Bill Text: CA AB1340 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School accountability: pupils with exceptional needs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 576, Statutes of 2023. [AB1340 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1340-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1340

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Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia

February 16, 2023

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An act to add Section 60900.2 of the Education Code, relating to school accountability.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1340, as introduced, Garcia. School accountability: pupils with exceptional needs.

Existing law requires the Department of Education to report annually, on its internet website, enrollment data by disability, as specified.

This bill would require the department to report annually, on its internet website, specified statewide-level indicia of pupil performance for pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs, disaggregated by certain identified disabilities, as provided.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 60900.2 is added to the Education Code, to read:

60900.2.

 (a) The department shall, on an annual basis, include a report on its internet website that allows the public to view statewide-level data for pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs, disaggregated by the identified disability or disabilities, as listed in Section 300.8(a)(1) of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, for each of the following:

(1) Scores on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress in English language arts, mathematics, and science.

(2) Scores on the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California or any subsequent assessment of English proficiency, as certified by the state board.

(3) Rates of chronic absenteeism.

(4) Rates of suspension.

(5) Four- and five-year cohort graduation rates.

(6) College going rates.

(b) For purposes of this section, a pupil who is an individual with exceptional needs shall have the same meaning as “child with a disability” as that phrase is defined in Section 300.8(a)(1) of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations.