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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2380
Author: Weber (D)
Amended: 8/21/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 6-0, 6/25/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Correa, Hancock, Huff, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-0, 8/14/14
AYES: De Le�n, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Gaines
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 5/28/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Parent advisory committees
SOURCE : Public Advocates, Inc.
DIGEST : This bill adds various requirements for school
districts that elect to prepare 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).
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/21/14 add double-jointing language
to AB 2384 (Bradford) to avoid chaptering-out conflicts.
CONTINUED
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ANALYSIS : 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. Specifically, existing law also establishes
the following as state priorities:
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.
Implementation of the academic content and performance
standards, including how English learners will be served,
as specified.
Parental involvement, as specified.
Student achievement, as specified.
Student engagement, as specified.
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.
The extent to which students have access to, and are
enrolled in, a broad course of study, as specified.
Student outcomes, as specified.
Existing law also establishes the following as state priorities
for county offices of education, in addition to the state
priorities described above: how the county superintendent will
coordinate instruction of students who have been expelled; and
how the county superintendent will coordinate services for
foster children, as specified.
Existing law:
1.Authorizes school districts to use a single consolidated
application to apply for certain state and federal categorical
program funds.
2.Requires school districts to elect to use the consolidated
application process to include in that application a single
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plan for pupil achievement.
3.Requires the single plan for pupil achievement to do the
following:
A. Be developed and approved by a schoolsite council.
B. Be aligned with school goals for improving pupil
achievement.
C. Address how funds provided to the school will be used to
improve the academic performance of all pupils to target
levels.
D. Identify the school's means of evaluating progress
toward accomplishing those goals and how state and federal
law governing the consolidated programs will be
implemented.
1.Requires each school with more than 20 pupils of limited
English proficiency to establish a school level advisory
committee on which parents and guardians of such pupils
constitute membership in at least the same percentage as their
children represent of the total number of pupils in the
school.
2.Requires the English learner advisory committee to advise the
principal and staff in the development of a detailed master
plan for bilingual education for the school and the submittal
of the plan to the governing board of a school district for
consideration for inclusion in the district master plan; and
to assist in the development of the school needs assessment,
language census, and ways to make parents aware of the
importance of regular school attendance.
This bill:
1.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.
2.Specifies English learner advisory committees as applicable
school advisory committees that may review, certify, and
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provide advice on a school district's single plan for pupil
achievement or consolidated application, as specified.
3.Requires the California Department of Education, 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.
4.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.
5.Requires single plans for pupil achievement to be aligned with
the district's goals for English learners, pupils eligible for
free and reduced price meals, and foster youth in specified
performance areas.
6.Requires the plan to be reviewed annually and updated by the
schoolsite council or, if the school does not have a
schoolsite council, by schoolwide advisory groups or school
support groups, as specified.
7.Contains double-jointing language with AB 2384 (Bradford).
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, fiscal impact
potentially significant local costs.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/25/14)
Public Advocates Inc. (source)
Alliance San Diego
American Civil Liberties Union
Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network
Californians for Justice
Californians Together
Families in Schools
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Parent Institute for Quality Education
PICO California
Reading and Beyond
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office,
"parent decision making committees - schoolsite councils,
district advisory councils, and English learner advisory
committees currently have school accountability roles, rights,
and responsibilities for developing, monitoring, and updating
school site plans for the use of federal and state categorical
funds. It makes sense to align these parent input and decision
making committees with the new local control accountability plan
(LCAP) processes that districts are using to develop
comprehensive priorities, goals, and actions for individual
schools and the school districts."
The bill seeks to integrate the existing parental committee
processes, such as school site councils, with the parental input
processes required by the newly implemented LCFF. This would
help avoid duplication of effort with the existing federal
requirement that a school district's comprehensive school site
instructional plan be developed in coordination with parent
input. These efforts could help promote greater transparency
regarding the expenditure of LCFF funds at the school site level
by engaging parents, especially at a time when school districts
are transitioning to a new funding formula that affords them
significant flexibility.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 5/28/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Beth
Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray,
Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones,
Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein,
Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. P�rez, V.
Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,
Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,
Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Donnelly, Frazier, Vacancy
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PQ:nl 8/25/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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