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AB-486 School operations: multitrack year-round scheduling.(2007-2008)

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 17, 2007

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2007–2008 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 486

Introduced  by  Assembly Member De La Torre

February 20, 2007

An act to add Section 37673 to the Education Code, relating to school operations.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 486, as amended, De La Torre. School operations: multitrack year-round scheduling.
Existing law authorizes a school district to operate a program of multitrack year-round scheduling at one or more schools within the district. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district to provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school whenever in the judgment of the board the transportation is advisable and good reasons exist therefor. Existing law defines “capacity-related busing” to mean transporting a pupil to a school other than the school of residence in order to reduce the number of pupils attending the school of residence.
This bill would, commencing with the 2011–12 school year, prohibit a school district from operating a multitrack year-round scheduling program at a school if more than 50% of its schools that operate a year-round program are eligible to receive funding under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The bill would authorize a school district to perform any, or all, of several specified measures to comply with that prohibition, including creating building additional schoolsite facilities at existing schoolsites and building new schoolsites and, commencing July 1, 2009, implementing capacity-related busing, as defined, as a temporary measure until the 2011–12 school year, as specified. The bill would require a school district that provides capacity-related busing to report annually to the Superintendent of Public Instruction the number of pupils, by grade level, that are being served by capacity-related busing. The bill would exempt school districts in which 85% or more of the schools qualify for funding under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 from that prohibition.
By prohibiting school districts from operating a multitrack year-round scheduling program at certain schools, this bill would require districts to convert those schools to traditional school calendars, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 37673 is added to the Education Code, to read:

37673.
 (a) Commencing with the 2011–12 school year, not more than 50 percent of the schools that a school district operates on a program of multitrack year-round scheduling may be schools that are eligible to receive funding under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, except as permitted under subdivision (c) (Public Law 89-10, as amended).
(b) In order to convert a school to operate on a traditional school calendar to comply with subdivision (a), the governing board of a school district may do any, or all, either, or both, of the following:
(1) Build additional school facilities at an existing schoolsite.
(2) Build new schoolsites.

(3)Commencing July 1, 2009, provide capacity-related busing, as defined in Section 37680, for each school in the district as a temporary measure until the 2011–12 school year, as follows:

(A)Pupils in preschool, kindergarten, or grades 1 or 2 may not be served by capacity-related busing.

(B)Pupils in any of grades 3 to 6, inclusive, may be served by capacity-related busing for trips that do not exceed 30 minutes from the school of residence.

(C)Pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, may be served by capacity-related busing for trips that do not exceed 40 minutes from the school of residence.

(D)A school district that provides capacity-related busing shall report annually to the Superintendent the number of pupils, by grade level, that are being served by capacity-related busing.

(c)Subdivision (a) does not apply to a school district in which 85 percent or more of the schools are eligible to receive funding under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

SEC. 2.

 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.