BILL ANALYSIS �
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2380 (Weber)
As Amended August 21, 2014
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |77-0 |(May 28, 2014) |SENATE: |33-0 |(August 26, |
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Original Committee Reference: ED.
SUMMARY : Adds additional requirements for districts that elect to
prepare a single plan for pupil achievement. Specifically, this
bill :
1)Requires a single plan for pupil achievement to include programs
funded through the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) among the
programs it addresses.
2)Requires participating school districts to ensure that schoolsite
single plans for pupil achievement were developed with the review,
certification, and advice of the schoolsite English learner
advisory committees.
3)Requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to review the content
of instruments that are used for onsite visits and compliance
reviews for consistency with state policy.
4)Requires the California Department of Education (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 LCFF.
5)Requires participating school districts to develop their Local
Control and Accountability Plans (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.
6)Requires single plans for pupil achievement to be aligned with the
district's goals for English learners, pupils eligible for free
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and reduced price meals, and foster youth in specified performance
areas.
7)Requires single plans for pupil achievement to be reviewed
annually by the schoolsite council or other schoolwide advisory or
support group for alignment with the LCAP and to minimize
duplication of effort.
The Senate amendments:
1)Eliminate a reference to an unrelated process.
2)Clarify alignment between the single plan for pupil achievement
and the LCAP.
3)Add double-jointing language to avoid chaptering out issues with
AB 2384 (Bradford) of the current legislative session.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Authorizes school districts to use a single consolidated
application to apply for specified state and federal categorical
programs funds.
2)Requires districts that elect to use the consolidated application
process to include in that application a single 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; and
d) Identify the schools means of evaluating progress toward
accomplishing those goals and how state and federal law
governing the consolidated programs will be implemented.
4)Requires each school with more than 20 pupils of limited English
proficiency to establish a school level advisory committee on
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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.
5)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 submitting the plan to
the governing board 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.
6)Requires school districts to adopt a LCAP by July 1, 2017, and
requires the LCAP to:
a) Be updated every year and renewed every three years;
b) Be developed in consultation with teachers, principals,
administrators, other school personnel, parents, and pupils;
c) Include annual achievement goals for all pupils, including
specified pupil subgroups, and a description of actions that
will be taken to achieve those goals;
d) Be aligned with the district's budget and describe how the
district will "increase or improve services for unduplicated
pupils in proportion to its increase in funds apportioned on
the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated
pupils in the district;" and
e) Address the following eight state priorities:
i) Requirements related to the Williams v. State of
California (2004) settlement agreement related to fully
credentialed teachers, instructional materials, and school
facilities;
ii) Implementation of academic and performance standards,
including English language development standards;
iii) Parental involvement;
iv) Pupil achievement, as measured by statewide assessments;
v) Pupil engagement, as measured by attendance, dropout and
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graduation rates, and expulsions or suspensions;
vi) School climate, as measured by suspension rates,
expulsion rates, and other local measures, such as surveys;
vii) The extent to which pupils have access to and are
enrolled in a broad course of study; and
viii) Pupil outcomes, if available, for non-state-assessed
courses of study.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations Committee,
likely school district workload savings to streamline the
development of a single plan for student achievement.
COMMENTS : The consolidated application process was designed to give
school districts flexibility over the use of funds received for
specified state and federal categorical programs. Funds for the
state programs that were a part of the consolidated application have
been rolled into LCFF. However, the consolidated application
process can still be used for federal categorical programs.
Districts that elect to use the consolidated application process are
required to have schoolsite councils and involve them in the
development and approval of the single plan for pupil achievement.
According to the author's office, these provisions need to be
updated to reflect the enactment of the LCFF and the LCAP.
Specifically, this bill requires the plans developed and approved by
the schoolsite councils to address programs funded through the LCFF
and provides that those plans must also be developed and approved by
the English learner advisory committee. In addition, this bill
requires the district LCAP to be developed in consultation with the
schoolsite advisory groups and ensure that it is consistent with and
reflective of the goals and plans of the schoolsite. Conversely,
the bill requires the schoolsite plan to be aligned with the
district's LCAP for unduplicated pupils.
The requirements of this bill apply only to districts that elect to
use the consolidated application process and develop a single plan
for pupil achievement. Gaining flexibility over the use of state
categorical funds was a major incentive for district to elect to use
this process. That incentive was eliminated with the adoption of
the LCFF. However, the ability to have flexibility over the use of
federal categorical program funding (to the extent it does not
violate federal law) may still provide some incentive for districts
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to continue to use this process. At this time, it is not known how
many districts, if any, are.
Analysis Prepared by : Rick Pratt / ED. / (916) 319-2087
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