Bill Text: CA AB429 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Enrolled

California Assembly Bill 429 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Public school accountability: advisory committee.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-01-14 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB429 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB429-Enrolled.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 429	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 23, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 29, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Adams, Huber, Ma, and Torlakson)
   (Coauthors: Senators Liu and Romero)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   An act to amend Section 52052.5 of the Education Code, relating to
public school accountability.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 429, Brownley. Public school accountability: advisory
committee.
   Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to
establish an advisory committee to advise on all appropriate matters
relative to the creation of the Academic Performance Index and the
implementation of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools
Program and the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. Existing
law requires the committee to make recommendations to the
Superintendent on the appropriateness and feasibility of a
methodology for generating a measurement of academic performance by
using unique pupil identifiers and annual academic achievement growth
to provide a more accurate measure of a school's academic
achievement growth over time.
   This bill would require the committee, by January 1, 2011, to make
recommendations to the Superintendent for the establishment of a
methodology for measuring a school's academic achievement growth and
a pupil's academic achievement growth more accurately and validly
over time. This bill would require the committee to consider a
specified pilot study of academic growth measures in making its
recommendations to the Superintendent, and that the recommendations
be consistent with specified federal laws. The Superintendent would
be required to immediately forward the committee's recommendations to
specified state entities.
   This bill would provide that specific provisions of the bill would
not be implemented unless and until funds are appropriated by the
Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 52052.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   52052.5.  (a) The Superintendent shall establish a broadly
representative and diverse advisory committee to advise the
Superintendent and the state board on all appropriate matters
relative to the creation of the Academic Performance Index and the
implementation of the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools
Program and the High Achieving/Improving Schools Program. Members of
the advisory committee shall serve without compensation for terms not
to exceed two years. The department shall provide staff to the
advisory panel.
   (b) By January 1, 2011, the advisory committee established
pursuant to subdivision (a) shall make recommendations to the
Superintendent for the establishment of a methodology for generating
a measurement of academic performance by utilizing unique pupil
identifiers for pupils in kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 12,
inclusive, and for developing a longitudinally valid achievement
assessment system in which annual academic growth can provide a more
accurate and valid measure of a school's academic achievement growth
and a pupil's academic achievement growth over time.
   (1) The advisory committee shall consider the pilot study of
academic growth measures, pursuant to Provision 10 of Item
6110-113-0890 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2007, in making
recommendations to the Superintendent for this purpose.
   (2) Upon receipt, the Superintendent shall, immediately forward
the recommendations of the advisory committee to the state board, the
appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, and the
Department of Finance. The Superintendent shall include a cost
estimate for each recommendation and a timeline for implementation.
   (3) The recommendations shall be consistent with statutory,
regulatory, and technical guidance from the United States Department
of Education under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. Sec. 6301 et seq.) and the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) so as to maximize the
state's funding opportunities, including, but not limited to, state
incentive grants under the Race to the Top Fund.
   (c) No recommendation made pursuant to subdivision (b), or any
other proposal to develop a longitudinally valid assessment system,
may be implemented unless and until funds are appropriated by the
Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute specifically
for that purpose.