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, require school districts maintaining an elementary or secondary school to adopt a school accountability report card for each school. The act also requires, by statute, the governing boards of school districts maintaining an elementary or secondary school to annually issue a school accountability report card that includes certain information for each school in the school district, publicize those reports, and notify parents and guardians of pupils that a hard copy of those reports is available upon request, as specified.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the State Board of Education, to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard, a web-based system for publicly reporting performance data on the state and local indicators included in evaluation rubrics.
This bill would require the department, on or before March 1, 2027, to provide a report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Governor, and the Legislature that identifies duplication between the data contained in the school accountability report card and other publicly available data sources, as provided.
Existing law requires a local educational agency to develop annually a summary document known as the local control funding formula budget overview for parents. Existing law requires, before the governing board or body of a local educational agency considers the adoption of a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) or an annual update to the LCAP, certain things to occur, including that the superintendent of the school district, the county superintendent of schools, or the charter school present a report on the annual update to the LCAP and the local control funding formula budget overview for parents on or before February 28 of each year at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing board or body of the local educational agency, as specified.
This bill would also authorize, instead of require, the above-described report on the annual update to the LCAP and the local control funding formula budget overview to be presented, as provided.
Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in cooperation with certain local entities. Existing law requires each school to annually review and update its comprehensive school safety plan, and to report each July on the status of its school safety plan, including a description of its key elements in the annual school accountability report card, as provided.
This bill would delete the requirement that each school annually report on the status of its school safety plan.
Existing law requires the department to exercise general supervision over the courses of physical education in the elementary and secondary schools of the state, advise officials, school boards, and teachers in the development and improvement of their physical education and activity programs, and investigate the work in physical education in the public schools. Existing law requires the department to ensure that the data collected through the categorical program monitoring indicates the extent to which each school within the jurisdiction of a school district or county office of education provides, among other things, for inclusion of the results of physical testing of pupils in the school accountability report card, as provided.
This bill would delete the above-described requirement that the results of physical testing of pupils are included in the school accountability report card.
Existing law requires the governing board of each school district maintaining any of grades 5, 7, or 9, during the month of February, March, April, or May, to administer to each pupil in those grades the physical performance test designated by the state board and report the aggregate results of this physical performance testing in its annual school accountability report card.
This bill would delete the above-described reporting requirement.

Statutes affected:
AB2496: 1240 EDC, 1240 EDC, 14501 EDC, 14501 EDC, 32286 EDC, 32286 EDC, 33126 EDC, 33126 EDC, 33126.1 EDC, 33126.1 EDC, 33126.15 EDC, 33126.15 EDC, 33126.2 EDC, 33126.2 EDC, 33352 EDC, 33352 EDC, 35256 EDC, 35256 EDC, 35256.1 EDC, 35256.1 EDC, 35258 EDC, 35258 EDC, 41020 EDC, 41020 EDC, 41409 EDC, 41409 EDC, 41409.3 EDC, 41409.3 EDC, 44258.9 EDC, 44258.9 EDC, 47605 EDC, 47605 EDC, 47605.6 EDC, 47605.6 EDC, 47606.5 EDC, 47606.5 EDC, 51101.1 EDC, 51101.1 EDC, 52062 EDC, 52062 EDC, 52064.1 EDC, 52064.1 EDC, 52068 EDC, 52068 EDC, 56366 EDC, 56366 EDC, 60800 EDC, 60800 EDC, 60811.8 EDC, 60811.8 EDC
03/19/26 - Amended Assembly: 1240 EDC, 1240 EDC, 14501 EDC, 14501 EDC, 32286 EDC, 32286 EDC, 33126 EDC, 33126 EDC, 33126.1 EDC, 33126.1 EDC, 33126.15 EDC, 33126.15 EDC, 33126.2 EDC, 33126.2 EDC, 33352 EDC, 33352 EDC, 35256 EDC, 35256 EDC, 35256.1 EDC, 35256.1 EDC, 35258 EDC, 35258 EDC, 41020 EDC, 41020 EDC, 41409 EDC, 41409 EDC, 41409.3 EDC, 41409.3 EDC, 44258.9 EDC, 44258.9 EDC, 47605 EDC, 47605 EDC, 47605.6 EDC, 47605.6 EDC, 47606.5 EDC, 47606.5 EDC, 51101.1 EDC, 51101.1 EDC, 52062 EDC, 52062 EDC, 52064.1 EDC, 52064.1 EDC, 52068 EDC, 52068 EDC, 56366 EDC, 56366 EDC, 60800 EDC, 60800 EDC, 60811.8 EDC, 60811.8 EDC
04/27/26 - Amended Assembly: 1240 EDC, 14501 EDC, 32286 EDC, 33126 EDC, 33126.1 EDC, 33126.15 EDC, 33126.2 EDC, 33352 EDC, 35256 EDC, 35256.1 EDC, 35258 EDC, 41020 EDC, 41409 EDC, 41409.3 EDC, 44258.9 EDC, 47605 EDC, 47605.6 EDC, 47606.5 EDC, 51101.1 EDC, 52062 EDC, 52064.1 EDC, 52068 EDC, 56366 EDC, 60800 EDC, 60811.8 EDC
06/22/26 - Amended Senate: 32286 EDC, 32286 EDC, 33352 EDC, 33352 EDC, 47606.5 EDC, 52062 EDC, 52068 EDC, 60800 EDC, 60800 EDC