(1) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula. The Superintendent of Public Instruction (Superintendent) annually calculates a county local control funding formula for each county superintendent of schools that includes, among other things, an alternative education grant and a base grant based upon average daily attendance as a component of that alternative education grant.
This bill revises the alternative education grant by, among other things, increasing the base grant component of the alternative education grant, revising the calculation of average daily attendance for purposes of the alternative education grant, and establishing a Student Support and Enrichment Block Grant, which requires the Superintendent to allocate $3,000 per unit of average daily attendance for the grant. The grant is to be used to support student enrichment purposes, including, expanding access to A-G courses, dual enrollment partnerships, elective and world language courses, vocational and career technical courses, preparation for admission into higher education institutions, mental health support services, high school completion, and access to postsecondary and career technical education for juveniles who have been detained in or committed to a juvenile hall. The bill would make these provisions applicable commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year.
(2) Existing law, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to add specific amounts of funds to a county office of education as part of its local control funding formula. These funds are calculated based on the number and size of school districts under its jurisdiction and that are determined to be in need of differentiated assistance.
This bill increases these funds by $100,000 per school site starting in the 2023–24 fiscal year.
(3) Existing law, commencing with the 2015–16 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to add $2,000,000 to the Los Angeles County Office of Education’s local control funding formula allocation for the purpose of supporting statewide professional development and leadership training for education professionals related to anti-bias education and the creation of inclusive and equitable schools.
This bill increases the add-on by $1,000,000 to equal $3,000,000 for the 2023-2024 fiscal year.
(4) The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent to administer the California state preschool program. The act also requires the Superintendent, in consultation with the Director of Social Services and the executive director of the State Board of Education, to convene a statewide interest holder workgroup to provide recommendations on best practices for increasing access to high-quality universal preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children that provides equitable learning experiences across a variety of settings. The Superintendent, in consultation with the Director of Social Services, must provide a report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance with the recommendations of the workgroup no later than January 15, 2023.
This bill delays the reporting of those recommendations to occur no later than March 31, 2024.
(5) Existing law establishes the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program as a state’s early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs. Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education (Department) in both the 2021–22 fiscal year and the 2022–23 fiscal year for allocation to local educational agencies as base grants, enrollment grants, and supplemental grants.
Instead of reverting unexpended funds, this bill would authorize the Department to allocate or prorate unexpended funds to local educational agencies for costs associated with the educational expenses of the California state preschool program, transitional kindergarten, and to increase the amount of highly qualified kindergarten professionals and provide training regarding serving inclusive classrooms and dual language learners.
(6) Existing law establishes the After School Education and Safety Program under which participating public schools receive grants to operate before and after school programs serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 9, inclusive. Existing law authorizes specified entities to apply for grants under the After School Education and Safety Program, including local educational agencies and cities, counties, and nonprofit organizations in partnership with, and with the approval of, a local educational agency.
This bill requires a local educational agency that contracts with a third party to operate before and after school programs to require the third party to (A) notify the local educational agency of any health- or safety-related issues, as specified, and (B) to request from parents or guardians pupil health information, as provided.
(7) Existing law, the California School Finance Authority Act, authorizes a school district, charter school, county office of education, or community college district that utilizes funding from the California School Financing Authority for a project or of working capital in connection with securing financing or refinancing of projects, or working capital (a participating party), to elect to guarantee or provide for payment of the bonds and related obligations. Existing law requires participating parties to, among other things, elect to participate by an action of its governing board and provide written notice to the Controller. Existing law authorizes school districts and county offices of education with qualified or negative financial certifications, to intercept payments only for short-term financings.
This bill authorizes participating parties to elect to participate in a local intercept by sending a request to the county treasurer or other appropriate county fiscal officer. If the county agrees to participate, the county treasurer or other county fiscal officer must make an apportionment or revenue transfer. This bill would limit the authorization of School districts and county offices of education with qualified or negative financial certifications and may only participate under this section to intercept payments for indebtedness for which the Superintendent determines repayment is probable.
(8) Existing law establishes the California Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten, and Full-Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant Program under the administration of the State Allocation Board, to provide one-time grants to school districts to, among other things, construct new school facilities or retrofit existing school facilities for the purpose of providing transitional kindergarten classrooms and full-day kindergarten classrooms. Existing law appropriates, during specific fiscal years, specified sums of money to the board to provide the grants.
This bill appropriates an additional five hundred fifty million dollars ($550,000,000) in the 2024–25 fiscal year from the General Fund to the State Allocation Board to provide one-time grants. The funds will be available to the State Allocation Board until June 30, 2030.
(9) Existing law creates the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund in the State Treasury in order to provide appropriations for school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts related to the state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 4, 2020, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing law appropriates $7,936,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate these appropriated funds to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to be used for learning recovery initiatives through the 2027–28 school year that, at a minimum, support academic learning recovery, and staff and pupil social and emotional well-being. Existing law requires local educational agencies receiving these allocations to report interim expenditures to the Department by December 1, 2024, and December 1, 2027, and to submit a final report no later than December 1, 2029.
This bill reduces the appropriation by $1,590,595,000 to instead be $6,345,405,000. Local educational agencies receiving these allocations are required to report interim expenditures to the Department by December 15, 2024, and annually thereafter, and to submit a final report on expenditures by December 15, 2029.
(10) Existing law requires a school district to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any deficiencies related to instructional materials, emergency or urgent facilities conditions that pose a threat to the health and safety of pupils or staff, and teacher vacancy or misassignment. Under existing law, a complaint related to teacher misassignment includes claims that a teacher who lacks credentials or training to teach English learners is assigned to teach a class with more than 20% of English learner pupils in the class.
This bill establishes that a teacher misassignment claim, instead includes a claim that a teacher who lacks credentials or training to teach English learners is assigned to teach a class with one or more English learner pupils in the class. To the extent this imposes new obligations on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(11) Existing law requires the Controller to create an audit guide that includes, among other things, instructions for procedures to determine if there any unspent funds associated with the completion of a Charter School Facilities Program project, a Career Technical Education Facilities Program project, or a project where the local educational agency received hardship funding.
This bill deletes the requirements that the Controller’s audit guide include instructions for procedures to determine if there are any unspent funds associated with the completion of a Charter School Facilities Program project, a Career Technical Education Facilities Program project, and a project where the local educational agency received hardship funding that must either be returned to the Office of Public School Construction or expended consistent with the requirements pursuant to Section 1859.103 of Title 2 of the California Code of Regulations.
(12) Beginning in the years 1990-91, the State allocated money for the support of school districts, community college districts, and direct elementary and secondary level instructional services distributed it in accordance with certain calculations governing the proration of those moneys among each if the three segments of public education. Existing law makes that provision inapplicable from 1992–93 through the 2022–23 fiscal year.
This bill also makes that provision inapplicable from 1992–93 through the 2023–24 fiscal year.
(13) Beginning with the 2022–23 fiscal year, the Superintendent must apportion a transportation allowance equal to 60% of the home-to-school transportation expenditures to a school district or county superintendent of schools that provides transportation. The amount is based on its Function 3600 entry in the Standardized Account Code Structure report for the prior year, excluding capital outlay and non-agency expenditures, and reduced by the amount of a school district’s or county superintendent of schools’ transportation add-on under the local control funding formula, as adjusted. In order to receive these apportionments, local educational agency must develop a plan describing the transportation services it will offer to its pupils, and how it will prioritize planned transportation services for pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and pupils who are low income, among other requirements related to this plan.
Additionally, a school district may convert all of its schools to charter schools if it meets certain specified requirements and both the Superintendent and the State Board of Education approve its petition.
This bill makes the transportation funding provisions inapplicable to a school district with an approved districtwide charter petition.
(14) Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grants that are based on the percentage of unduplicated pupils, served by the county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school. For purposes of the local control funding formula, existing law defines unduplicated pupil to mean a pupil who is classified as an English learner, eligible for a free or reduced-price meal, or a foster youth.
This bill annually appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation for the Local Control Funding Formula “Equity Multiplier” apportionment, beginning in the 2023-24 fiscal year. The Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier provides additional funding to local educational agencies (LEAs) for allocation to school sites with prior year “nonstability rates” greater than 25 percent and prior year “socioeconomically disadvantaged pupil” rates greater than 70 percent. The nonstability rate is the percentage of pupils who are either enrolled for less than 245 continuous days between July 1 and June 30 of the prior school year, or exited from a school between July 1 and June 30 of the prior school year due to either truancy, expulsion, or for unknown reasons and without stable enrollment at another school. Socioeconomically disadvantaged pupil rate means the percentage of pupils that meet any of the following criteria for the prior school year:
(A) Neither of the pupil’s parents has a high school diploma.
(B) The pupil is eligible for free or reduced-price meals under the federal National School Lunch Program, including by direct certification.
(C) The pupil is a migratory child for purposes of Part C (commencing with Section 6391) of Subchapter I of Chapter 70 of Title 20 of the United States Code.
(D) The pupil is a homeless child or youth.
(E) The pupil is a foster youth.
(F) The pupil is enrolled in a county juvenile court school.
These LEAs will receive allocations for evidence-based services and supports for pupils, with a demonstration of how the resulting services and supports are increased or improved in comparison to services and supports that would have been provided at the school sites if the funding were not provided. These funds must supplement, not supplant, funding provided for these school sites for purposes of the local control funding formula, the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program, the Literacy Coaches and Reading Specialists Grant Program, and the California Community Schools Partnership Act.
(15) Existing law requires a school employer, as defined, to notify an employee when a wage overpayment has been made to the employee and provide an opportunity to respond before commencing recoupment actions. Reimbursement may be made through one of methods specified in Education Code section 42024.8 mutually agreed to by the employee and the employer. Any installment amounts deducted from payment of wages may not exceed 25% of the employee’s net disposable earnings. Any administrative action recovering an overpayment must be initiated within 3 years from the date of overpayment.
This bill requires the school employer to notify the school employee in writing of an overpayment and the right to require the school employer get a court order or binding arbitration award if the employee disputes the amount of the overpayment. If counsel supplied by the exclusive representative represents the employee, Government Code Section 3543.8 applies to the litigation.
This bill provides that installment payments may not be less than the amount of the pay periods in which the error occurred and thus this bill deletes the authorization for a school employer to require full repayment through payroll deductions for overpayments that have occurred for more than one year. The bill also provides that if these provisions conflict with a memorandum of understanding, and it was in effect on July 31, 2022, the memorandum of understanding controls until its expiration or renewal.
(16) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (Commission), among other duties, to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the Commission to administer the State Assignment Accountability System to provide local educational agencies with a data system for assignment monitoring. Existing law requires the Commission and the State Department of Education to enter into a data sharing agreement to provide the commission with employee assignment data necessary to identify misassignments and vacant positions at local educational agencies. Existing law authorizes the Commission to promulgate regulations that define standards and sanctions for a local educational agency that consistently misassigns employees. Existing law requires the Superintendent to identify schools that the county superintendent, or a designee, must inspect annually and submit an annual report that describes the state of schools in the county, as provided. To identify the schools, the Superintendent must identify schools where 15% or more of the teachers are holders of a permit, certificate, or any other authorization that is a lesser certification than a preliminary or clear California teaching credential.
This bill requires the Department to provide the Commission with educator assignment data necessary to annually identify educator assignments, including assignments filled by individuals on preliminary or clear credentials, intern credentials, permits or waivers, misassignments, and vacant positions at local educational agencies. The bill would also require the Commission to ensure local educational agencies have access to the results of the accountability system’s process of assignment monitoring, publish annual certificated educator assignment data that reflects the level of preparation and licensure of educators serving California pupils, and support the department in providing annual updates that provide comprehensive information on teaching assignment outcomes inclusive of all educator classifications at the schoolsite, school district, and county level. The bill would exempt alternative schools from the list of schools where 15% or more of the teachers are holders of a permit, certificate, or any other authorization that is a lesser certification than a preliminary or clear California teaching credential. To the extent that this bill would create new duties for county superintendents of schools and local educational agencies, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.
This bill requires the Commission, by September 30, 2023, to examine and determine how it can ensure that the Commission reviews all transcripts for all candidates requiring determinations of basic skills or subject matter competence in order to complete their credentialing requirements. By November 15, 2023, the Commission must provide its recommendations on ways in which it can provide efficient transcript review to the relevant policy committees and budget subcommittees of the Legislature, the executive director of the State Board of Education or the director’s designee, and the Director of Finance.
(17) Existing law requires all fees the Commission levies and collects be deposited in the Teacher Credentials Fund and prohibits those fees from being transferred to any other fund. Additionally, all fees the Commission collects for tests, examinations, or assessments be deposited in. Existing law also establishes the Test Development and Administration Account in the Teacher Credentials Fund. Department of Finance must recommend a reduction in credential or other fees if, at the beginning of any fiscal year, the Commission has surplus funds.
Beginning July 1, 2023, all fees the Commission collects for tests, examinations, or assessments must be deposited in the Teacher Credentials Fund instead and the Department of Finance will exempt these fees from the requirements related to fee reductions when the commission has surplus funds. These funds must be expended for the development, agency support, maintenance, or administration of tests or other assessments established, required, or administered by the commission, unless otherwise authorized by the Legislature. As part of the budget review process, the Department of Finance will annually recommend an appropriate credential fee sufficient to generate revenues necessary to support the operating budget of the commission plus a prudent reserve to the Legislature.
(18) Existing law establishes that a preliminary teaching credential shall be valid for five years, pending completion of the clear credential program. The Commission must grant or deny a completed application for a credential within seven days of the date that the commission received the application if the applicant supplies the commission with evidence that the applicant is married to, or in a domestic partnership or other legal union with, an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is assigned to a duty station in this state under official active duty military orders and holds a valid teaching credential in another state, district, or territory of the United States.
This bill requires the Commission to issue a comparable preliminary credential to any United States military service member or their spouse or domestic partner, or a surviving spouse or domestic partner of a service member who died while serving as an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States in the previous 12 months, who, among other things, possesses and provides proof of a valid, out-of-state, unexpired, professional-level credential. The credential issued under these provisions is only valid for the duration of those military orders not for more than three years.
Existing law requires the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that includes a teaching performance assessment as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential.
This bill requires the commission exempt preliminary multiple subject credential candidates and preliminary single subject credential candidates who received a waiver under the Governor’s emergency orders from the requirement, and any accompanying regulations, to complete a teaching performance assessment if the candidate completes a commission-approved induction program and two years of service with satisfactory teacher evaluations on or before June 30, 2025.
(19) Existing law establishes the Teacher Residency Grant Program and appropriates funds from the General Fund to the Commission to make one-time grants of up to $25,000 per residency candidate if the candidate agrees to serve in a school within the jurisdiction of the grant recipient that sponsored the candidate for at least four school years.
This bill requires a residency candidate to instead agree to serve in any public school in California for at least four school years. The bill would increase the amount of the grants to instead be up to $40,000 per residency candidate.
(20) Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program and authorizes a local educational agency that elects to operate an expanded learning opportunity program to operate a before school component of a program, an after school component of a program, or both, and requires the local educational agency to comply with specified requirements, including the development of a program plan.
This bill, among other things, exempts school districts from licensing requirements for purposes of the program if the expanded learning opportunity program is operating a child daycare facility directly, but not if a third party is operating the facility. The Superintendent, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, must establish a process and a timeline for local educational agencies that contract with third-party providers to operate expanded learning opportunity programs at a location other than a local educational agency’s school campus and California state preschool program providers must annually submit program access information to the State Department of Education. The Superintendent, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, must submit a report to the relevant fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature relating to these provisions.
Existing law requires the Superintendent to allocate funding for the program and authorizes a charter school or school district to expend the funds from the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years, and, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, authorizes those local educational agencies to expend the funds received from the Superintendent from the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years.
The bill authorizes charter schools and school districts, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, to instead expend or encumber the funds from the Superintendent from the 2021–22 fiscal year to the 2023–24 fiscal year, inclusive, and, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, would authorize those local educational agencies to instead expend or encumber the funds received from the Superintendent from the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years.
(21) For purposes of state apportionments, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school materially decreases during a fiscal year because of an emergency, existing law requires the Superintendent to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school the total average daily attendance that would have been credited had the emergency not occurred. The Superintendent must make specified calculations for purposes of state apportionments to a school district, county office of education, or charter school affected by the state of emergency declared by the Governor in November 2018. For the 2020–21 fiscal year for school districts, the Superintendent is required to calculate the difference between the school district’s certified second principal apportionment local control funding formula entitlement in the 2020–21 fiscal year and the 2019–20 fiscal year and, if there is a difference, to allocate the amount of that difference to the school district, and for the 2021–22 fiscal year, the Superintendent must allocate an amount equal to 25% of the difference calculated by the Superintendent for the 2020–21 fiscal year. Existing law continuously appropriates the amounts necessary to provide those apportionments.
This bill requires the Superintendent, for the 2022–23 fiscal year for school districts, to make an appropriation equal to 12.5% of the difference calculated by the Superintendent for the 2020–21 fiscal year.
(22) Existing law provides for the funding of necessary small schools and high schools that must include various specified amounts per pupil and teacher for different tiers of numbers of pupils and teachers. If a school district had a school eligible for necessary small school funding and was destroyed as a result of a state of emergency that was declared by the Governor in August 2021, the district is authorized to continue to report the amount of attendance generated by pupils enrolled in another school of the school district that would have otherwise attended the destroyed school, and the number of full-time teachers employed by the school district that would have otherwise provided instructional services at the school, as if the school were operational in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years. Existing law requires those schools to be considered a necessary small school for these purposes for the 2022–23 fiscal year.
This bill extends the applicability of those provisions to the 2023–24 fiscal year.
(23) Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. As a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, school districts or charter schools must, maintain an average of at least one adult for every 10 pupils for transitional kindergarten classrooms, contingent upon an appropriation of funds and contingent upon assigning credentialed teachers who are first assigned to a transitional kindergarten classroom after July 1, 2015, have met one of designated criteria by August 1, 2023. The Superintendent is required to withhold a school district’s or charter school’s entitlements if a school district or charter school fails to comply with these, and other, requirements starting the 2022–23 school year.
This bill delays the start of the above requirements until the 2025–26 school year. Additionally, the appropriation of funds is not contingent upon meeting these requirements. The bill would delay until August 1, 2025, the deadline for a credentialed teacher first assigned to a transitional kindergarten classroom after July 1, 2015, to meet the criteria referenced above, and removes the requirement for the Superintendent to withhold entitlements.
Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to, at any time during a school year, admit a child to a transitional kindergarten program who will have their fifth birthday after the applicable cutoff date but during that same school year with parent permission.
Notwithstanding that provision, this bill authorizes a school district or charter school to enroll an early enrollment child in a transitional kindergarten program if specified conditions are met, including, among others, that any classroom that includes an early enrollment child maintains an adult-to-pupil ratio of at least one adult to every 10 pupils, and would penalize a school district or charter school that fails to meet at least one of certain requirements, as provided. Under the bill, a school district or charter school who admits an early enrollment pupil may not generate average daily attendance or include the pupil in the enrollment or unduplicated pupil count until the pupil has attained their fifth birthday. For the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years, a school district or charter school that offers transitional kindergarten to early enrollment pupils is required to concurrently offer enrollment in a California state preschool program that is operated by the school district or charter school if it operates such a program and that program is not fully subscribed, and would authorize the school district or charter school to enroll an early enrollment child in the program, regardless of income, after all other eligible children have been enrolled. School districts and charter schools that serve early enrollment children in transitional kindergarten are required to report specified information to the State Department of Education for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years.
(24) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or a County Board of Education to request the state board to waive all or part of specified education laws or regulations adopted by the state board, as provided, with exceptions. Existing law establishes provisions relating to transitional kindergarten and kindergarten admission.
This bill prohibits the State Board from waiving the transitional kindergarten classroom enrollment, class size, and student to adult ratio requirements.
(25) The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes the establishment and operation of charter schools. Existing law authorizes a charter school to appeal a school district’s decision to deny a charter petition to the County Board of Education and, if the County Board of Education upholds the school district’s decision, to appeal the county decision to the State Board of Education. The State Board may reverse those decisions only if it determines that the governing board of the school district or the County Board of Education abused its discretion by denying the charter petition.
This bill instead authorizes the state board to reverse those decisions only upon a determination that there was an abuse of discretion by both the school district and the County Board of Education.
Existing law authorizes a chartering authority to renew the approval of a charter school petition under specified procedures. Existing law requires all charter schools whose term expires on or between January 1, 2022, and June 30, 2025, inclusive, to have their term extended by two years.
This bill also requires all charter schools whose term expires on or between January 1, 2024, and June 30, 2027, inclusive, to have their term extended by one additional year. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies acting as chartering authorities, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Existing law prohibits, from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2025, inclusive, the approval of a petition for the establishment of a new charter school offering non-classroom-based instruction. A charter school may only receive funding for non-classroom-based instruction if the state board makes a determination to fund the school.
This bill extends the prohibition on approving a petition for the establishment of a new charter school offering non-classroom-based instruction by one year to instead be until January 1, 2026. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst’s Office and the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature, the Department of Finance, the State Department of Education, and the executive director of the state board on the processes used to determine funding for non-classroom-based charter schools no later than March 1, 2024.
Existing law provides that a charter school that is operating under a chartering authority other than the chartering authority that originally granted its charter petition and that meets certain requirements as a continuing charter school by the State Department of Education is not eligible for funding as a new charter school. Existing law defines an acquiring charter school as a state charter school site deemed a continuing charter school that has wholly combined with one or more other affected state charter school sites. Under existing law, on July 1, 2025, a charter school meeting the definition of an acquiring charter school is no longer regarded as a continuing charter school, as provided.
This bill extends the date at which a charter school meeting the definition of an acquiring charter school would no longer be regarded as a continuing charter school by one year to instead be July 1, 2026.
(26) Existing law requires county boards of education to provide for the administration and operation of juvenile court schools by the county superintendent of schools or by contract with the respective governing boards of the elementary, high school, or unified school district in which the juvenile court school is located, as provided. The administrator and operator are encouraged to enter into a memorandum of understanding or equivalent mutual agreement with the county chief probation officer to support a collaborative process for meeting the needs of wards of the court who are receiving their education in juvenile court schools. Those agreements may include, among other things, a joint process for performing an intake evaluation for each ward to determine the ward’s educational needs and ability to participate in all educational settings once the ward enters the local juvenile facility and requires that process to recognize the limitations on academic evaluation and planning that can result from short-term placements.
If a memorandum of understanding or equivalent mutual agreement is agreed to as described above, the bill would require that memorandum of understanding or equivalent mutual agreement to require the joint intake to take place within 2 business days, or under extraordinary circumstances up to 5 business days, of the ward entering the local juvenile facility. Additionally, the memorandum of understanding or equivalent mutual agreement must include a transition plan for when the ward reenrolls at a local educational agency postplacement that would be required to be transferred to the postplacement local educational agency within 2 business days of the youth being enrolled in the postplacement local educational agency.
The bill also requires the Department of Education to annually report specified information relating to pupils in juvenile court schools on its internet website and to enter into a contract for an independent evaluation and provide a report regarding county juvenile court schools and county community schools, as provided on or before November 1, 2025. The bill would require the Superintendent to convene a workgroup on meeting the needs of pupils with disabilities who enroll in juvenile court schools operated by county offices of education. The bill would require the department to submit a report with the workgroup’s findings and recommendations to the relevant policy and budget committees of the Legislature, the state board, and the Department of Finance on or before February 25, 2025.
Existing law requires a county probation department to ensure that juveniles with a high school diploma or California high school equivalency certificate who are detained in, or committed to, a juvenile hall or a juvenile ranch, camp, or forestry camp have access to, and can choose to participate in public postsecondary academic and career technical courses and programs offered online, and for which they are eligible. Existing law encourages county probation departments to develop other educational partnerships with local public postsecondary campuses, as is feasible, to provide programs on campus and onsite at the juvenile hall or a juvenile ranch, camp, or forestry camp.
This bill requires county probation departments to collaborate with a county office of education, and in partnership with the California Community Colleges or the California State University, or in voluntary partnership with the University of California to provide access to public postsecondary academic and career technical courses and programs offered online, and for which they are eligible. The bill would also apply these provisions to juveniles who are detained in, or committed to, secure youth treatment facilities. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(27) Existing law authorizes a public or private elementary or secondary school to determine whether to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist and trained personnel available at the school, and to designate one or more volunteers to receive related training to address an opioid overdose, as specified.
Commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, this bill would appropriate $3,500,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to county offices of education for the purpose of purchasing and maintaining a sufficient stock of emergency opioid antagonists for school districts and charter schools within their jurisdiction to maintain a minimum of two units at each middle school, junior high school, high school, and adult school site. The Department is authorized to allocate up to $350,000 of those funds to county offices of education for administrative costs to coordinate, maintain stock, and distribute emergency opioid antagonists. As a condition of receipt of these funds, county offices of education must coordinate the purchase of and maintain a stock of emergency opioid antagonists.
(28) Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide two school meals free of charge during each school day to each pupil who requests a meal regardless of whether the pupil is eligible for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to reimburse local educational agencies that participate in the federal School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program for all expenses accrued in providing United States Department of Agriculture reimbursable meals to pupils that are not reimbursed.
This bill instead requires the Department of Education to provide reimbursement to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that participate in, and meet the requirements of, the federal School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program, and any applicable state laws or regulations, for reduced-price and paid meals served to pupils. The Department will reimburse the local educational agency per-meal and reimbursement shall not exceed the difference between the federal Department of Agriculture rates and state contribution established pursuant to Education Code Section 49559.
(29) Existing law requires a local educational agency to exempt an individual with exceptional needs from all coursework and other requirements that are in addition to the statewide coursework requirements specified in Education Code Section 51225.3 and shall award the pupil a diploma of graduation from high school.
This bill specifies that the exemption only applies to an individual with exceptional needs who entered the ninth grade in the 2022–23 school year or later and only after meeting all of the statewide coursework requirements for high school graduation.
(30) Existing law requires the Student Aid Commission and the Department to facilitate students completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and the form established pursuant to Education Code section 69508.5 used for purposes of obtaining state financial aid for California Dream Act students (California Dream Act Application). Local educational agencies must confirm that pupils in grade 12 that have completed and submitted the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and the California Dream Act Application.
This bill requires the Student Aid Commission to provide the California College Guidance Initiative with the discrete data necessary to inform educator reports available through a specified internet website so that educators can ensure that each individual pupil has successfully completed and submitted their Free Application for Federal Student Aid or California Dream Act Application.
(31) Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a template for a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) on or before March 31, 2014 and an annual update to the LCAP for use by school districts, county boards of education, and charter schools. The template adopted by the State Board must include certain information, including, among other things, a summary of the stakeholder engagement process.
This bill requires a summary of the stakeholder engagement process, including stakeholders at schools generating Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding (see paragraph 15, above), and describing how stakeholder engagement influenced the development of the LCAP.
Existing law requires the state board to include instructions for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to complete the LCAP and annual update to the LCAP.
This bill requires these instructions to specify that, starting with the 2024-25 LCAP, school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools describe specific actions in the LCAP they will take when a school or pupil group within a local educational agency, or a pupil group within a school, received the lowest performance level on one or more state indicators on the California School Dashboard. For local educational agencies receiving Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding, the instructions shall specify that the local education agency must identify focused goals that address pupil groups that have the lowest performance level on one or more indicators on the California School Dashboard for each school generating that funding and any underlying issues in the credentialing, subject matter preparation, and retention of the school’s educators, if applicable. By creating new requirements involving the template used by local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(32) Existing law requires each school district, county office of education, and charter school, on or before July 1, 2019, and each year thereafter, to develop a summary document known as the local control funding formula budget overview for parents.
This bill requires for county offices of education that the local control funding formula budget overview for parents to additionally and separately address county office of education add-on funding provided for purposes of juvenile court schools, funding provided for county community schools, and for the Student Support and Enrichment Block Grant, as specified. By imposing additional duties on county office of education officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Existing law, on or before July 1, 2015, and each year thereafter, requires the governing body of a charter school to hold a public hearing to adopt an LCAP using a template adopted by the state board. Existing law requires the governing body of a charter school to update the goals and annual actions to achieve those goals identified in the charter petition, as provided, using the template for the LCAP and annual update to the LCAP adopted by the state board, as provided.
This bill requires a charter school to present a report on the annual update to the LCAP and the local control funding formula budget overview for parents on or before February 28 of each year at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing body of the charter school. The report must include the outcome of the metrics data that is related to metrics identified in the current year’s LCAP and the midyear expenditure and implementation data on all actions identified in the current year’s LCAP.
Existing law requires the superintendent of the school district or the county superintendent of schools present the LCAP or annual update to the LCAP to the parent advisory committee for review and comment before a governing board of a school district or a County Board of Education considers the adoption of an LCAP or an annual update to the plan.
This bill additionally requires the superintendent of a school district or the county superintendent of schools to present a report on the annual update to the LCAP and the local control funding formula budget overview for parents on or before February 28 of each year at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board of the school district or the County Board of Education before a governing board of a school district or a County Board of Education considers the adoption of an LCAP or an annual update to the plan. The report must include the outcome of the metrics data that is related to metrics identified in the current year’s LCAP and the midyear expenditure and implementation data on all actions identified in the current year’s LCAP.
The bill requires the superintendent of the school district or the county superintendent of schools to present the LCAP or annual update to the LCAP instead to any applicable advisory committee, including the parent advisory and English learner parent advisory committee, for review and comment. The superintendent of the school district shall respond, in writing, to comments received from the parent advisory committee.
By requiring local educational agencies and officials to present this new report on or before February 28 of each year and to any applicable advisory committee, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(33) Existing law requires the single multiple measures public school accountability system authorized by the provisions requiring the state board to adopt evaluation rubrics, to measure the overall performance of numerically significant pupil subgroups in schools, including charter schools, school districts, and county offices of education, as provided. Existing law includes within these numerically significant pupil subgroups, among others, English learners.
This bill includes English learners and, separately, long-term English learners (defined as a pupil who has not attained English language proficiency within five years of initial classification) as an English learner for this purpose. To the extent this would create new duties for local educational agencies, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program.
(34) Existing law requires the state board to, on or before October 1, 2016, adopt evaluation rubrics for certain purposes, including, among others, to assist a school district, county office of education, or charter school in evaluating its strengths, weaknesses, and areas that require improvement.
This bill requires the public reporting of performance data indicators on the California School Dashboard to be completed on or before the following dates for the prior school year:
(A) December 15, 2023.
(B) December 1, 2024.
(C) November 15, 2025.
(D) October 15, 2026, and October 15 of each year thereafter.
This bill requires the timelines associated with data collection through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System to be adjusted to support these public reporting dates. To the extent this would create new duties for local educational agencies, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program.
(35) Existing law requires the superintendent of a school district to prominently post on the homepage of the school district’s internet website any LCAP approved by the governing board of the school district.
This bill requires the superintendent of a school district to prominently post on the homepage of the school district’s internet website any LCAP approved by the county superintendent of schools. By creating new duties for superintendents of school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to prominently post on the homepage of the County Office of Education’s internet website any LCAP approved by the County Board of Education, as specified.
This bill requires a county superintendent of schools to prominently post on the homepage of the County Office of Education’s internet website any LCAP approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. By creating new duties for county superintendents, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(36) Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to prepare a summary of how the county superintendent plans to support school districts and schools within the county in implementing LCAPs and to present the summary to the County Board of Education. Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to submit the summary with its LCAP annually. Under existing law, the above-mentioned requirements do not apply to a county superintendent of schools with jurisdiction over a single school district.
This bill requires a county superintendent of schools with jurisdiction over a single school district to comply with those provisions. By creating new requirements for a county superintendent of schools with jurisdiction over a single school district, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(37) Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to approve an LCAP or annual update to an LCAP adopted by the governing board of a school district, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to approve an LCAP or annual update to an LCAP adopted by the County Board of Education, if the plan or annual update adheres to and follows any instructions or directions for completing the template adopted by the state board.
This bill requires school districts and county offices of education needing technical assistance to include in the LCAP or annual update to an LCAP a description of the actions and services implementing the work related to technical assistance for improving outcomes of the pupil group(s) to meet specified criteria within the school district or county office of education. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on school districts and county offices of education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(38) Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to provide technical assistance: if the governing board of a school district requests technical assistance; if the county superintendent of schools does not approve an LCAP or annual update to the LCAP approved by a governing board of a school district; or for any school district for which one or more specified pupil subgroups meets certain performance criteria.
This bill requires the county superintendent of schools provide at least two years of technical assistance to any school district where one or more subgroup (ethnic subgroup, socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils, English learners and, separately, long-term English learners, pupils with disabilities, foster youth, and homeless youth) who meet the criteria the State Board of Education has identified as requiring technical assistance. The technical assistance shall be focused on building the school district’s capacity to develop and implement actions and services responsive to pupil and community needs, including assisting the school district to identify its strengths and weaknesses in regard to the state priorities, and to identify pupil subgroups that are low performing or experiencing significant disparities from other pupil subgroups as identified on the California School Dashboard. The county superintendent shall work collaboratively with the school district to secure assistance from an academic, programmatic, or fiscal expert or team of experts to identify and implement effective programs and practices that are designed to improve performance in any areas of weakness identified by the school district.
The bill requires the county superintendent of schools provide technical assistance for any school district that fails to submit specified data to the department, as provided. For any school district where one or more subgroup who meets the criteria the State Board of Education has identified as requiring technical assistance for three or more consecutive years, the school district’s geographic lead agency (established pursuant to Education Code Section 52073), shall, in collaboration with the County Superintendent of Schools, provide technical assistance to the school district. The geographic lead agency shall evaluate whether the assistance of one or more expert lead agencies should be consulted as part of the technical assistance process.
(39) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, if the Superintendent does not approve an LCAP or annual update to the LCAP approved by the County Board of Education, if the County Board of Education requests technical assistance, or for any county office of education where one or more subgroup (ethnic subgroup, socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils, English learners and, separately, long-term English learners, pupils with disabilities, foster youth, and homeless youth) meets the criteria of the State Board of Education to provide technical assistance.
This bill requires the superintendent, for any county office of education for which one or more specified pupil subgroups meets the certain performance criteria, provide technical assistance for a minimum of 2 years. The bill would require the superintendent to provide technical assistance for any county office of education that fails to submit specified data to the department.
(40) Existing law establishes the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for the purpose of advising and assisting school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving the goals set forth in an LCAP.
The bill requires, by March 1, 2024, the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence and the department to select, subject to approval by the executive director of the state board local educational agencies, or a consortium of local educational agencies, to serve as Equity Leads to support local education agencies in the goal of pupil performance improvement, address the achievement gaps between pupil subgroups as described in Section 52052, and improve outreach and collaboration with stakeholders. The bill prescribes the competitive process for selecting Equity Leads and for the Equity Leads to demonstrate the capacity to work collaboratively with the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, the department, and other lead agencies in the system to advance the purpose of the statewide system of support. The Equity Leads will partner with other subject matter experts across the state to develop and disseminate resources on effective practices for analyzing programs, identify barriers and opportunities, and implement actions and services to meet the identified needs of all pupils. The focus will address racial disparities and historical racial inequalities in California currently impacting pupils, as demonstrated in past policies related to segregation, immigration, education, public safety, and incarceration, as well as to understand and utilize the local control and accountability plan for strategic planning. The Equity Leads shall be responsible for partnering with the local educational agencies, prioritizing those with schools receiving Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding to analyze programs, prioritizing those with schools receiving Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding in developing and implementing similar-based programs and supports. The bill commences with the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriate two million dollars ($2,000,000) from the General Fund to be awarded to local educational agencies serving as Equity Leads.
(41) Existing law requires a school district, county office of education, or charter school that requests the advice and assistance of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to reimburse the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for the cost of those services pursuant to authority provided in the annual Budget Act.
This bill provides that only a school district, county office of education, or charter school that is eligible for certain technical assistance pursuant to Education Sections 52071, 52071.5, or 47607.3 to request the advice and assistance of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence. The bill additionally authorizes the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to request the advice or assistance of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence. The County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team would be required to reimburse the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for the cost of those services.
(42) Existing law authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to the approval of the state board, to identify county offices of education and school districts in need of intervention if the county office of education or school district, in three out of four consecutive school years, meets specified criteria and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence has provided advice and assistance to the county office of education or school district. Existing law authorizes the Superintendent, in those cases where a county office of education or school district has been identified as needing intervention to, among other things, make changes to the LCAP and develop and impose a budget revision.
This bill revises and recasts those provisions by creating two separate intervention processes, as provided. The bill would first require the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, in consultation with certain providers of technical assistance and the school district or the County Office of Education, as applicable, to determine if assistance from the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence is necessary. The bill authorizes the Superintendent, subject to the approval of the State Board, to identify county offices of education and school districts in need of intervention. The Superintendent will intervene where the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence determines that the school district has either failed, or is unable, to implement the recommendations of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence or that the inadequate performance of the school district is so persistent or acute as to require intervention by the Superintendent. By creating new duties for school districts and county offices of education in relation to their collaboration with the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(43) Existing law establishes the Community Engagement Initiative Expansion. For the 2022–23 fiscal year to the 2026–27 fiscal year, inclusive, existing law requires a selected lead agency to convene 30 community engagement professional learning networks, and requires these teams to be willing to partner with other communities and school districts on improving community engagement.
This bill requires a partnership pursuant to those provisions to include providing fiscal support to partner organizations to support their capacity for meaningful collaboration and implementation of the Community Engagement Initiative.
(44) Existing law establishes the Bilingual Teacher Professional Development Program, administered by the department in consultation with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, for teachers seeking to provide instruction in bilingual and multilingual settings. Existing law provides that the purpose of the grant program is to ensure that California can meet the demand for bilingual teachers necessary for the implementation of dual language and other bilingual education programs. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to issue a minimum of five grants to applicants through a competitive process and to allocate grant funding to eligible local educational agencies for purposes of providing professional development services to teachers or paraprofessionals.
This bill provides that it is also the purpose of the grant program to increase bilingual teachers in languages such as Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, and Arabic classrooms and other languages. The bill, among other things, requires the Department to meet quarterly with grant recipients to share promising practices and resources, and to resolve issues of implementation. The bill would, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for purposes of the program, to be available for grants totaling $4,000,000 each fiscal year, from the 2023–24 fiscal year to the 2027–28 fiscal year, inclusive, and would require grant recipients of those funds to provide, by July 1, 2026, a preliminary report, and, by January 1, 2029, a final report, of specified information to the department, as provided.
(45) Existing law requires the Superintendent to develop program guidelines for dyslexia screening to be used to assist regular education teachers, special education teachers, and parents to identify and assess pupils with dyslexia, as provided.
This bill requires the state board to appoint an independent panel of experts on or before January 31, 2024, to create an approved list of screening instruments for assessing pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2 for risk of reading difficulties. The bill would require the panel to approve the list of screening instruments on or before December 31, 2024, and would require the governing board or body of a local educational agency serving pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 or 2 to adopt one or more screening instruments from the list the panel of experts creates on or before June 30, 2025. The bill would require a local educational agency serving pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 or 2 to, commencing no later than the 2025–26 school year, and annually thereafter, assess each pupil in those grades using the adopted screening instrument. Screening results shall be used as a flag for potential risk of reading difficulties, not as a diagnosis of a disability. If the screening identifies a pupil as being at risk of having reading difficulties, the local educational agency shall provide the pupil with supports and services appropriate to the specific challenges identified by the screening instrument and other pertinent information about the pupil, which may include:
(1) Evidence-based literacy instruction focused on the pupil’s specific needs.
(2) Progress monitoring.
(3) Early intervention in the regular general education program.
(4) One-on-one or small group tutoring.
(5) Further evaluation or diagnostic assessment.
By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. The bill appropriates $1,000,000 to the Superintendent for the state board to appoint the panel for creating an approved list of screening instruments.
(46) Existing law requires each special education local plan area to administer local plans, as provided. Existing law prohibits the governing board of a school district, from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2024, inclusive, from electing to submit a local plan for the education of all individuals with exceptional needs residing in the district for creating a single district special education local plan area, as provided.
This bill extends that prohibition by two years until July 1, 2026. The bill requires the Superintendent to post all local plans submitted by each special education local plan area on the department’s internet website.
Existing law requires, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent to determine the base grant funding for each special education local plan area, as provided.
This bill requires, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, each special education local plan area to allocate special education funding to all of its member local educational agencies an amount that is at least equal to the total sum of base grant funding allocated to all of its member local educational agencies in the 2022–23 fiscal year multiplied by the sum of one plus a certain inflation factor for the 2023–24 fiscal year, and then multiplied by the sum of one plus the percent change in funded average daily attendance of its member local educational agencies from the 2022–23 fiscal year to the 2023–24 fiscal year. To the extent this imposes additional duties on a special education local plan area, this bill impose a state-mandated local program.
(47) Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to provide a system of assessments of pupils that has the primary purposes of (A) assisting teachers, administrators, and pupils and their parents, (B) improving teaching and learning, and (C) promoting high-quality teaching and learning using a variety of assessment approaches. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to acquire interim assessment tools for pupils in kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive and provide them at no cost to local educational agencies. The interim assessments are to be designed to provide timely feedback to teachers to improve instruction, for communication with pupils’ parents or guardians, and for identifying teachers’ professional development goals. The results of these interim assessments may not be used for any high-stakes purpose, including school staff evaluations or pupil grade promotion or retention.
This bill applies the same purposes and the prohibition against using the results for a high-stakes purpose to any interim assessments offered by the State Department of Education to local educational agencies.
(48) Existing law establishes the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CalPADS), which is maintained by the department and consists of pupil data from elementary and secondary schools relating to, among other things, demographic, program participation, enrollment, and statewide assessments. Existing law requires the system to be used to accomplish specified goals and requires local educational agencies to retain individual pupil records for each test taker.
This bill requires local educational agencies to submit data according to the processes and timelines established by the State Department of Education in order to accomplish those specified goals and to comply with the requirement to retain individual pupil records for each test taker. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill imposes a state-mandated local program.
(49) Existing law authorizes the California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) to provide its services to all California school districts and requires the State Department of Education to ensure that the notifications provided by local educational agencies, include appropriate content related to how CalPADS and CCGI data will be used in order to comply with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.
This bill authorizes CCGI to provide its services to all local educational agencies and require the Department to instead notify local educational agencies of the additional use of CalPADS data. The Department will advise local educational agencies to include in their annual parent notifications required by the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, that CalPADs data will now be shared with the CCGI, be used to provide pupils and families with resources, and to enable a pupil to transmit information shared with CCGI to postsecondary institutions and the Student Aid Commission.
(50) Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to award one-time grant funds of up to $20,000 to students enrolled in professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential who commit to work for four years at a “priority school.”
This bill expands the program to award grants to students who commit to work for four years at California preschool programs. The bill requires a grant recipient to agree to repay received grant funds if they do not complete their teacher preparation program and earn a preliminary credential within six years after the first distribution of grant funds.
Existing law requires the student to be enrolled in an approved teacher preparation program that has a main campus location or administrative entity that resides in the state, or to be enrolled in an approved teacher credential program at a California private or independent postsecondary educational institution, a nonprofit institution headquartered and operating in California, or a California public postsecondary educational institution in order to be eligible for a grant under the Golden State Teacher Grant Program.
This bill authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to determine that a private postsecondary educational institution that offers an approved professional preparation program approved by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing qualifies for the program if the institution meets certain criteria, including that the institution was originally chartered and is currently operating as a nonprofit entity that offers services exclusively online to California residents. The bill requires the Student Aid Commission to provide one-time grant funds of up to $10,000 to a student in an approved program under these provisions.
(51) Existing law appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for the State Department of Education and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, with approval from the executive director of the state board, to designate a county office of education to identify and curate a repository of high-quality open educational resources for use by local educational agencies. Existing law makes these funds available for encumbrance until June 30, 2024.
This bill extends the encumbrance period for that appropriation to June 30, 2025.
(52) Existing law, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, appropriates $1,125,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Air Resources Board for the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Voucher Incentive Project to fund zero-emission school buses to replace heavy-duty internal combustion school buses, and $375,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to fund zero-emission school bus charging or fueling infrastructure. The State Air Resources Board must award grants totaling $225,000,000, and requires the Commission to award grants totaling $75,000,000, in each fiscal year to local educational agencies beginning in the 2023-24 fiscal year.
This bill deletes the above-described appropriations and instead appropriate, for the 2023–24 fiscal year only, $375,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Air Resources Board for the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Voucher Incentive Project to fund grants to local educational agencies, for zero-emission school buses to replace heavy-duty internal combustion school buses and $125,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to fund grants to local educational agencies for zero-emission school bus charging or fueling infrastructure and related activities, including, but not limited to, charging or fueling stations, equipment, site design, construction, and related infrastructure upgrades, in order to complement those vehicle investments. The funding for these grants is available until June 30, 2029. Local educational agencies who receive a grant will have three years from the receipt of funds to expend the money otherwise it reverts to the state.
(53) Existing law appropriates $413,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for apportionment for continuing operations in the 2022–23 fiscal year in accordance with prescribed calculations by comparing funded average daily attendance in the 2021-22 fiscal year annual apportionment to the 2021-22 with the fiscal year second principal apportionment. Non-classroom-based charter schools are not eligible for the funding.
This bill reduces the appropriation for that purpose by $122,977,000 to instead be $290,023,000.
(54) Existing law, for the 2022–23 fiscal year, appropriates $1,300,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2021–22 fiscal year to the State Allocation Board for new construction and modernization projects under the Leroy F. Green School Facilities Act of 1998, as provided.
This bill appropriates $1,960,500,000 from the General Fund to the State Allocation Board for the 2023-24 fiscal year. The bill would authorize the Department of General Services to charge administrative costs, not to exceed $15,000,000, incurred to implement the appropriation against either of those appropriations. By expanding the authorized uses of the $1,300,000,000 appropriation referenced above, the bill would make an appropriation.
(55) Existing law appropriates $600,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to local educational agencies to expend on kitchen infrastructure upgrades that will increase a school’s capacity to prepare meals served through a federal school meal program.
Existing law appropriates $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, to local educational agencies to expend on implementing specified school food best practices as part of reimbursable meals served through the federal National School Lunch Program and federal School Breakfast Program. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, to develop eligibility criteria for California-grown, whole or minimally processed, sustainably grown food, and plant-based or restricted diet food options from California producers that may be minimally processed and can be purchased by local educational agencies with appropriated funds.
This bill specifies the Legislature’s intent to provide pupils with fresh and nutritious meals using minimally processed, locally grown, and sustainable food, and to provide meal options for those pupils with restricted diets. This bill also revises the eligibility criteria that the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, is required to develop.
The bill revises the definition of freshly prepared onsite meals to authorize the Department of Food and Agriculture to interpret this definition and provide guidance to local educational agencies to support the implementation of those programs.
(56) Existing law appropriates $3,560,885,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the 2022–23 fiscal year to establish the Arts, Music, and Instructional Materials Discretionary Block Grant, as specified.
This bill reduces the above-described appropriation by $200,000,000 to instead be $3,360,885,000.
(57) Existing law appropriates $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to local educational agencies purposes of this section for the Literacy Coaches and Reading Specialists Grant Program in order to employ and train literacy coaches and reading and literacy specialists to develop school literacy programs, mentor teachers, and develop and implement interventions for pupils in need of targeted literacy support, as provided. A school site is eligible if it has an unduplicated pupil percentage of 95 percent or greater for pupils enrolled in kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive. Recipient local educational agencies are to submit a report on how it used grant funds to the State Department of Education on or before June 30, 2027. Existing law also requires the Superintendent to provide a comprehensive report to the Department of Finance, State Board of Education, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature on the data submitted by local educational agencies.
This bill requires the recipient local educational agencies and the Superintendent to submit interim reports on or before June 30, 2024, and a final report on or before June 30, 2027, detailing how it used the funds. The bill also requires the Superintendent to submit the interim and final reports submitted by recipient local educational agencies to a county office of education selected through a competitive process to conduct an independent evaluation of the reports. These reports shall include a description of how funds were used to employ literacy coaches and reading and literacy specialists for its eligible schools and to develop and implement school literacy programs, how expenditures impacted pupils’ literacy achievement and how the local educational agency plans to continue to fund literacy coaches and reading and literacy specialists past the award period.
This bill also appropriates $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to augment the Literacy Coaches and Reading Specialists Grant Program to allocate moneys to school sites with an unduplicated pupil percentage of 95 percent or greater for pupils enrolled in kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive that did not receive moneys under the initial program to develop school literacy programs, employ and train literacy coaches and reading and literacy specialists, and develop and implement interventions for pupils in need of targeted literacy support.
(58) The Budget Act of 2023 appropriates $118,810,000 to the department from the Federal Trust Fund, for purposes of the federal Stronger Connections Grant Program, in order to support local educational agencies to implement Multi-Tiered Systems of Support activities.
This bill requires the Superintendent to award grants on a competitive basis to eligible local educational agencies pursuant to the requirements of the federal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (Public Law 117-159). The bill requires recipients to use grant funds to establish safe, healthy, and supportive learning opportunities and environments in schools. Allowable activities include implementation of high quality integrated academic, behavioral, and social emotional learning practices or services aligned to the Multi-Tiered System of Support, activities that support safe and healthy students such as school-based mental health services, drug and violence prevention activities, anti-bullying and anti-harassment programs, and suicide prevention programs, and school preparedness and school safety efforts that are part of a multifaceted, comprehensive school climate plan designed to implement pupil safety, health, wellbeing, and academic development.
(59) This bill requires the Legislative Analyst’s Office, by no later than March 15, 2024, to provide recommendations to the Department of Finance, the State Board of Education, and the relevant fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature for changes to the local control and accountability plan for county offices of education or, to the extent feasible, recommendations for alternative reporting requirements outside of the local control and accountability plan, as provided. The objectives of the recommended changes shall be to increase the transparency of county office of education operations and programs, and their goals, provide methods to shorten and simplify the local control and accountability plan, and increase transparency of county office of education responsibilities and activities.
(60) This bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate funding to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish the Diverse Education Leaders Pipeline Initiative program for providing grants to local educational agencies to train, place, and retain diverse and culturally responsive administrators in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12. The goals of the program include increasing diversity among public school administrators for transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to promote school environments that better represent and reflect the diversity of the pupils served; cultivating culturally responsive public school administrators for transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, through professional development that centers diversity, equity, and inclusion; mitigating or removing administrator credentialing costs for aspiring public school administrators for transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and administrator preparation programs; promoting improved academic and school climate outcomes for all pupils; and tracking and publicly reporting recruitment, retention, and demographic data for all educators in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to inform policy, legislation, and practice.
(61) This bill, on or before June 30, 2024, appropriates an amount to be determined by the Director of Finance from the General Fund to the Superintendent in augmentation of the Special Education Program for Individuals with Exceptional Needs in Schedule (1) of Item 6100-161-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2023. The bill makes these funds available only to the extent that revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs from successor agencies are less than the estimated amount determined by the Director of Finance. The bill requires, on or before June 30, 2024, the Director of Finance to determine if the revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs from successor agencies exceed the estimated amount reflected in the Budget Act of 2023 and, if so, it requires the Director of Finance to reduce the specified appropriation in the Budget Act of 2023 by the amount of that excess.
(62) This bill appropriates $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to create, in consultation with the executive director of the state board, a Literacy Roadmap to help educators apply the state’s curriculum framework to classroom instruction, navigate the resources and professional development opportunities available to implement effective literacy instruction, and improve literacy outcomes for all pupils with a focus on equity to help educators apply the state’s curriculum framework to classroom instruction, navigate the resources and professional development opportunities available to implement effective literacy instruction, and improve literacy outcomes for all pupils with a focus on equity. The Literacy Roadmap shall include models of effective practice that incorporate the five themes of the English language arts and English language development framework, describe to local educators, site leaders and local educational agency administrators, and members of governing boards how they can use the English language arts and English language development framework, along with other existing resources, to offer evidence-based literacy instruction, and provide practical direction for literacy instruction and intervention across content areas in alignment with the state-adopted standards for all pupils.
The State Department of Education shall post the Literacy Roadmap on its internet website and use the statewide system of support and other initiatives to disseminate the Literacy Roadmap statewide.
(63) This bill appropriates $100,000 for the 2023–24 fiscal year to the Superintendent for allocation to the Sacramento County Office of Education to update distance learning curriculum and instructional guidance for mathematics in alignment with the state-adopted mathematics framework in consultation with the executive director of the state board and the department.
(64) Existing law requires the department, on or before June 1, 2024, to develop evidence-based best practices for restorative justice practice implementation on a school campus and to make these best practices available on the department’s internet website for use by local educational agencies.
This bill appropriates $7,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to be made available to support local educational agencies electing to implement the restorative justice best practices from materials developed and posted on the State Department of Education website. The Superintendent shall develop an application process and criteria for making awards.
(65) This bill, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriates $100,000 from the General Fund to the department to contract with a specified independent evaluator to extend the evaluation of certain technical assistance, including by examining and analyzing California School Dashboard data, as provided.
(66) This bill, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriates $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to, in consultation with the executive director of the state board, award $1,000,000 as a grant to the community-based organization Beyond Differences to support local educational agencies with the implementation of high-quality integrated academic, behavioral, and social-emotional learning practices.
(67) This bill also deletes obsolete provisions, make conforming changes, and make technical changes.
(68) This bill provides that its provisions are severable.
(69) 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.
(71) This bill declares that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
(SB 114 amends Education Code Sections 1240, 2574, 2575.2, 2576, 8202.6, 8281.5, 8483.4, 8901, 8902, 14002, 14041.5, 17199.4, 17199.5, 17375, 32526, 33050, 35186, 39800.1, 41024, 41203.1, 41544, 41850.1, 42238.02, 42238.025, 42238.03, 44042.5, 44235.1, 44235.2, 44258.9, 44415.5, 44415.6, 44417.5, 45500, 46120, 46392, 46393, 47605, 47606.5, 47607.4, 47612.7, 47654, 47655, 48000, 48000.1, 48310, 48646, 49421.5, 49501.5, 51225.31, 51225.7, 52052, 52062, 52064, 52064.1, 52064.5, 52065, 52066, 52068, 52070, 52070.5, 52071, 52071.5, 52073.3, 52074, 52201, 52202, 56195.1, 56836.148, 60642.7, 60900, 60900.5, and 69617. This bill adds Education Code Sections 2575.5, 42238.024, 44235.12, 44343.4, 48000.15, 48648, 48649, 48650, 49414.8, 52072.1, 52072.6, 52073.5, and 69617.5 and Chapter 15.5 (commencing with Section 53008) to Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2. It repeals and adds Education Code Sections 52072 and 52072.5. SB 114 additionally amends Health and Safety Code Section 1596.792, Welfare and Institutions Code Sections 858 and 889.2, Section 55 of Chapter 13 of the Statutes of 2015, Section 144 of Chapter 44 of the Statutes of 2021, and to amend Sections 121, 123, 124, 129, 132, 133, 134, 136, and 137 of Chapter 52 of the Statutes of 2022.)