Bill Text: CA AB2548 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School accountability: statewide accountability system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-09-24 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB2548 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2548-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2548	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Article 3 (commencing with Section 52053) to Chapter
6.1 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code,
relating to school accountability.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2548, as introduced, Weber. School accountability: statewide
accountability system.
   (1) Existing law required, on or before July 1, 2014, the
governing boards of school districts and county boards of education
to adopt a local control and accountability plan using a state
template adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law
requires the local control and accountability plan to include, among
other things, a description of annual goals for all pupils and
specified subgroups of pupils to be achieved for each state priority,
as specified, and a description of the specific actions the school
district or county superintendent of schools will take to achieve
those goals. Existing law requires the charter petition for a charter
school to include those same elements. Existing law provides that an
adopted local control and accountability plan is effective for 3
years and shall be updated annually on or before July 1. Existing law
requires the state board, on or before October 1, 2016, to adopt
evaluation rubrics to, among other things, assist a school district,
county office of education, or charter school in evaluating its
strengths, weaknesses, and areas that require improvement. Existing
law establishes the California Collaborative for Educational
Excellence for purposes of advising and assisting school districts,
county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving
the goals set forth in a local control and accountability plan.
   This bill would, for purposes of a statewide accountability system
and to ensure alignment and fidelity with the state priorities and
federal law, require the state board to adopt a statewide
accountability system. The bill would require the system to satisfy
the accountability requirements of specified federal law, rely upon
data from key indicators established by the evaluation rubrics
adopted by the state board, and, working in concert with the
collaborative, utilize a multitiered system of review, support,
collaboration, and intervention, aligning the level of support to the
needs of the local educational agency or individual school. The bill
would authorize the state board to require local educational
agencies to submit additional data to the state board or the State
Department of Education in order to satisfy the federal
accountability system requirements. To the extent this bill would
impose additional duties on local educational agency officials, the
bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Article 3 (commencing with Section 52053) is added to
Chapter 6.1 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education
Code, to read:

      Article 3.  Statewide Accountability System


   52053.  For purposes of a statewide accountability system and to
ensure alignment and fidelity with the state priorities established
pursuant Sections 52060 and 52066 and with federal law, the state
board shall adopt a statewide accountability system that does all of
the following:
   (a) (1) Satisfies the accountability system requirements of the
federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
Sec. 6301 et seq.), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act
(Public Law 114-95).
   (2) The state board may require local educational agencies to
submit additional data to the state board or the department in order
to meet those requirements.
   (b) Relies upon data from key indicators established pursuant to
the evaluation rubrics adopted by the state board pursuant to Section
52064.5.
   (c) Working in concert with the California Collaborative for
Educational Excellence established pursuant to Section 52074,
utilizes a multitiered system of review, support, collaboration, and
intervention, aligning the level of support to the needs of the local
educational agency or individual school.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
this act implements a federal law or regulation and results only in
costs mandated by the federal government, within the meaning of
Section 17556 of the Government Code.