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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1866
Author: Bocanegra (D), et al.
Amended: 8/18/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-0, 6/18/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-1, 8/14/14
AYES: De Le�n, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NOES: Gaines
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 62-12, 5/29/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data
System: truancy
SOURCE : Attorney General Kamala D. Harris
DIGEST : This bill expands the information reported through
the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System
(CalPADS) to include specific data relative to truancy.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
Absenteeism
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1.Defines chronic absentee as a student who is absent on 10% or
more of the schooldays in the year, whether or not the
absences were excused.
2.Excused absences.
Truancy
1.Defines a truant as a student who is absent for three full
days, or tardy or absent for more than a 30-minute period on
three occasions, without a valid excuse in one school year.
2.Defines a habitual truant as a student who has been reported
as a truant three or more times per school year (absent or
tardy without an excuse for at least five days).
3.Defines a chronic truant as a student who is absent without a
valid excuse for 10% or more of the schooldays in the year,
provided that the appropriate school district officer or
employee has complied with existing reporting and intervention
requirements.
Data collection and reporting
1.Requires the Annual Report on Dropouts in California to
include, when data is available, truancy rates and chronic
absentee rates.
2.Requires local control accountability plans to include
information addressing specific state priorities, including
student engagement as measured by school attendance rates,
chronic absenteeism rates, dropout rates and graduation rates.
3.Requires school districts 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.
4.Requires, contingent upon federal funding, the CalPADS to
support local educational agencies in their efforts to
identify and support students at risk of dropping out and be
capable of issuing to local educational agencies periodic
reports that include district, school, class and individual
student reports on rates of absence and chronic absentees.
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Reporting student attendance and chronic absentee data for
CalPADS is voluntary.
Local Control and Accountability Plans
1.Requires the governing board of every school district and
county office of education to adopt a local control and
accountability plan, by July 1, 2014, that must include
specified information, and establishes the following as state
priorities:
A. The degree to which teachers are appropriately assigned
and fully credentialed, every student has sufficient access
to standards- aligned instructional materials, and school
facilities are maintained in good repair.
B. Implementation of the academic content and performance
standards, including how English learners will be served,
as specified.
C. Parental involvement, as specified.
D. Student achievement, as specified.
E. Student engagement, as measured by:
(1) School attendance rates.
(2) Chronic absenteeism rates.
(3) Middle school dropout rates.
(4) High school dropout rates.
(5) High school graduation rates.
A. School climate, as specified.
B. The extent to which students have access to, and are
enrolled in, a broad course of study, as specified.
C. Student outcomes, as specified.
This bill expands the information reported through the CalPADS
to include specific data relative to truancy. Specifically,
this bill:
1.Expands information from chronic absentees and rates of
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absence to also include:
A. Rates of absence.
B. Rates of chronic absenteeism (also clarifies that
existing information on chronic absentees is the number of
chronic absentees).
C. Rates of truancy and the number of truants.
D. Rates of habitual truancy and the number of habitual
truants.
E. Rates of chronic truancy and the number of chronic
truants.
1.Defines "rates of absence" as, to be calculated as of the date
that a school district or county office of education submits
reports, with respect to each individualized student record:
A. The number of schooldays enrolled.
B. The number of schooldays on which the student had an
unexcused absence of more than 30 minutes but was absent
for less than a full day.
C. The number of schooldays on which the student had a full
day of unexcused absence.
D. The number of schooldays on which the student had a full
day of excused absence.
E. The number of schooldays on which the student was absent
for a full day due to being suspended (excluding days the
student was assigned to a supervised suspension classroom).
This bill prohibits the number of schooldays on which a
student was absent due to suspension from being considered
an excused or unexcused absence, as specified.
F. Data to determine whether the student has been
designated a habitual truant.
1.Expands the data to be contained in the Annual Report on
Dropouts in California to include all of the data described in
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#1 above (currently only rates of chronic absenteeism are
included), and into the annual report on elementary school
truancy and chronic absenteeism if that report has been
established.
2.Authorizes school districts and California county offices of
education to submit the data regarding rates of absence at any
time throughout the year that meets its needs (rather than
quarterly), but requires districts and county offices to, at a
minimum, submit and certify rates of absence at the end of the
school year or on dates to be determined by the Department of
Education (CDE).
3.Authorizes school districts and county offices of education to
receive reports that reflect the numbers and rates described
in this bill, and requires districts and county offices to be
able to view the submitted data in a format disaggregated by
subgroups, as specified. This bill deletes the requirement
that CDE provide, upon request, an early warning report up to
four times each school year.
4.Modifies the requirement that the CDE "prepare" the CalPADS to
instead require the CDE to "enhance" CalPADS.
5.Deletes the requirement that CalPADS reports be capable of
issuing report by "class" (in addition to by school and
individual student reports).
6.States legislative intent that schools fully use early warning
systems to improve services for students and their families
rather than to punish them, and that this bill not encourage
additional referrals to law enforcement or other serious
sanctions without first exhausting available resources.
7.Deletes the federal funding requirement, as specified.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
CALPADS: Approximately $500,000 annually (General Fund).
Mandates: Potentially substantial one-time reimbursable
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mandate, likely in excess of $1 million (General Fund), on the
approximately 1,000 school districts to modify existing
student information systems to enable the extraction of the
data required for submission to CALPADS.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/18/14)
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris (source)
AFSCME, AFL-CIO
Alameda County Board of Supervisors
Alliance of Boys and Men of Color
Association of Black Correctional Workers
Association of California School Administrators
Bay Area Council
California Federation of Teachers
California School Boards Association
California School-Based Health Alliance
California State PTA
California Teachers Association
Children Now
Chronic Absence and& Attendance Partnership
City and County of San Francisco, Office of the District
Attorney
City of Los Angeles
Continuing the Dream
County of Santa Barbara District Attorney
Eagle Software
Education Trust-West
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California
Fresno Unified School District
Glendale Unified School District
Hoover Intergenerational Care Inc.
Lawndale Elementary School District
League of Women Voters of California
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles County District Attorney
Los Angeles Unified School District
Parent Revolution
Partnership for Children and Youth
Rosemead School District
Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Special Needs Network
Stockton Unified School District
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson
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Western Center on Law and Poverty
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 62-12, 5/29/14
AYES: Alejo, Ammiano, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta,
Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez,
Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray,
Hall, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder,
Lowenthal, Maienschein, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Perea, John A. P�rez, V. Manuel P�rez,
Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas,
Skinner, Stone, Ting, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Williams,
Yamada, Atkins
NOES: Achadjian, Allen, Bigelow, Conway, Dahle, Donnelly, Beth
Gaines, Grove, Hagman, Jones, Mansoor, Wagner
NO VOTE RECORDED: Harkey, Logue, Melendez, Patterson, Wilk,
Vacancy
PQ:e 8/18/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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