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          Date of Hearing:   May 14, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                     AB 2007 (Grove) - As Amended:  May 1, 2014 

          Policy Committee:                              EducationVote:7-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill authorizes a virtual or online charter school to claim  
          independent study average daily attendance (ADA) for a pupil who  
          is enrolled in the school and moves to a residence located  
          outside of the geographic boundaries of the virtual or online  
          charter school.  Specifies the virtual or online charter school  
          may claim independent study ADA for the pupil only for the  
          duration of the course or courses in which the pupil is enrolled  
          or until the end of the school year, whichever occurs first.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          No significant fiscal impact.

           COMMENTS  

           Purpose  . Currently, a virtual or online charter school may not  
          receive ADA for the instruction of pupils who do not reside in  
          the county where the school is chartered or in a county adjacent  
          to that in which it is authorized. Geographic proximity of a  
          charter school to its authorizer ensures that a charter school  
          can be properly supervised by its authorizer.  To allow children  
          to continue to enroll in a charter school that may be separated  
          from its authorizer by nearly 1,000 miles can make meaningful  
          supervision impossible.

          This bill was narrowly amended in policy committee to only allow  
          a virtual or online charter school to collect ADA for an  
          enrolled pupil who moves out of the geographic area in which the  
          school is authorized until the pupil completes the course or  
          courses in which he or she is enrolled, or until the end of the  
          school year, whichever occurs first.  The bill is crafted to  








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          ensure that while a student will be allowed to complete the work  
          he or she started, the state will not be placed in a position  
          where it must pay ADA to both the virtual or online school and a  
          new school in which the student resides.  


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081