(1) Existing law establishes procedures and reimbursement provisions for the attendance of apprentices at high schools, unified school districts, regional occupational centers or programs, community colleges, and adult schools under vocational education programs standards that are established with the participation of the State Department of Education, the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations.
This bill would revise the role of the State Department of Education in these programs, and would, among other things, establish standards for the provision of state funding and reimbursements for these programs at high schools, unified school districts, regional occupational centers or programs, and adult schools separate from these
programs at community colleges. The bill would require, by March 15, 2014, the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations, with equal participation by specified entities, to develop common administrative practices and treatment of costs and services, as well as other policies related to apprenticeship programs.
(2) Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs that offer a full range of services for eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age. Existing law requires the Superintendent to establish a fee schedule for families using child care and development services pursuant to the act, and limits a contractor’s ability to charge additional fees. Existing law exempts
families that meet certain criteria from family fees for a cumulative period of up to 12 months.
This bill would instead require the Superintendent to establish a revised fee schedule for families using preschool and child care and development services. The bill would require the Superintendent to first submit the adjusted family fee schedule to the Department of Finance for approval. The bill would require that families be assessed a flat monthly fee, based on income, as specified, certified family need for full-time or part-time care services, and enrollment, and not based on attendance, as specified. The bill would require that the family fee schedule differentiate between fees for part-time care and full-time care and that the family fee be assessed at initial enrollment and reassessed as specified. The bill would also state the Legislature’s intent that new family fees be cost neutral to the state and generate roughly the same amount of revenue as was generated
under the previous family fee schedule. The bill would specify that the family fee schedule that was in effect for the 2012–13 fiscal year shall remain in effect for the 2013–14 fiscal year until as specified. The bill would make organizational, conforming, and nonsubstantive changes.
(3) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to encourage state preschool program applicants or contracting agencies to offer full-day services through a combination of part-day preschool slots and wraparound general child care and development programs, as defined. Existing law also requires fees to be assessed and collected for families with children in part-day preschool programs, or families receiving wraparound child care services, or both, as provided.
This bill would require the Superintendent to annually report to the Department of Finance, on or before October 1 of each year, the fees
collected from families who have children enrolled in the California state preschool program, as specified.
(4) Existing law provides for income eligibility standards for families to receive child care and development services. Existing law provides that “income eligible,” for the purposes of the Child Care and Development Services Act, means that a family’s adjusted monthly income is at or below 70% of the state median income, adjusted for family size, and adjusted annually. Notwithstanding this provision, existing law requires, for the 2012–13 fiscal year, the income eligibility limits to be 70% of the state median income that was in use for the 2007–08 fiscal year, adjusted for family size.
This bill would require, notwithstanding these provisions, for the 2013–14 fiscal year, the income eligibility limits to be 70% of the state median income that was in use for the 2007–08 fiscal year, adjusted for
family size.
(5) Existing law authorizes the City and County of San Francisco, until July 1, 2014, and as a pilot project, to develop and implement an individualized county child care subsidy plan, requires the city and county, on or before June 30, 2014, to submit a final report to the Legislature and other specified entities that summarizes the impact of the plan, requires the city and county to phase out the plan and implement the state’s requirements for child care subsidies as of July 1, 2016, and repeals these provisions on January 1, 2017.
This bill would instead authorize the City and County of San Francisco to implement the individualized county child care subsidy plan until July 1, 2015, require the city and county to phase out the plan and implement the state’s requirements for child care subsidies as of July 1, 2017, require the city and county to submit the final report on or before June
30, 2015, and repeal these provisions on January 1, 2018.
(6) Existing law, until January 1, 2014, authorizes the County of San Mateo to implement an individualized county child care subsidy plan, and requires the county to phase out the plan between January 1, 2014, and January 1, 2016. Existing law provides for the repeal of these provisions on January 1, 2016.
This bill would instead authorize the County of San Mateo to implement the individualized county child care subsidy plan until January 1, 2015, require the county to phase out the plan between January 1, 2015, and January 1, 2017, and repeal these provisions on January 1, 2017.
(7) Existing law requires the Controller to draw warrants on the State Treasury in each month of the year for the purpose of funding school districts, county superintendents of
schools, and community college districts. Existing law defers the drawing of specified warrants until later dates.
This bill would revise and recast a provision authorizing the deferral of several specified warrants.
(8) Existing law, which becomes inoperative on June 30, 2013, and is repealed on January 1, 2014, requires the governing board of a school district seeking to sell or lease real property designed to provide direct instruction or instructional support that the governing board deems to be surplus property to first provide a written offer to sell or lease that property to any charter school that has submitted a written request to the school district to be notified of surplus real property offered by the school district for sale or lease, as specified.
This bill would delete the repeal provision, thereby
extending the operation of this provision indefinitely. The bill would revise the procedures and requirements for the sale of surplus property to charter schools, and would limit the provisions to charter schools that, at the time of the offer, have projections of at least 80 units of in-district average daily attendance for the following fiscal year.
(9) Existing law, until January 1, 2014, authorizes a school district to deposit the proceeds from the sale of surplus real property, together with any personal property located on that property, purchased entirely with local funds, into the general fund of the school district and to use those proceeds for any one-time general fund purpose. Existing law requires the Office of Public School Construction to submit a final report, by January 1, 2014, to the State Allocation Board and certain committees of the Legislature relating to school districts that have exercised authority pursuant to those
provisions.
This bill would extend the operation of those provisions to January 1, 2016, and would revise the date on which the final report is required to be submitted from January 1, 2014, to January 1, 2015.
(10) Existing law establishes the School Facilities Emergency Repair Account in the State Treasury, and requires the State Allocation Board to administer the account. Existing law establishes the Proposition 98 Reversion Account in the General Fund, and requires that the Legislature, from time to time, transfer into this account moneys previously appropriated in satisfaction of the constitutional minimum funding requirements that have not been disbursed or otherwise encumbered for the purposes for which they were appropriated. Existing law generally requires an amount, equaling 50% of the unappropriated balance of the Proposition 98 Reversion Account or $100,000,000, whichever is greater, to be
transferred in the annual Budget Act from the Proposition 98 Reversion Account to the School Facilities Emergency Repair Account. However, the amount to be transferred under this provision was set at $0 for the 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, and 2012–13 fiscal years.
This bill would also set the amount to be transferred for the 2013–14 fiscal year to $0.
(11) Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district with an average daily attendance of over 100,000 to allow as an expenditure from the cafeteria fund or account a share of money that is generated from the joint sale of items between the cafeteria and the associated student body student store, and also authorizes the governing board of a school district operating school cafeterias to establish and maintain a cafeteria equipment reserve, as specified.
This bill would repeal those
provisions.
(12) Existing law requires, for the 1990–91 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, that moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts, community college districts, and direct elementary and secondary level instructional services provided by the state be distributed in accordance with certain calculations governing the proration of those moneys among the 3 segments of public education. Existing law makes that provision inapplicable to the 1992–93 to 2012–13 fiscal years, inclusive.
This bill would also make that provision inapplicable to the 2013–14 fiscal year.
(13) Existing law provides that when a school district becomes insolvent and requires an emergency apportionment from the state, that the Superintendent of Public Instruction, operating through an appointed administrator, take specified
actions, including, among others, implementing substantial changes in the school district’s fiscal policies and practices, and sets forth the administrator’s powers and responsibilities in that regard.
This bill would authorize the Superintendent to also appoint a trustee with the powers and responsibilities of an administrator.
(14) Existing law authorizes a school district to receive an advance of apportionments owed to the school district by the State School Fund in accordance with specified procedures and requirements.
This bill would specify that a school district to is authorized to receive an advance of apportionments owed to the school district from the State School Fund and the Education Protection Account. The bill would also make conforming changes to related sections in the Government Code.
(15) Existing law establishes the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund in the State Treasury, and authorizes loans to be made from the fund to qualifying charter schools. Existing law establishes the Charter School Security Fund, and authorizes deposits to be made from that fund into the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund in case of a default on a loan made from the latter fund. Under existing law, these funds are administered by the State Department of Education.
This bill would require the California School Finance Authority to administer the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund and the Charter School Security Fund commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year.
(16) Existing law establishes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for, among other purposes, the establishment of professional standards, assessments, and examinations for entry and
advancement in the teaching profession.
This bill would authorize the commission to charge fees to recover the costs of reviewing new educator preparation programs and specified accreditation activities, as provided.
(17) The Charter Schools Act of 1992 provides procedures for the calculation of average daily attendance for the purpose of funding charter schools.
This bill would revise certain of these procedures, and specifically prohibit a charter school pupil from generating more than one day of attendance in a calendar day.
(18) Existing law establishes the Charter School Facility Grant Program to provide assistance with facilities rent and lease costs for pupils in charter schools, and requires the State Department of Education to allocate annually facilities grants to eligible charter
schools.
This bill would revise and recast the statutes controlling the Charter School Facility Grant Program, and, commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, place it under the administration of the California School Finance Authority rather than the department.
(19) Existing law sets the reimbursement a school receives for free and reduced-price meals sold or served to pupils in elementary, middle, or high schools to be $0.21, as adjusted annually for increases in cost of living, as specified.
This bill would set the reimbursement amount to $0.2229 per meal, and, for meals served in child care centers and homes, to $0.1660 per meal.
(20) The existing Quality Education Investment Act of 2006 effectuates the intent of the Legislature to implement the terms of the proposed settlement agreement of a
specified legal action, to provide for the discharge of the minimum state educational funding requirement, to improve the quality of academic instruction and the level of pupil achievement in schools whose pupils have high levels of poverty and complex educational needs, to develop exemplary school district and school practices that will create working conditions and classroom learning environments that will attract and retain well qualified teachers, administrators, and other staff, and to focus school resources solely on instructional improvement and pupil services. The act appropriates specified funds for these purposes.
This bill would adjust certain calculations and appropriations made pursuant to these provisions.
(21) Existing law makes legislative findings and declarations that the state has continually sought to provide an appropriate and meaningful educational program in a safe and healthy
environment for all children regardless of possible physical, mental, or emotionally disabling conditions and that teachers of children with special needs require training and guidance that provides positive ways for working successfully with children who have difficulties conforming to acceptable behavior patterns. Existing law provides for the implementation of a program governing the use of behavior interventions for individuals with exceptional needs.
This bill would delete the legislative finding and declaration relating to teachers of children with special needs, and add certain findings and declarations relating to behavioral interventions.
The bill would require that emergency behavioral interventions be used only to control unpredictable, spontaneous behavior that poses clear and present danger of serious physical harm to the individual with exceptional needs or others, and that cannot be prevented by a response
less restrictive than the temporary application of a technique used to contain the behavior. The bill would require that emergency interventions be documented in reports, as provided, and would require specified teams to review these reports. The bill would prohibit certain types of interventions by an agency serving individuals with exceptional needs, including electric shock, the release of toxic or noxious sprays or mists, or locked seclusion, except when seclusion is used as specified.
The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to repeal regulations regarding the use of behavioral interventions that are no longer supported by statute, as specified.
(22) Existing law provides for the calculation of apportionments to fund the provision of special education instruction and services for pupils who qualify for these programs.
This bill
would make numerous adjustments in the calculations of apportionments related to the funding for special education.
(23) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to review existing tests that assess the English language development of pupils whose primary language is a language other than English. Existing law requires pupils in kindergarten and grade 1 to be assessed in English listening and speaking, and, once an assessment is developed, early literacy skills. Existing law requires an early literacy assessment to be administered for a period of 3 years or until July 1, 2012, whichever occurs first, and requires the State Department of Education to report to the Legislature, no later than January 1, 2013, on early literacy assessment results.
The bill would instead require the early literacy assessment to be administered for 4 years or until July 1, 2014, and would require the
department to submit the report on early literacy assessments results for the first 3 administered assessments no later than June 30, 2013.
(24) Existing law requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant priority registration for enrollment to a foster youth or former foster youth, as defined.
This bill would require each community college district that administers a priority enrollment system to grant priority registration for enrollment to any student who is a recipient of aid under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program. By requiring additional students to receive priority registration at community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(25) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law, for the 2009–10 to 2014–15 fiscal years, inclusive, authorizes a community college district to use funds apportioned to the community college district for certain programs, including, among other programs, apprenticeship and matriculation programs, for purposes of a prescribed list of programs contained in the Budget Act of 2009.
This bill would remove the authorization for a community college district to use funds appropriated for apprenticeship and matriculation for purposes of the prescribed list of programs contained in the Budget Act of 2009.
(26) Existing law creates in the State Treasury the
Community College Fund for Instructional Improvement, which consists of a revolving loan program and a direct grant program to support alternative educational programs and services for California Community Colleges, as specified.
This bill would repeal those provisions.
(27) Existing law specifies noncredit courses and classes in the various campuses of the California Community Colleges that are eligible for state funding.
This bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the State Department of Education, pursuant to funding made available in the annual Budget Act, to jointly provide 2-year planning and implementation grants to regional consortia of community college districts and school districts for the purpose of developing regional plans for adult education, as specified. The bill would require the
chancellor and the department to submit a joint report relating to the program to the Legislature and the Governor on or before March 1, 2014.
(28) Under the California Constitution, whenever the Legislature or a state agency mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government, including a school district and a community college district, the state is required to provide a subvention of funds to reimburse the local government, with specified exceptions. Existing law provides that, under certain conditions, a school district or community college district is not required to implement or give effect to certain statutes, or portions of statutes, determined to mandate a new program or higher level of service.
This bill would expand the list of programs that a school district or community college district would not have to implement under those conditions.
(29) Existing law, commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, requires certain funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for reimbursement of the cost of a new program or increased level of service of an existing program mandated by statute or executive order to be available as a block grant to school districts, charter schools, county offices of education, and community college districts, to support specified state-mandated local programs. Existing law provides that a school district, charter school, county office of education, or community college district that submits a letter of intent to the Superintendent of Public Instruction or the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, as appropriate, and receives this block grant funding is not eligible to submit a claim for reimbursement for those specified mandated programs for the fiscal year for which the block grant funding is received.
This bill
would prescribe procedures and requirements for school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts that elect to receive block grant funding for designated mandated programs. The bill would revise the list of specified state-mandated local programs that are subject to these provisions that authorize block grant funding in lieu of program-specific reimbursement.
(30) Existing law appropriates a sum of up to $29,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for apportionment to the Inglewood Unified School District for the purpose of an emergency loan. Existing law requires the Inglewood Unified School District to enter into bank financing with the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank upon terms the bank, in its discretion, deems necessary or appropriate for purposes of financing or refinancing the emergency apportionment. Existing law authorizes the
school district to augment the emergency loan with an additional $26,000,000 of bank financing, arranged as specified.
This bill would repeal the provisions requiring the Inglewood Unified School District to enter into bank financing or refinancing of the emergency apportionment and authorizing the school district to augment the emergency loan. The bill would instead authorize the Inglewood Unified School District, through the State Department of Education, to request cashflow loans from the General Fund for a total of $55,000,000. The bill would require the Controller, upon order of the Director of Finance, to draw warrants against General Fund cash to the Inglewood Unified School District once a loan is approved by the Director of Finance, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would specify conditions to be followed by the school district in receiving the funds and repaying the loan. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity
of a special statute for the Inglewood Unified School District.
(31) This bill would provide that, of the amount allocated in a specified schedule of the Budget Act of 2011, $8,954,000 would be provided to fully fund maintenance of effort in the special education program in designated fiscal years.
(32) This bill would appropriate $1,250,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for transfer to Section A of the State School Fund to support the integration of academic content standards in instruction, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent to apportion these funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools using an equal rate per pupil based on prior year enrollment. The bill would require the school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, or state special schools
receiving these funds to use them for certain purposes, including professional development of teachers, administrators, and paraprofessional educators or other classified employees involved in the direct instruction of pupils, as specified. The bill would require, as a condition of receiving funds apportioned pursuant to the bill, a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school to adopt a plan delineating how the funds shall be spent and to report detailed expenditure information to the State Department of Education on or before July 1, 2015, as specified. The bill would require the department to provide a summary of the expenditure information provided to it to the appropriate budget subcommittees and policy committees of the Legislature and to the Department of Finance on or before January 1, 2016.
(33) This bill would provide for the expenditure of funds appropriated by the Budget Act of 2013 for the
establishment of the California Career Pathways Trust. The bill would require these funds to be apportioned, as specified, to school districts, county superintendents of schools, charter schools, and community college districts as competitive grants to be available for expenditure in the 2013–14 to 2015–16 fiscal years, inclusive. The bill would require the Superintendent to consult with the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and organizations representing businesses in considering grant applications pursuant to those provisions. The bill would require recipients of grants and the Superintendent to report specified outcome measures to the Department of Finance and to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature no later than December 1, 2016.
(34) This bill would require amounts to be determined by the Director of Finance to be appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges, on or before June 30, 2013, and on or before June 30, 2014, in the event that specified revenues distributed to community colleges are less than estimated amounts reflected in the Budget Acts of 2012 and 2013, respectively.
(35) This bill would require that an amount to be determined by the Director of Finance would be appropriated, on or before June 30, 2014, from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for specified special education programs.
(36) This bill would require that the funds appropriated pursuant to designated items of the Budget Act of 2013 be encumbered by July 31, 2014, thus extending the encumbrance authority connected with those items by one month. The bill would state that this extension is provided due to the effect of the deferral of the June 2014 principal apportionment on those budget items.
(37) This bill would make conforming changes, correct cross-references, and make other nonsubstantive changes.
(38) 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.
(39) Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(40) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.