AB 710: Local control and accountability plans: youth on probation.
- Session Year: 2015-2016
- House: Assembly
(1)Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of certain categories of pupils, known as unduplicated pupils, served by the county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school. Existing law includes among unduplicated pupils, a pupil who is classified as an English learner, eligible for a free or reduced-price meal, or a foster youth, as defined, and requires county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to submit and report data relating to these pupils.
This bill would, commencing with the 201617 fiscal year, include a youth who is on probation, as defined, as an unduplicated pupil.
(2)Existing law, on or before July 1, 2014, requires
Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education plan, and to update its local control and accountability plan before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires a local control and accountability plan to include, among other things, a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each state priority, as specified, for all pupils and certain subgroups of pupils, including, among others, pupils who are English learners or foster youth.
This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2017, a local control and accountability plan to also include a description of the annual goals to be achieved for youth on probation for each state priority. By requiring the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to include additional information in the local control and accountability plan, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(3)This bill also would require the State Department of Education to modify the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, as appropriate, to collect pupil probation data, including probationary status and the beginning and end date of the probation, beginning no later than September 1, 2016, and would require local educational agencies, including charter schools, to provide the appropriate data using information provided by the juvenile courts, as specified. By requiring local educational agencies to submit additional data, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(4)This bill also would update references and make other nonsubstantive changes.
(5) The
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Discussed in Hearing
1MINAssembly Standing Committee on Appropriations
7MINAssembly Standing Committee on Education
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