Existing law establishes the Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 for the purpose of, among other things, providing a comprehensive accountability system to hold each of the state’s public schools accountable for the academic progress and achievement of its pupils within the resources available to schools.

Existing law establishes the Administrator Training Program for the purpose of, among other things, awarding incentive funding to provide school administrators with instruction and training in areas including, but not limited to, core academic standards, curriculum frameworks, and management strategies.

This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt and implement a plan to measure the quality of administrators in public schools. The plan would include evaluations by teachers of the administrators’ performances in ensuring high standards for pupil learning, including the setting of rigorous academic and social learning goals for pupils, quality instruction by teachers, a culture of learning and professional behavior, and connections to external communities, including, but not limited to, linkages to families and other people and institutions in the community that advance academic and social learning, and performance accountability by pupils and professional staff in the school. The bill would, after completion of the plan, prohibit school districts from staffing schools in deciles 1 to 3, inclusive, with low-performing administrators. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate funds from the Administrator Training Program to the lowest performing administrators.