AB 2680: Parent, guardian, pupil, and family engagement support and services: plans.

Existing law states various legislative findings and declarations, including that it is essential to our democratic form of government that parents and guardians of schoolage children attending public schools and other citizens participate in improving public education institutions, that specifically involving parents and guardians of pupils in the education process is fundamental to a healthy system of public education, and that family and school collaborative efforts are most effective when they involve parents and guardians in a variety of roles at all grade levels, from preschool through high school.

This bill would, subject to one-time funding being provided for purposes of this act in the annual Budget Act, require local educational agencies, including county offices of education, charter schools, alternative education programs and schools, and state special schools, and state subsidized preschools and child development programs, that elect to participate in family, parent, guardian, and pupil engagement support and services to develop, implement, and, once adopted, post to its Internet Web site, a plan that addresses at least one specified parent, guardian, pupil, and family engagement element relating to active and meaningful participation and training. strategic plan, as provided. If a local educational agency accepts funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for purposes of those provisions, as a condition of receiving those funds, the school district, county office of education, or charter school would be required to develop and post to its Internet Web site an additional plan that aligns to the school districts or county office of educations local control and accountability plan or specified elements of the charter schools petition that delineates how funds apportioned for purposes of this section, if they are apportioned, would be spent, as specified. If funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act for these purposes, the bill would authorize a local educational agency to request funding from the Superintendent of Public Instruction and would require the local educational agency to expend those funds between the 201617 fiscal year and the 201819 fiscal year, inclusive, and would require the funds to be intended to supplement, not supplant, funds used by the local educational agency for parent, guardian, pupil, and family engagement. engagement and that the funds be allocated on the basis of an equal amount per average daily attendance among participating local educational agencies. The bill would provide that the funds, if appropriated, would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.