(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop, on or before December 31, 2022, a standardized English language teacher observation protocol for use by teachers in evaluating a pupil's English language proficiency.
This bill would extend the date for the development of that protocol by one year to December 31, 2023.
(2) Existing law places various requirements on county superintendents of schools and the Superintendent of Public Instruction in reviewing and determining whether a county office of education's adopted budget will allow the county office of education to meet its financial obligations during the fiscal year and, based on current forecasts, for 2 subsequent fiscal years, as provided, and, if certain determinations are made, requires the Superintendent to take certain actions, as necessary, to enable the county office of education to meet its financial obligations. Existing law requires a county office of education to pay reasonable fees charged by the Superintendent for administrative expenses incurred for undertaking the required actions or for costs associated with improving the county office of education's financial management practices.
This bill would require the county office of education to instead pay 75% of fees charged by the Superintendent for those administrative expenses or costs, and would require the other 25% to be covered by the Superintendent.
(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 Superintendent to annually calculate a county local control funding formula for each county superintendent of schools that includes a county office of education operations grant that includes, among other things, $109,320 per school district under the county office of education's jurisdiction, and $70 per unit of countywide average daily attendance up to 30,000 units, $60 per unit for 30,001 to 60,000 units, $50 per unit for 60,001 to 140,000 units, and $40 per unit above 140,000 units. Existing law adjusts these amounts for inflation in each fiscal year, as specified.
This bill, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, would add $175,000 to the per-school district amount, and $14 to each unit amount, as those amounts are adjusted for inflation.
(4) Existing law requires the Superintendent to add specified amounts to a county superintendent of school's local control funding formula allocation, dependent upon the number and size of school districts under its jurisdiction that are determined to be in need of differentiated assistance. Existing law excludes a county superintendent of schools in a county where the county board of education serves as the governing board of any school district under its jurisdiction from that funding, as provided.
This bill instead would include those county superintendents of schools in that funding. The bill would require the Superintendent to also add $100,000 per charter school determined to be in need of differentiated assistance to each county superintendent of school's local control funding formula allocation, as specified, and would require additional specified adjustments to the allocation formula.
(5) Existing law establishes the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs at local educational agencies, defined as school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools. Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to local educational agencies for grants for the 2021–22 fiscal year. Existing law requires the Superintendent to allocate $200,000,000 of that amount to local educational agencies as base grants, enrollment grants, and supplemental grants for specified purposes. Existing law requires local educational agencies that receive grants to provide specified data to the department.
This bill would require the department to initiate collection proceedings for certain grant funds that are unexpended by local educational agencies by June 30, 2026, and for grant funds that are used by local educational agencies in a manner inconsistent with the program or that fail to provide required data. For the 2022–23 fiscal year, the bill would appropriate $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation to local educational agencies for purposes of the program, as specified.
(6) Existing law establishes the California Community Schools Partnership Act and appropriates specified moneys from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the California Community Schools Partnership Program to award grants, including implementation and coordination grants, on a competitive basis to qualifying entities, as defined, to support the establishment of new, and for the expansion or continuation of existing, community schools at local educational agencies, as provided, and to contract with local educational agencies to create a network of at least 5 regional technical assistance centers to provide support and assistance to local educational agencies and community schools. Existing law requires the Superintendent to prioritize grant funding to qualifying entities who meet specified criteria. Existing law appropriates $2,836,660,000 for purposes of the act, and makes those moneys available for expenditure or encumbrance until June 30, 2028.
This bill would revise provisions of the act to, among other things, extend the expenditure and encumbrance period of the above-described appropriation by 3 years, thereby making an appropriation, make changes to the definition of qualifying entity, remove the authority to issue coordination grants and instead authorize extensions of implementation grants to local educational agency implementation grantees, revise priority criteria, and revise program evaluation requirements. The bill would require up to $140,000,000 of those appropriated moneys to be allocated to county offices of education serving at least 2 qualifying entities receiving grant funding pursuant to the act to coordinate county-level governmental, nonprofit community-based organizations, and other external partnerships to support community school implementation at grant recipients in their county, including by designating a county-level community schools liaison, as provided. By expanding the purposes for which appropriated moneys may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would additionally appropriate $1,132,554,000 from the General Fund in the 2022–23 fiscal year to the Superintendent for implementation grants and grant extensions, to be allocated beginning with the 2023–24 fiscal year, as provided.
(7) Existing law continuously appropriates from the General Fund to Section A of the State School Fund for allocation by the Controller any amount necessary to meet the requirements of specified programs during each fiscal year upon certification by the Superintendent of those amounts. Existing law requires the Controller to provide in each warrant a portion of the total amount certified by the Superintendent as apportioned for specified programs during the fiscal year from the State School Fund to the school districts and charter schools under the jurisdiction of the county superintendent of schools of that county, to the county school service fund of that county, and to the county school tuition fund of that county.
The bill would include among these programs a specified transportation allowance, which would constitute an appropriation.
(8) Existing law establishes the California Preschool, Transitional Kindergarten and Full-Day Kindergarten Facilities Grant Program, under the administration of the State Allocation Board, to provide one-time grants to school districts or county offices of education to construct new school facilities or retrofit existing school facilities for the purpose of providing transitional kindergarten classrooms and full-day kindergarten classrooms, as specified. Existing law appropriates $490,000,000 for one-time grants for the 2021–22 fiscal year.
This bill would make community college districts eligible to receive grants for preschool facilities under the program if the community college district operates a preschool program on behalf of, or in lieu of, a school district or county office of education. By expanding the purposes for which those appropriated funds may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require applicants seeking a preschool facilities grant under the program to hold title to the real property where the facilities will be located. The bill would appropriate an additional $100,000,000 from the General Fund in the 2021–22 fiscal year to the State Allocation Board for one-time grants under the program for the 2022–23 fiscal year, as specified.
(9) Existing law requires a school district that has been organized for more than 3 years to be lapsed, as defined, under certain conditions related to the number of registered electors or average daily attendance of pupils in the school district. Existing law authorizes a county board of education to defer the lapsation of a school district for one year under certain conditions and prohibits a county board of education from making more than 3 deferments for any school district.
This bill instead would not limit the number of these deferments made for a school district by a county board of education.
(10) For the 1990–91 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, existing law requires 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 2021–22 fiscal years, inclusive.
This bill would also make that provision inapplicable to the 2022–23 fiscal year.
(11) The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, amended the California Constitution to, among other things, set 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 based on one of 3 tests in any given fiscal year, the first of which is based on the percentage of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively, in fiscal year 1986–87.
This bill, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, would require the Director of Finance to annually adjust the above percentage so that any annual increase in local control funding formula apportionments generated by an increase in average daily attendance due to the implementation of certain provisions relating to transitional kindergarten result in a commensurate increase in General Fund proceeds of taxes and allocated local proceeds of taxes that are required to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts.
(12) Existing law establishes the Educator Effectiveness Block Grant, appropriates $1,500,000,000 to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for purposes of the block grant, and requires the Superintendent to apportion those funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools to provide professional learning for teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals who work with pupils, and classified staff that interact with pupils, as provided.
This bill would authorize those grant funds to also be used for, among other things, coursework that would allow existing staff to become credentialed or fully credentialed for their assignment, costs reasonably related to providing and attending professional learning, and strategies to improve beginning teacher retention and support through teacher induction programs. By expanding the purposes for which those appropriated funds may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would extend the deadline for developing an expenditure plan and for certain reporting requirements related to the block grant.
(13) Existing law appropriates $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to apportion to the Orange County Department of Education to award no less than $30,000,000 as grants to local educational agencies for the purpose of funding schoolwide and districtwide implementation of services or practices aligned to the Multi-tiered Systems of Support framework. Existing law requires the grants to be awarded on or before December 15, 2021.
This bill would require any funds not awarded on or before December 15, 2021, to be available for the Orange County Department of Education, in consultation with the Superintendent and the executive director of the state board, to award as grants to local educational agencies on or before December 15, 2022, thereby making an appropriation.
(14) Existing law, until January 1, 2027, authorizes the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership with the governing board of a school district or the governing body of a charter school with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school to community college for career technical education or preparation for transfer, improving high school graduation rates, or helping high school pupils achieve college and career readiness. Existing law requires each middle college high school to be structured as a broad-based, comprehensive instructional program focusing on college preparatory and school-to-work curricula, among other things. Under existing law, pupils in early college high schools begin taking college courses as soon as they demonstrate readiness and the college credit earned may be applied toward completing an associate or bachelor's degree, transfer to a 4-year university, or obtaining a skills certificate.
This bill would appropriate $200,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the department, in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, by January 1, 2023, to administer a competitive grant program to, among other things, enable local educational agencies to establish opportunities for pupils to obtain college credits while enrolled in high school and provide dual enrollment opportunities, as provided. The bill would authorize local educational agencies to apply for one-time grants of up to $250,000 to support the costs to plan for, and start up, a middle college or early college high school that is located on the campus of a local educational agency, a partnering community college, or other location determined by the local partnership, as provided. The bill would authorize local educational agencies to also apply for one-time grants of up to $100,000 to establish a CCAP partnership, as provided.
(15) Under existing law, when the governing board of a school district provides for the transportation of pupils to and from schools, or between the regular full-time day schools they would attend and the regular full-time occupational training classes, the governing board of the school district may require the parents and guardians of all or some of the pupils transported to pay a portion of the cost of this transportation, as specified. Existing law requires the governing board to exempt from these charges pupils of parents and guardians who are indigent, as provided.
This bill instead would, when a local educational agency provides for the transportation of pupils to and from schools, or between the regular full-time day schools they would attend and the regular full-time occupational training classes, authorize the governing board to require the parents and guardians of all or some of the pupils transported to pay a portion of the cost of this transportation, as specified. The bill instead would require the governing board to exempt from these charges pupils of parents and guardians who are unduplicated pupils, as provided.
(16) Existing law provides certain allowances for home-to-school transportation, and requires that each school district or county office of education receive the same home-to-school transportation allowance received in the prior fiscal year. Existing law precludes that home-to-school transportation allowance from exceeding the prior year's approved home-to-school transportation costs of a school district or county office of education, increased by an amount provided in the annual Budget Act.
This bill would revise and recast these provisions. The bill would, among other things, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, require a transportation allowance equal to 60% of the home-to-school transportation expenditures reported by the school district or county superintendent of schools as determined by its Function 3600 entry in the Standardized Account Code Structure report for the prior year, excluding capital outlay and nonagency expenditures, and reduced by the amount of a school district's or county superintendent of schools' transportation add-on under the local control funding formula, as adjusted.
The bill would, as a condition of receiving these apportionments, require a local educational agency to develop a plan describing the transportation services it will offer to its pupils, and how it will prioritize planned transportation services for pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and pupils who are low income, among other requirements related to this plan.
(17) Existing law makes a school district eligible to receive a supplemental apportionment for transportation if certain conditions are met. Existing law also authorizes certain school districts and county offices of education to apply to the State Department of Education for a one-time-only apportionment for the purchase of transportation equipment.
The bill would repeal both of those provisions.
(18) Existing law requires 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. Existing law requires the Inglewood Unified School District, for the 2018–19 fiscal year, to take certain actions to improve the school district's fiscal solvency.
This bill would require the Oakland Unified School District, 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 April 1, 2023, regarding its financial plans and school district construction plans, as specified, and to undergo an on-time annual independent audit. The bill would provide that the Budget Act of 2023 shall include certain appropriations for the Oakland Unified School District, as provided. 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 schoo