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 the local control funding formula, in part, to be based on average daily attendance, as defined.
For purposes of state apportionments based on average daily attendance, as provided, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of a specified type of emergency, existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school the total average daily attendance that would have been credited had the emergency not occurred, as provided.
This bill would, until July 1, 2029, require the Superintendent, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of immigration enforcement activities, as defined, to estimate the average daily attendance in the same manner described above if certain conditions are met, including, among others, the submission of a form certifying compliance with requirements related to the availability of independent study, as provided. The bill would exempt any documentation submitted to the Superintendent by a school district, charter school, or county office of education for purposes of these provisions from the California Public Records Act.
Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Statutes affected:
03/11/25 - Amended Assembly: 46392 EDC, 46392 EDC
05/05/25 - Amended Assembly: 46392 EDC