Bill Text: CA AB535 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Veterans’ aid and welfare: housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 918, Statutes of 2024. [AB535 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB535-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 535

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Introduced by Assembly Member Irwin

February 08, 2023

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An act to add Section 52073.4 to the Education Code, relating to school accountability.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 535, as introduced, Irwin. School accountability: Statewide School Library Lead.

Existing law establishes a single system for providing support to local educational agencies and schools and for specified federal educational programs. Existing law provides that the purpose of the statewide system of support is to build the capacity of local educational agencies, as specified.

Existing law requires the State Department of Education and the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to establish a process, administered by the department, to select, subject to approval by the executive director of the State Board of Education, an expert lead agency based on specific expertise in an area of need to conduct activities and build statewide capacity to address that area of need within the statewide system of support, as well as geographic lead agencies for other specified purposes, as provided.

This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation for these purposes, require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before July 1, 2024, to select an applicant county office of education to serve as a Statewide School Library Lead to work collaboratively with the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence and to establish library and literacy services that support the statewide system of support. The bill would specify that the Statewide School Library Lead’s duties include, among other things, enhancing the state’s investment in literacy and aligning those efforts with the California Comprehensive State Literacy Plan and working directly with local educational agencies, including county offices of education, to build capacity to develop excellent school library services and accelerate literacy and learning, including coordinating support, providing direct technical assistance, and delivering professional learning.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 52073.4 is added to the Education Code, to read:

52073.4.

 (a) On or before July 1, 2024, the Superintendent shall select an applicant county office of education to serve as a Statewide School Library Lead to work collaboratively with the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence and to establish library and literacy services that support the statewide system of support. The statewide school library lead’s duties shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(1) Enhancing the state’s investment in literacy and aligning those efforts with the California Comprehensive State Literacy Plan.

(2) Working collaboratively with local Literacy Lead Agencies, the California Dyslexia Initiative, Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant recipients, Learning Acceleration System Grant recipients, the California SUMS (Scaling Up Multi-Tiered System of Support Statewide) Initiative, and Reading Instruction and Intervention Grant recipients.

(3) Working directly with local educational agencies, including county offices of education, to build capacity to develop excellent school library services and accelerate literacy and learning, including coordinating support, providing direct technical assistance, and delivering professional learning.

(4) Working with local and regional entities to facilitate the integration of media and information literacy into the curriculum, scale up collaboration and coteaching with teacher librarians, and promote the role of the Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools in preparing a globally competent workforce.

(5) Working with local and regional entities to promote school libraries as safe spaces that create a positive school climate, champion intellectual freedom, and support social and emotional learning, mindfulness, and well-being.

(6) Working with local and regional entities to engage with families and communities to better synthesize, integrate, and extend literacy programs in a coherent and comprehensive manner.

(b) The implementation of this section shall be contingent upon an appropriation for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute.