(1) Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement a plan establishing assigned reimbursement rates, per unit of average daily enrollment, to be paid by the state to provider agencies for the provision of those services. Existing law also provides for an adjustment factor to be applied to units of average daily enrollment if a provider agency serves children who meet specified criteria.
This bill would revise the adjustment factors applicable until December 31, 2018, as provided.
(2) Existing law imposes various requirements on the sale or lease of surplus real property by school
districts.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to request an emergency apportionment through the Superintendent of Public Instruction if the governing board of the school district determines during a fiscal year that its revenues are less than the amount necessary to meet its current year expenditure obligations. Existing law imposes duties on the Superintendent, among others, relating to the administration of those emergency apportionments.
This bill would reallocate duties, and would revise the provisions, relating to those emergency apportionments. Because the bill would impose new duties on county superintendents of schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would authorize the Inglewood Unified School District, the Oakland Unified School District, the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District, and the
Vallejo City Unified School District, if those school districts have an outstanding emergency apportionment loan as of July 1, 2018, until the emergency apportionment loan is repaid, to sell or lease surplus real property, together with any personal property located on the real property, owned by the school district and use the proceeds from the sale or lease to service, reduce, or retire the debt on the emergency apportionment loan, or for capital improvements of the school district’s facilities.
The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Inglewood Unified School District, the Oakland Unified School District, the South Monterey County Joint Union High School District, and the Vallejo City Unified School District.
(3) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts and charter
schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified.
Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to certify twice during a fiscal year whether the school district is able to meet its financial obligations for the remainder of the fiscal year and for the subsequent fiscal year. Existing law requires these certifications to be classified as positive, qualified, or negative and to be filed with the county superintendent of schools. Existing law requires a county superintendent of schools to change a positive certification to negative or qualified when the county office of education determines a negative or qualified certification should have been filed.
This bill would require the Oakland Unified School District, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, in collaboration with and with the concurrence of
the Alameda County Superintendent of Schools and the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, to take certain actions by March 1, 2019, regarding its financial plans and school district construction plans, as specified. The bill would provide that, beginning with the 2019–20 fiscal year and ending with the 2021–22 fiscal year, the Budget Act for those fiscal years shall include certain appropriations, as specified. The bill would make the disbursement of moneys from those appropriations contingent upon the completion of activities specified in the prior year Budget Act to improve the school district’s fiscal solvency.
This bill would require the Inglewood Unified School District, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, to take certain actions. The bill would provide that, beginning with the 2019–20 fiscal year and ending with the 2021–22 fiscal year, the Budget Act for those fiscal years shall include certain appropriations, as specified. The bill would make
the disbursement of moneys from those appropriations contingent upon the completion of activities specified in the prior year Budget Act to improve the school district’s fiscal solvency. The bill would, until June 30, 2019, authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction to waive the reimbursement determination, calculated pursuant to a specified regulation, for Inglewood Unified School District’s 2016–17 fiscal year California state preschool program contract in order to resolve the school district’s outstanding child development reimbursement liability to the state.
Because the bill would impose additional duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Oakland Unified School District and the Inglewood Unified School District.
(4) Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to take certain actions if, at any time during the fiscal year, he or she determines that a school district may be unable to meet its financial obligations for the current or 2 subsequent fiscal years or if the district would have a qualified or negative certification, as specified, including, among others, notifying, and performing certain actions with the consultation of, the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Existing law establishes a process to appeal these determinations of the county superintendent of schools by appealing to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent to monitor the efforts of a county office of education in exercising its authority under these provisions and authorizes the Superintendent to exercise any of that authority if he or she finds that the actions of the county superintendent of schools are not
effective in resolving the financial problems of the school district.
This bill would require the county superintendent of schools to additionally notify, and report to, the president of the State Board of Education or the president’s designee concerning matters noticed and reported to the Superintendent pursuant to these provisions. The bill, if the county superintendent of schools is relieved of certain powers assumed by the Superintendent pursuant to those provisions, would require the county superintendent of schools to provide support and assistance to the Superintendent in the exercise of those powers. The bill would require the Superintendent to also request that the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team identify the circumstances that led to the ineffectiveness of the county superintendent of schools in resolving the financial problems of the school district, and to require the county office of education to demonstrate, in a manner
determined by the Superintendent, remediation of those deficiencies. Because the bill would impose new duties on county superintendents of schools, it would create a state-mandated local program.
(5) Existing law, if a school district that receives notice of any change or changes adopted by the county superintendent of schools in the school district’s budget pursuant to specified provisions, authorizes the governing board of the school district to submit an appeal to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, based upon the contention that the change or changes would cause one or more specified actions. Existing law requires the Superintendent, no later than five days after receiving that appeal, to deny or uphold the appeal.
This bill would require the Superintendent to deny or uphold the appeal, no later than five days after receiving the appeal, with the concurrence of the president of the State
Board of Education or the president’s designee.
(6) Existing law establishes the Local Solutions Grant Program to provide one-time competitive grants to specified types of local educational agencies to develop and implement new, or expand existing, locally identified solutions that address a local need for special education teachers, as provided. Existing law appropriates $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the 2018–19 fiscal year for purposes of the program, and provides that this funding is available for encumbrance through June 30, 2023, and for liquidation through June 30, 2026. Existing law requires the commission to require grant recipients to submit a final implementation report within 3 years of receiving a grant award. Existing law repeals the Local Solutions Grant Program and the Teacher Residency Grant Program on January 1, 2027.
This bill would
instead make that funding available for liquidation through June 30, 2028, and would instead require the commission to require grant recipients to submit a final implementation report within 5 years of receiving a grant award. By extending the time in which funds encumbered under an existing appropriation may be liquidated, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would delay the repeal of the Local Solutions Grant Program and the Teacher Residency Grant Program until January 1, 2029.
(7) Existing law requires, on or before July 1, 2014, governing boards of school districts and county boards of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan, as provided. Existing law requires charter schools, on or before July 1, 2015, and each year thereafter, to adopt a local control and accountability plan to update the goals and annual actions to achieve those goals identified in the charter petition, as provided. Existing law requires, on
or before March 31, 2014, the State Board of Education to adopt templates for use by school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools for purposes of the local control and accountability plans.
This bill would require, on or before January 31, 2020, the template adopted by the state board to require the inclusion of specified information relating to pupil performance and fiscal accountability in the local control and accountability plans. The bill would require the template, to the greatest extent practicable, to use language that is understandable and accessible to parents. The bill would require a local control and accountability plan and an annual update to a local control and accountability plan adopted by a school district, county board of education, or charter school to include all of the information specified in the template, and would require data reported in the local control and accountability plan to be reported in a manner
consistent with how information is reported on the California School Dashboard maintained by the State Department of Education. The bill would require the superintendent of a school district and a county superintendent of schools to post prominently on the homepage of their Internet Web site, instead of just posting on their Internet Web site, their local control and accountability plans and any updates or revisions to those plans. To the extent the bill would require school districts, county boards of education, and charter schools to include additional information in their local control and accountability plans, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would appropriate, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, $200,000 from the General Fund to the department to support updating the Local Control Accountability Plan Electronic Template system. The bill would require the department, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive
director of the state board, to enter into contracts with the San Joaquin County Office of Education for these purposes. To the extent these contracts would impose additional duties on the San Joaquin County Office of Education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(8) Existing law establishes the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for purposes of advising and assisting school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving the goals set forth in a local control and accountability plan. Existing law authorizes the collaborative to accept a request or referral to advise and assist a school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school in specified circumstances. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to request an emergency apportionment through the Superintendent of Public Instruction if the governing board of the school district
determines during a fiscal year that its revenues are less than the amount necessary to meet its current year expenditure obligations.
This bill would provide that a school district is deemed to have been referred to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence if the school district receives an emergency apportionment pursuant to specified provisions. The bill, if the collaborative provides assistance to a school district referred pursuant to this provision, would require the collaborative to conduct a systemic review of the school district to identify needs and strategies to improve pupil academic achievement, as provided. The bill would require the collaborative, based on the results of the systemic review, to coordinate and facilitate the assistance provided to the school district by governmental agencies to provide coherent and effective support consistent with the purpose of the statewide system of support.
(9) The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes.
This bill would expressly authorize the University of California to provide services, benefits, and any other form of assistance aimed at furthering a student’s educational success to all of its enrolled students who meet the eligibility requirements for any such program the University, or its campuses, establishes.
(10) 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 establishes the Student Equity and Achievement Program pursuant to which funding may be provided to support the California Community Colleges in implementing activities and practices that, among other things, advance the systemwide goal of eliminating achievement gaps for students from traditionally underrepresented groups. Existing law requires a community college district to comply with certain requirements as a condition of the receipt of funds for purposes of the program.
This bill would also require a community college district, as a condition of the receipt of funds for purposes of the program, to provide a report to the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges by January 1 of each year detailing how program funding was expended in the prior fiscal year and an assessment of the progress in advancing the systemwide goal of eliminating achievement gaps for students from traditionally underrepresented groups. The bill would
require, by April 1 of each year, the chancellor’s office to submit a systemwide report to the Legislature and Department of Finance that provides a summary of those district reports. The bill would authorize the Board of Governors to require districts or colleges to provide a local fund match for funding appropriated for purposes of the program, and would alter other provisions relating to program funding.
(11) Existing law establishes the Community College Student Success Funding Formula Oversight Committee, consisting of 15 members for purposes of continuously evaluating and reviewing the implementation of the student success funding formula. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to further refine and determine the membership, duties, and responsibilities of the oversight committee.
This bill would provide that the oversight committee consists of 12 members, 4 appointed by the Senate
Committee on Rules, 4 by the Speaker of the Assembly, and 4 by the Governor, as specified. The bill would specify that the committee members appointed by the Legislature serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority and those appointed by the Governor serve a 4-year term, with at least one member being a community college administrator. The bill would specify the duties and responsibilities of the oversight committee. The bill would repeal the provisions establishing the oversight committee on January 1, 2022.
(12) Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. Existing law provides that specified services provided by local educational agencies are covered Medi-Cal benefits and are reimbursable on a fee-for-service basis under the Local Educational Agency Medi-Cal Billing
Option program.
Existing law appropriates, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, $697,759,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for transfer to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the State Department of Education to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, as specified. Under existing law, if a school district, county office of education, or charter school is required to repay claims disallowed under, among other programs, the Local Educational Agency Medi-Cal Billing Option program for the 2009–10 fiscal year to the 2015–16 fiscal year, inclusive, the Controller is required, upon notification from the Department of Finance, to withhold the specified amounts owed from the allocations made pursuant to these provisions.
This bill would delete that requirement for the Controller to withhold the specified amounts owed if a school district, county office of education, or charter school
is required to repay claims disallowed under the Local Educational Agency Medi-Cal Billing Option program.
(13) Existing law requires all schoolbuses to be equipped with certain safety features, as specified. Existing law requires, on or before the beginning of the 2018–19 school year, schoolbuses, school pupil activity buses, except as provided, youth buses, and child care motor vehicles to be equipped with an operational child safety alert system, as defined.
This bill would instead require schoolbuses, school pupil activity buses, except as provided, youth buses, and child care motor vehicles to be equipped with an operational child safety alert system on or before March 1, 2019. The bill would grant specified school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, private schools, and other entities that operate those vehicles an additional 6 months
to meet that requirement if certain documentation is submitted to the Department of the California Highway Patrol on or before March 1, 2019.
The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol to consult with the State Department of Education to develop frequently asked questions related to the implementation of these requirements.
(14) Existing law, for the 2017–18 fiscal year, appropriates $400,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for support and development of the Local Control Accountability Plan Electronic Template system and the California School Dashboard mobile app, with $350,000 of that amount required to be used to host, maintain, and support the development of the Local Control Accountability Plan Electronic Template system and the remaining $50,000 to be used to support and develop the California School Dashboard mobile app.
This bill would provide that the $50,000 to be used to support and develop the California School Dashboard mobile app is available for encumbrance through the 2018–19 fiscal year.
(15) Existing law appropriates $50,000,000 to the Controller for transfer to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the State Department of Education for purposes of the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program. Existing law authorizes a classified employee of a local educational agency participating in the program who meets specified requirements to withhold an amount from his or her monthly paycheck during the 2019–20 school year to be paid out during the summer recess period, and requires the department to apportion funds to participating local educational agencies to provide a participating classified employee up to $1 for each $1 that participating classified employee has elected to have withheld
from his or her monthly paychecks. Existing law requires participating local educational agencies to deposit the amounts withheld from the monthly paychecks of a participating classified employee in an account within its general fund, to be known as the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program Fund.
This bill, instead of requiring the amounts withheld to be deposited in an account within its general fund, would require the amounts withheld to be deposited in a separate account. The bill would also clarify that, for purposes of the program, “local educational agency” means a school district or county office of education.
(16) Existing law appropriates $50,000,000 for the 2018–19 fiscal year from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to establish the Classified School Employee Professional Development Block Grant Program. Existing law requires the department to apportion those
block grant funds to local educational agencies for specified purposes relating to the professional development of classified school employees, as provided.
This bill would require the department to provide $5,000,000 of those funds to the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for professional development for classified community college employees, as provided. Because the bill would authorize an existing appropriation to be spent for a new purpose, the bill would make an appropriation.
(17) Existing law establishes the Charter Schools Facilities Program to provide funding to qualifying entities for the purpose of establishing school facilities for charter school pupils. Existing law places various duties on the California School Finance Authority for purposes of administering the program.
This bill would appropriate $21,146,000 from
the General Fund to the California School Finance Authority for the 2018–19 fiscal year to support programmatic costs for the program attributable to the 2017–18 fiscal year.
(18) This bill would repeal obsolete provisions, make conforming and clarifying changes, correct cross-references, and make other nonsubstantive changes.
(19) 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 the statutory provisions noted above, except that specified funding provided for school districts, county
offices of education, and charter schools shall be used to directly offset any mandated costs.
(20) 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.
(21) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.