(1) Existing law provides supplemental funding to qualifying California state preschool classrooms, and requires a part-day preschool program to provide parenting education and to provide staff development for teachers in participating classrooms as a condition of receiving funds.
This bill would include within the meaning of parenting education for these purposes improving parental knowledge of local resources for the identification of and services for developmental disabilities, and would include as part of staff development the development of improved behavioral strategies and the provision of interventions for young children to improve kindergarten readiness.
(2) Existing
law provides for income eligibility standards for families to receive child care and development services. Existing law provides that “income eligible,” for 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 sets the income eligibility limits for the 2014–15 fiscal year at 70% of the state median income that was in use for the 2007–08 fiscal year, adjusted for family size.
This bill would set the income eligibility limits for the 2015–16 fiscal year at 70% of the state median income that was in use for the 2007–08 fiscal year, adjusted for family size.
(3) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to implement a plan that establishes reasonable child
care standards and assigned reimbursement rates, and sets the standard reimbursement rate at $9,024.75 per unit of average daily enrollment for a 250-day year. Commencing with the 2015–16 fiscal year, existing law requires that rate to be increased by the cost-of-living adjustment granted by the Legislature annually.
This bill would set the standard reimbursement rate at $9,572.50, and the full-day state preschool reimbursement rate at $9,632.50, per unit of average daily enrollment for a 250-day year and, commencing with the 2016–17 fiscal year, would require that rate to be increased by the cost-of-living adjustment granted by the Legislature annually.
(4) Existing law applies various adjustment factors to specified programs, including programs for infants and toddlers, for which reimbursement rates are at or below the standard reimbursement rate, as
provided.
This bill would provide that these adjustment factors shall apply to those full-day state preschool programs for which assigned reimbursement rates are above the full-day state preschool reimbursement rate.
(5) 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 authorizes the City and County of San Francisco, until July 1, 2016, and as a pilot project, to develop and implement an individualized county child care subsidy plan, requires the city and county, on or before December 31, 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, 2018, and provides for the repeal of those provisions on January 1, 2019.
This bill would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to implement the individualized county child care subsidy plan indefinitely and would make conforming changes. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations regarding the need for special legislation for the City and County of San Francisco.
(6) Existing law provides that the cost of child care services provided for CalWORKs recipients is governed by regional market rates, and establishes regional market rate ceilings for each region at the greater of either the 85th percentile of the 2009 regional market rate survey for that region, reduced by 10.11%, or the 85th percentile of the 2005 regional market rate survey for
that region.
This bill would, commencing October 1, 2015, increase the regional market rate ceilings established for each region by 4.5%. The bill would provide that, effective October 1, 2015, reimbursement to license-exempt child care providers shall not exceed 65% of the established regional market rate. The bill would require, commencing October 1, 2015, the regional market rate ceilings for all counties to be increased by 4.5%.
(7) Existing law establishes the Educational Telecommunication Fund, moneys in which are available for expenditure upon appropriation for specified purposes relating to establishing telecommunication standards for state, county, and local educational agencies. Existing law provides for the deposit in the fund of the amount of any offset made to certain apportionments upon a specified finding, and limits the maximum amount that may
be annually deposited in the fund from the offset to $15,000,000.
This bill would repeal the provisions relating to the deposit of moneys into the fund.
(8) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition. The act requires the board to require applicant school districts that receive funding under the act to establish a restricted account within the general fund of the school district for the exclusive purpose of providing moneys for ongoing and major maintenance of school buildings, and to agree to deposit into that account in each fiscal year for 20 years after receipt of funds
under the act a minimum amount equal to or greater than 3% of the total general fund expenditures of the applicant school district for that fiscal year.
This bill would require the board to require applicant school districts to instead deposit into the account, for the 2015–16 and 2016–17 fiscal years, a minimum amount that is the lesser of 3% of the total general fund expenditures for that fiscal year or the amount that the school district deposited into the account in the 2014–15 fiscal year. For the 2017–18 to 2019–20 fiscal years, inclusive, the bill would require the board to require applicant school districts to instead deposit into the account a minimum amount that is the greater of (1) the lesser of 3% of the total general fund expenditures for that fiscal year or the amount that the school district deposited into the account in the 2014–15 fiscal year or (2) 2% of the total general fund expenditures of the applicant school district for that fiscal year. The
bill would make the existing minimum amount deposit requirement applicable to school districts that received an amount equal to or greater than 10% of state school facilities funds in specified prior years only under certain circumstances. The bill would specify that funds in the account may be used for drought mitigation purposes related to the implementation of a certain executive order of the Governor. The bill would also delete obsolete provisions.
(9) Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution sets forth a formula for computing the minimum amount of revenues that the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts for each fiscal year. Existing law provides that “General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively” and “moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts,” for
purposes of that computation, include funds appropriated for part-day California state preschool programs and the After School Education and Safety Program.
This bill would provide that those funds appropriated to local educational agencies to create a full day of care for children participating in the California state preschool program are also “General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively” and “moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts” for purposes of that computation.
(10) 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 2014–15 fiscal years, inclusive.
This bill would also make that provision inapplicable to the 2015–16 fiscal year.
(11) Existing law declares the minimum state education funding obligation for school districts and community college districts for the 2006–07 fiscal year is $55,251,266,000, with an outstanding balance of $211,533,000. Existing law, commencing with the 2015–16 fiscal year, requires the Legislature to appropriate the outstanding balance, as specified.
This bill would appropriate $256,000,000 from the General Fund to the Controller for allocation to school districts and community college districts for
the purpose of offsetting the entire 2006–07 outstanding balance referenced above, and offsetting the 2009–10 outstanding balance of the minimum funding obligation to school districts and community college districts, as specified.
(12) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district maintaining secondary schools to establish and maintain classes for adults, as specified. Existing law authorizes specified classes and courses to be offered by school districts and county superintendents of schools for apportionment purposes from the adult education fund, including, among other subject matters, classes and courses for adult education programs for apprentices.
This bill would instead authorize for purposes of apportionments from the adult education fund programs offering pre-apprenticeship training activities conducted in coordination with one or more apprenticeship
programs approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards for the occupation and geographic area.
(13) Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the total percentage of English language learners, pupils eligible for free or reduced-price meals, and foster youth served by county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to subtract certain amounts, including amounts from certain redevelopment revenues that are paid to these local educational agencies, from their base grants.
Existing law provides, in calculating each community college district’s revenue level for each fiscal year, that the Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges shall subtract, from the total revenues otherwise owed to the community college districts, certain amounts, including certain redevelopment-related revenues that are allocated to community college districts and, for purposes of community college district revenue levels, that are considered property tax revenues.
This bill would revise the provisions of the local control funding formula for county offices of education, school districts, and charter schools, and the provisions for a community college district’s revenue levels, that address the treatment of these redevelopment funds, as specified, including authorizing the expenditure of a portion of those funds for land acquisition, facility construction, reconstruction, remodeling, maintenance, or deferred maintenance.
(14) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state
funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, and requires funds received for specified pupil transportation programs to be included as part of the formula.
This bill would revise specified calculations for home-to-school transportation joint powers agencies that received certain apportionments in the 2012–13 fiscal year by authorizing the joint powers agencies to identify and transfer the entitlement to that funding, commencing with the 2015–16 fiscal year, to member local educational agencies, and would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to add those amounts to the member local educational agencies’ local control funding formula allocations, as specified.
(15) This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to reduce any home-to-school transportation funding of the
county local control funding formula allocated to the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools by $2,785,448, and would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to increase the home-to-school transportation funding of the school district local control funding formula for specified school districts in specified amounts.
(16) Existing law provides for the levying of fees by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the issuance and renewal of teaching and service credentials, not to exceed $70.
This bill would increase the maximum amount of the fee from $70 to $100.
(17) Existing law requires the California School Finance Authority to administer the Charter School Facility Grant Program, and provides that the grant program is intended to provide assistance with facilities rent and lease costs for pupils in charter schools.
Existing law provides that a charter schoolsite is eligible for funding under this provision if the charter schoolsite is located in the attendance area of a public elementary school in which 70% or more of the pupil enrollment is eligible for free or reduced-price meals, or if 70% of the pupil enrollment at the charter schoolsite is eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as measured using prior year data. Existing law further specifies that the grant program is to be expanded by reducing the 70% threshold if funds remain after eligible charter schools meeting the 70% requirement are funded.
This bill would reduce the eligibility threshold to participate in the grant program from 70% to 55%. The bill would provide that a new charter school that was not operational in the prior year shall be eligible in the current year if it meets the free or reduced-price meal eligibility requirements based on current year data. The bill would delete the provisions providing for
the expansion of the program specified above.
(18) Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program, and, as a condition of receipt of apportionments for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, requires the school district or charter school to comply with specified minimum age requirements for pupils participating in the transitional kindergarten program, including, for the 2014–15 school year and each school year thereafter, that the school district or charter school admit a child who will have his or her 5th birthday between September 2 and December 2. Existing law also specifies that a transitional kindergarten program shall not be construed as a new program or higher level of service.
Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration
grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of certain categories of pupils, known as unduplicated pupils, served by the county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school. Existing law includes among unduplicated pupils, a pupil who is classified as an English learner, eligible for a free or reduced-price meal, or a foster youth, as defined, and requires county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to submit and report data relating to these pupils.
This bill would, for the 2015–16 school year and each school year thereafter, authorize a school district or charter school, at any time during the school year, to admit a child to a transitional kindergarten program who will have his or her 5th birthday after December 2 but during that same school year if certain conditions are met. The bill would prohibit a pupil admitted to a transitional kindergarten program pursuant to that provision from
generating average daily attendance, or being included in the enrollment or unduplicated pupil count pursuant to the local control funding formula, until the pupil has attained his or her 5th birthday.
(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 at $0.2248 per meal, and for meals served in child care centers and homes, at $0.1674 per meal.
This bill would increase the reimbursement rate for elementary, middle, and high schools to $0.2271 per meal, and, for meals served in child care centers and homes, would increase the reimbursement rate to $0.1691 per meal.
(20) Existing law requires the ratio of average daily attendance for independent study pupils 18 years of age or less to full-time equivalent
certificated employees responsible for independent study, for the applicable grade span, as specified, not to exceed a specified ratio.
This bill would delete grade spans as factors in the computation of the ratios.
(21) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to develop an Academic Performance Index, as specified, to measure the performance of schools and school districts. Existing law requires schools and school districts to demonstrate comparable improvement in academic achievement as measured by the Academic Performance Index by all numerically significant pupil subgroups at the school or school district, including ethnic subgroups, socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils, English learners, pupils with disabilities, and foster youth.
This bill would add homeless youth to the list of
numerically significant pupil subgroups designated in this provision and would specify that, for a subgroup of pupils who are homeless youth, a numerically significant pupil subgroup is one that consists of at least 15 pupils. To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on schools and school districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.
(22) Existing law requires the State Board of Education, on or before October 1, 2015, to adopt evaluation rubrics to, among other things, assist a school district, county office of education, or charter school in evaluating its strengths, weaknesses, and areas that require improvement.
This bill would instead require the state board to adopt evaluation rubrics on or before October 1, 2016.
(23) Existing law prohibits the expenditure of revenue derived from
the average daily attendance of adult education programs for other than adult education purposes.
This bill would authorize the expenditure of revenue derived from average daily attendance pursuant to the local control funding formula for adult education programs.
(24) Existing law requires the State Department of Education to administer the California Career Pathways Trust as a competitive grant program for kindergarten and grades 1 to 14, inclusive.
This bill would specify that funds appropriated in Item 6110-280-0001 of the Budget Act of 2014 for the Career Technical Education Pathways Grant Program shall be available for expenditure in the 2014–15 fiscal year to the 2016–17 fiscal year, inclusive.
(25) Existing law authorizes secondary schools and
postsecondary educational institutions to offer instruction in career technical education.
This bill would establish the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, under the administration of the State Department of Education, as a state education and economic and workforce development initiative with the goal of providing pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, with the knowledge and skills necessary to transition to employment and postsecondary education. The bill would establish criteria for the award of grants to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, or regional occupational centers or programs operated by joint powers authorities under these provisions. The bill would appropriate specified amounts from the General Fund in the 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18 fiscal years to the department for the award of grants.
(26) Existing law establishes a process for the adoption of instructional materials, including instructional materials related to history-social science, for use in public elementary and secondary schools.
This bill would, for purposes of adopting basic instructional materials for history-social science, require the State Department of Education to provide notice of the imposition of a fee, as specified, to all publishers and manufacturers known to produce basic instructional materials in history-social science. The bill would require that each publisher or manufacturer choosing to participate in the textbook adoption process be assessed a fee based on the number of programs the publisher or manufacturer indicates will be submitted for review and the number of grade levels proposed to be covered by each program.
(27) Existing law requires 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 developing regional plans to better serve the educational needs of adults. Existing law requires the grant funds provided under this program to be used by each regional consortium to create and implement a plan to better provide adults in its region with certain skills, classes, courses, and programs, including, among other things, programs for apprentices.
This bill would instead require the plan to better provide adults in the region with programs offering pre-apprenticeship training activities, as specified. To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on school
districts and community college districts that participate in these regional consortia, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.
(28) Existing law provides that adult schools and evening high schools shall consist of classes for adults. Existing law authorizes minors to be admitted into those classes pursuant to policies adopted by the governing board of the school district if those minors meet certain eligibility requirements.
Existing law requires 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 developing regional plans to better serve the educational needs of adults.
This bill would establish the Adult Education Block Grant Program under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The bill would require the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the Executive Director of the State Board of Education, to divide the state into adult education regions and approve one adult education consortium in each adult education region, as specified.
The bill would require the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, to approve, for each consortium, rules and procedures that adhere to prescribed conditions. The bill would require that, as a condition for the receipt of an apportionment of funds from this program for a particular fiscal year, members of a consortium to have approved an adult education plan, as specified.
The bill, for the 2015–16 fiscal year, would require the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the concurrence of the executive director, to approve a schedule of allocations, and to apportion funds, to each consortium in accordance with prescribed calculations. The bill, for the 2016–17 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, would require the chancellor and the Superintendent, with the advice of the executive director, to approve, within 15 days of the annual Budget Act and in accordance with prescribed criteria, a final schedule of allocations to each consortium under the program.
The bill would require the chancellor and the Superintendent to submit to the Director of Finance, the State Board of Education, and the Legislature, no later than January 31, 2016, a plan approved by the chancellor and the Superintendent to distribute funds from specified federal programs to the consortia for purposes
of the program proposed in this bill. The bill would also require the chancellor and the Superintendent to submit an annual report including specified data about the use of funds for the program and the outcomes for adults statewide and in each adult education region.
This bill would, to the extent that one-time funding is made available in the Budget Act of 2015 for its purposes, require the chancellor and the Superintendent to identify common measures for determining the effectiveness of the members of each consortium in meeting the educational needs of adults, as specified. The bill would require the chancellor and the Superintendent to submit to the Director of Finance, the State Board of Education, and the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature, no later than November 1, 2015, a report of its progress in this regard.
The bill would require that 85% of the funds appropriated
for purposes of these provisions be used for grants to consortia to establish systems or obtain data necessary to submit as required pursuant to a specified statute, and that 15% of the funds appropriated for purposes of these provisions be used for grants for development of statewide policies and procedures related to data collection or reporting or for technical assistance to consortia, or both.
(29) Existing law requires certain funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for reimbursement for 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, and county offices of education, to support specified state-mandated local programs. Existing law provides that a school district, charter school, or county office of education that submits a letter requesting funding to the Superintendent of
Public Instruction and receives this block grant funding is not eligible to submit a claim for reimbursement for those specified mandated programs for the fiscal year in which the block grant funding is received.
This bill would revise the list of programs that are authorized for block grant funding in lieu of program-specific reimbursement, as specified.
(30) This bill, for the 2014–15 fiscal year, would appropriate $287,149,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, and appropriate $49,500,000 from the General Fund to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community college districts, for purposes of satisfying state-mandated local program reimbursement claims.
The bill also would appropriate
$3,098,455,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to school districts and county superintendents of schools, and $604,043,000 from the General Fund to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community college districts, as specified. The bill would authorize the governing boards of school districts and community college districts to expend these one-time funds for any purpose, as determined by a governing board.
(31) Existing law authorizes the Inglewood Unified School District, until June 30, 2015, to sell property owned by the school district and use the proceeds to reduce or retire a specified emergency loan.
This bill would extend the operation of those provisions to June 30, 2018. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Inglewood Unified School District.
(32) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of certain categories of pupils, known as unduplicated pupils, served by the county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to calculate, for each county superintendent of schools, school district, and charter school, a base entitlement for the transition to the local control funding formula, and requires the Superintendent to determine the percentage of school districts that are apportioned base entitlement funding that is less
than the amount calculated pursuant to the local control funding formula. If the percentage is less than 10%, existing law requires the Superintendent to apportion funding to school districts and charter schools equal to the amount calculated pursuant to the local control funding formula in that fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature that when the local control funding formula is fully implemented, local educational agencies shall be required to report to the Superintendent for compilation on the State Department of Education’s Internet Web site (1) the amount of funds received on the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils in the current year and, to the extent available, prior fiscal years and (2) the amount of local control funding formula funds expended on services for unduplicated pupils in the current year and, to the extent available, prior fiscal years
commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year. By requiring local educational agencies to report certain information to the Superintendent, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(33) This bill would require an amount to be determined by the Director of Finance to be appropriated, on or before June 30, 2016, from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction in the event that and up to the amount by which specified revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs are less than the estimated amount reflected in the Budget Act of 2015. The bill would also require the Director of Finance to reduce the General Fund appropriation for these programs by the amount that these revenues exceed the estimated amount.
(34) This bill would require the State Department of Education to convene, by September 1, 2015, a
stakeholder group, composed as specified, to provide recommendations to streamline data and other reporting requirements for child care and early learning providers that contract with the department to provide state preschool and other state subsidized child care and early learning programs, as specified.
(35) This bill would require the State Department of Education to convene, by September 1, 2015, a stakeholder group, composed as specified, to examine CalWORKs Stage 2, CalWORKs Stage 3, and alternative payment program child care contract requirements, program and fiscal audits, and the process by which contractors are informed of and implement new contract requirements, with the purpose of identifying redundancies and efficiencies in program implementation and reducing the workload in program administration, as specified.
(36) This
bill would appropriate the sum of $50,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for payment of claims received in the 2013–14 and 2014–15 fiscal years pursuant to the requirements for conducting hearings relating to suspension or dismissal of certificated school employees.
(37) This bill would appropriate the sum of $350,000 to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for support and development of evaluation rubrics for specified purposes relating to the implementation of local control and accountability plans.
(38) In the 2009–10 and 2010–11 fiscal years, for a pupil of a charter school sponsored by a basic aid school district who resided in a school district other than a basic aid school district, the Superintendent of Public Instruction was required to apportion to the sponsoring school district an amount equal to 70% of the revenue limit funding per unit
of average daily attendance that would have been apportioned to the school district in which the pupil resided, as specified. However, a basic aid school district that lost basic aid status as a result of required property tax transfers to charter schools was entitled to a pro rata share of that apportionment, calculated based on the ratio between (1) the amount of property taxes the school district would have received in excess of the revenue limit guarantee before required property tax transfers to charter schools and (2) the total amount of property taxes transferred to the charter schools that the school district sponsored.
This bill would, for the 2009–10 and 2010–11 fiscal years, require that certain allocations from the county Supplemental Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund, created in 2009 and funded with specified redevelopment agency revenues, be treated as property taxes for purposes of calculating the ratio that determined the pro rata share of the
apportionment for a basic aid school district that lost its basic aid status as a result of required property tax transfers to charter schools.
(39) This bill would appropriate an additional $2,000,000 to the amount apportioned pursuant to the local control funding formula for the Los Angeles County Office of Education for the purpose of supporting professional development and leadership training for education professionals related to antibias education and the creation of inclusive and equitable schools.
(40) This bill would specify that, of the amount allocated pursuant to a specified item in the Budget Act of 2012, $16,549,000 shall be allocated to fund the 2010–11 fiscal year maintenance of effort in the special education program, and $19,173,000 shall be allocated to fund the 2011–12 maintenance of effort in the special education program.
(41) This bill would appropriate the sum of $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on a one-time basis to apportion to a designated county office of education or two designated county offices of education applying jointly to provide technical assistance and to develop and disseminate statewide resources that encourage and assist local educational agencies and charter schools in establishing and aligning schoolwide, data-driven systems of learning and behavioral supports for the purpose of meeting the needs of California’s diverse learners in the most inclusive environments possible, as specified. The bill would provide that the designated county office of education or county offices of education shall, with the goal of maximizing their availability, efficacy, and usage across the state, identify existing evidence-based resources, professional development activities, and other efforts currently available, and
develop new evidence-based resources and activities designed to help local educational agencies and charter schools across the state complete specified activities. The bill would require the designated county office of education or county offices of education, by September 30 of each fiscal year until the designated county office of education or county offices of education have fully expended the allocated funds, to submit an annual report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction summarizing how the designated county office of education or county offices of education used the allocated funds in the prior fiscal year.
(42) This bill would appropriate the sum of $490,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to be allocated to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools, as provided, for specified teacher and administrator training and professional development.
The bill would appropriate the sum of $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to be provided to the K–12 High-Speed Network for the purpose of providing professional development and technical assistance to local educational agencies related to network management.
(43) This bill would make conforming changes, correct cross-references, and make other nonsubstantive changes.
(44) 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.
(45) 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.
(46) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.