Section 1 of this bill requires the board of trustees of each school district and the State Public Charter School Authority to submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction a plan to provide summer school to pupils in all grades during the 2023 and 2024 calendar years. Section 1 sets forth certain requirements for the plan to provide summer school. Section 1 further requires the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school, as applicable, to provide transportation and certain meals to pupils who attend summer school. Section 1 sets forth requirements relating to the hiring and payment of teachers and other personnel for summer school. Section 1 also authorizes the board of trustees of each school district or the State Public Charter School Authority to use any available resources for the provision of summer school.
Section 2 of this bill requires the board of trustees of each school district and the State Public Charter School Authority to submit a report containing certain information relating to summer school to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on or before November 30, 2023, and November 30, 2024, respectively. Section 2 also requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to submit a compilation of such reports to various governmental entities. Section 2 requires the board of trustees of a school district and the State Public Charter School Authority to identify separately for pupils who attended summer school in-person and through a program of virtual learning one or more measures of pupil achievement, including measures that compare the results of any standardized assessment or examination administered: (1) in the spring of the 2022-2023 school year with the results of any assessment or examination administered in the fall of the 2023-2024 school year; and (2) in the spring of the 2023-2024 school year with the results of any assessment or examination administered in the fall of the 2024-2025 school year.