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SB-1548 Education.(1999-2000)

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Amended  IN  Senate  April 24, 2000
Amended  IN  Senate  May 02, 2000
Amended  IN  Assembly  June 27, 2000
Amended  IN  Assembly  August 30, 2000

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 1999–2000 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 1548

Introduced  by  Senator Schiff
 (Principal Coauthor(s): Assembly Member Torlakson)
 (Coauthor(s): Senator Rainey)
 (Coauthor(s): Assembly Member Lowenthal)

February 17, 2000

An act to add Section 52057.1 to the Education Code, relating to school finance education, and making an appropriation therefor.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1548, as amended, Schiff. School finance: categorical programs: summer school Education.

(1)Existing

(1) Existing law requires the State Board of Education to establish a program to provide monetary and nonmonetary awards to schools that meet or exceed Academic Performance Index performance growth targets and demonstrate improvement in academic achievement.
This bill would, notwithstanding contrary provisions of law, authorize an eligible school district to receive its categorical apportionment for certain categorical programs as a block grant amount without statutory or regulatory restrictions otherwise governing the categorical programs.
The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish procedures and adopt regulations as necessary to carry out the purposes of the bill.
(2) The bill would appropriate $1,300,000 from the General Fund for allocation to the Jefferson High School District, the San Francisco Unified School District, and the California State University, San Francisco, according to a specified schedule.

(2)Under existing law, the governing board of a school district or a county board of education is authorized on a districtwide or countywide basis or on behalf of one or more of its schools or programs, after a public hearing, to request that the State Board of Education waive all or part of any section of the Education Code, except certain prescribed provisions.

This bill would, notwithstanding any other provision of law, authorize a school district in which every school receives a score of 800 or more on the Academic Performance Index to request a waiver of certain provisions of law, if that waiver is needed to establish an innovative summer school and intervention program.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: YES   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 52057.1 is added to the Education Code, to read:

52057.1.
 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a school district that meets all of the following criteria shall be eligible to receive its categorical apportionment for the programs contained in subdivision (d) as a block grant unrestricted by any statutory or regulatory provisions that would otherwise govern the implementation of the categorical programs. To be eligible under this section, a school district shall meet both of the following criteria in at least one of the previous three school years:
(1) All of the school district’s schools that have an Academic Performance Index ranking pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 52051) shall demonstrate comparable improvement in the academic achievement of numerically significant socioeconomic disadvantaged subgroups within the school.
(2) At least 80 percent of the district’s schools that have an Academic Performance Index ranking pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 52051) shall meet or exceed performance targets established pursuant to Section 52052 in at least one of the previous three school years.
(b) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall establish procedures and adopt regulations as necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
(c) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall annually compute and apportion categorical funds to any school district that is eligible and elects to receive a block grant pursuant to this section. Each eligible school district’s block grant shall be equal to the categorical funding that it received in the fiscal year prior to its election, provided that the block grant shall be annually adjusted in a manner that is comparable and proportional to the categorical allocation that makes up the individual district’s block grant.
(d) For purposes of this section, state categorical aid is limited to the following programs:
(1) The Demonstration Programs in Intensive Instruction (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 58600) of Part 31).
(2) The Early Intervention For School Success Program (Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 54685) of Chapter 9 of Part 29).
(3) Education Technology (Article 15 (commencing with Section 51870.5) of Chapter 5 of Part 28).
(4) Proposition 98 educational programs pursuant to Item 6110-231-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 1998.
(5) Partnership academies (Article 5 (commencing with Section 54690) of Chapter 4 of Part 29).
(6) Mathematics staff development (Chapter 3.25 (commencing with Section 44695) and Chapter 3.33 (commencing with Section 44720) of Part 25).

(6)

(7) Improvement of elementary and secondary education (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 52000) of Part 28).

(7)

(8) Specialized secondary schools (Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 58800) of Part 31), except for specialized secondary programs operated in conjunction with the California State University pursuant to Section 58801.6.

(8)

(9) School personnel staff development and resource centers (Chapter 3.1 (commencing with Section 44670) of Part 25).

(9)

(10) Supplemental grants funded by Item 6110-230-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 1998.

(10)

(11) Academic progress and counseling review (Section 48431.6).

(e)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a school district in which each school in the district receives a score of 800 or more on the Academic Performance Index, established pursuant to Section 52052, may request a waiver of Sections 37252.5 and 42239 pursuant to the procedures contained in Section 33050, and the State Board of Education may approve such a request for a waiver, if the waiver is needed to establish an innovative summer school and intervention program. A waiver requested and approved pursuant to this subdivision does not and may not be interpreted to allow the district to receive more total state funding for a program than it would have been eligible to receive without the waiver.

(f)It is the intent of the Legislature that school districts utilize their flexibility to address their most pressing academic program needs, including those listed in subdivision (d) if appropriate.

SEC. 2.

 The sum of one million three hundred thousand dollars ($1,300,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund, to be allocated according to the following schedule:
(a) Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to the Jefferson Union High School District for the purpose of funding modernization of Jefferson High School.
(b) Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to the California State University, San Francisco, for the purpose of funding a visual art exhibit entitle, “Seeing Art at Work,” that focuses on labor in California.
(c) Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to the San Francisco Unified School District for the purpose of funding a K-5 arts program.