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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 1346
Author: Wyland (R)
Amended: 4/21/14
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-0, 4/2/14
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Correa, Hancock, Hueso, Huff, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block, Galgiani
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 7-0, 5/23/14
AYES: De Le�n, Walters, Gaines, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
SUBJECT : Schools: local control and accountability plans
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill adds several requirements to the Local
Control Funding Formula (LCFF) / Local Control and
Accountability Plans (LCAPs) related to parental involvement and
programmatic and fiscal accountability for the purpose of
insuring the academic needs of English learner (EL) pupils are
being met.
ANALYSIS : LCFF . The new LCFF combines the prior funding from
revenue limits and more than 35 categorical programs that were
eliminated, and uses new methods to allocate these resources and
future allocations to school districts, charter schools, and
county offices of education (COEs), allowing local educational
agency's (LEAs) much greater flexibility to spend the funds than
under the prior system. There is a single funding formula for
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school districts and charter schools, and a separate funding
formula for COEs that has some similarities to the district
formula, but also some differences. This formula is designed to
provide districts and charter schools with the bulk of their
resources in unrestricted funding to support the basic
educational program for all students, plus supplemental funding,
based on the enrollment of educationally disadvantaged students
(low-income students, ELs, and foster youth), provided for
increasing or improving services to these high-needs students.
1.Base Grants are calculated on a per-pupil basis (measured by
student average daily attendance) according to grade span
(K-3, 4-6, 7-8, and 9-12) with adjustments that increase the
base rates for grades K-3 (10.4% of base rate) and grades 9-12
(2.6% of base rate).
2.Supplemental Grants provide an additional 20% in base grant
funding for low-income students, ELs, and foster youth
(unduplicated pupil count).
3.Concentration Grants provide an additional 50% above base
grant funding for low-income students, ELs, and foster youth
that exceed 55% of total enrollment.
The LCFF includes new requirements for local planning and
accountability that focus on improving student outcomes in state
educational priorities and ensuring engagement of parents,
students, teachers, school employees, and the public in the
local process. In addition, the LCFF features a new system of
support and intervention for underperforming school districts
that do not meet their goals for improving student outcomes.
LCAP . To ensure accountability for LCFF funds, the state
mandated that school districts, charter schools, and COEs adopt
and update an LCAP. The LCAP must include locally determined
goals, actions, services, and expenditures of LCFF funds for
each school year in support of the state educational priorities
that are specified in statute, as well as any additional local
priorities. In adopting the LCAP, LEAs must consult with
parents, students, teachers, and other school employees.
The eight state priorities that must be addressed in the LCAP,
for all students and significant student subgroups in a school
district and at each school, are:
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1.Williams settlement issues (adequacy of credentialed teachers,
instructional materials, and school facilities).
2.Implementation of academic content standards.
3.Parental involvement.
4.Pupil achievement (in part measured by statewide assessments,
Academic Performance Index (API), and progress of
English-language learners (ELL) toward English proficiency).
5.Pupil engagement (as measured by attendance, graduation, and
dropout data).
6.School climate (in part measured by suspension and expulsion
rates).
7.The extent to which students have access to a broad course of
study.
8.Pupil outcomes for non-state-assessed courses of study.
School district LCAPs are subject to review and approval by
COEs. Statute established a process for districts to receive
technical assistance related to their LCAPs. The Superintendent
of Public Instruction is authorized to intervene in a struggling
district, under certain conditions.
This bill:
1.Requires each local educational agency's (LEAs) fiscal audit
to determine whether LCFF expenditures were in compliance with
State Board of Education (SBE) adopted regulations regarding
supplemental and concentration funds. Further requires COEs,
as part of their review of an LEA's adopted budget, to
determine whether LCFF expenditures were in compliance with
SBE adopted regulations.
2.Prohibits the SBE adopted regulations concerning school wide
LCFF supplemental and concentration grant funds from being
more restrictive than the federal No Child Left Behind Title I
(poor/needy pupil) requirements governing the use of school
wide funds.
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3.Authorizes a school district or COE to use the funds
apportioned on the basis of the number and concentration of
unduplicated pupils, for school districts, for districtwide
purposes, or, for COEs, for countywide purposes.
4.Adds reclassified ELs to the subgroups of pupils whose
academic achievement must be measured by the API for
accountability purposes and provides that the inclusion of
reclassified ELs in the API shall, at a minimum, be consistent
with the manner in which reclassified ELs are included in the
determination of adequate yearly progress, as required by
federal law.
5.Adds, beginning in 2015-16, the following elements to the
LCAPs that each LEA is required to adopt:
A. A listing and description of the expenditures for the
initial fiscal year implementing the specific actions
included in the LCAP.
B. A listing and description of the expenditures for the
initial fiscal that will serve EL pupils, low-income
pupils, foster youth, and reclassified ELs.
1.Includes within the state priority of "pupil achievement"
(which is one of eight state priorities) the reclassification
of EL pupils.
2.Adds a ninth state priority that must be addressed in an LCAP,
for all students and significant student subgroups:
A. The extent to which teachers, administrators, and staff
receive professional development or participate in
induction programs, including the type and subject areas of
the professional development provided.
1.Requires as a condition of receiving LCFF funding that a
district must establish a districtwide EL parent advisory
committee if the district enrolls at least 15% EL pupils or 50
EL pupils.
2.Requires the districtwide EL parent advisory committee to
advise the governing board on the following:
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A. Establishing school district goals and objectives for
programs and services for EL pupils to ensure that the
academic and language proficiency needs of ELs, including
long-term ELs and ELs at-risk of becoming long-term ELs are
being met.
B. Administering the home language survey.
C. School district reclassification procedures.
1.Requires the LCAP template adopted by SBE on or before March
31, 2015, to meet the requirements of the federal No Child
Left Behind Act related to the single plan for pupil
achievement and to ensure that LEAs that receive supplemental
an concentration funds include in their LCAPs information on
the instructional programs and services provided to ELs,
low-income, foster youth and reclassified EL pupils to
increase their academic achievement. And include information
on the types of English language development instructional
programs provided to ELs, and how those programs support the
core instructional program, including, but not limited to, the
types of instructional materials provided to pupils and the
professional development provided to schoolsite staff.
2.Requires LEAs to expend Economic Impact Aid program funds only
for purposes authorized in statute and regulations as read on
June 30, 2013.
Comments
According to the author's office, this bill will increase
accountability for ELL programs by requiring LEAs to demonstrate
how they are spending money on ELL programs and by incorporating
parent involvement with school district goals for ELL programs.
Nearly 1.4 million of California's 6.2 million students are
classified as ELs, making California the state with the largest
EL population - with about one-third of the country's total ELs.
Sadly, 40% of ELs do not graduate from high school.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
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LCAP requirements (locals): Significant costs to LEAs which,
if deemed by the Commission on State Mandates to be
reimbursable, will have substantial aggregated costs. The
state will likely reimburse millions of dollars annually, for
LEAs to make required changes to their LCAPs, and to complete
the related plan implementation work. There is also a
potentially significant reimbursable mandate on COEs to review
the changes and new criteria required of the LCAPs.
LCAP requirements (state): Up to $500,000 in workload costs
to the Department of Education (CDE) to add a 9th state
priority to the LCAPs and draft conforming regulations for
adoption by SBE and for the SBE to adopt revised LCAP
templates.
API subgroup: $50,000 in CDE costs to make programming
changes needed to
create the new subgroup. Minor ongoing state costs to include
the subgroup in future accountability reports.
PQ:e 5/25/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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