BILL NUMBER: AB 429 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
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 add
Section 52052.51 to 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.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the
advisory committee make recommendations for generating a measurement
of academic performance that can provide a more accurate and valid
measure of a pupil's academic achievement growth over time and use a
specified pilot study in making recommendations, and that the
Superintendent forward recommendations containing a cost estimate and
timeline for implementation to various state entities. The bill
would further state the intent of the Legislature that
recommendations to develop a longitudinally valid assessment system
not be implemented unless and until funds are specifically
appropriated for that purpose.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes
no . State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 52052.51 is added to the
Education Code , to read:
52052.51. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the
advisory committee established pursuant to Section 52052.5 do both of
the following:
(1) Make recommendations for generating a measurement of academic
performance that can provide a more accurate and valid measure of a
pupil's academic achievement growth over time.
(2) 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.
(b) If recommendations are made by the advisory committee pursuant
to Section 52052.5 and subdivision (a), it is the intent of the
Legislature that the Superintendent forward the recommendations of
the advisory committee to the state board, the appropriate policy
committees of the Legislature, and the Department of Finance. It is
further the intent of the Legislature that each recommendation
include a cost estimate and a timeline for implementation.
(c) No recommendation made pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section
52052.5, subdivision (a) of this section, 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 enacted specifically for that
purpose.
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 subdivision (a) 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. 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.
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