Amended in Assembly March 28, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2319

Introduced by Assembly Member Bonilla

February 21, 2014

An act begin insert to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 60130) to Chapter 1 of Part 33 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, end insert relating to school finance.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2319, as amended, Bonilla. School finance: begin delete innovation, training, and technology block grant. end delete begin insert Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund. end insert

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Existing law requires the Academic Content Standards Commission to develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt or reject, academic content standards in language arts and mathematics that are internationally benchmarked and built toward college and career readiness by high school graduation, and requires at least 85% of these standards to be the common core academic content standards developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative consortium or any association or related interstate collaboration, except as specified.

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This bill would establish the Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund Act, to be implemented if funds are received in the annual Budget Act or another statute, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate funds for the 2014-15 fiscal year to local educational agencies for specified purposes relating to the integration of common core academic content standards in schools, including, among others, the professional development of teachers, administrators, and paraprofessional educators. The bill would require a local educational agency that receives funds to meet specified requirements, including reporting detailed expenditure information to the State Department of Education, and would require the department to summarize and submit the information to the appropriate budget subcommittees and policy committees of the Legislature on or before July 3, 2016.

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Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendent of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law also establishes various educational programs for which funding is provided for specific educational purposes.

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This bill would express the Legislature’s intent to enact legislation that would create an innovation, training, and technology block grant that would authorize a school district, county office of education, or charter school, for the 2014-15 fiscal year, to expend block grant funds for specified purposes, including, among others, professional development for teachers, administrators, and paraprofessional educators that is aligned with the common core academic content standards.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Article 8 (commencing with Section 60130) is
added to Chapter 1 of Part 33 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the end insert begin insert Education Code end insert begin insert , to read: end insert

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Article begin insert 8. end insert   Innovation, Training, and Common Core
Implementation Fund

 

begin insert 60130. end insert   

This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund
Act.

begin insert 60131. end insert   

(a) For purposes of implementing the common core
academic content standards adopted pursuant to Sections 60605.8,
60605.85, as that section read on June 30, 2014, and 60811.3, as
that section read on June 30, 2013, there is hereby established the
Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund.
It is the intent of the Legislature that local educational agencies
use funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (b) to support the
integration of common core academic content standards in
instruction for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for
purposes of establishing quality instructional programs for all
pupils.

(b) For the 2014-15 fiscal year, subject to subdivision (d), the
Superintendent shall allocate funds to local educational agencies
on the basis of prior year enrollment. The allocated funds shall
be available for encumbrance through the 2015-16 fiscal year.

(c) A local educational agency shall expend funds allocated
pursuant to this section for any of the following purposes:

(1) Professional development for teachers, administrators, and
paraprofessional educators that is aligned to the common core
academic content standards adopted as specified in subdivision
(a).

(2) Integration of the common core academic content standards
through technology-based instruction for purposes of improving
the academic performance of pupils, including, but not limited to,
administering computer-based assessments.

(3) Infrastructure upgrades to increase Internet bandwidth.

(4) Science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics
(STEAM) programs.

(5) Career technical education.

(6) Instructional materials aligned to the common core academic
content standards adopted pursuant to Sections 60605.8, 60605.85,
as that section read on June 30, 2014, and 60811.3, as that section
read on June 30, 2013, including, but not limited to, supplemental
instructional materials as provided in Sections 60605.86, 60605.87,
and 60605.88, as those sections read on June 30, 2014.

(d) As a condition of receiving funds allocated pursuant to this
section, the governing board or body of the local educational
agency shall do both of the following:

(1) Develop and adopt a plan delineating how funds allocated
pursuant to this section shall be spent. The plan shall be explained
in a regularly scheduled public meeting of the governing board
or body of the local educational agency before its adoption in a
subsequent regularly scheduled public meeting.

(2) On or before January 1, 2016, report detailed expenditure
information to the department, including, but not limited to, specific
purchases made and the number of teachers, administrators, or
paraprofessional educators that received professional development.
The department shall determine the format for this report.

(e) The department shall summarize the information reported
pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) and shall submit the
summary to the appropriate budget subcommittees and policy
committees of the Legislature on or before July 3, 2016.

(f) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under
subdivision (e) is inoperative on January 1, 2019, pursuant to
Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.

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For purposes of this article, “local educational agency”
means a school district, county office of education, or charter
school.

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This article shall not be implemented unless funding is
provided for the Innovation, Training, and Common Core
Implementation Fund in the annual Budget Act or another statute.

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SECTION 1.  

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would create an innovation, training, and technology
block grant that would, for the 2014-15 fiscal year, authorize a
school district, county office of education, or charter school to
expend block grant funds for any of the following purposes:

(a) Professional development for teachers, administrators, and
paraprofessional educators that is aligned with the common core
academic content standards.

(b) Technology, hardware, or software.

(c) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
programs.

(d) Career technical education.

(e) Instructional materials.

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