AB 2007, as amended, Grove. Virtual or online charter schools: average daily attendance.
Existing law requires community school and independent study average daily attendance to be claimed by school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools only for pupils who are residents of the county in which the apportionment claim is reported or pupils who are residents of a county immediately adjacent to the county in which the apportionment claim is reported.
This bill would authorize a virtual or online charter school, as defined, to also claim independent study average daily attendance forbegin delete pupils who are residents of any other county in the state, under specified circumstances, including if theend deletebegin insert aend insert pupilbegin insert
whoend insert is enrolled inbegin delete theend deletebegin insert aend insert virtual or online charter school and moves to a residence outside of the geographic boundaries in which thebegin insert virtual or onlineend insert charter school is authorized to operatebegin delete, and continues enrollment in the virtual or online
charter schoolend deletebegin insert for the duration of the virtual or online charter school course or courses or until the end of the school year, whichever occurs firstend insert.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 51747.3 of the Education Code is
2amended to read:
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a local educational
4agency, including, but not limited to, a charter school, may not
5claim state funding for the independent study of a pupil, whether
6characterized as home study or otherwise, if the local educational
7agency has provided any funds or other thing of value to the pupil
8or his or her parent or guardian that the local educational agency
9does not provide to pupils who attend regular classes or to their
10parents or guardians. A charter school may not claim state funding
11for the independent study of a pupil, whether characterized as
12home study or otherwise, if the charter school has provided any
13funds or other thing of value to the pupil or his or her parent or
14
guardian that a school district could not legally provide to a
15similarly situated pupil of the school district, or to his or her parent
16or guardian.
17(b) (1) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of
18Section 47605 or any other law, and except as specified in
19paragraph (2), community school and independent study average
20daily attendance shall be claimed by school districts,
county
21superintendents of schools, and charter schools only for pupils
22who are residents of the county in which the apportionment claim
23is reported, or who are residents of a county immediately adjacent
24to the county in which the apportionment claim is reported.
25(2) In addition to claiming independent study average daily
26attendance pursuant to paragraph (1), a virtual or online charter
27school may also claim independent study average daily attendance
28for a pupil who isbegin delete a resident of a county outside of the geographical
29boundaries in which the virtual or online charter school is
30authorized to operate under either of the following circumstances:end delete
31begin insert enrolled in the
school and moves to a residence located outside
32of the geographical boundaries of the virtual or online charter
33school. The virtual or online charter school may claim independent
P3 1study average daily attendance for the pupil under this paragraph
2only for the duration of the course or courses in which the pupil
3is enrolled or until the end of the school year, whichever occurs
4first.end insert
5(A) The pupil is enrolled in the virtual or online charter school
6and moves to a residence located outside of the geographic
7boundaries in which the virtual or
online charter school may
8operate, and continues enrollment in the virtual or online charter
9school.
10(B) The pupil transfers to another school because he or she
11moves to a residence located outside of the geographic boundaries
12of the virtual or online charter school, and reenrolls in the virtual
13or online charter school within two years of his or her transfer
14from the virtual or online charter school while continuing to reside
15in an area outside of the virtual or online charter school’s
16authorized geographic boundaries. Under this subparagraph, the
17virtual or online charter school may claim independent study
18average daily attendance once the pupil reenrolls in the virtual
19oronline charter school.
20(c) The Superintendent shall not apportion funds for reported
21average daily attendance, through full-time independent study, of
22pupils who are enrolled in school pursuant to subdivision (b) of
23Section 48204.
24(d) In conformity with Provisions 25 and 28 ofbegin insert Item
256110-101-001 ofend insert Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 1992, this
26section is applicable to average daily attendance reported for
27apportionment purposes beginning July 1, 1992. The provisions
28of this section are not subject to waiver by the state board, by the
29Superintendent, or under any provision of Part 26.8 (commencing
30with Section 47600).
31(e) For purposes of this
section, “virtual or online charter school”
32means a charter school in which at least 80 percent of teaching
33and pupil interaction occurs via the Internet.
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