Bill Text: CA AB1946 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School finance: necessary small high schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1946 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1946-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1946	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to amend Section 42285 of the Education Code, relating to
school finance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1946, as introduced, Chesbro. School finance: necessary small
high schools.
   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 part of the local control funding
formula, existing law requires a school district or charter school to
receive state-aid funding of no less than the sum of certain amounts
received in the 2012-13 fiscal year, including, among other amounts,
the 2012-13 fiscal year funding allowance provided for qualifying
necessary small elementary schools and necessary small high schools.
Existing law defines a necessary small high school as either (1) a
high school with an average daily attendance of less than 287 pupils
that meets specified conditions, or (2) a high school maintained by a
school district for the exclusive purpose of educating juvenile hall
pupils or pupils with exceptional needs.
   This bill would add to the definition of a necessary small high
school a high school maintained by a unified school district as the
only comprehensive high school if the high school has an average
daily attendance of less than 300 pupils and the school district has
50 or fewer pupils per square mile of school district territory.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 42285 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   42285.  (a) For purposes of Section 42284, a necessary small high
school is a high school with an average daily attendance of less than
287  pupils  that comes within any of the following
conditions:
   (1) The projection of its future enrollment on the basis of the
enrollment of the elementary schools in the school district shows
that within eight years the enrollment in high school in grades 9 to
12, inclusive, will exceed 286 pupils.
   (2) Any one of the following combinations of distance and units of
average daily attendance applies:
   (A) The high school had an average daily attendance of less than
96  pupils  in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, during the
preceding fiscal year and is more than 15 miles by well-traveled road
from the nearest other public high school and either 90 percent of
the pupils would be required to travel 20 miles or 25 percent of the
pupils would be required to travel 30 miles one way from a point on a
well-traveled road nearest their homes to the nearest other public
high school.
   (B) The high school had an average daily attendance of 96 
pupils  or more and less than 144  pupils  in grades 9
to 12, inclusive, during the preceding fiscal year and is more than
10 miles by well-traveled road from the nearest other public high
school and either 90 percent of the pupils would be required to
travel 18 miles or 25 percent of the pupils would be required to
travel 25 miles one way from a point on a well-traveled road nearest
their homes to the nearest other public high school.
   (C) The high school had an average daily attendance of 144 
pupils  or more and less than 192  pupils  in grades 9
to 12, inclusive, during the preceding fiscal year and is more than
71/2 miles by well-traveled road from the nearest other public high
school and either 90 percent of the pupils would be required to
travel 15 miles or 25 percent of the pupils would be required to
travel 20 miles one way from a point on a well-traveled road nearest
their homes to the nearest other public high school.
   (D) The high school had an average daily attendance of 192 
pupils  or more and less than 287  pupils  in grades 9
to 12, inclusive, during the preceding fiscal year and is more than 5
miles by well-traveled road from the nearest other public high
school and either 90 percent of the pupils would be required to
travel 10 miles or 25 percent of the pupils would be required to
travel 15 miles to the nearest other public high school.
   (3) Topographical or other conditions exist in the school district
which would impose unusual hardships on the pupils if the number of
miles specified  above   in paragraph (2) 
were required to be traveled. In these cases, the Superintendent may,
when requested, and after investigation, grant exceptions from the
distance requirements.
   (4) The Superintendent has approved the recommendation of a county
committee on school district organization designating one of two or
more schools as necessary isolated schools in a situation where the
schools are operated by two or more school districts and the average
daily attendance of each of the schools is less than 287  pupils
 in grades 9 to 12, inclusive.
   (b) For purposes of Section 42284, a necessary small high school
also includes  a high school maintained by a school district
for the exclusive purpose of educating juvenile hall pupils or pupils
with exceptional needs.   either of the following:
 
   (1) A high school maintained by a school district for the
exclusive purpose of educating juvenile hall pupils or pupils with
exceptional needs.  
   (2) A high school maintained by a unified school district as the
only comprehensive high school if the high school has an average
daily attendance of less than 300 pupils and the school district has
50 or fewer pupils per square mile of school district territory.

   (c) For purposes of Section 42284, a necessary small high school
does not include a continuation school.
   (d) For purposes of this section, "other public high school" is a
public school, including a charter school, that serves any of grades
9 to 12, inclusive.