Existing law prohibits a school district from receiving a state apportionment based upon average daily attendance unless it has maintained the regular day schools of the district for at least 175 days during the next preceding fiscal year. Existing law exempts from this prohibition a school district, county office of education, or charter school that is prevented from maintaining its schools during a fiscal year for at least 175 days because of a specified emergency or other extraordinary condition.
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 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 approximately the total average daily attendance that would have been credited to the school district, county office of education, or charter school had the emergency not occurred.
This bill would add public safety power shutoffs to the list of emergencies for which the above-described provisions apply.
The bill would also establish the Disaster Relief Instructional Recovery Program for the purpose of allocating funding to eligible local educational agencies to make up instructional days lost due to emergency or other extraordinary conditions. The bill would require a participating local educational agency to be reimbursed at a specified rate for instructional days offered as part of the program. The bill would prohibit the total amount of funding received by a local educational agency pursuant to the program from exceeding the amount of funding that is attributable to the instructional time the local educational agency lost due to emergency or other extraordinary conditions. The bill would prohibit a certificated employee, classified employee, or pupil of a participating local educational agency from being required to attend instructional days offered by the local educational agency pursuant to the program. The bill would make the program operative only to the extent an appropriation is made for that purpose.

Statutes affected:
SB884: 41422 EDC, 46392 EDC
01/23/20 - Introduced: 41422 EDC, 46392 EDC
03/16/20 - Amended Senate: 41422 EDC, 46392 EDC
SB 884: 41422 EDC, 46392 EDC