BILL ANALYSIS �
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GOVERNOR'S VETO
AB 2380 (Weber)
As Amended August 21, 2014
2/3 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
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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 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 2014.
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:
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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 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;
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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 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, fiscal impact potentially significant local costs.
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
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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 to continue to use this
process. At this time, it is not known how many districts, if
any, are.
GOVERNOR'S VETO MESSAGE :
"This bill would require that the specific actions of Local
Control and Accountability Plans are consistent with, and
reflective of, the goals and plans established by each
schoolsite council.
"Current law already requires Local Control and Accountability
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Plans and schoolsite council plans be aligned, which makes
sense. Relying so specifically on schoolsite plans to determine
district wide goals does not.
"Hardly a month has passed since the Local Control and
Accountability Plans were approved. It is not prudent or wise
to alter the architecture of this process so soon."
Analysis Prepared by : Rick Pratt / ED. / (916) 319-2087
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