BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Kevin de Le�n, Chair
AB 2380 (Weber) - Parent Advisory Committees
Amended: May 23, 2014 Policy Vote: Education 6-0
Urgency: No Mandate: No
Hearing Date: August 4, 2014
Consultant: Jacqueline Wong-Hernandez
This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary: AB 2380 adds various requirements for school
districts preparing a single plan for pupil achievement,
including the requirement for a school district to ensure in its
consolidated application that a schoolsite council has developed
and approved a single plan for pupil achievement for schools
participating in programs funded through the Local Control
Funding Formula (LCFF).
Fiscal Impact:
School districts: Placing new requirements on a school
district's single plan for pupil achievement could create
significant workload for school districts, to the extent
that the requirements of this bill differ from local
practices.
Background: Existing law requires the governing board of every
school district and county office of education to adopt a local
control and accountability plan (LCAP), by July 1, 2014, that
must include: a description of the annual goals for all students
and each subgroup, to be achieved for each of the state
priorities and for any additional local priorities; and a
description of the specific actions that will be taken to
achieve the goals. LCAPs must address the following as state
priorities:
1) 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.
2) Implementation of the academic content and performance
standards, including how English learners will be served,
as specified.
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3) Parental involvement, as specified.
4) Student achievement, as specified.
5) Student engagement, as specified.
6) School climate, as measured by all of the following, as
applicable: student suspension rates, student expulsion
rates, and other local measures, including surveys of
students, parents, and teachers on the sense of safety and
school connectedness.
7) The extent to which students have access to, and are
enrolled in, a broad course of study, as specified.
8) Student outcomes, as specified.
Existing law authorizes school districts to use a single
consolidated application to apply for certain state and federal
categorical program funds, and requires school districts which
elect to use the consolidated application process to include in
that application a single plan for pupil achievement, as
specified.
Existing law authorizes the School-Based Program Coordination
Act which, prior to the LCFF in 2013, gave school districts
flexibility over the use of specified school-based coordinated
categorical program funds in exchange for meeting specified
requirements. As part of these requirements, participating
school districts were required to establish a schoolsite
council. The LCFF replaces almost all sources of state funding,
including most categorical programs, and uses new methods to
allocate these resources and future resources to school
districts, charter schools, and county offices of education.
While the School-Based Program Coordination Act is no longer
operative as a categorical program due to the LCFF, school
districts are still authorized, but not required, to establish
and/or operate schoolsite councils.
Proposed Law: This bill requires a school district to ensure in
its consolidated application that schoolsite councils have
developed and approved a single plan for pupil achievement for
schools participating in programs funded through the LCFF, as
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specified. This bill requires participating school districts to
develop their LCAPs and annual updates in consultation with
schoolsite level advisory groups and ensure that the LCAP and
its specific actions are consistent with, and reflective of, the
goals and plans of the schoolsite, as specified.
This bill requires the CDE, if it makes materials or information
available to school districts to assist them in the development
of their single plan for pupil achievement, to ensure that all
materials and information emphasize that the plan be consistent
with and, to the extent possible, support the goals and outcomes
specified in the school district's LCAP.
Related Legislation: AB 2384 (Bradford) places new requirements
on the establishment of schoolsite councils, including a
requirement for school districts to provide training for council
members. That bill is on the Suspense File in this Committee.
Staff Comments: This bill makes changes to the consolidated
application process, which requires school districts to develop
a single plan for student achievement, in an effort to align it
with the development of a school district's LCAP. To the extent
that the requirements differ from current local processes,
school districts will need to implement changes to comply with
the new requirements. Those changes may ultimately make local
processes more efficient, but that will likely vary by district
interpretation. The language in the bill is sufficiently vague,
that it could be interpreted to create two processes rather than
align the LCAP with a school district's single plan for pupil
achievement.
The consolidated application process is the only way by which
schools can apply for federal categorical program money, through
the California Department of Education. While it is technically
elective, school districts must either complete the consolidated
application in accordance with statutory requirements, or forego
federal categorical program funding. To the extent that this
bill is interpreted by school districts to require two parallel
processes for developing their LCAP and single plan for pupil
achievement, there will be significant cost pressure to do so.
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