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SB-1139 Necessary small high schools: Kings Canyon Unified School District.(2007-2008)

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Amended  IN  Senate  April 02, 2008
Amended  IN  Senate  March 10, 2008

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2007–2008 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 1139

Introduced  by  Senator Cox, Florez

February 04, 2008

An act to add Section 42283.4 to, and to add and repeal Section 42285.5 of, the Education Code, relating An act to add and repeal Sections 42283.4 and 42285.5 of the Education Code, relating to schools.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1139, as amended, Cox. Necessary small high schools: Kings Canyon Unified School District.
Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to make a funding computation for a school district with fewer that 2,501 units of average daily attendance that has a necessary small school, as defined, or a necessary small high school, as defined. That computation is made based on the number of certificated employees employed and average daily attendance.
This bill would deem the Railroad Flat Elementary School to be a necessary small school and authorize, until July 1, 2018, the Calaveras Unified School District to receive necessary small school funding for that school. This entitlement would be terminated if the average daily attendance of the Railroad Flat Elementary School exceeds 100 or the average daily attendance of the school district increases to 5,000, as specified.
The bill also would authorize, until July 1, 2018, the Kings Canyon Unified School District to receive necessary small school funding for the Dunlap High School notwithstanding other provisions of law and would terminate that entitlement if the average daily attendance of that high school exceeds 100. The school district would be prohibited from claiming necessary small school funding for more than 3 teachers.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations regarding the need for special legislation.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 42283.4 is added to the Education Code, to read:

42283.4.
 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Railroad Flat Elementary School shall be deemed to be a necessary small school, as defined in Section 42283. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Calaveras Unified School District is eligible to receive apportionments for the Railroad Flat Elementary School pursuant to Section 42282.
(b) If the average daily attendance of the Railroad Flat Elementary School exceeds 100, the school is not eligible to receive apportionments as a necessary small school.
(c) If the average daily attendance of the Calaveras Unified School District increases to 5,000 or more, as compared to the average daily attendance of the school district as of January 1, 2008, the Railroad Flat Elementary School is not eligible to receive apportionments as a necessary small school.
(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2018, and, as of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

SEC. 2.

 Section 42285.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:

42285.5.
 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Kings Canyon Unified School District is eligible to receive apportionments for the Dunlap High School pursuant to the schedule for necessary small high schools set forth in Section 42284.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the Kings Canyon Unified School District shall not claim necessary small school funding pursuant to Section 42284 for more than three teachers.
(c) If the average daily attendance of the Dunlap High School exceeds 100, the school district shall no longer be entitled to receive apportionments as set forth in this section.
(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2018, and, as of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

SEC. 3.

 The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances of the Kings Canyon Unified School District and Calaveras Unified School District. The facts constituting the special circumstances that distinguish these districts from other unified school districts are their geographical locations and the distances pupils would otherwise be required to travel to attend school.