(1) Existing law establishes the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens program as a grant program, under the administration of the State Department of Education, for high school after school programs. Existing law authorizes not more than 15% of each annual grant amount awarded pursuant to these provisions to be used by a grantee for administrative costs. Existing law requires all state funding awarded pursuant to these provisions that remains after subtracting administrative costs and other specified costs to be allocated to the high school after school program site for direct services to pupils.
This bill would authorize the cost of a high school after school program site supervisor to be included as direct services, provided that at least 85% of the site supervisor’s time is spent at the
program site.
(2) Existing law establishes the After School Education and Safety Program (ASES), under which participating schools are awarded grants to operate before and after school programs during schooldays and summer, intersession, or vacation days in accordance with specified requirements. Existing law provides that a school that establishes specified programs pursuant to ASES is eligible to receive a summer grant to operate the program in excess of 180 regular schooldays or during any combination of summer, intersession, or vacation periods, as specified.
This bill would change the name of the summer grant to the “summer/supplemental grant.”
(3) Existing law establishes the State Board of Education and provides that the state board consists of 10 members who are appointed by the Governor with the advice and
consent of 2/3 of the Senate. Existing law requires the Governor to also appoint a student member to the state board with the advice and consent of 2/3 of the Senate, and prescribes the process for selecting candidates for the student member.
This bill would revise and recast the provisions prescribing the process for selecting the student member. The bill would require the state board, each year, to notify every school district that applications are being accepted for the student member’s position. The bill would require a screening committee of the state board to select 12 semifinalists for the position, would require those semifinalists to be presented to the California Association of Student Councils, and would require the California Association
of Student Councils to select a maximum of 6 final candidates for presentation to the state board. The bill would require the state board, each year, to select 3 finalists for the Governor’s consideration and would authorize the state board to rank the finalists according to its preference.
(4) Under existing law, each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempt is subject to compulsory full-time education. Existing law requires each person subject to compulsory full-time education to attend the public full-time day school and for the full time designated as the length of the schoolday by the governing board of the school district in which the residency of either the parent or legal guardian is located. Existing law, notwithstanding compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school when the absence is due to one of several specified reasons, including for the purpose of attending the funeral
services of a member of the pupil’s immediate family and for the purpose of spending time with a member of the pupil’s immediate family who is an active duty member of the uniformed services, as provided. Existing law defines “immediate family” for these purposes.
This bill would revise the definition of “immediate family” to mean the parent or guardian, brother or sister, grandparent, or any other relative living in the household of the pupil.
(5) Existing law requires a pupil subject to compulsory full-time education or to compulsory continuation education who is absent from school without a valid excuse 3 full days in one school year or tardy or absent for more than a 30-minute period during the schoolday without a valid excuse on 3 occasions in one school year, or any combination thereof, to be classified as a truant. Existing law authorizes a pupil to be referred to a school attendance review
board or to a county probation department if a pupil in a school district in that county is, among other things, irregular in attendance at school. Existing law requires the supervisor of attendance, or other person designated by the governing board of the school district or county, making the referral to provide certain notifications to the minor and the parents or guardians of the minor.
This bill would authorize the referral of a pupil to those entities if, instead of the pupil being irregular in attendance at school, the pupil is a chronic absentee, as defined. The bill would specify that the school district supervisor of attendance is required to provide those notifications, and would additionally require the school district supervisor of attendance to provide documentation of the interventions undertaken at the school to the pupil, the pupil’s parents or guardians, and the school attendance review board or probation department.
(6) Existing federal law establishes nutritional standards for all food and beverages, other than meals reimbursed under programs authorized by the federal Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966, available for sale to pupils on the school campus during the schoolday. Existing state law establishes nutritional standards for all food and beverages sold or served to pupils in elementary, middle, and high school. Existing law requires that not more than 35% of the total calories of specified foods sold to pupils be from fat, and requires that less than 10% of the total calories of those foods be from saturated fat. Existing law exempts certain foods from these requirements.
This bill would update state law to conform to the federal nutritional standards by adding eggs to the foods exempted from the requirements relating to calories
from fat and saturated fat.
(7) Existing law requires, as a condition of receipt of funds for instructional materials from any state source, the governing board of a school district to take specified actions, including holding a public hearing or hearings at which the governing board of the school district encourages participation by parents, teachers, members of the community interested in the affairs of the school district, and bargaining unit leaders, and makes a determination, through a resolution, as to whether each pupil in each school in the school district has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials, or both, that are aligned to specified content standards in each of specified subjects.
This bill would instead require, as a condition of receipt of those funds, the governing board of a school district, at the public hearing or hearings, to make a determination,
through a resolution, as to whether each pupil in each school in the school district has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials, or both, that are aligned to the content standards adopted by the State Board of Education in each of specified subjects.
(8) Existing law provides that instructional materials for mathematics that are aligned to common core academic content standards developed by the Common Core State Standards Initiative consortium, as specified, shall be deemed to be aligned to certain content standards adopted for specified purposes.
This bill would also deem instructional materials for English language arts that are aligned to the common core academic content standards developed by the consortium to be aligned to the content standards adopted for the same purposes.
(9) Existing law requires the name of an elementary school district to include the name of the county in which the school district is located.
This bill would delete the requirement to include the name of the county in which an elementary school district is located in the name of the school district.
(10) Existing law requires the State Department of Education, on or before January 1, 2019, to develop a manual that provides guidance to local educational agencies on identifying English learners as individuals with exceptional needs, classifying individuals with exceptional needs as English learners, supporting pupils who are both English learners and individuals with exceptional needs, and determining when such dually identified pupils should be either removed from classification as English learners or exited from special education. Existing law requires the department to develop a plan for
dissemination of the manual and the means of providing professional development on the content of the manual, as provided, and requires that plan to be submitted to specified state entities and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before July 1, 2018.
This bill would require the department to develop the manual, and to submit the plan, on or before July 1, 2019.
(11) This bill would make conforming and clarifying changes, delete obsolete provisions, correct and update cross-references, and make other nonsubstantive changes.
(12) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 48205 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2289 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2289 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
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bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 60119 of the Education Code proposed by AB 2319 to be operative only if this bill and AB 2319 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.