared to accept data on a quarterly rate of pupil attendance, authorizes a local educational agency to submit data to the State Department of Education on a quarterly rate of pupil attendance, and other indicators as identified by the department.
This bill would, once the system is enhanced to accept data on pupil attendance, authorize a local educational agency to submit the specified data to the system at any time throughout the year that meets its needs, but would require a local educational agency to, at a minimum, submit and certify the specified data, and other indicators identified by the department, to the system at the end of the school year or on dates to be determined by the department. The bill would authorize a local educational agency to receive reports with the specified data disaggregated as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(3) This bill would also make conforming and nonsubstantive changes.
(4) 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 60901 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:
(a)begin delete end deletebegin deleteContingent upon the receipt of federal fundsend deletebegin insert end insertbegin insertSubject
4to an appropriationend insert for this purpose, the department, in
5consultation with the Department of Finance and the Legislative
6Analyst’s Office, shall enhance the California Longitudinal Pupil
7Achievement Data System established pursuant to Section 60900
8to include data on pupil attendance, as described in subdivision
9(b). The enhancement shall include all of the following:
10(1) The addition of fields to facilitate the transfer of data.
11(2) System development activities including any business rules
12and definitions that would be needed to improve the quality and
13consistency of the data.
14(3) Processes for the transfer of data from local educational
15agencies.
16(4) Consultation with organizations representing school, school
17district, and county office of education administrators, classified
18and certified staff, and parents in order to develop the criteria and
19frequency of reports on pupil attendance data and other indicators
20as may be submitted by local educational agencies.
21(b) The system shall support local educational agencies
in their
22efforts to identify and support pupils at risk of dropping out and
23shall be capable of issuing to local educational agencies periodic
24reports that include, but may not be limited to, district, school, and
25individual pupil reports for pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to
2612, inclusive, regarding:
27(1) Rates of absence.
28(2) Rates of chronic absenteeism and the number of chronic
29absentees.
30(3) Rates of truancy and the number of truants, as defined in
31Section 48260.
32(4) Rates of habitual truancy and the number of habitual truants,
33as defined in Section 48262.
34(5) Rates of chronic
truancy and the number of chronic truants,
35as defined in Section 48263.6.
36(c) (1) For purposes of this section, subdivision (d) of Section
3752060, and subdivision (d) of Section 52066, “chronic absentee”
38means a pupil who is absent on 10 percent or more of the
P4 1schooldays in the school year when the total number of days a
2pupil is absent is divided by the total number of days the pupil is
3enrolled and school was actually taught in the regular day schools
4of the district, exclusive of Saturdays and Sundays.
5(2) For purposes of this section, “rates of absence” means the
6following, to be calculated as of the date that a local educational
7agency submits the reports required pursuant to subdivision (e),
8with respect to each individualized pupil record:
9(A) The number of schooldays enrolled.
10(B) The number of schooldays on which the pupil had an
11unexcused absence of more than 30 minutes but less than a full
12day.
13(C) The number of schooldays on which the pupil had a full
14day of unexcused absence.
15(D) The number of schooldays on which the pupil had a full
16day of excused absence.
17(E) The number of schooldays on which the pupil was absent
18for a full day due to being suspended pursuant to Article 1
19(commencing with Section 48900) of Chapter 6 of Part 27,
20excluding the number of days on which the pupil was assigned to
21a supervised suspension
classroom pursuant to Section 48911.1.
22The number of schooldays on which a pupil was absent due to
23being suspended shall not be considered an excused or unexcused
24absence pursuant to this subdivision. The sum of the number of
25days absent pursuant to this subparagraph and subparagraphs (C)
26and (D) shall equal the total unduplicated number of schooldays
27on which the pupil had a full day of absence.
28(F) Data to determine whether the pupil has been designated a
29habitual truant, as defined in Section 48262.
30(3) Once available, the data listed in subdivision (b) shall be
31incorporated into the annual report on dropouts required pursuant
32to Section 48070.6 and the annual report on elementary school
33truancy and chronic absenteeism, if that report has been established.
34(d) It is the intent of the Legislature to support the development
35and use of early warning systems to enable local school districts
36and schools to identify individual pupils who are at risk of
37academic failure or dropping out of school. It is the intent of the
38Legislature that school districts and schools will fully utilize these
39early warning systems to improve the provision of intervention,
40prevention, communication, and education services to pupils and
P5 1their families rather than to punish pupils or families. It is further
2the intent of the Legislature that this section shall not encourage
3additional referrals to law enforcement, complaints, petitions,
4prosecutions, or other serious sanctions against pupils, without
5first exhausting available resources. The systems shall encompass
6the following characteristics:
7(1) The utilization of highly predictive indicators, including
8attendance, course grades or completion, performance on
9assessments of pupil achievement, suspensions, and expulsions.
10(2) A thorough validation process to ensure the predictive
11reliability of the systems.
12(3) Periodic reports that inform principals, teachers, and parents
13in a manner that enables timely identification and support of
14individual pupils who are at risk of academic failure or dropping
15out.
16(e) (1) Once the system established pursuant to Section 60900
17is enhanced to accept data on pupil attendance, a local educational
18agency may submit the data specified in paragraph (2) of
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subdivision (c) to the system at any time throughout the year that
20meets its needs, but a local educational agency shall, at a minimum,
21submit and certify the data specified in paragraph (2) of subdivision
22(c), and other indicators as identified by the department, to the
23system at the end of the school year or on dates to be determined
24by the department. The report shall include the numbers and rates
25specified in subdivision (b).
26(2) A local educational agency may receive reports that reflect
27the numbers and rates specified in subdivision (b). A local
28educational agency shall be able to view the submitted data in a
29format disaggregated by subgroups, including race or ethnicity,
30gender, disability status, English learner status, foster youth status,
31and free or reduced-price meal status.
32(f) The implementation of the amendments made to this section
33during the 2013-14 Regular Session shall not subject the
34department to a loss of funding pursuant to the conditions specified
35in Provision 18 of Item 6110-001-0890 of the 2014 Budget Act.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
37this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
38local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
P6 1pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
24 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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