SB 452, as amended, Huff. School intervention: parent empowerment.
Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement one of several specified interventions for a school not identified as a persistently lowest-achieving school that, after one full school year,begin insert is subject to corrective action, as specified, andend insert fails to meet specified criteria and has a specified percentage of parents and legal guardians of pupils sign a petition requesting the local educational agency to implement at least one of 5 specified interventions. Existing law requires a local educational agency to implement the intervention option requested by the petition unless the agency makes a specified finding in a regularly scheduled public hearing.
This bill would delete the provision excluding schools identified as persistently lowest-achieving schools, and would also make the provisions applicable to schools ranked in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of the Academic Performance Index. The bill would make technical changes by updating cross-references. By imposing additional duties on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 53300 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:
For any school that, after one full school year, is subject
4to corrective action pursuant to Section 6316(b)(7) of the federal
5Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301
6et seq.) and continues to fail to make adequate yearly progress,
7and has an Academic Performance Index (API) score of less than
8800, or any school ranked in any of deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, of
9the API and where at least one-half of the parents or legal guardians
10of pupils attending the school, or a combination of at least one-half
11of the parents or legal guardians of pupils attending the school and
12the elementary or middle schools that normally matriculate into a
13middle or high school, as applicable, sign a petition requesting the
14local educational agency to implement one
or more of the four
15interventions identified pursuant to paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive,
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of subdivision (a) of Section 53202 or the federally mandated
17alternative governance arrangement pursuant to Section
186316(b)(8)(B)(v) of the federal Elementary and Secondary
19Education Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.), the local educational
20agency shall implement the option requested by the parents unless,
21in a regularly scheduled public hearing, the local educational
22agency makes a finding in writing stating the reason it cannot
23implement thebegin delete specific recommendedend deletebegin insert requestedend insert optionbegin insert,end insert and instead
24designates in writing which of the other options described in this
25section it will implement in the subsequent school yearbegin insert,end insert
consistent
26with requirements specified in federal regulations and guidelines
27for schools subject to restructuring under Section
6316(b)(8) of
28the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (20 U.S.C.
P3 1Sec. 6301 et seq.) and regulations and guidelines for the four
2interventions.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
4this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
5local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
6pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
74 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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