Bill Text: CA SB473 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Pupils: dropouts: recovery programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-08-25 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB473 Detail]
Download: California-2011-SB473-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 473 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 30, 2011
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 11, 2011
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 21, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Senator Price
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
An act to amend Section 48070.6 of , and to add Section 48071
to, the Education Code, relating to pupils.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 473, as amended, Price. Pupils: dropouts: recovery programs.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on
or before August 1, 2011, and annually thereafter, to submit to the
Governor, the Legislature, and the State Board of Education a report
called the Annual Report on Dropouts in California. Existing law
requires, among other things, that the report contain specified
information on dropout rates, graduation rates, and pupil promotion
rates. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the
report be usable by schools, school districts, policymakers,
researchers, parents, and the public, for purposes of identifying and
understanding trends, causal relations, early warning indicators,
and potential points of intervention to address the high rate of
dropouts in California.
This bill would require the report also to include information
about the availability of dropout recovery programs
number of schools that offer dropout prevention or
dropout recovery programs . The bill would also require the
State Department of Education to post on its Internet Web site a
list of schools that offer dropout prevention or dropout recovery
programs and to include descriptions of the programs offered.
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 48070.6 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
48070.6. (a) On or before August 1, 2011, and annually
thereafter, utilizing data produced by the California Longitudinal
Pupil Achievement Data System pursuant to Section 60900 and other
available data, the Superintendent shall submit to the Governor, the
Legislature, and the state board a report that shall be called the
Annual Report on Dropouts in California. The report shall include,
but not be limited to, all of the following:
(1) One-year dropout rates for each of grades 7 to 12, inclusive.
(2) Four-year cohort dropout rates for grades 9 to 12, inclusive.
(3) Two- or three-year cohort dropout rates, as appropriate, for
middle schools.
(4) Grade 9 to grade 10 promotion rates.
(5) Percentage of high school pupils for each of grades 9 to 12,
inclusive, who are on track to earn sufficient credits to graduate.
(6) The average number of nonpromotional school moves that pupils
make between grades 6 to 12, inclusive.
(7) "Full-year" dropout rates for alternative schools, including
dropout recovery high schools, calculated using a methodology
developed by the Superintendent to appropriately reflect dropout
rates in each type of alternative school.
(8) An explanation of the methodology or methodologies used to
calculate "full-year" dropout rates for alternative schools pursuant
to paragraph (7).
(9) Passage rates on the high school exit examination adopted
pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 60850.
(10) Other available data relating to dropout or graduation rates
or pupil progress toward high school graduation.
(11) Information about the availability of dropout recovery
programs.
(11) The number of schools that offer dropout prevention or
dropout recovery programs, which may include dropout recovery high
schools.
(b) When cohort dropout rates can be calculated accurately using
longitudinal data, the rates described in paragraph (3) of
subdivision (a) shall be replaced by dropout rates for cohorts of
pupils entering middle school.
(c) When data is available, the report shall also include all of
the following:
(1) Rates at which pupils graduate in four, five, and six years,
pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of
Section 52052.
(2) Percentage of high school graduates and dropouts who completed
courses that are certified by the University of California as
meeting admission requirement criteria for the University of
California and California State University systems.
(3) Percentage of high school graduates and dropouts who completed
two or more classes in career technical education.
(4) Percentage of high school graduates and dropouts who completed
both course sequences described in paragraphs (2) and (3).
(5) Behavioral data by school and district, including suspensions
and expulsions.
(6) Truancy rates.
(7) GED earning rates.
(8) Chronic absentee rates, as defined in Section 60901.
(d) If possible, the data listed in subdivisions (a) and (b) shall
be presented in the report, organized as follows:
(1) By state.
(2) By county.
(3) By district, both including and excluding charter schools.
(4) By school.
(e) The report shall include data from alternative middle and high
schools, including continuation high schools, community day schools,
juvenile court schools, special schools, opportunity schools, and
schools attended by wards of the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice.
(f) The report may include relevant data on school climate and
pupil engagement from the California Healthy Kids Survey.
(g) If possible, the data listed in paragraphs (1) to (10),
inclusive, of subdivision (a) and, in subdivision (b) shall be
presented for the following subgroups, if the subgroup consists of at
least 50 pupils, and the subgroup constitutes at least 15 percent of
the total population of pupils at a school:
(1) Grade level.
(2) Ethnicity.
(3) Gender.
(4) Low socioeconomic status.
(5) English learners.
(6) Special education status.
(h) The first Annual Report on Dropouts in California shall
include data from the most recent year. Subsequent annual reports
shall include data from the most recent year and, at a minimum, the
two prior years, so that comparisons can be made easily.
(i) The Superintendent or his or her designee shall make an oral
presentation of the contents of the report to the state board at a
regularly scheduled meeting of the board.
(j) The Superintendent shall make the contents of the report
available on the department's Internet Web site in a format that is
easy for the public to access and understand.
(k) If inclusion of school-level data would render the written
report unwieldy, the data may be omitted from the written report and
posted on the department's Internet Web site.
(l) It is the intent of the Legislature that the report prepared
by the Superintendent be usable by schools, districts, policymakers,
researchers, parents, and the public, for purposes of identifying and
understanding trends, causal relations, early warning indicators,
and potential points of intervention to address the high rate of
dropouts in California.
(m) For purposes of this section, dropouts shall be defined using
the exit/withdrawal codes developed by the department.
(n) For purposes of this section, "dropout recovery high school"
has the same meaning as defined in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (4)
of subdivision (a) of Section 52052.
SEC. 2. Section 48071 is added to the
Education Code , to read:
48071. The department shall post on its Internet Web site a list
of schools that offer dropout prevention or dropout recovery programs
and include descriptions of the programs offered.
