AB 2319, as amended, Bonilla. School finance: Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund.
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.
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 agenciesbegin insert, as defined, on the basis of an equal amount per pupil based on the prior year’s enrollmentend insert 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.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Article 8 (commencing with Section 60130) is
2added to Chapter 1 of Part 33 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the 3Education Code, to read:
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This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the
9Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund
10Act.
(a) For purposes of implementing the common core
12academic content standards adopted pursuant to Sections 60605.8,
1360605.85, as that section read on June 30, 2014, and 60811.3, as
14that section read on June 30, 2013, there is hereby established the
15Innovation, Training, and Common Core Implementation Fund.
16It is the intent of the Legislature that local educational agencies
17use funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (b) to support the
18integration of common core academic content standards in
19instruction for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for
20purposes of establishing quality instructional programs for all
21pupils.
22(b) For the 2014-15 fiscal year,
subject to subdivision (d), the
23Superintendent shall allocate funds to local educational agencies
24on the basis ofbegin insert an equal amount per pupil based on theend insert priorbegin delete yearend delete
25begin insert year’send insert enrollment. The allocated funds shall be available for
26encumbrance through the 2015-16 fiscal year.
P3 1(c) A local educational agency shall expend funds allocated
2pursuant to this section for any of the following purposes:
3(1) Professional development for teachers, administrators, and
4paraprofessional educators that is aligned to the common core
5academic content
standards adopted as specified in subdivision
6(a).
7(2) Integration of the common core academic content standards
8through technology-based instruction for purposes of improving
9the academic performance of pupils, including, but not limited to,
10administering computer-based assessments.
11(3) Infrastructure upgrades to increase Internet bandwidth.
12(4) Science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics
13(STEAM) programs.
14(5) Career technical education.
end delete15(6)
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16begin insert (4)end insert Instructional materials aligned to the common core academic
17content standards adopted pursuant to Sections 60605.8, 60605.85,
18as that section read on June 30, 2014, and 60811.3, as that section
19read on June 30, 2013, including, but not limited to, supplemental
20instructional materials as provided in Sections 60605.86, 60605.87,
21and 60605.88, as those sections read on June 30, 2014.
22(d) As a condition of receiving funds allocated pursuant to this
23section, the governing board or body of the local educational
24agency shall do both of the following:
25(1) Develop and adopt a plan delineating how funds allocated
26pursuant to this section
shall be spent. The plan shall be explained
27in a regularly scheduled public meeting of the governing board or
28body of the local educational agency before its adoption in a
29subsequent regularly scheduled public meeting.
30(2) On or before January 1, 2016, report detailed expenditure
31information to the department, including, but not limited to, specific
32purchases made and the number of teachers, administrators, or
33paraprofessional educators that received professional development.
34The department shall determine the format for this report.
35(e) The department shall summarize the information reported
36pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) and shall submit the
37summary to the appropriate budget subcommittees and policy
38committees of the Legislature on or before July 3, 2016.
P4 1(f) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under
2subdivision (e) is inoperative on January 1, 2019, pursuant to
3Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
For purposes of this article, “local educational agency”
5means a school district, county office of education, or charter
6school.
This article shall not be implemented unless funding
8is provided for the Innovation, Training, and Common Core
9Implementation Fund in the annual Budget Act or another statute.
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