BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: March 26, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Joan Buchanan, Chair
AB 2408 (Allen) - As Introduced: February 21, 2014
SUBJECT : School accountability: local control and
accountability plans: California Collaborative for Education
Excellence
SUMMARY : Expands the governing board of the California
Collaborative for Education Excellence (CCEE) from five to seven
members by adding a charter school operator appointed by the
Governor and a parent of a California public school pupil
appointed by the Governor.
EXISTING LAW
1)Establishes the CCEE, whose purpose is to advise and assist
local education agencies (LEAs) in achieving the goals set
forth in their local control and accountability plans (LCAPs).
2)Requires the CCEE to be governed by a board consisting of the
following members:
a) The SPI or his or her designee;
b) The president of the SBE or his or her designee;
c) A county superintendent of schools appointed by the
Senate Rules Committee;
d) A teacher appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly; and
e) A superintendent of a school district appointed by the
Governor.
3)Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI), in
consultation with the State Board of Education (SBE), to
contract with an LEA to serve as the fiscal agent for the
CCEE.
4)Requires the fiscal agent, at the direction of the CCEE
governing board, to contract with individuals, LEAs, or
organizations with the expertise, experience, and a record of
success to provide assistance to LEAs that are failing to meet
specified performance objectives.
5)Authorizes the SPI to direct the CCEE to advise and assist an
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LEA in any of the following circumstances:
a) The governing board of the LEA requests the advice and
assistance of the CCEE;
b) The superintendent of schools in the county in which the
school district or charter school is located determines
that the advice and assistance of the CCEE is necessary to
help the school district or charter school accomplish the
goals it has set in its LCAP; or
c) The SPI determines the advice and assistance of the CCEE
is necessary to help an LEA accomplish the goals it has set
in its LCAP.
6)Requires LEAs to adopt an LCAP by July 1, 2014 using a
template adopted by the SBE and requires that the LCAP:
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) Address the following eight state priorities:
i) Requirements related to the Williams v. State of
California 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/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.
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e) 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."
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : The CCEE and LCAP were both established as the
accountability component of the Local Control Funding Formula
(LCFF), which was enacted with this year's budget. The purpose
of the CCEE is to provide advice and assistance to LEAs that
persistently fail to achieve pupil outcome goals established in
their LCAPs. LEAs also may seek assistance from the CCEE on
their own. The CCEE governing board does not have a statutory
role in determining which LEAs receive advice and assistance.
Instead, the SPI is authorized to direct the CCEE to provide
advice and assistance upon the recommendation of a county
superintendent of schools (in the case of a school district or
charter school), pursuant to his or her own determination that
advice and assistance is necessary (in the case of a county
office of education), or upon request of an LEA.
The current composition of the board includes representation of
district- and county-level administrators, teachers, the SPI,
and the SBE. This bill adds representation from charter schools
and parents, both appointed by the Governor. The bill provides
that the charter school representative shall include, but not be
limited to, a charter school operator. As a practical matter,
there will only be a seat on the board for one charter school
representative, so that representative would be required to be a
charter school operator.
The CCEE board has limited responsibilities . The only statutory
authority of the CCEE board is to provide direction to the CCEE
fiscal agent in contracting with entities and individuals to
carry out the purposes of the CCEE. Moreover, existing law
circumscribes the latitude of the board in the selection process
by requiring the selected entities and individuals to have
expertise, experience, and a record of success in, at a minimum,
the following:
The state priorities that must be addressed in each
LEA's LCAP.
Improving the quality of teaching.
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Improving the quality of a school district and
schoolsite leadership.
Successfully addressing the needs of special pupil
populations, including, but not limited to, English
learners, low income pupils, pupils in foster care, and
pupils with exceptional needs.
The CCEE board will not be involved in determining which LEAs
are in need of assistance, in evaluating LEA performance, or in
the delivery of support services and technical assistance. The
Committee may wish to consider what new expertise the additional
board members proposed in this bill would bring to the board and
how that expertise might improve the board's performance of its
limited statutory responsibility.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
California Charter Schools Association Advocates
Charter School Development Center
EdVoice
Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Rick Pratt / ED. / (916) 319-2087