BILL NUMBER: AB 429 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 29, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Brownley
( Coauthors: Assembly Members
Adams and Torlakson )
( Coauthor: Senator Liu
)
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
An act to amend Section 52052.5 of the Education Code, relating to
the Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 429, as amended, Brownley. The Public Schools Accountability
Act of 1999: 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 July 1, 2011, to make
recommendations to the Superintendent for the establishment of a
methodology for generating a measurement of academic performance
using unique pupil identifiers and for developing a longitudinally
valid 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. This
bill would require the Superintendent to forward the recommendations
by October 1, 2011, to specified 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.
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 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 July 1, 2011, the advisory committee established pursuant
to this section shall make recommendations to the Superintendent for
the establishment of a methodology for generating a measurement of
academic performance utilizing unique pupil identifiers for pupils in
kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and for
developing a longitudinally valid 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. The advisory committee shall use 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.
The By October 1, 2011, the
Superintendent shall 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.
(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.